| Title: | [?], Huntington, Canada to Joseph Brown, Saintfield, Co. Down. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3940 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1841-50/1 |
| Year | 1848 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer (tenant) |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Huntington, Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) |
| Destination | Saintfield, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Brown, Joseph |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | T 2675/1: Copied by Permission of Joseph Halliday Esq., 341 Albertbridge Road, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007135 |
| Date | 20/11/1848 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 09:11:1993. |
| Word Count | 724 |
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| Transcript | So Deated [dated?] the 20 of november 1848 Huntington [Huntingdon?] Dear Cousin I take this opetunity [opportunity?] of writing these few Lines to let you know that I and my family are in good Health at the present thanks be to god for same and hopping [hoping?] that you and your Mother and your familey [family?] are in the same and I am going to let you no [know?] that we are removed from the Place that we settled at first and we are about a quarter of a mile from it to a farm that we have rented of ninty [ninety?] acres and the rent of that for this year is fives [five?] Pounds which is 4 Pounds British But the Gentleman that owns it Has it for sale and we do not know How soon He may sell it and we were intending for to try to Buy it But we thought that the Prise [Price?] was Large for He wants 150 Pounds for it and he would Give ten years for to Pay it there is about 50 acres cleared and Has never Been Laboured and we have the Liberty of all the farm for this season Both fire and timber and we Have the Liberty of making sugar Likewise which we make out of the maphole [maple?] tree and as for our stock it is But small we have two cows worth 10 Pounds and two oxen which cost 30 Dollars each Which is 15 Pounds and for Hogs we have But few to we have three small ones running about the doors and we Have two put up for to kill and the way that we faed [feed?] them that is put up is on indian corn and peas and for Cattle the [they?] all lye [lie?] without about the yard But I intend to keep what small stock I have within the the House. and as for the children David is at home Elizabeth is in Bellvill [Belleville?] this fourteen Months at nine Pounds a year and Margaret was out in Summer at the same But she came home at november and John lives on the next farm to us and he has nine Pounds for these six Months this winter and Sammual [Samuel?] he is in Bellville [Belleville?] with a Mr Benjamine and he has nine Pounds a year and Mary she Lives about a mile from me and Suseann lives about a mile to [too?] and the [they?] are egaged [engaged?] to the [they?] come to age and the [they?] get schooling and clothes to the [they?] come to that time and the [they?] Get 1 cow 3 sheep a feather Bed and all Pertaining to them each of them Has the same Sarah and Jane and James is at home with me and I am sorry to tell that just A Bout [about?] three weeks affter [after?] that we went to Huntington [Huntingdon?] #PAGE 2 that John took a severe feavour [fever?] and died on the 15 of september 1847 and Elliner died in Montreall [Montreal?] about 8 weeks Before her father I am going to Let you know wheat [what?] the Prise [Price?] of Grain is wheat is 3s 9d a bushel Pototoes [Potatoes?] 1s 0d a Bushel Indian Corn 2s Rye 2s 3d Peas 2s 0d a bushel Butter 7 1/2d a pound new Chees [cheese?] 5d a pound old 8d Egs [eggs?] 6d per dozen green tea from 2s to 4s per Pound Sugar from 6d to 10d pence tobaco [tobacco?] from 7d to 15d per pound a mans wages from 24 Pounds to 30 a year will you be so kind as to Let me know how James is and where he is now and Be so kind as to let me no [know?] how John Brown is and familey [family?] and be so kind as to Let know my frendes [friends?] is and Neighbours is I send my kind Love to Aunt and familey [family?] and be so kind to write as soon as Possiable [possible?] I would like to no [know?] wether [whether?] you got a letter or not When you write Direct it to uper cannada [Upper Canada?] Victora Destrick [Victoria District?] Morira post office cannada [Canada?] West will you be so kind as to tell Hugh Gill that John Clokey sent a letter away on the first of november To Josph Brown to the care of the [Rev?] [Gh?] [Shanks?] Saintfield Post office to the care of the Rev Gh Shanks for Josph Brown Loughhi--ey [Loughhinney?] Saintfield County down Irland [Ireland?] [postmark] KINGSTON NOV 1848 UC [Upper Canada?] |
