| Title: | W. J. C. Allen, Belfast to W. W. Montgomery, U.S.A. |
|---|---|
| ID | 439 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Campbell Allen, William John/54 |
| Year | 1860 |
| Sender | Campbell Allen, William J. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | businessman |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| Recipient | Montgomery, W.W. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
| Source | D 1558/1/1/213: Papers of William John Campbell Allen Depositedby F.D.Campbell Allen. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9802450 |
| Date | 18/02/1860 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 09:02:98. |
| Word Count | 441 |
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| Transcript | Faunoran, Greenisland Belfast February 18 1860 Dear Sir, I have to apologise for not sending an earlier reply to your letter of December 6th. but I have been very much occupied so as to be prevented from giving the matter consideration. It appears to me that there are insurpassable difficulties in the way of your making good any claim to the property in Tandragee. In the first place the deed of which you send me a copy appears never to have been registered, and as your great grandfather remained in possession when your grandfather left Ireland, the former or some one obtaining possession through or under him has very likely, in the long series of years which has since elapsed, dealt with the property by a deed duly registered, and the claimant under such a deed, not having notice if its prior indictment, could not be disturbed by anyone claiming under the deed of 1778. To ascertain whether any such deed has been executed would be attended with very heavy expense. In the next place, the Statutes of Limitation are a complete ban on your recovering possession. I say this was the supposition that your grandfather had received the rents of these premises during his lifetime but that he died more than twenty years ago: the period of limitation in such cases fixed by Stat.[Statute?] 3 & 4 Will [William?] 4. c.27 for according to your letter, as I understand it, no one since his death, claiming through him, has either been in possession of the premises or received the rents issuing thereat. Under the provisions of the above [---d?] act; the time [---?] of [---?] the claim set even though he be [----?] And even though your grandfather had continued in receipt of the rents up to the time of his death, and that that was had occurred less than twenty years ago, still I do not think that you as an American citizen could recover the premises in question. It is no doubt true that the son of a British subject born in a foreign country has, under certain circumstances, been held to be entitled to the priviliges of a British subject: but it would be a strong proposition to contend that the same priviliges should continue to descend through all generations, no one of which had from the time of the first emigration of their ancestor ever returned to Great Britain or done any act to show that they had not intended to settle and become citizens of the country in which they dwelt. Such a dictum would be attended with great inconvenience, and could not I think be maintained. Letter of W. W. Montgomery Auga [Augusta?] Gra [Georgia?] & my reply as to property in Tandragee Dec. 6. 1859 |
