| Title: | Extract of a letter from Thos. Rad cliff, Esq., to his Agent in Dublin. |
|---|---|
| ID | 4562 |
| Collection | Authentic Letters from Upper Canada [Rev. Thomas Radcliff] |
| File | radcliff/20 |
| Year | 1833 |
| Sender | Magrath, Thomas Wm |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Adelaide, Upper Canada |
| Destination | Dublin, Ireland |
| Recipient | Agent |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
| Source | |
| Archive | |
| Doc. No. | |
| Date | |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | |
| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 435 |
| Genre | business, settlement |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Adelaide, Caradoc, London District, Upper Canada, Feb. 1833 Dear Sir, In August last I wrote to you, from Toronto, directing the manner in which you should forward my remittances; this is February, and as I have not heard in reply, I begin to entertain some apprehension that you never received my letter, although I sent it by New York, and post paid it so far. The object of this is to trouble you with some commissions, as every thing of British manufacture is here nearly double the price it is in the mother country. Considering all things, we are now very comfortably settled, and should have little to complain of, if the state of the roads would permit me to haul my luggage up from the lake; but the mildness of the winter prevents this, as there has not yet been sufficient frost and snow to admit of sleighing. What renders this settlement peculiarly agreeable is the circumstance of its being mostly peopled by British; many of them, families of respectability, living within a few minutes walk of me. We are making rapid advances as to numbers and improvement; when the resources of the country are more fully developed, (judging from what has been done in so short a time,) there is every reason to look forward to the future with the happiest anticipations from the industry and enterprise of the emigrants. Last July, this township was a wilderness without habitation; there are now upwards of two thousand inhabitants, and houses within every half mile along the road. A village has commenced already; there are seven houses, two of them shops; an hotel and post-office are in progress—the parsonage was begun last week, and the church will be finished in Spring. A family, which had been attached to some choir in England, has arrived here, with capital voices and good instruments, so that even your practised ear would acknowledge the merit of the performance, in that branch of our service. It would astonish you to see the facility with which they knock down immense trees in this country. I have already thirty acres cleared. Whenever you have a sufficient sum of money, lodge it to my credit in the house of Messrs. Thos. Wilson and Co. of Warnford Court, Throgmorton-street, London, Agents for the bank of Upper Canada; as money lodged with them, on the bank account, will be paid by the bank of York, with benefit of exchange. Bank stock is now upwards of twelve per cent. T. R |
