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Title: Capt. Hector, New York, to "Dear Matty", Belfast.
ID519
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileCapt. Hector/50
Year1787
SenderCaptain Hector
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationship captain
Sender Religionunknown
OriginNew York, USA
DestinationBelfast, N.Ireland
RecipientMatty
Recipient Gendermale
Relationshipbrothers
SourceD 729/22: Presented by Miss Duffin, Mount Pleasant, Stranmillis, Belfast.
ArchiveThe Public Record Office, Northern Ireland.
Doc. No.9604079
Date08/11/1787
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogDocument added by LT, 19:04:96.
Word Count77
Genre
Note
TranscriptDear Matty New York 8th Novr [November?] 1787
I wrote you yesterday by pacquet
& now enclose you a Receipt for a bag of
Peaches & one of Peppers also two Bundles
containing Twelve aple [apple?] trees each, by the
Brig Menerva Capt [Captain?] Eccles the bearer here of
which I hope will go safe & prove agreeable
I am with love to you & sisters & a
I understand Capt Scott now keeps a Tavern
or Inn in Belfast
Capt Hector Belfast