| Title: | 11. From James Prendergast to his children in Boston |
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| ID | 5656 |
| Collection | The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber] |
| File | prendergast/11 |
| Year | 1843 |
| Sender | Prendergast, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Milltown, Co. Kerry, Ireland |
| Destination | Boston, Mass., USA |
| Recipient | Prendergast children |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | father-children |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 729 |
| Genre | correspondence, family, politics |
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| Transcript | Mr Cornelius Riordan No 22 Atkinson Street Mass Boston America I sent one paper Milltown August the 3rd 1843 My Dear children, I received your letter of the 14th day of July which gave me your affectionate mother Brothers and families the greatest pleasure in finding you all in as pefect state of health as this leaves us in general at present thanks be to providence. Also I have received two Newspapers on the evening of the 27th ultimo namely the New England reporter but I discovered by your letter that you sent me three. The third if sent I did not get. I made a charge on the postmaster but he denyed getting same saying that same did not leave America. Let me know in your next letter. I had told them that you would not mention same in your letter but sending it. I even told them the name the Boston nation. Dear Thomas I suspect strongly of a fraud in our home post for the same evening your letter arrived your mother was at the post office and asked for any commands, but they denyed any being there. On the following morning I called but I got your welcome letter. Daniel Riordan is well in health and in the same place still. Also Mr Spring and family are all well. Turn over Dear Thomas I mean letting you know that the post in milltown is higly suspected for fraud even by the generality of the people. I have instances of it myself for lately any letter I posted there you did not get until I went to Killarney postoffice. Therefore futurely any letter having any remittance direct it to the Reverend Bartholomew OConnor p.p milltown do not speak of my name on the postscript, but any ^other^ letter direct it to myself. Your Brother Maurice intended writing to you. He has no situation at present. He has stopped convenient to his Garden this season but is well himself and family. Dear Thomas the times are not troublesome as yet amongst us. We had some items on the last news of the Orangemen turning out in the north against the catholicks but I tell you candidly that the catholicks threshed them from right to left. Also they considered the rufians of peelers and magistrates there to be partial to the Friday flesh eaters. They the catholicks Bastardly pucked them through and fro which is one of our victories. Nothing of any importance we have not but that Bobby Peel gave us an arms Bill for Ireland. Repeal is carrying on in great splendour in this country by our Liberator Danl OConnell M.P. We are all in this country Repealers. The government are sending over daily drafts of soldiers to Ireland but we defy them. We are peaceable continuing our Repeal demonstrations all through. Dear Thomas we were told that Michl Roger Sheehy got married in that country to Mrs Herbert formerly. Let me know in your next letter. No more at present from your affectionate Father mother and Brothers who join with ^us^ in love and friendship for Cors Riordan Julia Riordan Thomas and Jeffeory Prendergast until death. James Pren[...] 22st N.B From Patrick D. Mahoney Landsurveyor Milltown Dear Sir, I am extremely thankful to you and ever will, in the extraordinary trouble you have taken with respect to my Beloved Brother. I may say that I give him up as dead in not hearing from him going on his third year in that country. If he was in St John New Brunswick last year it is a mistery where he is gone to since. I very harly believe same. As I am always troublesome to you I expect you will tell my cousin Patrick Moynihan to write to Dan1 Morley or some friend to Sr John seing would they have any inteligence of him. When he wrote the place was Breton not Breorton as mentioned in the paper. It is a cape as I have seen in the Gazetteer. Dear Sir I Recd two papers from you called the Boston Pilot and am extremely ^thankful^ to you for your kind favours and shall never forget same. Give my best love to my cousin Patk moynihan and family. I am yours PatkMah[...] wishing to see him once more. |
