| Title: | Greeves, John Sr to O'Brien, William, 1833 |
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| ID | 6047 |
| Collection | The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson] |
| File | quaker/81(1) |
| Year | 1833 |
| Sender | Greeves, John Sr |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | linen trader |
| Sender Religion | Quaker |
| Origin | Lisburn, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Lake Erie, NY, USA |
| Recipient | O'Brien, William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | father-in-law - son-in-law |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 548 |
| Genre | farming, crops, dissension in their religious community |
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| Transcript | Lisburn 11 mo 25th 1833 Dear William Ann's letter to her sister Mary dated in 8th or 9th mo. last, at which time your family, I think she mentions, was in pretty good health which is cause of thankfulness. I perceive you are s tingling with your new farm, and hope if you are spared a few years it will aford you a comfortable residence. It a pears that the rearing of cattle & the producing milk & butter &c is a way your neighbours find the most easey mode of getting forward; the tilling of land, I am aware, is very troublesome &£ expensive and when ready for market, in general brings but verry small remuneration; at the same time it wd be well to raise plenty of food for your own consumption. I annex a small sum of 344 & 44 cents - to enable you to add a little stock to your farm, as 1 perceive by Ann's letter you arc deficient in that respect. I often think how hard you are put to Co make out a competence. Have you got the money paid to the man you exchanged the farm with. I think it was 100 Dollars, if so I expect you are in a better situation than at any time since you went to America, that is to say 100 or 120 acres of good land free of rent or tyth for ever, which would be a valuable thing in this country. The fore part of this summer & harvest hath been verry wet, so that the farmers had a good deal to do to get their grain saved, but it seems a good crop & sells low, wheat from 8s to 10s pr hundred and oats about 4/5d which makes them hard put to pay the rent, tyth & taxes. Through adorable Mercy I enjoy a pretty good share of health considering my advanced age. Sister Mary still lives with me: she is frequently ailing but able to go through the house and at times to meeting, which is but a short way from my house. Has the division in the Society reach11 your quarter, I fear it has begotten bad feelings in both sides in many pans of America, as it had done with us formerly. I still go to Meeting but never aply for Membership, altho several times hinted so to do. I belive it is best for me to be as I am untill something opens in my mind that I have no prospect of at present. I hope in your lonely situation you endevor to impress on the minds of your dear offspring the necessity of that inward principle of light & grace, if atended to, would preserve them from all evil. The Society in the North seems much dwindled away in several Meetings. Grange seems the largest in the province; the conduct of some of their members, I am sorry to say, is rep roach full to any religious society. I shall leave the remainder of the sheet for some of the girls to fill up who can give you more news than I can. I remain with or love to Ann and the children thy affct Father John Greeves Please write on rect of this. |
