| Title: | John Colhoun, Chamberstown, Pa. to Alexander Reed. |
|---|---|
| ID | 669 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Colhoun, John/13 |
| Year | 1795 |
| Sender | Colhoun, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | store owner |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Chamberstown, Penn., USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | Reed, Alexander |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | T 1466/1a: Copied by Permission of A. Colhoun Esq., Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8910148 |
| Date | 23/10/1795 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 25:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 489 |
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| Transcript | Chamberstown 23d October 1795 Dear Sir Yours by Post dated 13th Instant to hand, I am sorry for the death of you Afexonate [affectionate?] Brother, as well the loss to me of a Worthy partner, I hope he has made a happier C[?] than this troblesome [troublesome?] world could aford [afford?], one thing Please me Much, that is, Every attention being paid to him while here - I am sorry to think of the distress of his mother when this reaches her, in his last letter to me he requested not to let his Illness to his Mother be known, that I could have done, but Alass [Alas?] the Event I cannot now conceal he wrote a Letter to her with one hundred dollars to send home with some I am to send home he says to send his Mother £35-0-0 but I will send her the whole as to the store my mind has been fixed for some time in Case your Brother should be Called of, that is for to give the store to you the Charge is great I grant you, but by your Care, and attention I have Every hopes of your being Capable of the task, so that you Are to Say by [buy?] the old books and open a [set?] of New ones, in the Name of Alexander Reed & Co and Advertise the Outstanding debts to Come in, at Least to have them settled, and then not distress anny [any?] Good Customer - there is no doubts before his dicease [decease?] he allowed you to have the profits arriving on his part of the store and I think it Unnecessary to take an Inventory of the Goods as in the spring before you went to him an Inventory was taken of Course you Brother then knew how the store stood, if there should be any appearance of Troblesome [troublesome?] People Indebted to the store Thomas Scott Esquire will Inform you how to proceed or our friend Mr Henry Purviance A number of People here have been Unhealthy and severals deaths, but the most Lamentable mallady [malady?] has raged in New Yourk [York?], the yellow fever, or nearly the same was in Philadelphia two years ago - the husband in the pangs of death when his wife or Children Could not be admited [admitted?] to see him, in the same Can with all Connections be them Ever so dear to them, many hundnds [hundreds?] have died and the City partly Depopulated - the Latest Accounts say the fever was Abated - there is two of my partickular [particular?] Acquaintances [acquaintances?] in Philada [Philadelphia?], which is no more, that I have dealt with for 12 years past, so that we in one [goes?] Before another, and death is Sure to all, I Conclude with that hope that the Almighty Will Cumfort [Comfort?] you in truble [trouble?] and believe me with Sincire [Sincere?] Regard your Affectionate friend John Colhoun Mr Alexander Reed |
