| Title: | J. Anderson, Ohio to his parents in Balinrees |
|---|---|
| ID | 69 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Anderson, Joseph/78 |
| Year | 1837 |
| Sender | Anderson, Joseph |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ohio, USA |
| Destination | Ballinree, Ireland |
| Recipient | Anderson Family |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son and sibling |
| Source | D.1859/2: Presented by Dr. J. T. Anderson, 16 Ashley Gardens, Banbridge, County< Down, Ireland |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9012075 |
| Date | 26/04(?)/1837 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C.R., 10:12:1993. |
| Word Count | 1243 |
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| Transcript | [Front of envelope] For John Anderson Ballinree Care of John Hunter Esqu [Esquire?] Greenhill near Colerain [Coleraine?] Co Derry Parish Aughadoey Ireland [Back of envelope] Mr John Anderson Colerain [Coleraine?] Co Derry Ireland Wetherfield March 27 Viana [Vienna?] March the 26th 1837 Dear parents Brothers and sisters we Received two letters one for John Roberts and one for us with pleasure I Comence [Commence?] to write you a few lines to let you know that we all enjoy good health at present thank god for all his mercys [mercies?] to us hopeing [hoping?] if this letter reaches your length it will find you enjoying the same blessings Dear father [--ive?] Received your letters the twentyfifth Instant the one bearing date December the 30th 1836 the other January the 6 1837 which gladened [gladdened?] our harts [hearts?] to hear from you all and that you were all on [in?] the land of the liveing [living?] Dear father you stated in your letter that you our aged parents were faling [failing?] about which I have no dought [doubt?] but your clay houses is muldring [mouldering?] fast and your heads geding [getting?] gray and many wrinkles in [your?] brows but you may blss [bless?] god that you are yet alive and that he is giveing [giving?] you time and space to repent while your old friends and neighbours and even blooming youths are called from time to Eternity god in his providence has visited our little family with that irresistable [irresistible?] massenger [messenger?] death two weeks previous to this date Eliza was put to bed and delivered of a still born child a girl she is now recovered to her wonted state of health our Childer Mary and Jane is well Dear Brother and sister you wish to know what time of the year is the best to set out for America I think April or the begining [beginning?] of May next you wish to know if the provisions we had on board was suitable #PAGE 2 for us the [they?] answered very well we had provisions enough and to spare we left four or five score in New York with some other articles in Hugh Gamble [Camble?] the gave [--------------------------------------------] [illegible?] which the [they?] thought would a cost them more than the [they?] were worth every person is allowed a hundred weight of bagage [baggage?] from Newyork [New York?] here then whatever the [they?] have over the [they?] charge fifty cents per hundred or perhaps a little more oat meal is worth six cents per pound in philadelphia [Philadelphia?] or newyork [New York?] if you can sell it if not bring all your lugag [luggage?] along and if your money fails you know where to write from Newyork to Albany two dollars half each from Albany to Buffalo three dollars a half each from fairport [Fairport?] to the Center of viana [Vienna?] three dollars twentyfive Cents but your best plan is to leave your wife and Childer in fairport [Fairport?] and walk here yourself distance sixty miles from fairport [Fairport?] to parkman [Parkman?] thirty miles from parkman [Parkman?] to warren [Warren?] twenty miles from warren [Warren?] to the Center of Viana [Vienna?] eight miles let trusy [Rockm---?] [missing] I like this Cuntry [country?] well and I think he could do better than in ierland [Ireland?] but we dont wish to advise any person farther out than our Brothers least the [they?] might have bad fortune then exclame [exclaim?] upon us let James Mcintyre know that David stoped [stopped?] in Hugh Gambles [Cambles?] he works in the same store with Robert Mcintyre David told Gamble [Camble?] to tell Robert and Alexander he had a letter for them there [their?] answer was for Hugh Gamble [Camble?] to bring the letter to them for the [they?] did not want to see him H. Gam [Gamble?] caried [carried?] the letter and said he heard the half of it read and the [they?] would not read the other half in his hearing let william [William?] Tomson [Thomson?] know that John Tompson [Thompson?] and John Roxborough lives in the Township of [drord?] thirty miles from here William Roxborough Johns son lives here by writeing [writing?] to him directing his letter to the same postoffice you do yours he can get all the information he wants Cousen [Cousin?] Samuel after a long times silence betwixt you and I was glad to hear your letter I thought it strange you did not write a letter to me long a go [ago?] upon the account of old times but we were sorry to hear of your wife [wife's?] sickness and of our ant [aunt?] haveing [having?] #PAGE 3 that Complant [Complaint?] in her finger John Roberts was verry [very?] sorry for his Grandmother and aunt he wishes to let you know that he Recd [Received?] no money for the time the [they?] stoped [stopped?] in liverpool [Liverpool?] there [their?] boxes was not searched untill [until?] the [they?] landed in newyork [New York?] there [their?] expnce [expense?] for the time the [they?] stoped [stopped?] in liverpool [Liverpool?] was ten shillings each he wishes to let you know that he likes the Cuntry [Country?] pritty [pretty?] well altho [although?] he thought it strange at first he did not work all the time in winter he is now at work on the Can-ll [Canal?] at fiften [fifteen?] dollars pr [per?] months and found and expets [expects?] to have eighteen in the summer next you wish to know what kind of victualling we eat for Common here our fair [fare?] is white bread potatoes pork butter cheese pie applesauce and sutch [such?] like to each meal Coffy [Coffee?] to brakefast [breakfast?] and tea to supper the servant eat at the same table with his master John Roberts would not advise his father to sell out and come here neither would I altho [although?] his trade is pritty [pretty?] good here land is very high here he Could not buy land here for less than eight dollars pr [per?] acre and woodland to [too?] without going two 100 miles farther back land Cattle victualling and every thing else is as dear again as when we landed here first friend Samuel we think you had pritty [pretty?] hard times in Ireland last winter for the want of turf you stated in your letter that you would like to have a whiles come [----?] with us about our stick fire we are at no loss for a fire here two men and a yoke of oxen four days could get as much wood as would do the best fire in Ballinree for one year for the want of room I must drop my pen John Roberts and us sends our kind love to our parents brother and sisters uncles and aunts friends and old acquantances [acquaintances?] individually and Colectively [Collectively?] I [-ad?]no more at present but remains your sons and daughters J D and Cd [?] Anderson frend [friend?] Samuel you stated in your letter if David has seen any of the yankies [yankee?] girls that he fancied here but John and him thinks the girls here are not as hansome [handsome?] as in Ireland the [they?] can be suited in a fortune here but not in buty [beauty?] you may tell some of the purty girls to wait on them the [they?] say the [they?] will spend one hundred dollars and go home for wifes [wives?] without doubt David could get a girl here with 1000 dollars #PAGE 4 of a fortune she sen [sent?] word with me to him. John [Mofalrich?] and family is well we wish to be remembered to our father and Mother in Mullahinch and brother John and family we heard our mother had gon [gone?] to Scotland to stop with nany [nanny?] Eliza wishes them to write a letter to us as soon as she comes home write from Ballinree as soon these lines comes to hand and if Robert is not comeing [coming?] never to mention about America again [written across one side] David and I is working on farms I have 100 and 44 dollars a year david is working to a brother of the man I am working for at a 100 and 26 dollars a year and both found |
