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ID
File
Collection
Year
Title
Sender
Occupation
Recipient
ID:6631
File:39
Collection:Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan. Letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America (1675-1815) [K.A. Miller et al.]
Year:1705
Title:Chandlee, Benjamin to Chandlee, Ephraim, 1705
Sender:Chandlee, Benjamin
Occupation:apprenticed artisan
Recipient:Chandlee, Ephraim
ID:5282
File:39
Collection:Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes]
Year:1756
Title:Cunningham, Waddell to Greg, Thomas, 1756
Sender:Cunningham, Waddell
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Greg, Thomas
ID:3866
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1768
Title:From Charles-Town, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Sender:unknown
Occupation:politician
Recipient:unknown
ID:221
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1774
Title:Mrs Elizabeth Blair, Newry to Her Son James, Eustatia.
Sender:Blair, Elizabeth
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Blair, James
ID:3449
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1787
Title:Hamilton Young, New York, to "Dear Matty", Ireland.
Sender:Young, Hamilton
Occupation:goods trader
Recipient:Young, Martha
ID:1010
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1807
Title:T. A. Emmett, New York to Robert Simms, Belfast.
Sender:Emmett, Thomas Addis
Occupation:prob. a lawyer; wants to get
Recipient:Simms, Robert
ID:336
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1814
Title:James Brown, Philadelphia to James Brown, Belfast.
Sender:Brown, James (1)
Occupation:mechanic?
Recipient:Brown, James
ID:5989
File:39(1)
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1821
Title:Greeves, Susanna to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1821
Sender:Greeves, Susanna
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
ID:5990
File:39(2)
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1821
Title:Sinton, Mary to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1821
Sender:Sinton, Mary
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
ID:5991
File:39(3)
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1821
Title:Greeves, John Jr to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1821
Sender:Greeves, John Jr
Occupation:linen trader
Recipient:O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
ID:5992
File:39(4)
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1821
Title:Greeves, Thomas to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1821
Sender:Greeves, Thomas
Occupation:linen trader
Recipient:O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne
ID:5993
File:39(5)
Collection:The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Year:1821
Title:Greeves, Thomas to O'Brien, William, 1821
Sender:Greeves, Thomas
Occupation:linen trader
Recipient:O'Brien, William
ID:3327
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1822
Title:J. Wightman, Pennsylvania, to Miss Wightman, Lisburn.
Sender:Wightman, James
Occupation:businessman (owns a factory)
Recipient:Wightman, Eliza
ID:6404
File:39
Collection:New Brunswick Letters
Year:1834
Title:unidentified to Gibbs, Valentine, 1834
Sender:unidentified
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Gibbs, Valentine
ID:1343
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1834
Title:S. Hartley Telford, Savannah, to J. Suffern, Straidhaven
Sender:Hartley, S.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Suffern, J.
ID:1417
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1847
Title:Catherine Hennagan, St. John's, N.B., to "Dear Father & Mother"
Sender:Hennagan, Catherine
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:5684
File:39
Collection:The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber]
Year:1848
Title:39. From James Prendergast to his children in Boston
Sender:Prendergast, James
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Prendergast children
ID:1514
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1848
Title:Letter from William Hutton, St. Cathrines, to John McCrea, Strabane
Sender:Hutton, William
Occupation:Provincial Arbitrator
Recipient:McCrea, John
ID:1824
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1849
Title:William Montgomery, New Orleans, to Joseph Searight, Philadelphia
Sender:Montgomery, William
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Searight, Joseph
ID:312
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1850
Title:Matthew Brooks, Philadelphia, to Rebecca Clark, Co Tyrone
Sender:Brooks, Mathew
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Clark, Rebecca
ID:6236
File:39
Collection:Ulster Migration to America. Letters from three Irish Families [R.A. Wells]
Year:1850
Title:William Kerr to James Graham
Sender:Kerr, William
Occupation:ship mechanic
Recipient:Graham, James
ID:4757
File:39
Collection:Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki]
Year:1851
Title:Stewart, Frances to Waller, Maria, 1851
Sender:Stewart, Frances
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Waller, Maria
ID:2482
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1851
Title:Margaret Sinnamon, Portadown, to Thomas Greeves, Dungannon.
Sender:Sinnamon, Margaret
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Greeves, Thomas
ID:1872
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1852
Title:R. Moore, Portadown to J. Searight, Philadelphia.
Sender:Moore, Robert
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Searight, Joseph
ID:1825
File:39(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1853
Title:Robert Moore, Portadown, to Joseph Searight, Philadelphia
Sender:Montgomery, William
Occupation:linen merchant
Recipient:Searight, Joseph
ID:1791
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1854
Title:$T Hartford Montgomery, Portadown, to Joseph Seawright, Philadelphia.
Sender:Montgomery, Hartford
Occupation:businessman?
Recipient:Searight, Joseph
ID:3969
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1856
Title:"W", to Caroline Williamson, Rockmacreeny, County Armagh
Sender:W.
Occupation:works at a warehouse
Recipient:Williamson, Caroline
ID:2307
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1857
Title:Andrew [Robb?], Florida, to "My dear Mother".
Sender:Robb, Andrew
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Mrs David Robb
ID:3751
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1858
Title:James McCafferty, L. Lancaster City, to "Dear Uncle"
Sender:McCafferty, James
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:3970
File:39(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1860
Title:Incomplete letter [Indiana?] to "My Dear Mother".
Sender:unknown
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:4277
File:39
Collection:Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick]
Year:1860
Title:McCance, John to Orr, William, 1860
Sender:McCance, John
Occupation:gold-digger
Recipient:Orr, William
ID:503
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1863
Title:R. Campbell, U.S.A. to W. J. C. Allen, Belfast.
Sender:Campbell, Robert
Occupation:merchant
Recipient:Campbell Allen, William J.
ID:4064
File:39
Collection:Argentina - Murphy
Year:1866
Title:John James Murphy to Martin Murphy, 20 January 1866
Sender:Murphy, John James
Occupation:cattle breeder
Recipient:Murphy, Martin & Margaret
ID:265
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1869
Title:J.C. Boyd, Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, to His Mother
Sender:Boyd, John C.
Occupation:student
Recipient:unknown
ID:2261
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1873
Title:Portion of letter from J.A. Reford, to His Family, Antrim
Sender:Reford, James A.
Occupation:store owner
Recipient:Reford, Frances
ID:4006
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1876
Title:A Letter to Captain Cook, Asking Him to Captain the Hesperas
Sender:unknown
Occupation:ship owner
Recipient:Captain Cook
ID:320
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1877
Title:A. Browne, Co. Donegal, to [Audley Brown?] [U.S.?]
Sender:Brown, Annie
Occupation:mentions buying flaxseed and a wheel. linen worker?
Recipient:Brown, Audley
ID:2126
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1878
Title:F.H. Pollexfen, Sligo, Ireland to T. McMullen, Canada.
Sender:Pollexfen, Frederick H.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:McMullen, T.
ID:6351
File:39
Collection:Carlow-Coogan Letters
Year:1879-80
Title:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan) to Coogan, William, 1879-80
Sender:Coogan, Michael (Brother Declan)
Occupation:monk/shoemaker
Recipient:Coogan, William
ID:4520
File:39
Collection:The McIlrath Letters: A family history in letters from New Zealand to Ireland (1860-1915) [Bassett, McKee et al.]
Year:1882
Title:McIlrath, Hamilton to McIlrath, William, 1882
Sender:McIlrath, Hamilton
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:McIlrath, William
ID:4388
File:39
Collection:Patrick McMahon Glynn: Letters to his family (1874-1927) [Gerald Glynn O'Collins]
Year:1886
Title:McMahon Glynn, Patrick to Glynn, Ellen, 1886
Sender:McMahon Glynn, Patrick
Occupation:lawyer
Recipient:Glynn, Ellen
ID:3225
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1886
Title:[?], Pontiac, to Annie Weir, Birmingham, Michigan.
Sender:Weir, Isabella (Bell)
Occupation:asylum attendant
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:644
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1888
Title:R. & B. Clarke, Donegal to Robert Russell, Ontario
Sender:Clarke, Robert
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Russel, Robert
ID:1029
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1889
Title:A. M. [Faul?], Chicago, to Annie Weir
Sender:Faul, A.M.
Occupation:housewife
Recipient:Weir, Anne
ID:2203
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1890
Title:Ruth Ramsey, [Nebraska?], to "Dear cusen anna"
Sender:Ramsey, Ruth J.
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:2972
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1891
Title:Mary Smyth, Ontario to John J. Smyth, Castledamph
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, John J.
ID:3397
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1892
Title:George Wood, Michigan to Annie Weir, [?]
Sender:Wood, George R.
Occupation:asylum attendant
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:3226
File:39(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1893
Title:[Isabella Weir?], San Francisco to Her Family
Sender:Weir, Isabella (Bell)
Occupation:unemployed
Recipient:Weir, Annie
ID:222
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1894
Title:I. Blair, Ballindrait to Andrew Lowry, Raphoe, Co. Donegal.
Sender:Blair, I.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Lowry, Andrew
ID:4226
File:39(1)
Collection:The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride]
Year:1895
Title:Reynolds, Mary Ann to Reynolds (n. Kavanagh), Mary Ann, 1895
Sender:Reynolds, Mary Ann
Occupation:linen worker
Recipient:Reynolds (n. Kavanagh), Mary Ann
ID:4227
File:39(2)
Collection:The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride]
Year:1895
Title:Reynolds, William to Reynolds, James William, 1895
Sender:Reynolds, William
Occupation:linen trader
Recipient:Reynolds, James William
ID:2087
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1896
Title:R. Patterson, Milwaukee, to "Dear Uncle".
Sender:Patterson, Robert Jr
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:unknown
ID:742
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1897
Title:Postcard: CL. Crasswell, Ontario to James a Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Crassweller, C.L.
Occupation:teacher?
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:1159
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1898
Title:N.Gibbons, Roxbury, Boston, to [R.Moore?] [Carndonagh?] [Donegal?]
Sender:Gibbons, Neil
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Moore, Robert?
ID:3735
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1899
Title:Arthur McAuley, Tomales, California, Describing Life in America
Sender:McAuley, Arthur
Occupation:farmer?
Recipient:unknown
ID:1686
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1900
Title:Samual James McCreery, New York., to Joshua Peel & Son, Armagh.
Sender:McCreery, Samuel James
Occupation:works in an office
Recipient:Peel, Joshua
ID:2973
File:39(2)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1902
Title:Mary Smyth, Ontario to “Dear People”
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:student
Recipient:
ID:6276
File:39
Collection:Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnel to James P.Phelan [A. O'Donnell]
Year:1903
Title:O'Donnell, Annie to Phelan, James, 1903
Sender:O'Donnell, Annie
Occupation:children's maid
Recipient:Phelan, James
ID:2974
File:39(3)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1903
Title:M. Smyth, St Thomas to J.A Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:student
Recipient:Smyth, James A.
ID:2975
File:39(4)
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1904
Title:Mary [Smyth?], Ontario to E.C. Smyth, Co Tyrone
Sender:Smyth, Mary
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Smyth, Eliza C.
ID:2646
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1905
Title:Lisa Smyth, Co Tyrone to James A Smyth, Ontario
Sender:Smyth, Eliza Catherine
Occupation:farmer
Recipient:Smyth, James Alexander
ID:2338
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:1911
Title:[Neal Rogers?], New York to Patrick Bloomer, Co Louth
Sender:Rogers, Neal
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Bloomer, Patrick
ID:1616
File:39
Collection:Irish Emigration Database
Year:ca. 1876
Title:Anna S King, [New York?] To Rev Alex Kirkpatrick, Co Antrim
Sender:King, Anna S.
Occupation:unknown
Recipient:Rev. Alexander Kirkpatrick