| Title: | James Gamble, Oregon, U. S. A, to Abel Gamble, County Down. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1138 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Gamble, James/41 |
| Year | 1864 |
| Sender | Gamble, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | currently unemployed |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Oregon, USA |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Gamble, Abel |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D/3305/1/8 : Deposited by Dr. K. A. Miller. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9805350 |
| Date | 22/12/1864 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 14:05:98. |
| Word Count | 476 |
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| Transcript | Canion [Canyon ?] city December 22nd 1864 Dear Brother i recieved [received?] your letter on the first of this mouth [month?] and i am very glad to hear that you are all well as i am at present and as for andrew he is dead six years ago past last summer stone cutting was very dull in new Jersey at the time and he went to panama a very sickly place and he got the panama fever and he came home to newark new Jersey and died i am informed that he died very easey [easy?] he was buried in bloomfield in his Wifes fathers burying ground in the state of new Jersey its not a great ways from new york City to it there is a train runs out to it how i found that out his wifes brother is here in this place and he told me all about it his wifes name is nancy closh and she has two children to andrew both girls the oldest is about eleven years and the other nine the oldests name is rose ann and the others name is elisa jane what money he had was about six hundred dollars and that was left to his children when the [they?] would become of age in care of her father but since that time her father is dead her brother here thinks that his sister is with her brother the name of her brother is David closh he has considerable of property and his wife is dead and he lives in a town the name of orange near bloomfield the father came from near ballamena [ballymena?] in the co Antrim her brother says that he wrote to you and me about andrews death but i think not or you would have heard something about it i think it very strange that he is so long dead and we heard no account of it. dear abel times is very dull here at the present time its very cold here and a hard frost and some snow on the ground there is very little doing here only those that are working in tunnels as for my part i have done nothing this month you spek [speak?] about me coming home i would if i had the means to come and live there without working. there is a draft in this letter to my mother for the sum of ten pounds on the royal bank of ireland write as soon as you get this canion [Canyon ?] city Grant county state of oregon you might send john and malcoms [malcolms?] directions and as for thomas he is not mentioned in any of the letters lately i thought that he was dead by the remark that my mother made in a letter i send my love to you all and ever remember me as your affectionate brother James Gamble |
