| Title: | Andrew Greenlees, Rice [County?], [Kansas?], to His Brother |
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| ID | 1237 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Greenlees, Andrew/10 |
| Year | 1874 |
| Sender | Greenlees, Andrew |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Rice Co., Kansas, USA |
| Destination | Magheramore, Co. Wicklow, Ireland |
| Recipient | Greenlees, John |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | T 2046/19: Copied by Permission of Aiken McClelland, Esq., 3 Beechhill Park, Belfast. #TYPE EMG Andrew Greenlees, Rice [County?], [Kansas?], [U.S.A?] to His Brother, [Location?], 9 May 1874. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9006221 |
| Date | 09/05/1874 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 05:07:1990 JM created 07:11:1991 PKS input 07:11:1 |
| Word Count | 911 |
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| Transcript | Dear Brother the weekly visits of the wittness has in a measure kept me posted in regard to Church matters, permit me to congratulate you on the prosperity of the Church of which you are pastor we watch with much interest for any items of information about the [?] Church from recent papers I gather that it is a live living working body and in a prosperous condition May God continue to bless your labours and crown them with abundant success to the praise of his grace the question is sometimes asked by some of the children if Uncle John think it wrong to use instrumental music in church seeing recently in the wittness an account of a very interesting meeting in connection with the Sunday School as [?] of hope when the hasrmonium was in use I take it for granted that Uncle John does not think it wrong to use instrumental music in public worship our children always being accustomed to hear the organ in Church ever since they began to go think it strange that the good people of Belfast should be so bitter against it and show an Unchristian spirit in not being willing to allow perfect liberty of conscience in the matter I would have written James but have waited until I could tell you how my full sown grain looked after the severe winter it has passed though I am glad to be able to say it looks not only well but extremely well indeed we never had a better appearance than at present perhaps never quite so good I have in about fifty acres of small grains that is wheat rye & oats and 20 acres has the ground ready for 31 acres more wheat we will plant in a few days so you see we will not have been idle about two days more work will finish two miles of hedge fence on the farm I live on if it grows ordinary well it will be a good fence in three years [?] my claim does not [?] along side of my other claim but the two sections thus I have only four horses but has work for six two cows to start with two young cattle and will increase my stock as fast as i am able as that will be the most profitable brand of farming I could keep 100 head of cattle for almost nothing but will have to go at present as I am able this has been a memorable winter here but for the severity of the weather and the poor conditions that man as brute were in to stand it never the less we have all struggled through some one way and some another a few horses have died for want of grain and money others are in no plight to work personallyt we are all well and [?] our work vigorously it is said that I have made more improvements and put more crop in than any other man in the County for the time that I have been here (and I expect it is true) God in his providence has provided for us wonderfully our seed cost a good deal and also current expenses were pretty high necessarly [necessarily?] on account of prices we had to pay for every thing yet we have been sustained and can truly say hither to the Lord hath helped us after securing my seeds and paying some little debts I found that I had no money to get grain for my teams and that if I could keep them living at all I could not put in my springs crops unless I could procure feed for them (you know I always liked a good horse) so I wrote a few lines to John Rea the first I believe in 19 years he was always kind to me as a Father, but he was busy and I was busy and somehow we quit corresponding, well as I said I wrote him a few lines asking him to send me 100 dollars if he could spare it and I would return it when I was able he responded immediately with a draft for that amount which was certainly a very friendly act for a friend in need is a friend indeed this put me in a position to prosecute my work vigorously this spring. I will also relate another instance my friends in Ottawa hearing that we were amongst the sufferers in Kansas packed two large boxes of clothing for us and sent me a note when they were shipped from Ottawa that we might be looking for them but some how they miscarried and some other people got them that needed them probably worse than we did (those friends were [ladys?] [ladies?] of the church where we used to be members how true when one member suffers the whole body suffers with it truly their [there?] is a bond of Christian brotherhood! write soon I want to hear how you all are more especially Ellen & Agnes I wrote to them some time ago give our kindest love to them also to Hugh & Jenny & family truly yours Andrew I see I have spelled Witness with two t's and various other mistakes please excuse as I have forgotten what ever little I did know. You will see by the heading of this letter that we have named our farm [ ?] Ellenwood Barton Co. [County?] |
