| Title: | James Heather, Montreal, Canada, to Thomas Greeves, Dungannon. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1398 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Heather, James/32 |
| Year | 1834 |
| Sender | Heather, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | runs some sort of business |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Greeves, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends, business |
| Source | D 593/5: Obtained from Lt. Col. J.R.H. Greeves, c/o J. & T. M. Greeves Ltd., Conway St., Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9504036 |
| Date | 04/07/1834 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 04:04:1995. |
| Word Count | 439 |
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| Transcript | Mr Thomas Greeves Dungannon Montreal 4th July 1834 Dear Thomas Not having room in my other letter & not wishing to [miss?] it I have just to say I have heard of a person going to N. York [New York?] tomorrow and have no doubt my passage will leave for the [pertret?] of the 16th for Liverpool please remember me though not known to your wife and to all engineering friends to numerous to enumerate, I have wrote to some of my friends in your town but Lawrence has got possession of them or he would have wrote me, tho [though?] far separated I often think of them and the town that give me birth, you would oblige me by sending a person ( and paying them ) and stopping in to Widow W Daniels you paid the money to of Daniel Lawrences requesting her to come into you, and to let her know that her daughter Sarah is well and now my wife, being left as I was I had no other alternative and knowing she would be kind to the children, we will have no second family which pleases me best, she is very anxious to hear from her mother if living a few lines in your letter will do as she does not write, but you can do it for her, she thinks she is dead, or she would have heard from her before this, trade has been but [paid big?] here during the last summer with many failures here & in quebec, but no bankrupt levy here, but more sure & better for the creditor, you will be anxious to hear what I am doing, I am into a good situation and expect better until I am able to start for myself, this is a rising town and more business done in it than Quebec some by heavy merchants Oh. if you were but here at present to see the river St. Lawrence leaving the Ice Mountains high and the water rising and after the Ice done shoving then commence making the roads & slaying in every direction up & down & across, and grog ships on the river, provision at this season is always cheaper than in Summer, brought across the river from the States as the boundary line is not more than 27 Miles, I see some Quakers here but no place for worship this place abounds with French Canadians who can speak very little english some of them none at all, time for me to be done I wrote this when all the house is asleep, farewell believe me to be your kind friend and well wisher Jas [James?] Heather |
