| Title: | "E.I.", Quebec, To Her Father, Rev James Irwin, Raphoe. |
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| ID | 1527 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Irwin, E/35 |
| Year | 1807 |
| Sender | Irwin, E. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | army officer? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Raphoe, Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Recipient | Rev. James Irwin |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | son-father |
| Source | T.2093/28: Copied by Permission of Mrs J C Herdman, Sion Mills, Strabane, Co Tyrone, Ireland. #TYPE EMG "E.I." [Mrs Elizabeth Green?], Quebec To Her Father, Rev James Irwin, Raphoe, Ireland, 28th February 1807. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8811008 |
| Date | 28/02/1807 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 05:12:1988 GC created 14:02:1989 ET input 14:04:19 |
| Word Count | 1688 |
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| Transcript | Address please to Frank this Letter Revd James Irwin Raphoe Quebec Febu [February?] 28th 1807 Ireland My dear Father I had lately the pleasure to receive yours of the 26th Oct & was happy to hear so pleasant an account of the family and that your stay at Donegal was of such benefit. The detail of my expenses is very serious but I assure you I have many times thought on the subject with anxiety & regret before you reminded me. I wrote to Mrs Whittle as I mentioned to in my last to send me a piece of linen but nothing else. I want cash very much but did not like to ask them for it, if you would think proper to do so it would very much oblige me & be only useful & [?] ?. I assure you my dear Father it is with reluctance I write on this subject knowing your many demands but you also conceive my situation & will excuse what you might otherwise think unreasonable. My Uncle's situation is the same as when I last wrote to you, & we don't know when to expect a Commander-in-Chief or Governor. We were all very glad to hear so good an acct [account?] of Ellen & that her voyage was likely to prove so pleasant. I have been enquiring from an Officer & his wife who have lately left India about the Climate & the [they?] say Madras is very healthy but Ceylon where they spent a considerable time is very much the reverse, people are subject to the liver complaint in that country but I was happy to find that Madras was exempt from any prevalent disorder. We had lately a very alarming account of a mutiny among the native troops at [orlon?] in the [Carnatic?] country, it was effectually quelled but the same disposition was thought to prevail in other parts of India. I hope sincerely they will not have any disturbance now, it would be so very uncomfortable for Ellen. I had great satisfaction in hearing of poor [Sophy's?] being at length so happily settled. I have not heard from her for more than a year. I lately saw Mr Ellis & gave him great satisfaction by the acct [account?] you wrote of his friends as he very seldom hears from them he expects to go home in the spring. We are not acquainted with his younger Brother who is in the same Regt [Regiment?]. It gave me great pleasure to hear of Dr Alcock's family being all so happy. I wrote to Miss BAlcock in July from the country & shall hope to hear from her, as my Mother mentioned her wish that I would write & her promise to be punctual. My Uncle has taken a House in the country for the summer near where we were last year & we are to move as soon as the snow is off the ground which will be perhaps about the middle or latter end of M (seal here). Uncle remains in town as usual, last year we did not see him oftener than once a week, he is so confined at the Office. Last summer was uncommonly pleasant for the Climate, as it was not so immoderately hot as that season generally is here This winter has been mild so far for Quebec but it is calculated that when we have a mild winter you have it severe at home. We had lately a Grand Ball & Supper given by a society of gentlemen called the Baron's Club. it was an Installation Ball & we were all very curious to see the ceremony of making Barons, but that [was?] all over before the Ladies assembled to their great disappointment. The (seal) sons (& the wives & daughters of those who had any) wore round their necks a red Ribbon with a Cross as Knights of the Red Cross. The room was very handsomely ornamented, it is a new room built since last winter, & holds with ease four sets of 25 couple each besides having a card room in a recess at the end. The 4 first sets were led off by the Baron's wives & the President's daughter or rather stepdaughter, being Mrs Dunn's by her first husband She is a strange woman that Mrs Dunn, she never goes into company abroad but receives them at home sometimes, we don't visit her but are acquainted so as to speak when we meet, she is not a very desirable acquaintance, she makes such odd speeches to you before gentlemen, I am told, but I like her daughter we meet her pretty often. She is a very good girl, but no favourite with her Mother, the Mr Dunn is very good to her, he is a very good old man as he is the oldest protestant privy Councillor, he is President in the absence of the Governor. I was very much distressed on hearing of the death of my kind friend Mrs Martin it must have been very sudden, two hours illness we are told & that Lady Milne was on her way going to spend some time with her at Hampton Court but before her arrival Mrs Martin was dead. It must have been a very great shock to Lady Milne & the people here imagine she would lose her senses as she did once in this country on the death of a child. We don't know when to expect the Governor out there have been no very late accounts from them The Bishop is positively expected in the Spring, or rather what we call the middle of summer at home. We have had nothing but bad news from the Continent of Europe lately so much that people are not anxious to look at newspapers any more I suppose the Government people have so much to do at home that they don't think of Canada or sending out a Commander in Chief. This family are all very well. I think my Aunt's spirits got better & the country will be of use to her, tho'[though?] she does not enjoy the thought of it so much as we all do. We have had some plays this winter performed by the Officers of the Garrison, next week they act Henry the 4th Capt [Captain?] Cheshire is to be Prince John of Lancaster. I believe not to the satisfaction of everybody as he is such a little creature & not handsome. I suppose you remember him at Drogheda School, he enquires for you & John when I see him I am told he knew me from my likeness to John to be his sister, The Benson who told me of the Total Eclipse of the Sun in some part of the States was not [quipping?] & still persists in saying that the moon is capable of eclipsing the sun totally. The Eclipses observed at [Berne?] & Mount Selus in 1706, & in 1715 at London & Paris were both occassioned [occasioned?] by the interposition of the moon & both were total, these & other facts he says warrant him in what he said [Changement de peuple?]?. I have not heard from John I think for twelve Months though I have several times written to him in that time. I am glad however to hear so good an account of him. The rest of the family are also in my debt which I hope will not long be the case. I am joined by all this family in love to you all and am my dear Father your ever afft [affectionate?] E. I. NOTE: Evidently the Elizabeth who married Colonel Green of Quebec see p.112 [pedigree?]; must have gone out to help her Aunt Maria, wife of James Green writer of letter of 6th May 1793. Perhaps married William, her cousin, mentioned in letter p.7. James of Drogheda must have been Headmaster of Drogheda School. John Coulter Personal Interrogators Exhibited on the part of the and wife Plaintiff to the Defendant The Reverend James Irwin pw in aid of the Account in this Cause/ Patk Ewing The 1st Interrogator. Were you not in receipt of the Rents Revd Jas Irvineson of the lands & premises in the pleading in this Cause Debts mentioned at the time of the death of John Vanhomrigh Chamney in the pleading in this Cause named and for how long before, and in what right, and on what account, and what sum was then due by you on foot there of - Were you Indebted in any and what sum to the Sd [said?] John Vanhomrigh Chamney at the time of his death and on what account did you continue in Receipt of the Rents of said lands and premises after the death of the said John Vanhomrigh Chamney, and for how long. Set forth an account of the Rents of said Lands & premises received by you, specifying the time & from whom received respectively according to the best of your recollection & belief, up to the time of the death of the said John V Chamney. As also an Account of the sums paid & disbursed by you thereout & how you disposed of said Rents & set forth an Account of the Rents & sums & other matters received by you out & on Account of said Lands & premises from the death of the said John V Chamney, specifying the time & from whom said Rents were received, particularly according to the best of you knowledge & belief. As also an Account of how you disposed thereof and of the payment & disbursements made by you thereout or on Account thereof & to whom & when Did you from the death of sd [said?] J V Chamney while you so Continued in Receipt of said Rents pay any & what debts of John Vanhomrigh or John Chamney deceased in the pleads named when did you give up the Receipts of said Rents of the Defendt [defendant?]. Patrick Ewing. How much then was justly & honorably due by you on account of said Rents & to whom & when did you settle. |
