| Title: | Margaret Johnston, Pittsburg, To Her Brother. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1577 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Johnston, Margaret/33 |
| Year | 1856 |
| Sender | Johnston, Margaret |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Pittsburgh, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Ireland? |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | D.1047/2: Presented By Mrs Beatty Per Burke, Solicitor, Enniskillen. #TYPE EMG Margaret Johnston, Pittsburg, America, To "Dear Brother". 8th December 1856. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8809160 |
| Date | 08/12/1856 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 26:09:1988 GC created 12:12:1988 pg input 24:01:19 |
| Word Count | 589 |
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| Transcript | December 8 1856 Pittsburgh Dear Brother I now sit down to let you know that we are in good health and to answer your kind letter I feel bad not answering it sooner but the reason was the Mill had stopt [stopped?] in October and the boys came to Pittsburgh and got work in the nail factory the [they?] had always worked in, the Mill in sharon was to start in Spring Thos [Thomas?] came home the last of march to see how I was getting a long and said not to answer your letter till we would know what was to be done we would rather live in sharon but if the mill would not start we would come back to Pitts [Pittsburg?] we waited untill [until?] July the boys came home and there was no word of the Mill starting on the 28 of August we left and 6 or 8 families more the boys and me boarded until 3 weeks a go houses was so scarce and hard to be got so once more I am place in Pittsburg and I rather have a fear in my mind that you will not come here as you want to by [buy?] some land as it is dear round the city and Isabell wrote for your Adress [Address?] and I know she will gave [give?] you every encouragment [encouragement?] to go there, the [they?] are greatly uplifted a bout going to Minasota [Minnesota?] Douglass went to see it last spring my Francis staid [stayed?] with Isabell while he was gone Douglass is bound to be ritch [rich?] but I think the [they?] aught [ought?] to let well anough [enough?] alone Isabell was home to see us last June was a year with he [her?] four children 3 daughrs [daughters?] and one son she cauls [calls?] him Francis for her brother I think she was confined lately she wrote for me to go and stay with her a while but I could not go we can go on the cars from here there in little time Thos [Thomas?] has 3 mashines [machines?] and if the mill runs steady this winter we can do very well he makes 3 dolars [dollars?] and 30 cents a day he is learning John to keep a mashine [machines?] witch [which?] hinders to make as match [much?] as he would Robert makes 5 dolars [dollars?] a day he has 4 mashines [machines?] him and his wife has 2 children a son one daughter - we have had a long drouth [drought?] this fall but the Lord has a gain watered the earth and filed [filled?] the rivers with rain so that men can get imployment [employment?] and steamboats run a gain now do not deal with me acording [according?] to my deserving but answer my litter [letter?] I will be anxious to have an answer and hear from you and when you write direct Pittsburgh Pike st No 96 5 [ward?] the boys unite with me in sending their love to you and your family no more but remains your afectionate [affectionate?] sister till death Margret Johnston I got 3 newspapers this summer your letters and newspapers went to a sharon in ohio was the reason I did not get them you directd [directed?] to sharon ohio in place of sharon p a [Pennsylvania?] John Johnston Francis is a sadler [saddler?] and harness maker he works in Mansfield ohio where he learnd [learned?] his trade with my brothern law [brother-in- law?] and sister yours afectionatley [affectionately?] M. J. |
