| Title: | William Mitchell, Quebec to His Wife, Londonderry. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1784 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Mitchell, William/7 |
| Year | 1842 |
| Sender | Mitchell, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | ship captain? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | husband-wife |
| Source | D 1665/1/1: Presented by Mrs Helen O'Neill, 20 Grange Road, Ballymena, County Antrim. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9403203 |
| Date | 12/06/1842 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 18:03:1994. |
| Word Count | 229 |
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| Transcript | Quebec June 12th 1842 Dear Wife, We arrived at Quebec on the 29th of last Month, after a long and stormy passage, but thank God we are all well on board, and commenced taking in cargo yesterday. We have been in dock and got the bottom caulked and all put to rites [rights?]. I hope we will be laded by this day fortnight, as our cargo will be Deals, Wheat, & Flour, I would have wrote sooner but the day we got here the Mail Boat sail'd for Halifax, so there was no convayance [conveyance?] to Briton [Britain?] sooner than to morrow, the Mail Closes, here & sails from Halifax on the 19th so you will have this about the 3rd of next month, we fear you are all very uneasy being so long on the passage & missing the last mail, we was 6 weeks & four days coming out & had two passingers [passengers?] died, & three Births, the Barque Helen from Derry arrived here the other day & had 46 days passage, the Times is very bad in this part even worse than in Ireland the Labourers as [has?] only 2/6 per day curey [currency?]. Dear Wife I hope this will find you in as Good Health & spirits as I am at present. thank God for it. Give my love to the Children & to Yourself Wm [William?] Mitchell |
