| Title: | Robt. Moore, Portadown, to Joseph [Searight?], [Philadelphia?] |
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| ID | 1881 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Moore, Robert/86 |
| Year | 1847 |
| Sender | Moore, Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Portadown, Co. Armagh |
| Destination | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | Searight, Joseph |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends, business |
| Source | D 2794/1/2/14: Presented by H. H. Montgomery, 4 Kensington Gardens, Belfast 5. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9509117 |
| Date | 15/12/1847 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 28:09:95. |
| Word Count | 904 |
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| Transcript | Portadown 15th Dec [December?] 1847 Dear Joseph I doubt not but you will be rather surprised by the receipt of this, but as you had you will see I have sufficient reason for writing and I do not wish to prolong a silence that has existed too long between us especially now that [rolling?] Billows are between us the past cannot now be recalled, and I feel quite inclined to allow the memories of the past to be buried in oblivion I may state that we were all very happy to hear of your safety and success but we were especially thankful to the Most High that you were alive and such scenes of dissolution and death surely this is a great mercy we are all well at present and have been since you left as is Mr Montgomerys family but they have had had little else than affliction since you went away I am sure that you would have been sorry for them had you seen them as I did but I suppose you have heard all about them I am just now come in from John [Macouns?] after being there the second time to try to get a statement of our ac t [account?] from him and could not which I intended to enclose to you to show that I have paid him œ60 of your balance some time since I had gathered together some 70 or 80 pieces of 3/8 linens which I wished to send with some he was sending to the green and lean on him for 3/4 the amount when he in his own quiet way proposed taking them if I would leave the half amount towards paying the old account which proposal startled and disappointed me very much as you said you had made certain arrangements with him I told him I would think of it and let him know but that I could hardly speed that amount just now as my funds were very low indeed if I had had money I would have paid him off the whole amount just then and have done without hesitation alltogether I was so much disappointed by the application, so soon after you had went away, I wrote to him in a few days after stating if he queried my price I would accept the offer and settle the whole account I sent him what I had ready and he took about œ120 worth of them and only that He regretted some other that I have I would have cleared [---out?] there cannot however be a large sum now. I have given him œ60 as stated and œ10 you sent and he had got your boiler I sold it to him and all the fixtures with it and was to get Mr Mont [Montgomery?] to by [buy?] the piece but I saw from his letter to you that he thinks you are easier seller than us and wishes you to state the price your letter he had for me today However I think about œ5 /10/- to œ5 /15/ a fine value and these [----?] with [worth?][ Ledur--?] œ40 if [true?] it is paid ought to bring our account very low [ Letturch?] has paid nothing yet nor Mrs Cairns he was going to America and took him on a Judges [Riot?] and sent him to jail I am not sure if he will pay some thing if he does not will he plead against Robert Cairns and will you pay half the costs he is accidentally the best stake we are thinking so [wreck?] [Ledwich ?] out He's a rogue Now you see from what I have done as above I am pretty thin of funds now and I wish to know how you will arange to make it up to me what would you think of selling out our interest in [---?] uncle says David would buy it at a price what will we take for it I think if we got anything like the thing it would be better as money is so very scarce be careful to let us know what you think on this subject the mill is pressing for the costs [---?] cannot pay mine and yr [yours?] uncle is secure too John Capper would not [matter?]to bleach your linens and send them to you if you thought they would sell well there - Anne is converted on Wednesday last She was ill and is better and that has been the result - J A Jackson says she has taken the vow of celibacy and will [live?] and see an old [maid?] Trade continues as you left it if not worse and every other [Branch?] of Business suggests you are well away if had not went in such a hurry [Written accross the page] I hear of some of chums being in the County and intend to go see about them as soon as I have time the [Nornate?] of post is just up and I must have done hoping you will be able to read this and that you are well and happy I am yours affectionately Robt [Robert?] Moore P S I forgot to say that John Moffet is paying Jo Macroun at the present time œ12 a month on his account He is clean done any how and is never to make a webb on his own act [account?] - |
