| Title: | Henry Neill, Kentucky, to Samuel Neill, Banbridge, Co Down |
|---|---|
| ID | 1950 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Neill, Henry/124 |
| Year | 1839 |
| Sender | Neill, Henry |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Neill, Samuel |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | son-father |
| Source | T 1796/1: Copied by Permission of Mr Thomas Cromie, Grallagh House,Rathfriland, Co. Down. #TYPE EMG Emigrant Letter from Henry Neill, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. to Samuel Neill, Banbridge, Co Down, Mentioning Slave Trade, 1839, 1st April 1839. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8905066 |
| Date | 01/04/1839 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 26:06:1989 LT created 06:11:1990 CD input 07:11:19 |
| Word Count | 404 |
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| Transcript | Mr Saml. [Samuel?] Neill care Mr Robert Shaw Banbridge Co. Down Ireland Louisville Ky. [Kentucky?] April 1st 1839 Dear Father I embrace this opportunity of writing to you by Mr McMoran of this city who is now about to start for Ireland. Hoping therefore this may find you and all other friends in the happy enjoyment of good health I am happy to inform you that both John & I have lived in the full enjoyment of that inestimable blessing ever since we came to this country. And in the next place to give you some account of our situation I have now been in the employment of Messrs Jas [James?] & Wm [William?] McCrum one year at a salary of Two hundred dollars & gets Boarding & washing in the family of Jas [James?] McCrum I have made an agreement for this year at an advance of one hundred dollars I am well pleased with this place & the country in general - this state differs widely from that of Pennsylvania - tis as customary here to set up & sell Negroes at auction as it is horses in Ireland this is a trade in which there is great roguery practised by the rascally Negro- traders who will often sell a man in one place & appoint him to meet him again in another place & sell him again in this way our papers are always thronged with advertisements of runaways some time ago Mr Robert Henry called to see us on his way east to purchase goods & likewise on his return home He lives in a place called princeton in this state. There are but few of our country- men in this part in comparison to that of Pittsburgh the climate is somewhat different being warm in the summer however I believe it agrees with me very well as I have had as good health here as any place ever I lived. I have had two letters from John Arnold since his return from the last account He and family were all well & little John was at college in Washington. You will probably think I might give you more satisfaction in this but haste prevents me at present as Mr McMoran is about starting We all send our compliments & friendship to you Jas [James?] McCrum in particular wishes to be remembered to you as a school mate & comrade But I must now stop by bidding you & all friends once more Farewell Yours &c Henry Neill |
