| Title: | Catherine Parker, New Jersey, to "Dear Father", Dromore. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2063 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Parker, Catherine/68 |
| Year | 1816 |
| Sender | Parker, Cahterine |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New Jersey, USA |
| Destination | Dromore, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | daughter-father |
| Source | The Belfast Commercial Chronicle, Monday, 23 December, 1816 |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, Belfast. |
| Doc. No. | 9806352 |
| Date | 23/12/1816 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:06:98. |
| Word Count | 505 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | AMERICA. (From the Newry Telegraph.) SIR - Much discouraging matter with respect to America having been printed in the public newspapers (yours as well as others) I think it but right that the public should hear something on the other side of the question, I therefore request you to publish an extract of a letter, written by James, Moses, and Catherine Parker, to their father in the neighbourhood of Dromore, from Monmouth County, New Jersey, July 7, 1816. - I am, &c. P. "DEAR FATHER - This is the country for you, for if you were here, you would have work plenty, and your wages would be from eight to twelve shillings per day, at building or repairing malls, and I can get work plenty for you, and all my acquaintances; my brother Moses has his choice of work and by his appearance he will make a sober steady wage and that is all that is required in this country. He began to work in three days after I brought him home and had 6s. a day, and food, and he referred his hiring to me, and I would not let him work so any longer for that wages and he boards with me, and works at a bark factory, and clears from 10 to 14s. per day, and has steady work for one year, and I shall send for you, and you must not disappoint me. If you live to come to this country, the latter part of your days will be the best that you have ever seen, for you can have peace and plenty of every thing to eat,and to wear, in a very short time. "Dear father, you need not be afraid of coming to this country, for you will have a friend here that will set you a going, with a house and farm, and cows, hogs, and household furniture ready, and provisions to sit down and make yourselves comfortable, and in a few weeks you will be better off than any of your kindred in Ireland, for you can earn more in one day here, than your family will make use of in three days, for provisions is cheap and wages is high, so that a poor man can live here as well as the rich, if he will work any at all. I have kept my own table, going on three years, and has not had six bushels of potatoes in all that time, and is never without tea and sugar, flesh and fish, both roast and boiled, when I want it, so that I would to GOD that all my relations was here, in the Garden of Eden. When you write direct to the care of Mr. Robt. [Robert?] Stewart, No. 39 James street, New York, for James Parker, and it will come. Give my love to all my inquiring friends. This letter is from us as one. So no more at present, but remains your loving sons and daughter, till death, "JAMES, MOSES, AND CATHERINE PARKER." |
