| Title: | Andrew Porter, New York to Robert Porter, Co. Down, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 2141 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Porter, Andrew/24 |
| Year | 1856 |
| Sender | Porter, Andrew |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farm labourer |
| Sender Religion | Prob. Protestant |
| Origin | Cortwright, New York, USA |
| Destination | Newry, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Porter, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D 1152/3/12: Presented by Mr Charles Best, Co. Armagh |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9503246 |
| Date | 01/10/1856 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:03:1995. |
| Word Count | 581 |
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| Transcript | To: [Robert Porter, Desert, County Down?] From: Kortright October 1 1856 Dear brother I take this feavourable [favourable?] opertunity [opportunity?] of adressing [addressing?] you a few lines in answer to your letter of the 21 of July which I received in 23 days after and I hope you will excuse me for not answering it sooner but as I was so busy I never could answer it as it took me a month to cut the hay and other crops to see to after that so that Jane and me dos [does?] all ourselves so that if you wer [were?] to see how hard we work you would not wonder what suckess [success?] we made in so short a time but if the Lord in his mercy spers [spares?] us health as he has don [done?] since we came hear [here?] but we will stop to we have somthing [something?] worth while now I hope this will find you all enjoying as good healt [health?] and contentment as it leaves us in at preasent [present?] thank God for so great a blessing as he hath bestowed upon us now you say that you want me to send you word how you would send me the price of a shoot of close [suit of clothes?] but as for that I have as good a shoot [suit?] as Mr McCalistes but if you chose to send me some money I will receive it with thankfullness [thankfulness?] as you now [know?] how to send it and as for that I went to Delhi bank to enquire about it and the [they?] tell me that if you would send a bill the same as you sent to William that the the [they?] thought it would be all the same or to get a bill on any princaple [principle?] bank there and the the the[y?] could take it and sell it to some of the new york banks Thomas Creag [Craig?]requests you to let his friends know that the the [they?] are all well and robert has got maried [vessels?] the old Couple was hear [here?] making us a visit the other day and we had sam and marthew [Mathew?] [Martha?] Creag [Craig?] and Robert Hear [Here?] on the 4 of July so that you may tell Williams ones that robt [Robert?] is well my mother wants to now about uncle Andy and Aunt Bell as for them the [they?] are both well and uncle is left margrets [Margaret's?] with a fawl [fall?] out we hear that he is hired in nancys mans at 50 sents [cents?] a day and he is also out of the elder ship on acount [account?] of the way that the the [they?] are geting [getting?] along and the nabours [neighbours?] all says that it is a pity of poor old mister McNeilly and to tell you the truth i ame [am?] ashamed of them my self we ask to be remembered ot our frends [friends?] in mullaglass [Mullaghglass?] and as we hear the the[y?] have got uncle Thomas Crummy [Cromie?] there for minister Jane wants Maty [Mary?] Ann to remember her to him I wrote to William at the time I sent you the last and has got no answer yet and as for Joseph I want you to ask him what is the reason he never sent me a letter when you rite [write?] let me now [know?] all the pertuclers [particulars?] you can no more at preasant [present?] but remains as ever your afectionate [affectionate?] bother [brother?] A: Porter |
