| Title: | R. Porter, Chebanse to Relatives, County Down, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 2144 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Porter, Robert L/24 |
| Year | 1880 |
| Sender | Porter, Robert L. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Chebanse, Illinois, USA |
| Destination | Mullaghglas, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Best, Charles |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | writes to brother and nephew |
| Source | D 1152/3/29: Presented by Mr Charles Best, Mullaghglass, Bessbrook, County Armagh. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9011012 |
| Date | 01/01/1880 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 06:12:1993 |
| Word Count | 850 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Some better them [than?] I do for there is two [too?] much disemmulation [dissimulation?] got in to it owing To So much different Nationalitys amalgemated [amalgamated?] with each other and for who Can be Smartest at taking other in- I have not much room to Complain I have done pretty well all things Considering we are well fixed with a good House and Barns and all kinds of Fruit and a good Rock well of the very best of water and a 60 feet Steel Tower wind Mill to pump all the water we can use for both our Selves and Stock with in 10 _ods [?] of 63 now I will Try and Tell you all I Can of how we all are and how we are getting on to begin My wife Mary Ann is now quite well but had a severe atack [attack?] of Beelious [Bilious?] feaver [fever?] in the month of September last but is now quite well and is got qute [quite?] fliskey [?] and fat and has good health generly [generally?] - Sarah J [?] is now in South Dacota in the indian Roseluid [?] reservation teaching young Indians likes hir [her?] Situation and Vocation well has over six hundred dollars per year of Salery [salary?] She was quite well when herd [heard?] from last 2 weeks ago - William [?] I sopose [suppose?] you herd [heard?] we this went from here a year ago to North Neserin [Western?] Canada where he is now is and is going to make it his home as he Sayes [Says?] in his last letter he has taken up his home on the finest land and richest Soil he ever Set eyes on and he has been through a good many States and places in the U N S [United States?] but he Sayes [Says?] where he is now Suits him well he is going into the Ranching business rising [raising?] Cattle and Hoarses [Horses?] and growing all he can in mixed farming he is 40 miles from a post offiec [office?] now but I thinkes [think?] there will Soon be a town near by he is about 15 hundred miles from Chicag [Chicago?]- we had a letter from Lillie or Mrs Hall a few days ago She was well and So was hi_ [?] Three little daugthers [daughters?] when She wrote She Says that the [they?] had Sold out there [their?] farm of 120 acres and bought a half Saction [Section?] of 320 acres and was going into the Stock business more #PAGE 2 on a Count of hired help been So Scarce and high Can hire none for less than from one to one and a half dollar a day So you See it takes mony [money?] to pay for farm help here- Thomas A is all the help we have got and Since I got on well he has to much to attend to by night but he dos [does?] not make any Complants [Complaints?] he is not as big or hevy [heavy?] as the other bys [boys?] were but is very Tugh [Tough?] and wirey and smart to get around Emma is not So Tall as the other two but is Stouler [Stouter?] build and quite healthy I beleive [believe?] by the way things lookes [looks?] now we will Soon have To loose her about 3 weeks ago Mrs goodnow was giving us a Short visit She was Showing us a letter She had got from Martkau- was glad to here it - we also had a visit from J Y Porter his brother a few days before Xmas [Christmas?] he was quite well and is a perfect gentleman in every Sence [sense?] of the word is quite an invent[?] [inventor?] and has made lots of mony [money?] by his patient rights on many things all your freands [friends?] here are all pretty well off and like the Country well 6 school Houses and Six Minutes drive of Chebanse and 2 miles from Otto Junction where we Can deliver our grain at any Time the Same distance from Chebanse - and Six miles from the Cotty of K K Kee the County Seat where we generly [generally?] deal - all things Consedred [Considered?] we Should be quite happy but if it was not for my break down in health I beleive [believe?] I would Sold out here and gone out to where Will is N [North?] Weslesin [Western?] Canada as beleive [believe?] it will before long be better for the Farmer then [than?] the U N [United?] States the [they?] have a purer goverment [government?] and a better Class of Citezens [Citizens?] Will likes it very much now I must Close for the present hoping this will find you and all my Dear Kinfolks quite well - with the enjoyment of every other blissing [blessing?] to be bestowed on us in this world is the wish and prayer of your affectinate [affectionate?] Brother and Uncle Robert L Porter #PAGE 3 PS please write Soon and give you [your?] Post office adress [address?] as I have forgoten [forgotten?] it |
