| Title: | William Porter, U.S.A. to Robert Porter, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 2150 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Porter, William/6 |
| Year | 1873 |
| Sender | Porter, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian |
| Origin | Chebanse, Illinois, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Co. Armagh? N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Porter, Robert L. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D 1152/3/25: Presented by Mr Charles Best, Mullaghglass, Bessbrook, County Armagh, Ireland. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9011027 |
| Date | 13/02/1873 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 06:12:1993 |
| Word Count | 1060 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Robert L Porter [Desert, County Down?] From: Chebanse Feb 13 1873 Robt [Robert?] L Porter Dear Brother It is with feelings of much concern I now sit down to answer your letter of 22 Jan which I recieved along with papers on the 10th inst now I reily [really?] do not know how to advise you in the circumstances you are placed in but this I know if it was my situation as it is your's I would not hesitate one day but would take 10£ an acre and leave him and it there and go where I could make or sell or Barter or do Just as I would think proper or sell to the best advantage land or other property and no damned landlord to hinder me nor make me afraid now you say you are going to try it again April to get tenant right but I dont understand how that will be for he is not disturbing you as long as you pay your rent now the cases where I see the tenant can claim is where they get notice to quit now whether that would make any difference I do not know nor do [I?] know how it would efect [effect?] your interest to let the rent go unpaid until he would notice you to quit or in that case could you claim tenant right you might get advice on it but the way that I understand the law it is to sell for what it would bring or it the landlord whants [wants?] it he shall pay same as another for the right I may be rong [wrong?] but that is the way I always understood it for Ulster tenant right but even if you do get leave to sell to the highest person he can still object to the tenant and also it will cost you the dif-erence [difference?] in expenses and trouble for going into law is easy enough but coming out is a very different thing as I know to my cost for I lost 40 acres and had to pay down 800 dollars in cash and never speak of other expenses and worry of mind now last Year I lost in all 4000 dollars or about 800£ and still it does not concern me as much as your affairs does for still I have a competency left that will #PAGE 2 keep myself & Wife while we live and now we have no trouble only me health is not very good but still it is better than for many years and I am heavier than for 20 years we had a visit last week from Samuel Hoans Widow & her oldest daughter and they are well and so is her family She lives about 100 miles from here she is all right and has enough to keep her she says her family is very kind to her now what would Samuels family been if the[y?] had lived in Ireland She has Property here and she says she has 50 acres of land in Canada where they settled first but they could not make anything there now that minds [reminds?] me of your saying if you sell that you intend going to Canada where you would get land from £5 to £10 an acre now you can do the same in this or any other state with good improvements both Houses fences &c &c where you will not be bothered either with rocks nor stumps but the nicest land you ever set ey[e?] on and here you can grow anything that land will raise in Canada you cannot raise corn the standard crop you can grow wheat so can we but it costs to [too?] much for seed and harvest work so does all small grain one man can raise 60 acre[s?] of corn some [80?] acres now that is the difference of the two countrys [countries?] one grows wheat oats barley peas &c the other does the same and many more for we have climate from perpetual sum-er [summer?] to all winter in the united states you can choose any place between them you please you also say Robt [Robert?] McDowell has a son in tiperary [Tipperary?] and that it is a good place so it may but it gets a bad name for agrarianism now I say never leave the fire to go into the frying pan for there is no good place in Ireland nor will there be in your day Canada is preferable to that but it is not so good as the United States or Australia for Canada is in to [too?] much debt to England for her railroads & Canals to be the place for Emigrants few stops there but comes into the states now I would do so for the longer you stay it makes matters worse you say I do not give you much encouragement to come here now I have said the truth so far as I know without exciting in your mind glowing scenes which you might not realize and #PAGE 3 then you might blame be hereafter but this I will say confidently that you may not get things to your mind but your Children will be better here than ever you can make them there and that ballances [balances?] every other consideration with me mine is far superior to anything they could have been there with the best sup-ort[support?] I could gave [give?] them and they got nothing from me here the[y?] done it for themselves so will yours if they get the chance and that makes me contented now I will close this rambling letter hoping you will be directed for the best for after all I dont believe we are altogether free will agents for we are the Creatures of Circumstances although we think we are doeing [doing?] as we like sometimes good comes out of evil I remain your affectionate Brother William Porter tell Jane I did not get the books she sent with Thompson he is a qear [queer?] one tell James Sloan that Mrs Sloan wonders why he dont write to her an answer to her letters tell Jane I wrote to Mrs Glenny about her Aunt wishing to send her money but she said she did not know if the [they?] still lived in Rathfriland or not William Glenny is dead about a month since WP I will write soon to Jane |
