| Title: | William Porter, Chebanse to Thomas Brown, Mullaghglass |
|---|---|
| ID | 2167 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Porter, William/31(2) |
| Year | 1878 |
| Sender | Porter, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian |
| Origin | Chebanse, Illinois, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Mullaghglasss, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Brown, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers-in-law |
| Source | D 1152/3/29: Presented by Mr Charles Best, Mullaghglass, Bessbrook, County Armagh |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9011035 |
| Date | 01/01/1878 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 03:12:1993 |
| Word Count | 513 |
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| Transcript | To: Thomas Brown [Mullaghglass, County Armagh?] From: Chebanse 22 1878 Mr Thos [Thomas?] Brown Dear Sir I received your letter on wednesday last & went over to talk with Robert about it and we concluded to leave the thing with you to settle for you can do it better than either of us could do you will be pleased to have another interview with him and you can say that how that piece of land came to be invested in me was this original [originally?] the two farms belonged to my grandfather William Porter & the Ryan farm was laft [left?] to James & the Dysart [Desert?] to my Father well the [they?] got at varience [variance?] with each other and James closed that road up on my Father so my mother went to Acheson Thomson the then Agent of Ryan under Lord Killmorey Landlord of Ryan and got a grant of 21 feet wide the whole lenth [length?] of the piece from the road untill [until?] it met the Dysart [Desert?] farm it was laid off by the Balif [Bailiff?] Wm [William?] McClelland to my Father & his heirs for ever free of rent cess or tithe proovrates [sic] or any other charge now I claim to be my Fathers Heir and if they will not do something handsome I will come over and build a House on it and then let me see who will dispossess me for we have held it over 65 years without paying one #PAGE 2 cent for it The property is mine & the improvements such as the gate and fixing the well making qickset [quickset?] fence are Roberts & so & so [sic] now you do the best you can about it I think Martha Anns 5-0 would be satisfactory but you make the best of it and I will send you a power of Atorney [Attorney?] to make a deed of it or whatever is nessary [necessary?] in my name I will write to Mr Thompson and tell him that I have empowered you to act for me and if you can get what I cosider [consider?] a fair value for it I will do as above stated I certainly would go over myself but no one here will hear of it especialy [especially?] my Wife We are all well here at present and I hope this will find you all the same I am sorry sister is not well for my own health was not so good in 10 years as at present I do not do anything and I supose [suppose?] that makes some difference I have got an orphat [orphan?] boy that I got from Chicago last Aug and he does all the work with looking after & shewing what to do whe [we?] have had a Very mild winter with bad roads for there is no stones nor gravel Here to make roads but just the earth thrown up in shape of roads and when rain comes no one can go anymore than you could in a bog I will now close hoping to hear from you soon as concerns this affair I remain your Brother William Porter |
