| Title: | Arthur Quin, Barrytown, U.S.A., to his Brother and Sister. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2176 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Quin, Arthur/12 |
| Year | 1876 |
| Sender | Quin, Arthur |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | labourer |
| Sender Religion | Catholic |
| Origin | Barrytown, New York, USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | D.1819/7: Presented by Samuel Park, Esq., The Square, Stewartstown, County Tyrone, [Ireland?]. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9403027 |
| Date | 14/03/1876 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 08:03:1994. |
| Word Count | 449 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Barrytown March 14th 1876 Dear Brother & Sister I now find time to write you these few lines Hoping to find you all Well as this leaves us at present thanks be to God for his kind Mercies to us all you may think that we have forgotten you but we be often talking and thinking about you's all there is no change here for the better as yet for the work is very slack and the wages low there is hundreds going about and Cannot get one tap to do. when the [they?] cannot get Employ the [they?] [burst?] open Stores and there is a great deal worse places than here, for the factories and public works is stopped I am always at the same work but the wages is a great deal lower than what it was when i come here and patrick helps me a good deal and thank god we have all good health we had no sickness since we come here it is hard for a working man that has a large family to get along as the wages is small and provisions is not much lower you said in your last letter that Mary had always a mind to come out there but the times is changed so mich [much?] i would not be the one that would advice [advise?] any person to come out here at present but it is expected that their [there?] will be a change as they will soon be electing a new president we think it a great blessing that we can here [hear?] mass on sundays we have our new church finished and we had the first mass that was said in it on christmas day and it was the greatest crowd of people ever was seen in Barrytown the day the corner stone was laid it was laid by the reverend father Quin [Quinn?] from New York we had a very favourable winter we had very little frost or snow sister [Colen?] is weell [well?] and husband and sends her love to yous all write me a long letter about the country when you get this for i always like to here [hear?] from my old friends and neighbours and let me know how they are all getting allong [along?] Mary would lik [like?] you to let her know in your letter if you see her brother Hugh and let her know how they are all getting along and how her aunt Sally's [temper?] is Mary Joins me in sending our love to yous all and family to brother francis wife and family to Brother Patrick and family no more at present but remains your affectionate brother to death [12?] |
