| Title: | Joseph Smith, Belfast, to Charles Wilson, New York |
|---|---|
| ID | 2528 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smith, Joseph/181 |
| Year | 1817 |
| Sender | Smith, Joseph |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Destination | NYC, USA |
| Recipient | Wilson, Charles |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D2934/1/3: Presented and Lent for Copying by M.T. Orr, Esq., 37Marlborough Park, Belfast, BT 96 HJ. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9512031 |
| Date | 30/06/1817 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 07:12:95. |
| Word Count | 711 |
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| Transcript | Belfast 30th June 1817. Dear Charles According to promise I embrace this opportunity of writing to you,and hope this letter will find you in good order and well conditioned sitting in the far famed town of New York and that your goods have come to a good market. I have nothing new to communicate to you since you left this as things remain in the same dull state, as when you left this - no business doing of any consequence - the markets have been very high and the distress among the poor has been very great. Meal was for some time 40 [----?] and potatoes 13 to 15 per stone and all kinds of grain in proportion and if it had not pleased providence to change the season all the fruits of the earth must have been parched [?] up & destroyed but we have had a succession of fine wet warm weather which has made the rallies sing and clothed the holy with [----?] has made the wilderness lyric and the desert to blossom as the rose this is matter of great thankfulness as had there been another season such as last, the talk of the people must have been starved [?] - however it will be attended with serious consequences to us as we have still the flour on hand on which there will be a great loss. James Black sailed in the Thomas Bouch for Quebec, the 29th May, I expect he is there by this time - there have been an amazing set of adventurers shipt [shipped?] off there from all parts of the country and there are a number of vessels at present on the birth [berth?] for the same quarter - I have shipt [shipped?] the Box of Cahiers on board this vessel. I could not get an opportunity sooner. Your brother David [---?] the prize vessel by auction for 265 in company with [Nash?] & Capt. [Captain?] McCormick she has been properly repaired and Capt [--?] has proceeded on the original destination to Norway in order to cancel the Bond for the Salt she stands them in about 350 - they intend to keep her constantly going in some trade or other. I would not be surprised if they backslide by degrees from their loyalty and go back to their former illegal trade - I expect there will be a very minute search made in all goods that come in from America, as well as all vessels, it is said they intend to alter the law in this respect so that you would do well to take care that what you had be carefully put up - you were not telling me of the loss you sustained in Liverpool, it was a [----?] thing in London and the tobacconist both - but we cannot help these things they are sent our way for good - the Meeting house is still in the Back Ground, we have had all to advance our subscriptions to meet the deficiency of the present year. Mr. Brown is going to [----?] to see his friends, he will be away a month - Cotton is [----?] at present than it was Tobacco is from 8 [?] - 10 [?] we expect some every day from America Shares are pretty high = Pork 4.10 [stained?] reported to be 5 - I enclose you a Glasgow [---- ---?].I will try and get a Liverpool one. I also send two of the last Taggarts & a [Chromick?] which I hope will give you satisfaction - I am in good health & so are all the family, my Mother is gone down the Shore - I have nothing worth writing to say but wish you every happiness & prosperity that is attainable [---?] & shall end with this text, "Seek first the Kingdom of God & his rigteousness & all these things shall be added thereto, & Godliness with contentment is great gain Believe me, Yours with esteem Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith 30th June 1817 Belfast I have only got payment for the 2 Boxes Linen shipt [shipped?] in the first vessel say 28,14,11 The other papers are gone Dublin.I have written to a friend there I send them down as soon as possible. |
