| Title: | Isabella Boyd, Cross, Ireland to "My dear sister", [?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 258 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Boyd, Isabella/50 |
| Year | 1853 |
| Sender | Boyd, Isabella |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Cross, Ireland |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | Donated by Alex Latta, 6104. 94A-Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6B 0Y8. E-Mail ALLATTA@GAMBIT.AB.CA. |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9911040 |
| Date | 21/12/1853 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 02:11:99. |
| Word Count | 539 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Cross, Ireland, Dec. 21 1853. My dear sister: I received your kind letter and was very sorry to hear of my brother Samuel's death, but as we are all getting aged we cannot expect to be long in this world. I was glad to hear that you were enjoying good health. We are all well at present, thank God for his mercies. I have very good health, and can yet walk to St. Johnstown and back, in the same day. I am going to tell you a little of our affairs, and how we are getting on. James has got married twelve months ago to a Miss Rankin, of Dromore, near Raphoe. We are living very comfortable, and are better off than ever you expect to hear. We have plenty, and I am happy to be able to say that the last of my days are the best. A privilege for which I have a reason to render thanks to the Great Giver of all good gifts. I have gotten up to Ballyholy in the course of a month. They were all well the last time we heard from them. George Pinkerton and Esther are doing well. They have a fine family of three sons and two daughters. They have opened a grocery and cloth shop in St. Johnstown, and are doing very well in it. I have great reason to be thankful, for I have reared a well doing family, both for themselves and me. James is very much of the turn of my brother Samuel, and I think it was not a bad one. I reared three, and I never yet saw one of them coming in with a glass of liquor on them. I would have been a deal more happy if Isabella had lived. But them that the Lord has allotted to come to me I feel very well satisfied with. She is very good and kind to me. If you were to come to the Church land now you would not know it, is so much changed, and so well improved. We used to have very poor land, but now we have excellent crops, thanks be to Providence who gives us more than we deserve. Robert McAdoo got his thigh bone broken, in summer, but he is now getting better, and able to walk about a little. I was speaking to some of his family last Sabbath, and they told me that Mary McAdoo died about three months ago. The old friends are scarce there, but the young ones are plenty. I hope that you are happy, and comfortable, and that you will not want friends. The Rev'd John Canning is in his father's place, and is very much liked and respected. His mother is living in the County Derry with one of her sons, and sister with another, and Thomas is away a missionary. Give my compliments to Moses Latta and his wife, and tell him that I remember him very well. I send my love to all my friends there. You were a long time writing to me. I hope you will write when you receive this, as I will be expecting to hear from you. No more at present, but remain your affectionate sister to death, ISABELLA BOYD. Isabella Boyd is probably the grand daughter of 4 Mungo (2) Latta, and the daughter of Mary, who married Mr. Boyd. |
