| Title: | David Thomson, Charleston SC., To Cousin [Hill?], Co Antrim |
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| ID | 3127 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Thomson, David/24 |
| Year | 1854 |
| Sender | Thomson, David |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | store keeper |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Chareston, S.Carolina, USA |
| Destination | Ballynure, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | T.1830/2: Copied by Permission of Mrs D M Ritchie, 24 Harberton Drive, Belfast 9, Ireland. #TYPE EMG David Thomson, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A., To His Cousin [Hill?], Ballynure, Co Antrim, Ireland. 29th August 1854. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8811047 |
| Date | 29/08/1854 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 05:12:1988 GC created 05:11:1990 JF input 08:11:19 |
| Word Count | 412 |
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| Transcript | Charleston 29th Aug 1854 Dear Cousin No doubt you will think I have forgot you and the rest of my playmates around Ballynure, if so you are mistaken there is never a day passes but I think of you all (E J Forsythe, especially). I have good health myself at present and hope these few lines will find you and the rest of my relatives & friends enjoying the same blessing. I had a letter from my father yesterday which stated that he and my brother were all well and also mentioned the death of our friend Jane Kennedy. The Yellow Fever is now in the City and if it grows very destructive I will go up to Abbeville again to Uncle Wms [Williams?] till it abates, there were 12 deaths yesterday of that disease and this is only the 7th day it has been here. I like storekeeping very well, my wages are $75 Dollars and board for the first year. That is equal to 15 guineas Brittish [British?] You may tell Mr Samuel Forsythes's people that I see Wm [William?] Robert John & Miss Margaret almost every day, they are all well. I had a letter yesterday from cousin R E Hill of Abbeville which stated that Uncle Wm [William?] & Arthur Irwin's people were all well. There are three Negroes to be hung up at Abbeville on the 15th of September for killing their overseer* named Mattox because he had punished one of their number the day previous, they first threw him down and cut him on the head & neck with their axes and then ended his life by throwing him in a creek and drowning him. In the town of Ogdensburgh (where father lives) there has been over 60 Deaths from cholera. Widow Houston that came out with him had a severe attack of that disease but is now recovering. I have no more of any importance to write to you but remember me to Uncle Wm McMurley & family also to Grand Mother & Uncle Hugh and receive My best respects yourself Write soon and Your sincere Cousin let me know all about David Thomson the birth, deaths, and marriages, around B'nure [Ballynure?]. * He was overseer for Uncle Wms [Williams?] Brotherinlaw Larkin Barmore P.S. Remember me to old Jane and tell her that Arthur's folks had got her letter. You can also tell the Miss Murdocks if you have an opportunity that Mr --- Harbesons family are all well. D. Thomson ----------- Direct your letter to David Thomson care of Jns [James?] Harbeson Esq Charleston, So. Ca., U.S.A |
