| Title: | [Hamilton?] [Young?], New York, to "Dear Matty", Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 3442 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Young, Hamilton/31 |
| Year | 1787 |
| Sender | Young, Hamilton |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | goods trader |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New York, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Young, Martha |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | D 729/22: Presented by Miss Duffin, Mount Pleasant, Stranmillis, Belfast, Ireland. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9604009 |
| Date | 01/11/1786 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 04:04:96. |
| Word Count | 298 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Dear Matty New York 8 January 1787 Annexed you have Copy of mine of the 2nd Jns [Jan?] by the Mail I now [melse?] you [bill?] Lading forteen [fourteen?] barels [barrels?] [-----?] [fine?] flavourd. Two barels [barrels?] Aples [apples?] after but the man has not done me [Jarser?] in them I expected them all myself the day they went on board, in [person?] Separately hope theyl [they will?] goe [go?] safe there is a Case containing 2 1/2 dozen of Wine & a bag of Bill pepers [peppers?] Please to send Mr. Issac a barel [barrel?] flavor one of aples apples & same of the pepers [peppers?], I now write him you will do so, I am disapointed [disappointed?] in a brle [barrel?] of apples for Mr Campbell which I shall write him by this oppy [opportunity?]. [Mrs?] [Brown?] to whom these V [vine?] yards belong to are former Correspondants [correspondents?] of mine & will no doubt assist in getting them ashore. If I can [-----?] a good barel [barrel?] of Hams towards Spring shall perhaps send you [abble?] if an opp. [opportunity?] offers I have given Capt [Captain?] Gillis a Copy of the Book seald [sealed?] up. My father arraid [arranged?] with him of the whole State of the Company Affairs, he proposes leaving this about the first next month though you say nothing about it until he arrives when you may show it to Mr Isaac or such as he Chooses My friend Chal [Charles?] McEvers in consequence of the War finds his debts, which are large in the Country, turnout much worse than he expected, therefore has been obliged to call his Creditors together, how his affairs will turn and can not be ascertained its a great pitty [pity?] for he is an honest man with Love &c. |
