| Title: | John Love, Banbridge, Co Down to Robert Love, Petersburg. Va. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3629 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | love, john sr/172 |
| Year | 1820 |
| Sender | Love, John and Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Protestant? |
| Origin | Banbridge, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Petersburg, Virginia, USA |
| Recipient | Love, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | father-son/uncle-nephew |
| Source | T 2393/2/10: Presented by Messrs Heron & Dobson, Solicitors, Banbridge, Co Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9401056 |
| Date | 16/04/1820 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 02:03:1994. |
| Word Count | 892 |
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| Transcript | Dr [Dear] Robert 14A Banbridge April.16.1820. We received your last letter on Good Friday, and was surprized [surprised?] to find you had only received two letters from me since you went to America, this is the sixth one I have wrote to you I hope you will have got the other three before this arrives, We are all in a measure of health at present thanks be to God. Eliza has been poorly some time past, but is getting better The children wishes you to tell them what sort of diet you get in America and at what hours, The [They?] wish also to know if you still have the black pig in possession as you never mentioned the death of it, or whether your provisions lasted till the end of your voyage, and if you got all your little things safe out of the Sagadahock, and how you spent Christmas and Easter, and if you go often to see Mr Murray and Mr Riddle. When Sloan went in to live with your Grandmother we wished to have no more intercourse with them as they had treated us so indifferently in not telling us till the very night they were flitting, Their land was out of lease when Mr Seawright went away, so of course it will be now set at a high rent, so we asked them for two acres of the land at the high price to graze our cow and set potatoes and if so, we would never trouble them as long as the old woman lived supposing that should be this fifty years, instead of complying Sloan went out and ploughed up all the pasture land there was, to prevent us from getting it this year, So I had to take grazing from Mr Hugh [Dum-?] who has got his fathers old farm, we had got potatoe ground down that road also John and I was out setting some this day, Sloan also has been three times at Dromore striving to get the old unjust Will to stand, so can you blame me now if I strive to get your mother the half of the profit rent of their house The following lines you may sing to the tune of the Boyne water. One of the newlight Methodists Went lately to Dromore To get an unjust Will to stand That was condemned before A thing so vile would be condemned, Throughout the Turkish Nation Yet he went there to make it stand, This proves the man a Heathen A friend of his lives in this town, A simple Widow Woman With *Sally luns he did her treat, And nick-nacks past the common From preaching oft he staid at home, To read this dame a lesson Till of her house and place he got, The peaceable possession Things got in this clandestine way, Will never be blest to any They,ll never yield true happiness, Or give delight to Jamey * Sally Luns are sweetcakes made by confectionars [confectioners?] He ploughed her land completely up, With help from belly varley May thistles grow among his corn, And weeds through all his Barley. --------------- To conclude whatever your circumstances may be in this world or wherever your lot be cast, Value the Bible as your best treasure, and whatever may be your employment, look upon religion as your best business. The Bible contains eternal life in it, and religion is the only way for you to become possessed of it. May that blest Volume ever lie Close to your heart and never your eye Till lifes last hour my Son engage To read each day that sacred page I have turned the green beds at the back door all into one Sloan has got pat Hyland out of his Aunts by giving him the bellows and [stained], he is now set up for himself, perhaps h[torn] stand six months: I beg you may fulfill your engagement for the three years with honour, be thankful that you are in any way of doing, for trade here was never worse in my time, there is multitudes going this year to British America from about this place. There is no word of Mr Murray going back we have shurts [shirts?] [----?] things ready for you which we intend to forward the first safe hand, tell us if you have got any cloathes [clothes?] since you went there, or if you had any money left when you got to Petersburg or if you be due any thing but gratitude to Mr Murray, tell us also if Mrs Peters has any children The garden and trees are coming on well Mr Seawrights garden is now turned into four, send some letters by your Uncle in Liverpool to us, May every blessing attend you spiritual and temporal so prays your Loving Father John Love My P. I wrote to you some time ago I hope you have got that letter I told you in it that I have chainged [changed?] my life I beg you to right [write?] to me as often as you can that I may send the letters to your father Direct to me, care of Mr John Goodwin Strand Str. [Street?] No 58 Liverpool We are all well We all join in love to you wishing every blessing I remain your loving Uncle R Love Mr Robert Love Petersburg Virginia care of Mr Murry [Murray?] Marchant [Merchant?] America JUL 6 Fathers 1 April 1820 |
