| Title: | Thomas McGinity, Pittsburgh, to John McGinity, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 3831 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | mcginity, thomas/4 |
| Year | 1850 |
| Sender | McGinity, Thomas |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Pittsburgh, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Co. Armagh?, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | McGinity, John |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | T 3539/5: Deposited by Mrs I. Williams |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9103140 |
| Date | 10/02/1850 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by S.K., 21:01:1994. |
| Word Count | 1436 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | To: "My Dearly Beloved Brother", John McGinity. From: Thomas McGinity, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Pittsburgh, 10th Feb 1850 My Dearly Beloved Brother Inclosed [enclosed?] is An order In your Favour for £20.00 which I hope you will Receive all Right & with it I send you my Hearts Most Loving wishes when I say you Dear Brother I include your Dear wife & children & particularly My own son Thos [Thomas?] Be Good to him for My sake Dear Brother I cannot say that my Health at Present is good But up to the Present I Have Been Able to follow My Business thanks to God I am sorry allso [also?] to state that My Son John, the Idol of My Heart is Anything But good in Health & My wife since her confinement Has Never In Joid [Enjoyed?] the Least Good Health & this Whole Winter Has Been A very Bad time for Business so Much so that I have scarsely [scarcely?] stood clear that I Did not Earn Expenses. Nothing However In Life will prevent Me of Fulfilling My Duty to you as regards the Money I ow [owe?] you & the Last time this Matter was talked over In My familys Hearing evryone [everyone?] of My childrens Promised to contribut [contribute?] there [their?] share of that Debt which I showed them was contracted By Me for There [their?] comfort & support & when they seen other People paying 6 pr [per?] cent Intrest [interest?] they sent there [their?] Inocent [innocent?] Prares [prayers?] to the throne of Heaven for your welfare Spiritual & Temporal. Now to come to the matter of you coming to this Country Leaving your family Behind you I can Never consent to that as I told you In My Last, But I will now Give you a true & strictly correct Account of this Country, in this Citty [city?] which is justly called the Imporium [Emporium?] of The West the only Dear Article In It is House Rent Best cuts of Beef 8 cents 2nds 7c [cents?] 3rds 6c [cents?] & good family for 4c [cents?], good family flour $4.75c [cents?] & 5 Dollars & the very Best Superfine $5.75 that is so far. Coal Delivered at your Door or put into your coal House for 6 cents per Bushell [Bushel?] In fact a small family May Be comfortably fired Here and Keep up 2 & 3 fires occasionally of the very Best coal £6.0.0 per year that is 30 #PAGE 2 Dollars this is the mark of $30.00 now My Dear Brother that you May Have A correct idea of all I know of this Country you Must Pay for Any Kind of A House you would Like to go In to that your family would be comfortable in from 2 to $300 Dollars that is £60.00, you may get Into back Allys [alleys?] & side streets cheaper say 100 Dollars, now if you see that you cannot do to your Wishes in Ireland come out Here By all Manes [Means?] while you Have the Manes [Means?], you Have all My Experience & knowledge on which you can rely with confidence which Limited as it May Be would cost you considerabe Experience to find out, I can show you the Towns in the Country where A Catholic Church is to Be found tell you where to settle to Answer trade which if I Had considdered [considered?] as well Before I took up House as I now do it would Be worth to Me In Round Numbers £100.00 I Have now to leave the Place I am Living in & come either to this citty [city?] or Blaresvill [Blairsville?] or Browmsvill [Brownsville?] there is Catholic Churches In Both there towns I speak of & they are Acomodated [accommodated?] with A cannal [canal?] & Rail Road, now if you wish to purchaes [purchase?] A small But good farm of Land 50 Acres send me $200.0.0 & I will secure it for you on the first of Aprile [April?] is situated in a fine Country for Dealing with 2 Catholic Churches within 3 miles of it & In the Healthyest [Healthiest?] Parts of this Country as Much so as Any In Ireland, the owner is old and wishes to retire & has formed An Attachment for me to Many others that is After it I will not urge this Matter on you Either for you or Me But this I know Before 5 years it would Bring 5 times the amt [amount?] It was the Increase of Landed Propperty [property?] In this country that made so many of our country Men Rich & Independent & I have not Doubt if you will Enable Me to sercure this place for Myself or you it will turn out to our Advantage so Much so that if I cannot Pay you In corse [course?] of 2 years from Next Aprile [April?] that I will give you 6 per cent for all I am deficient to I Do the Note I sent you Requesting you to give My sister cathrine [Catherine?] 20 Dollars or £4.0.0 you will Place it to My Account in such a way as My children will not know what it was for you say you gave My Mother In Her Illness £8.0.0 & that you Expect Me to Pay the Half tell My Loving sister & Mother that My Desire would be to contribut [contribute?] to their support But as I can Do nothing without Bringing Every thing under the Eyes of My children for this reason that al [all?] there [their?] Affares [affairs?] May at all times be open to Me Direct for me to Bueno Vista, Schellsburgh, Bedford Co. [County?], Pa [Philadelphia?], with speed that I #PAGE 3 May Have your letter on or Before the 1st Aprile [April?] Next as I am from Home I Do not know How our accounts stands But you will Please send it to Me In a slip of Paper that I May Have it at all times to Look at, if you should come to this Country before you Hear from Me Agane [again?] your Best Plan would Be to come to Philadelphia, alth [although?] they [the?] vessels In that trade are Neither so good or so fast sailors as the NYork [New York?] Lines are. I Had no word from sister Mary since she went to Orleans [New Orleans?] nor from sister Anne or family sine I seen them In oct [October?] Last Mary kerr [Kerr?]& her Husband are well they left my House on the 16th June Last & is gointo [going into?] Business for themselves In Bedford, or convenient to it, In Aprile [April?] & I Have no Doubts on My Mind of there [their?] success. My Dear Brother if you are coming to this country Bring My Dear Mother But on no account trust her with any other except Sister Catherine & if Catherine be prevented from coming I would as soon My Mother would remane [remain?] with her for [security?] sake that if they both wish it it will be My wish at all times to comply with the Lawful desires of My family, Besides the northern clime is so changable [changeable?] that it has A great Effect on the Constitution of European People so that I think that unless Catherine comes I would as soon she too would stay you may Believe when I tell you the sight of you & your family & My Mother would Bring Me the greatest Earthly Joy yet I would forego all that unspeakable Delight sooner than subject you to one hours Pane [pain?] May God be with you all & direct you for your spiritual good is the wish of your Affectionate Brother to Death T McGinty & if My Mother comes out with you Leave the Care of they [the?] Houses on J. McGinty & J. Kerr that is if Sister Catherine Does not Live in them. I Still think they will Bring Me Something yet & if you #PAGE 4 can sell them for Anything as there are so Many of them I think it no doubt best your wife not see this as there are So Many Irish familys [families?] & they [the?] ladies would not have Sympathy as she could represent the illness of Her Husband & the youth of her children. But I will Never Leave Myself open to Reflections. Hereafter say in Answer how much you or her can Earn in the Month. if My Son John is not Better Before the Insuing [Ensuing?] Winter I will Let Him go Home for the Benefit or [of?] His Health But I Hope in God such will not Be Necessary. |
