| Title: | Letter from Philadelphia [U.S], quoted in The Belfast Mercury |
|---|---|
| ID | 3900 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1781-90/20 |
| Year | 1785 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re living in the USA |
| Source | The Belfast Mercury, no.93, vol.II, 21 June 1785, p.1, c.3. |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9406043 |
| Date | 07/03/1785 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 13:05:1994. |
| Word Count | 173 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | A letter from Philadelphia, dated March 7, has the following passage: "I am lately returned from Ohio, where the Indians, I am sorry to say, are not to friendly as I could wish. Trade here seems almost at a stand; we have no [------], and public credit as well as private is so very low that paper currency of any kind is totally useless. To add to our distress, we have been visited by epidemical fever; which has carried off great numbers. I lately purchased a number of Irish servants, all of whom have been effected by it, tho' none of them mortally. During my whole residence in America, which includes a period of more than 20 years, I have not witnessed such general and complicated misery. It is said our Government (if it may be called one) intend paying the public creditors, by allotting to each a portion of land suited to their respective claims upon the State. Should this regulation take place, my share will amount to a vast tract of country, but believe me, of very little real value now." |
