| Title: | Extract of a letter from Charlestown, South Carolina [U.S.] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3901 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1781-90/26 |
| Year | 1785 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Charleston, S.Carolina, USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re living in the USA |
| Source | The Belfast Mercury, 25 October 1785 |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9407008 |
| Date | 28/08/1785 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 01:07:1994. |
| Word Count | 279 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | "...Notwithstanding all this, there is money to be made were a person to settle here: the inhabitants look vastly to good behaviour - they are a plain, affable people; affectionate too, and ready to assist one another - none of the haughty superficious airs observable in the natives of Ireland who have scraped up a little wealth, is to be met with in any rank of society here; but true politeness and urbanity marks the conduct of all from the highest to the lowest. - A good clerk or bookkeeper will generally find encouragement in Charlestown; a salary for the first year is never less than £50 British, with diet, washing and lodging in the house of his employer; and if clever he is generally advanced to £150 per annum. Tradesmen of every kind (weavers excepted) meet good encouragement here. - All lands contigous to the city are fully occupied; but about 150 or 200 miles back sets from 2s 4d to 2s 8d Irish sterling per acre. - It is now in agitation to raise a subscription for mechanics and farmers who come from Ireland to purchase them a grant of lands free, and to pay for the carriage of their goods, etc. as far back as they choose to go. They wish much to form permanent connections with the North of Ireland, particularly with Belfast and Derry. - The air is pure as in Ireland, and every necessary of life as cheap as with you... The Irish inhabitants live longest in this climate. - This state certainly suffered greatly during the war; but the blessings of peace and freedom will in a short time make ample amends." |
