| Title: | [?] [Michigan, USA?] to Robert, Articlave, Co. Londonderry. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3934 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1831-40/27 |
| Year | 1833 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farm labourer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | unknown |
| Destination | Articlave, Co. Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | unknown |
| Source | T.1866/8: Copied by Permission of Miss E M Thompson, Wayside, Articlave, Co. Londonderry. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8809052 |
| Date | 26/11/1833 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 06:09:1988 GC created 14:08:1989 ET input 11:09:19 |
| Word Count | 787 |
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| Transcript | Except home I could not be happier or better cared for than here, as far as bed & board & do as I like in some way. My Dear Robt. I recd. [received?] your ever welcome letter on Friday and also one from Joe [Please?] tell him I'll write him soon your letter to me was the only consoling one I got from home. I endorse every word in it you say [Ada?] and some thus might have done more & said more than they did and so far as I can gather all others are [winling?] in for selling the last [sawing?] stone. In the first place I have made nothing of it but [Driven?] out of a Dear old home to a wild god forgotten awful country to face & work to [strangers?] at work I would not do at home and under anything but good health I am sorry I did not remain in [Hobucku?] I never had pain or ache until I came here & [even?] Mrs Isaih [Isaiah?] Curry knew the difference here having to be up at 5 until summer and have breakfast on the table for a lot of men. In the harvest hay time all men grub & sleep here when they are working all food is provided of the best of course your work is never done here Sunday or Saturday. I would rather have a herring at home as all their D-D pastry and tarts etc. I can and have done all sorts of work Light & heavy Dry & wet - But milk butcher & shoehorse all these my man is supposed to do you buy the nails & shoes & [due?] them yourself Tom Curry wants me to take down a house as big as yours & [remove?] it to near this house for a workshop etc., for me or anyone else to do [Blacksmith?] or carpenter work. I wish the hay was all pressed it is [heavy?] I have to work all off the mow and [onward?] to the machine and [roll?] in all the [wates?] [- - ] I Curry feeds and a boy [driver?] the horse you may guess the size of the barns here when one holds two tons of hay with of lumber (which means all cut timber) & Curry wants me to engage a year with him. After we press 100 tons of hay which will take a month he would want me to go down & attend bar & [chore?] about until spring & then come up here & garden all summer & take another acre off [the?] orchard & go into vegetables strong. They have a big place in East -[---?] & will require stuff down by the boat every week at the same time I would have a general care or charge over all the place a man & his wife who would be here in Isaih [Isaiah's?] place & Mrs Currys. I told him I would give him an answer in a month or so after the pressing of the hay. If Maggie was here & under takes to cook [etc] I hear as much as he would want me to "run" the place that is manage all but he [wants?] me. For the gardening business. I Curry will be leaving here for Canada in April [to?] a farm of their own & they are glad to go I would not care for Maggie to be a servant 5 years ago after she came here from Canada I think it is the weather I am at work from 5 till dark at everything & am doing work that [them?] Canadians or others can not do. After I fixed up our 300 [trees?] and staked them and made drains or ditches some [3--] feet & made a pipe of the best pine [ ? ] & took water off the land & has it as dry as our garden Tom Curry (the owner) is driving up every now & then & always someone with him to see what I have done. I am at everything else. That is to be done round the place there are 13 horses 30 cows & [Bonny?] stock & 6 pigs all these are attended to 3 times a day by Isaih [Isaiah?] & myself. I clean feed attend to the horses when I get up & he milks & attend to the cows the sheep require little as yet I am often down in [Tauas?] with a team & can [drive?] a pair in double harness like a [hook/] I hear from parties that Curry is well. Taken with me I was down on Thursday for a waggon. |
