| Title: | John Campbell, [?], to J. Hanbury, [?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 454 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Campbell, John/4 |
| Year | unknown |
| Sender | Campbell, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | Hanbury, John |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
| Source | D.162/47: Presented by Major A.F. Dobbs, Castle Dobbs, Carrickfergus. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9502199 |
| Date | 01/01/1700 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:02:1995. |
| Word Count | 570 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | [No Date] Letter From America My friends here advised me to Embark immediately for England on this occasion but my private affairs are liable to suffer exceedingly by a precipitate departure, must rely on my Friends good Offices & troubling them by letter to crave their Endeavours which may affect as much as my presence could. I shall write my brother on this subject and he I hope will assist me as my dependence for Security will be on him for any undertakings my friend can procure or Engage me in. My small fortune is entirely in this Province and in such stuff as is not very mutable lands, Houses, Negroes and outstanding debts. This present Affair is the only agreeable prospect to me ever since in this Country, if I don't I need must jogg [jog?] on through life at the old rate of great fatigues & many inconveniences incident to doing business in this place. I have not yet been at leisure to make a journey thro [through?] the back Country as I propos'd but collected what information I could, I am told, the whole Lands Mth [Matthew?] McCulloh [McCullough?] took up will be seated [seeded?] in very few years the old Planters are moving outwards from up Northward & Virginia great numbers resort to these Lands & set down on any place they fancy plant away they expect some owner will claim & they then intend to purchase. The Lands on Black River & heads of Cape Fear are now in great Esteem, as they abound with swampy reedy places & are exceedingly good ranges for Cattle our people drive two hundred miles to these places, a few people kept great stocks without show or noise for some years before they drove any for sale. The people of the back Country are going on Indigo, Hemp, Flax & Deary's salt growing much in Esteem amongst us: the war & necessity put people on Industry, and has shown them how easy they can supply their wants within themselves. I send you in a small Box a sample of white clay & the Ore intermix'd with the vein which has been traced above a mile in Edgecombe County the Clay resembles what I saw at Bow for their China ware ( which I believe is only a bubble with them undertakers [?]) this clay is near water carriage & if worth anything enough might be had. The Land is vacant & it's communicated to me as a secret by some persons who pretend to be judges of these fossills [fossils?], but desire your opinion. I have ship'd some birds & things for the Earl Granville & wish they may get safe to him. I have put on board for you a box of Mirtall Candles which I have mention'd to your Cousin Thos. [Thomas?] Allen to get on shore as he lives convenient to the vessells [vessels?] for they are not worth yr. [your?] trouble. When any other opportunity shall procure & send you some few Trifles as our best produce can't be Estimated any thing else to what your City affords, I shall ever have the most grateful sense of your particular favours to me in London. I shall be Exceeding glad when any opportunity to make manifest that regard & Esteem which I can't now, only by wishing you happiness & prosperity being Sir Yrs. [Yours?] &c John Campbell. |
