| Title: | John Campbell, Augusta,to Thomas Allen, Befast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 465 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Campbell, John/100 |
| Year | 1820 |
| Sender | Campbell, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Allen, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers-in-law |
| Source | T 3597/4: Deposited by Mrs F.W.C. Clarendon. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9310022 |
| Date | 05/04/1820 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C. R., 01:10:1993 |
| Word Count | 730 |
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| Transcript | Augusta Georgia 5th April 1820 Dear Sir I have been for some weeks past in the possession of your letter of 8th September the only one I received from you for a length of time. (Pray did you send any to the care of my friend in Philadelphia as directed last spring. If you did I never received them.) By it expected to have received a statement of my a/c [account?] with all the bills I sent home for the use of my mother and nephews but tho [though?] there has arrived a number of vessels from Belfast and Charlestown, I am as yet without my a/c [account?]. If you have sent it, it must have been lost in the voyage. Send it me on receipt of this. I was not surprised at the misfortune that befell your concern. I anticipated it from the time you had informed me you had taken Davis as a partner, who I understood was then a Bankrupt, who never could get a discharge. My letter to you on that subject ought to have placed you on your guard with respect to him. You however say nothing with regard to him. I feel satisfied however you will throughout your misfortune act with integrity and honour which I am grieved to say is too often not the case with many of our countrymen. Still recollect that however severely a creditor may press or oppress you, that it is no authority to the debtor to conceal a cent or act in defiance of the law of God and man as is too often the case with some unfortunate man's business; it is under such distressed circumstances that the moral truly religious man shows his firmness of mind and dependance in a future state. It is at such a time this truly good man sets a worthy example to his children and one that will prove much above the value of the dross of worldly riches, that flits from us like an ignus fatus in the night. Under your present misfortunes I am sure you will act the caste just described, and by so doing, altho [although?] you and your family may suffer many privations, you will leave them a good name and example far more precious to them than an extensive fortune of the worlds wealth. On the day of [--?] I forwarded to my mother inclosed [enclosed?] in a letter to my brother James in consequence of your [---?], Mrs Jane Hull's bill dated 6th November 1819 in my favor for £20 Irish on the Rev. [Reverend?] George Hay London Derry which I hope he has recd. [received?] and paid over to my mother. Tell her no night or day passes over without thinking of her and that she may be relieved from the pains and infirmities of old age as far as may be contested with her own good and the glory as her creator, and happiness among her offspring is my constant evening prayer. Tender to #PAGE 2 her my most affectionate duty and love, and tell her I will take good care to send her from here, a bill for the usual sum I give her annually. All bills on London ought to be sold for cash when they bring par, or above par, that is 108% for 100. All my friends are well, Robert and James Campbell are happy, my nephews are now well and improving. They try my patience in endeavoring to teach them their patience and duty. Harper's health is now pretty good. He is much taller than I am, which with his sickness last summer and during the winter retarded his improvement much. It is my friend a thankless and ungrateful task to bring up other peoples children, especially those who have been very badly brought up. I hope both these boys will do well. Tell Wm. J. [William John?] C. Allen I am much pleased with his letter but he ought to take care to draw his hair strokes straight and not lean his writing so much. Give my love to sister Jane and Elinor and brother William and James and their partners and all other enquiring friends, and believe to be ever affectionate yours, John Campbell Uncle Arthur Harper, Wife and Daughter are at present in Savannah. They have spent the winter in Charleston and will later return to Philadelphia. |
