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Title: Letter by Capt P Dillon Concerning the Passage to America.
ID522
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileCapt. Peter Dillon/6
Year1783
SenderCaptain Peter Dillon
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationship captain
Sender Religionunknown
OriginPhiladelphia, Penn., USA
Destinationunknown
Recipientunknown
Recipient Genderunknown
Relationshipunknown
SourceThe Belfast Mercury or Freeman's Chronicle 30th September 1783.
ArchiveThe Linenhall Library, Belfast.
Doc. No.9407161
Date30/09/1783
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogDocument added by LT, 02:06:1994.
Word Count73
Genre
Note
TranscriptBELFAST
The following extract, taken from a Letter of
Captain Peter Dillon, of the IRISH VOLUNTEER,
dated at Philadelphia the 3d ult. to his
owners John Montgomery and Co. is published
at their request, for the satisfaction of the friends
of the passengers who were on board that ship.
"I have the pleasure to acquaint you of my
safe arrival at this port, all hearty and well, except
a servant of Mr Jackson's, and a little boy
(Davison) whose death was occasioned by the
fall he got into the hold before I left Larne.-
We were remarkably healthy all the passage, I
made the land in eight weeks, but was afterwards
kept beating for some days with the wind
to the westward."