| Title: | 16. From James Prendergast to his children in Boston |
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| ID | 5661 |
| Collection | The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber] |
| File | prendergast/16 |
| Year | 1844 |
| Sender | Prendergast, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Milltown, Co. Kerry, Ireland |
| Destination | Boston, Mass., USA |
| Recipient | Prendergast children |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | father-children |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 768 |
| Genre | family, neighbours |
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| Transcript | Mr Cornelius Riordan N° 22 Atkinson Street Boston State of Mass America Milltown May the 24th 1844 My Dear Children, I have to address you with these few lines hoping to find ye all in general in as perfect state of health as this leaves me your affectionate mother Brothers and their families at present thanks to providence. Dear Jeffeory I have to acquaint you that I received your letter of the 30th of April last with your check of £5..os.od stg. which I was obliged to send to Dublin and had lost one shilling postage and to the 3 or 4 checks sent me this time past except the check which you had sent about Christmas last which I got in Tralee. Therefore if you should draw on the Bank of Ireland Tralee payable to me I would get the money the very day of my going to Tralee as is most natural from years and Infirmity that I cannot be very strong. Dear Jeffeory I have to acquaint you that your Bother Maurice and family is living in the Town of milltown. He is jobing in pigs and cattle with the little money reserved by him and for this year he is sowing a good Garden. Since he left his situation your Brother John and family are well but in low circumstances. He has left the situation which he held in Tralee. Since the death of Mr Charles Agar he had no quarters by them worth mentioning. Therefore he had left them at christmas last but he had left them of his own free will without blemish and on as good terms as ever they were. Dear Jeffeorey your Brother Michael and family are well in health and the Trifle which he sent for ^to^ ye I expect if you possibly can to remit him same to purchase a little mule as he represents he would live comfortable had he the mule as he blames me for the money not coming. Since he received your letter there were four sheep killed and stolen from him in his own field. The heads and trotters he found after the night in the field with young lambs in them. I say that he would be capable of pulling out were not for that occurrence. Dear Jeffeory I have to acquaint you that Doctor Agar has gone to the East Indies and has got a Beautiful situation as head Doctor in an Establishment and his Brother Rowland Agar went in two months after the Doctor in a place called Solone in the East. Dear Jeffeory you will be pleased to let Mrs McKenna know that her father Roger Sheehy is dead these two months past and as I was Informed Died in poverty though having money in Bank by the wife and from what I could see I could suspect no Better. The coffin which was around him was more like a county coffin falling asunder at conveying him to his natural Burying place. Dear Jeffeory I have to acquaint you that your affectionate mother had sent four pair of stockings to Judy Riordan by Margaret Fitzgerald. They were marked for her. The colour two grey pairs one Black and one white 3 pair ribed and one plain. Dear Jeffeory I have to acquaint you of a young man who left this country lately namely Jerry Sheehan who was as coachman to Sir Wm D. Godfrey Bart had been discharged from that situation by reason of some money being stolen from Sir Wm D G Bart. He and a Boy that was in the house as servant name[...] [...] McDonnell which McDonnell was Transported [...] 15 years. Sir Wm did not prosecute. Jerry Sheehan would have met with the same fate if prosecuted. Therefore I counsel ye to beware of him. Keep yourselves civil and strange to him the Report being that he was as guilty as the other if prosecuted. Let me know in your next letter how John Ford is getting on and how is his Eye. We have a parching summer here this summer. Patk Mahoney begs of you to remember him to his cousin Patk Moynihan and family. I conclude my letter by wishing you every Happiness with your affectionate mother Brothers and families who join with me in love to Cors Riordan Judy Riordan Jeffeory and Thomas Prendergast until Death. Write to me as soon as possible. Let me know how is Cors Riordan at present situated or has he any place at present. James Prendergas^t^ |
