Title: | Greacen (n. Sinton), Margaret to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1833 |
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ID | 6046 |
Collection | The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson] |
File | quaker/80 |
Year | 1833 |
Sender | Greacen (n. Sinton), Margaret |
Sender Gender | female |
Sender Occupation | unknown |
Sender Religion | Quaker |
Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
Destination | Lake Erie, NY, USA |
Recipient | O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne |
Recipient Gender | female |
Relationship | cousins |
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Log | unknown |
Word Count | 140 |
Genre | abstract of letter, family news |
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Transcript | Philadelphia 23rd 9 mo 1833 I saw Uncle Joseph Simon —. also cousin Phoebe [Hunter Sinton] & her brother James [B. Sinton] & his wife [née Martha Bettle] & daughter. Phoebe is like so many of our near & dear relations at home. How very like Uncle Samuel she is, also Aunt Debby & M O'B, & has a great likeness of thee sometimes. Her figure is ditto to cousin Martha McMeekin (alias Nesbit) — Cousin Mary Greeves — word about Billy Heathers death. He left Ann [Heather] a child's share after all & she has taken up her abode at Oatlands in Killyman. Cousin Wm Greeves of the I of Man has lost his wife [Dina]; she was a nice woman, she has left only 2 children, Elizabeth & William. He wishes to return to Ireland — my brother Wm — Margaret Greacen |