| Title: | O'Brien, Daniel to O'Brien, Joseph Sinton, 1843 |
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| ID | 6148 |
| Collection | The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson] |
| File | quaker/154(1) |
| Year | 1843 |
| Sender | O'Brien, Daniel |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | student |
| Sender Religion | Quaker |
| Origin | Collins, Lake Erie, NY, USA |
| Destination | NYC, USA |
| Recipient | O'Brien, Joseph Sinton |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 204 |
| Genre | the farm, cattle |
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| Transcript | Collins 4-29-1843 My Dear Brother Having an oppertunity by I. P. [Potter], Mother thought I must write to thee to tell thee some thing about ourselves, and things I must cell thee that the steers and Pompy have grown and the rest have grown to[o] and we turned out the cattle to grass already this spring just as quick as the snow melted. The grass grew very fast so that the cattle can make out a living. We have 4 calves, t[w]o of them heifers t[w]o steers, that we are going to raise. We have had to buy 3 tun of hay and we think our selves well off for a geat many have had to buy. Wm Willit had to buy 40 dollars worth of hay. Arnold Lewis has bought 7 ton of hay and many others have had to b[u]y more. Most every boddy has lost more or less of their cattle: we have los nothing. Callow is as good as he every was for rabbits, but the snow was so deep that he could not chase them and so we did not shoot but one. We have shot 3 partridgs, each of us one, this spring. T.A. and T. Daniel OBrien |
