| Title: | Gibbs, Margaret to Gibbs, Valentine, 1836 |
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| ID | 6405 |
| Collection | New Brunswick Letters |
| File | newbrunswick/40 |
| Year | 1836 |
| Sender | Gibbs, Margaret |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Kilkenny, Ireland |
| Destination | Miramichi, N.Brunswick, Canada |
| Recipient | Gibbs, Valentine |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 779 |
| Genre | money, gifts, family news, dispute over business, friends, greetings |
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| Transcript | To Piece Butler Meriamiche North America To be forwarded to Valentine Gibbs By private ship (Stamp Kilkenny No. 2, 1836 (New York Ship dec.20) Bohertaundish Novr . 2nd 1836 My Dear Brother, I have receivd your Letter on the 5th of October and was very glad to hear that you and your family were in good health as we are all in good health, thanks be to god for it. Your mother is in better health than when I sent you the last letter. Dear Brother, I gave 4£ 1S 9D to the widow Dooly and though my mother is alive she has [left] the money you sent to Mary. Dear Brother, you mention you are in disgrace to us. No, nor I neither, for I have kept myself in the same good character that I left you and I hope in the love and fear of god. Dear Brother the Cross I sent you though it was not gold or silver, you have great Indulgence for [not] wearing it and the Lady that sent it to you, She was very Glad you got it and She Says She’ll not forget you in her prayers for you. Dear Brother, we are all very Glad how Michl is going on and if he wishes to come home, that he can fall in to his old employment again with Mr Gore and your Brother Thomas is going on well and is always Employed with Mr O Calahan and best of Gentlemen in the City of Kilkenny. Dear Brother, Willm is going on well with his little ground and is very desirous for the little we hold ourselves for our Support but as for John, he is the Same person Still in his old freaks and no good to us or his Poor Mother Dear Brother, your Sister Nelly is going on well with her little business in Kilkenny. I have left her for a little disagreement we had between us and she used me very bad, for she was to give me half the Profit we had in the little dealing, and her husband came home, She deprived me of all and used me very unkind and then I went home to live with me Mother in [the] Country. She expects her husband home now, at Christmas and she receivd his monthly wages while away from her. Dear Brother I was determined to take on with little business in Kilkenny but on account of my mother illness, She would not be well pleased without remaining with herself while she lives and I have nothing to depend on but what you gave when I was coming home. If you would take a knowshin to come home, I would be well pleased to go with you again. Dear Brother, I was thinking to put my money to the best advantage. I bought a few heifers and put them on Grass and on account of dryness of the Summer, I had no profit by them. Dear Brother Val, I was Glad to hear how Mary and Biddy and Willm was improving. Dear Brother Val, if you are intended to put a headstone over your Father, Send the Price of it in care of Mary or me. I am very Glad to hear that Patt Waters is with you as yet for I for I know you are not leasy but you hate to work. Dear Val when I think of my parting with you in Miramiche my heart relents with grief for your great kindness to me. I mention to Patt Waters’s mother to write to him as often as I see her and let him know that we buried his sister and Cathy Dooly or Lanigan of Bohertaundish. I wish let you know that our Summer hear was very dry and cool and the crops in a very bad state. The Corn is getting very high at present. Dear Val neighbours and Friends sends there best respect and wishing you all sorts of luck and your sends you her Blessing for your good kindness wishing that god may bless you in all your undertaking. Your uncle Val ‘son would wish to know would you encourage him to go to you. For I think he would [answer] you very well about your farm if Patt Waters would leave you. I wish you would remember me to Mr [McKensie] and Mr [Eagan] and to the [other] young students you mention in your letter and likewise remember me in particular to Michael & Bell & the Children and to all enquiring friends of both Classes. No more at present for your Most affectionate Sister Margaret Gibbs |
