| Title: | Henigan, Owen to son, 1848 |
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| ID | 6512 |
| Collection | New Brunswick Letters |
| File | newbrunswick/148 |
| Year | 1848 |
| Sender | Henigan, Owen |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Hallowell, Maine |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | son |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | parents-son |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 498 |
| Genre | happy in their new situation, moving from N.Bruns to Maine, sending money, friends |
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| Transcript | Hallowell State of Maine Dear Son March 17th 1848. We Take this Favourable opertunity of writing these few lines hoping to Find ye in as good a State of health as the writing of this letter leaves us in at present thanks be to God for his mercies to us. Dear Son we wish to Let you know how we are geting on in this Country since we left miserable St Johns it is allmost as bad as Ireland we are getting on very well since we Came to the State of Maine Peter and Thomas is Geting on well Peter sent us as much money to us as suported in Saints Johns and paid our passage on the Coach five Hundreds and had a good house for us and the rent of it paid untill Sumer he had two barrells of flour one barrell of beef and fire wood and has three pounds Sterling to you and that is only a Token of our love to you we will send of the first of the month and it is only now itself we are begining to do to our likeing and after the frost and snow is over we will be Able to Send you Some thing that will be worth naming it would be our wish that you would Come out here but you may do as you please and do not for get John and we will not for get you after a little my Father and Mother Sends their Love and best Respects to you and to Nelly for her Kindness to their children and their best Respects to your Mother and Brothrs in Law my mother sends her best respects to her only Brother and family Molly Healy and family is well in saints Johns Molly Scanlon is well Let john Cristol know that at the time we were in Boston his Doughter hired with a farmer we can give no further Acount of her Let John Hennigans Doughter is hired out in the Country from Saint John Let Paday Hennigan know that his Son Tomy is here and Left John Hark in Boston with Michl Mc Loughnin that lived Between Carney and Oxfield in Ireland and has Patt out here in a farmers house and the Legacy was let run to Long we could Not recover it after it was let run 21 years we are as happy as the day is Long we have as much of our own Country pole here Let Edward Hennigan of Patch know that if he was here it would be better for him there is Some trouble betwixt Irish folks here you need not send Now Answer for this Leter But be on the Look out for the next Letter we will send it on the first of the next month and there will be some money in it. No more at pressent, but here remains your Affectionate Parents OWEN AND HONR. HENIGAN Till Death. |
