Bagillt
Feb 22, 1850
Dear John,
I received your letter 18th inst. and we was very
glad to hear that you was enjoying good health as this leaves us at present,
thank God for it. Only your Mother is
rather bad often and we are both of us very thankful to you for your kindness
to us for sending the money and very glad we was for to receive it for the
times is so bad all together in Bagillt and its neighborhood for it forced us
to sell something out of the house and I do not know who could afford to buy
anything in these days for there is a great many nearly __ in the neighborhood
and more robbings from here to Greenfield and Holywell than ever. Nobody can recollect they are robbing in the
daylight and another thing I have to relate to you as I am sorry to relate that
young Price as was in the Bee House Shop in Bagillt has been in custody at
Flint for two days. His Master had sent
for him up to Mold for to be his rider asst.
___ this good while and had a good place of it and his Master had marked
some of the money in the till and while he was at his tea, half sovereigns as
was marked was gone out of the till, again he comes back and he got the
policeman in and searched them and they say that they got from eleven to twelve
pounds between his pockets and his box and no one can tell how it will be until
the assessor for John Jones & Blestons & Morgan Sadler went back for
him until such time his trial will take place and the neighborhood was talking
that he and Miss Kim Jones was going to
be married yesterday only for this, but we don’t know, we can let you know more in our next.
You wanted to know more about the note that was in William
Jones letter. He received that letter in
Bagillt and I heard him say that he had sent a note of such inside of the
letter to his destination and we have never heard nothing from him not yet
since he ___.
I have had the opportunity of having a discussion with your
old Master that is Mr. Gardner this week for he and Mr. Gleave sent for me to
meet time on Monday and I was in Holywell and that ___ called me that Louisa
D__ and __ me to meet them on Tuesday by ten o’clock and I did. They have bought 64 very large ash trees by
Bry__ G__ and I have bought ___ __ __
__. They say about 12 or 14 hundred of
them and there was only the old gentleman himself with me that day and we __
very well about them and the old gentleman asked me about you and I told him
that you was very well and he told me that he thought you did not amen yourself
by going away and he asked me whether you talked about coming home again and I
told him I have never heard you say anything of that.
Robert and Louisa had given their house up at Flint and he
had taken a house at Greenfield for their oven(?) was almost down and could not
get it done in no way and he let the house to some other people and never said
nothing about the oven at all to them and ___ woman came there to see the
place. Louisa showed the oven to her and
that was the reason they were going away.
The woman would have nothing to do with it no more and then Hugh came to
them again and wanted them to take it again and go to the expense of rebuilding
the oven and he would allow in the rent and they ___ at it this week and I
expect to see a fire in it tomorrow if all is well and you want to know that little
girl __ ___ is Mary Elizabeth. They all
send their kind respects to you, likewise George and Sophia and that they are
all well but Sophia has the sign of more family expecting any day.
George wants to know whether there was any smelting works
anywhere near you, somewhere where for the whole family of us ready to part
from here now all together.
I have to inform you that this last letter of yours __ __ __
and I turned to the post office at Holywell for to enquire and they could not
tell me but it was charged so to them and sixpence at the bank.
J Paul and William Parry and his family sends their kind
regards to you all of them and he is very thankful to you for the news that __
as you send to him and every time he sees me he says that he was very glad to
receive a letter from you.
I have to add a little more space for inform you of the
accident as has happened yesterday and
today. Evans Jones of Holywell it was
so stormy here yesterday and they say he had got a first half pint of ale and
it blowed so strong that he went against the wheel and down he went with his
head under the ___ and about 2 ½ tons of lead ore on it and the cart was
stopped immediately before it went over his head but crushed his brains out on
the road. The ___ was with the horse at
the time. John Hughes Pispwells Team and
Ned Wm Griffith the tailor & son the ___ and ___ the accident happened at
Farm Calliery today to a boy of D Evans the ___ about the size of our James a
fall came on him and killed him on the spot the same as E. Evans and it has set
the whole place in a great lamentation.
So I must conclude for the present - we all join in love to
you and wish you well. So your brothers
and sisters sends their kindest respects to you all. So no more at present from you affectionate
father & mother.
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
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