Bagillt, March 21, 1851
Dear John,
We received your letter on the 19th and I was glad
to hear that you and Thomas Price was well in health, only the cold as you said
as you had. We hope that it is ere this
got well as these leave us both. Your
mother and myself is but very indifferent, and my leg keeps very bad indeed,
and as you sent about Samuel Hughes and wife, they were both at our house last
night and they are greatly obliged to you for your good recommendation and very
thankful to you, and they hope that they shall have the pleasure of seeing you
again for to thank you by word of mouth themselves, but as it is you can not
expect them until about next August for they cannot prepare themselves until
then, for he says he should likely to
have a little cash about him if God sends that they should prosper in having
their feet upon American ground, and they hope they shall for they are
preparing as fast as they can in gathering a little money together, but they
keep it a secret to themselves until the latest end when they shall be
disposing of their house furniture and then everybody must know, and when they
shall be ready they shall ship themselves for Boston for he thinks that it
would be better for him amongst the manufacturing districts than anywhere else,
but we mean to send you a long letter very soon & between us again, and
then you shall know more about it and we do not know how it will be, nor we do
not know what you will say about the things for Samuel, and his wife says that
your sister Mary Ellen must go along with them for in case that they should go
sea sick or should something take place that they would be ready for to wait an
answer to them, and that they would pay her passage and that they would settle
with you when they would arrive in America, but we hope that we shall receive a
letter from you before you receive this, and in regard of Elizabeth we can not
inform you of anything at all for we have not had the pleasure of seeing her __ to ___ this week for she did not come down,
but you sister M. E. is going to Holywell today for to see her and to deliver this note to her as she is so kind
as to take them these last times as you can see yourself by receiving them and,
indeed, it saves us a good deal as the times is so bad altogether in Bagillt. Your brother Edwin informs me that there is
one of the chaps from the Pentre Mills is coming over to America, that he has
been over to Liverpool last week to ship himself along with a ship as is starting
from Bangor, they say, on the first of April next bound for New York, all Welsh
people, no English nor no Irish, but all Welsh people, and Edwin says he means
for make for you as soon as he arrives
New York, He is the eldest son of Thomas
George. There was two or there more
talking of coming, but there is only the one coming it seems.
All of your brothers and sisters sends their kind respects
to you and they are all well, and accept the same from your dutiful father
& mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
Samuel Hughes will be anxiously waiting for an answer from
you. Again, excuse haste, 2 o’clock
Friday afternoon.
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