Bagillt
March 26, 1852
Dear John & Elizabeth,
We take the pleasure of dropping a few lines to you both in
hopes to find you in good state of health as these leave us but very
indifferent, as you may be well aware that we cannot be no other way, and as I
informed you before in our last that is about your poor sister, after she died
we did not know where to turn our faces for money for to bury her and I
intended to send a bit of a note along with your brother Edwin to Mr. Gleave
for to see if he would be so kind as to lend us a little money for to bury her,
and he was so kind as to do it, therefore we don’t know when we shall pay him
and we were sorry to hear in your last that Elizabeth had not been very well,
but we hope that ere this she has gotten well again. Another thing I have to inform you of is that
Elizabeth’s brother William is dead and buried yesterday at Northop. Died a fortnight to the same day as your
sister and buried him a fortnight to the same day, but I suppose you shall see
it in the newspaper the same as you have seen about your sister, and besides, I
suppose that some of them will write to you upon the subject as they want to
send to you about other things, and that is upon the account of the letter as
you sent to me for to go to Mr. Robert Evans,
I received your letter on Saturday and I went to him on Monday morning, and as your letter requested
me for to see Miss Dawson first, I did, and against she had read her letter I
told her I had another for her father and she said that she was very glad of
that but, however, against then he had gone out to go to the office, and she
told me I had better go up to the office to him, so I did, but he was not
there, but however I was to go there against two o’clock. I went, but, however, he was gone again. I went to hunt for him again and he had got
his letter then when he went to his dinner, therefore I thought he would keep
out of my way, but, however, I happen to meet with him by the lower machine so
he asked me how I was, and he spoke to me first about the money, and what he
told me was that he could not pay me the money then, and as I was walking up
the railroad with him I told him a little of my circumstances and told him as
you had ordered in your letter, and I told him also how Mr. Maurice was with us,
and that he had received a letter from Denbigh the day before upon my account,
and that he must have the rent from me, and I told him that I would be obliged to
tell Mr. Maurice upon the account. Yes,
says he, tell him, and he says again that he did not know whether he would pay
them to me or not, for he did not know whether they were due or not, whether
she was one and twenty yet or not, and I told him she had past that for me to
know, but however I could see not Mr. Maurice before the Wednesday morning for
he was in Liverpool. I went to Mr.
Maurice on Wednesday morning and I told him all these things and he listened to
me very much and considered a good deal upon the thing, for he told me he knew
most part of his circumstances. I drawed
your letter out of my pocket and read him the part about what Elizabeth
authorized me for to do. Well, then, I
will tell you the best way for to do with him is to go to him now and tell him
that I have sent you to him, and to ask him if he will object a three month’s
bill against Mr. Adam Eyton or Mr. Ellis that he would take it. So I went and got him in the house and told
him I had come there again. Well, didn’t
I tell you that I could not pay them now.
I begged his pardon that it was
then that I saw Mr. Maurice for he was in Liverpool on Monday, and that I had
told Mr. Maurice how everything was, as I had told him on Monday, that I should
have to do. He told me then that he
would not object no bill whatever but he would pay the money before the three
months, and then asked me where Mr. Maurice was, and I told him that he was by
the house for it was that moment I had come from him. Well I shall call Mr. Maurice directly and
thanked him and went off to Mr. Maurice’s again, for he ordered me to call and
let him know, and I told him he said he would call with him. Not him, indeed,
says Mr. Maurice, but however we were in the garden talking together, I said here he comes as so he did, so we both
went up to gate to him and he says to Mr. Maurice, Robert Benjamin has run into
your debt and he wants me to pay twenty pounds as belongs to his son’s wife and
I will not object no bill atall, for I will pay the money before three months,
but I don’t like to pay them with what I have seen, for it was a letter from
his son, he says to Mr. Maurice. Well,
Mr. Evans, I says, did you now see a letter as your daughter had, for there was
one for Elizabeth upon the subject from Elizabeth herself. Well, he says, I did not see it, and he has
promised to pay the money if Elizabeth will write to him the authority herself,
and he says that his daughter should write to him herself, and then Mr. Maurice
got him then to promise to give him a note that he would pay me the money, for
Mr. Maurice to send to the attorney to Denbigh for me to have ___ while we
should hear from America, but Mr. Maurice is doubting that he won’t, for if he does he says that he shall have him
first and Mr. Maurice is begging of Elizabeth for to enclose a note for him and
one for me, and if in case his daughter does not send in time for to ___ this
that she had better enclose one for her uncle likewise, and then he cannot deny
that he had not had one, and Mr. Maurice wishes as you have both come to
conclusion together about these things that she should write them herself, and
to write to us a copy of what she will send to her uncle for to authorize him
to pay to me . Therefore, John, you may
easily imagine how it is with all this trouble that is with all the illness
that your sister had for such a length of time. and also that it must be very
troublesome to our minds by being two year’s rent due on the 1 of July . Rent, as I have told you in my last, how she
must in the last week as she lived how we was going to do for our rent. Therefore you may judge for yourself how are
circumstances are the present time.
Therefore I must
conclude for the present. All of your
brothers and sisters sends their kind respects to you and that they are all
well in health at present, thank God for it, and accept the same from your dutyful
[sic] father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
And as you was saying about T. Price he never showed his face
here since he left here first. I did
not hear you mentioning anything about a wife or whether he had one or not.
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