June 20, 1849
Dear Son John,
We received your letter yesterday the 19th and was very glad to hear that you had as good a passage as you had though having the two stormy nights and the fright with the fire. Thanks be to the Lord that it came on as well as it did with you all and we was very glad to hear that you arrived safe and more so that you are well in health after you arrived and still that you like the country so well as you say after you got into it. So I am very glad to inform you that we are all of us partly the same in health as when you left us and your mother is partly the same, if anything, a little better for she is in Flint this last fortnight and it agrees with her very well, and your sister has been confirmed this last Sunday evening was a week and she was yet a very fine girl and she is herself coming on as well as possible for I was there yesterday fetching fire wood for them and I was at the mill myself and I had the opportunity of walking with Mr. Gleave from Flint up to the mill and I had to talk to him about the wood and he has promised me that he will do his best for me that there will be no alteration in the matter for Roger sent with Edwin that I had better come and speak with him for Mr. Edwards is still ___ for the wood all together and Mr. Gleave told me that he was, and he did not know what he would put down for them, that he would put his head for them he thought if he could get them , but he told me he thought there would be no alteration in the matter at all, only the old gentleman was getting very odd and suspicious and he did not know for what, and Mr. Gleave told me yesterday that he if in case that you had not gone away that the work would of paid you better than none than it did for some time past for they have some new way of making bobbins towards what they had though having less hands and to inform that it has been so slack with your brother Edwin that he has not worked not half the time since you went away and it is so sorry in Bagillt now that no recollects it to be so, for there is a great many very near ___ ___ standing. Since you went away very ___ and a great many been in the work house and dear John as you wanted to know about __ Edwards, he has been giving notice against the first of July for the assignees to receive the rent and I don’t know what to do, for if we must to sell all as we have, about us as we could not pay I think for there is no money to be got for nothing here now for twelve pounds is a great deal of money for us to make up in these days for __ Jones , the timber merchant, sold all his furniture for to come to America and they were sold for ___ or nothing and I understand they are at Liverpool and that they do not mean to come to America at present after all, but his daughter got married a little time back and they have gone to some part of America there and then, but I do not know what part I did not hear, and to inform you that your sister Mary Ellen, Elizabeth Parry, Jane Parry, are ready to fly to America after you all together . Since you have gone and more so a good deal yesterday one today, after we had the letter from you , and heard that you arrived there safe, and if they have the knowledge that they could get safe, they would be very soon with you and, dear John, it is useless for me to mention anyone’s name for there is every one of your old companions and friends, both big and little, old and young, both at Flint and Bagillt, sends their kindest regards as ever they can to you and wishes you well and that you may prosper as you ventured as you did and I am glad to hear that T. Price is well and that you both have gotten into employment , but we should be better satisfied if you had been with one another. I should of thought it more comfortable a good deal. I hope you will be able to get together soon. All your brothers and sisters send their kind regards to you all of them and they are all in pretty well health, only what I have told you about your sister in Flint and she is coming on as well as we can expect.
I mentioned before and in ___ of time after you have been in the country a little they are hoping that in case you should see anything as would do them good they would be very glad if they could muster to come over for it is so sorry here as you know and indeed I and your mother, we do not know what to put our hands to at all if in case it does not take a turn in some other way towards it more and that very soon. So I must conclude that no more all current.
from your dutiful father and mother,
Robert and Sarah Benjamin
but wishing you every good respect in every way and that you may prosper in every direction, that is our wish. Both of us if out in sight not out of mind not one minute in a day.
PS You must take notice there is plenty of serious prayers for to be sent to you every month or oftener if possible both Welsh and English and if there is something short you must allow me John for I am in a hurry to get it done for to send it as soon as I could and you must consider the pride as we was in that was in me I received one and the pleasure of sending one in return.
RSB
God may bless you I hope he will.
Your mother have been thinking to please you,
Sister Charlotte.
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