Bagillt, Dec 26, 1850
Dear John,
We received your letter of the 22nd November and
was very glad to hear that you both were well in health, but still we were very
sorry to hear about your misfortune , but both you and us ought to be very
thankful to the Lord for his kindness towards us at all times , and that it was
no worse with you that you come so well, and we hope to hear from you soon
again, and that we shall hear that you are both together, for we have think you
more comfortable a deal by being together, and we all of join in love to you
both, and that we all of us partly enjoy the same usual health, and I am just
the same with my laments, and your sister Mary Ellen is a good deal
better. Your old friend Rich Davis and
wife desires very much to be kindly remembered to you, and that they are well
in health, and they live in Flint and he works at Pentne Mills this good while
now, and all your old shop mates desires to be kindly remembered to you both,
likewise your friend Mr. Gleave sends his kind respects to you and was very
sorry to hear about your misfortune and very glad that you came off so well.
I sent your letter off with your brother Edwin for him to
see, that it was better than Edwin could tell him, and he was very thankful to
me for it, and always when I tell him I have had a letter, he is very glad to
hear, and every time he is always asking if you are not talking in any of them
about coming home. Therefore your mother
says he is like her, and that neither of them gets an answer for their question
at all, and that you are not for her to come to America at all, and she is
ready for the come tomorrow if it is possible for it is gone so sorry here that
there is a great many people is nearly ____, of people you would never would
think. They have now been downing the
Coliers wages now and they had very little before, and they were standing but
about three weeks, and obliged to go to their work with 2 and one half crown
less in the Pound, and we have been in that time four or five bread we used to have
in the oven at a time, and all ___ the railway delivering their coals at the
smelting works for less money than our Collings can afford to sell them. All them was at Holywell last Saturday ,
about 500 poor people gathered for to see if they could get any relief, that
the gentlemen was quite frightened , they have ability to get quite a few
constables and things for to keep them quiet
The oldest person in the kingdom never knew such a time as the time present in this country, and
another thing we have to tell you of is there is a great muster with people
here at present as that they are taking
the poor’s rates for the tenants and setting in the landlords, and they are
laying on people so hard for to clear their arrears that people cannot come up
with them for the time being. So sorry,
they go into people’s houses and takes the things out and sells them there and
then, and we do not know how to do at present , for we are sadly afraid of them
and we cannot manage at present upon the account of the time being so bad as it
is.
Mr. Jones of Holywell and family desires to be kindly
remembered to you and that they are all well in health. Likewise your brothers and sisters sends
their respects to you all of them, and that they are all well. Mr. Michael Jones sends his kind respects to
you and very glad to hear from you at all times. Likewise all old neighbors and friends sends
to you the same. Likewise your old
friend Sam Hughes Black and wife sends their respects to you, and no more of a
family than you have seen, and they have desired me for to ask you if they
would do themselves good by coming to America or not. They would wish for you to send to me for
they say they shall have the truth from you, for they are preparing themselves
for to come for many was here the other day telling us about it, but nobody
else knows anything about it.
Some more from your dutiful father and mother, Robert and
Sarah Benjamin. We are very glad to get
to send this in the way as we do. We
don’t say anything about anybody because you shall both see and hear from
themselves in the same time as this.
Think of your birthday a week next Sunday. We shall think of it if all is well.
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