Bagillt
March 9, 1852
Dear John & Elizabeth,
I once more take the pleasure of dropping a few lines to you
in hopes they will find you in good state of health as these leaves us but very
indifferent, as you may be well aware that we cannot be no other way, having your sister for one thing so many months so
ill as she has been, and as I related to you before that she was the same as
your sister Elizabeth that I dast not move from being with her altogether, that
I am gone that I cannot move about the
house in these days hardly, but, however, she left us on Sunday morning about
twenty minutes to eight o’clock and I hope and believe that she is happy, that
she died in the Lord, but poor thing she died very hard, that it made everybody
all around here think that she had hold very fast in you altogether, and
everybody thought that you must felt it to [sic], but we don’t know but you
ought to know but she told me different times in her illness that little you knew how it was upon her, and
likewise that she never thought that the thing would come so hard upon her as
it did, and another thing she was telling me altogether that she had never had
told us anything about you and Elizabeth, so she thought if she had that it
would been better for her at last, and all these things along with her being so
ill and everything, it has made it has made both your mother and myself so that
it is a hard case for me to tell you how we are, and to think that she made
herself away so fast by such a thing, and another thing, dear John, for to tell
you the truth it is a Monday night now and we mean to bury her, if God sends,
on Thursday and we don’t know now who will open is [sic] heart for to assist us
for we have not a shilling of our own in the house towards such a thing , and
as I related to you In my last letter that she had Mr. Maurice’s voice as she
had heard from her bed in her ears altogether, and the very last Saturday of
all she must shout out as high as she could to your mother and me when we was
in the room with her by ourselves, what would we do for our rent, and God knows
how we are going to do for we don’t, and we really believe, as I told you
before, that only for her being ill that they would of been with us before this,
and your sister said to me different times that she hoped they would not come
and take her bed from under her and her being ill in it, and to throw her out
of doors, and dear John I am sorry that we trouble you so much, but for God’s
sake if you possibly can try to assist us of some part for to see if we shall
have some quietness for a little again until these lads come to have a little more money, for their wages is so very
small .
So I must conclude for the present. All your brothers and sisters sends their
kind respects to you and that they are all well, and I have to tell you that
Mr. Jones the minister has been very attentive with your sister altogether and
he was so kind as to have young Mr. Williams, surgeon of Holywell, to attend
besides himself altogether and Mr. Jones was so kind every time he came asking
her if there was anything as she did think of, that he would get it if it was
to be got.
So we remain your dutyfull [sic] father & mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
PS I have to inform you that John Leighton, a son of old F.
Tom Leighton, he went away the next week after you went from here, bound for Valparaiso
and he has been ever since trading to and about California until
he came home within this three weeks back he came, before he came home with a
vessel to Boston and he was at Boston for some time before he got a place for
him and he was about half an hour to late for a man was looking for him for to
have a place with one of the mails and he after got a place with one of the
emigrants vesels [sic] by the name of Daniel Webster belonging to Boston and
she starts out today the 9th for New York and should she happen to
turn into Boston and for you to hear I should be glad for you to try to see him
for he says if he should come to Boston he would come and see you . He is at
Liverpool this fortnight with the vesel and I could not see him for to give him
your address for he is a very nice lad and been about there so long that he has
got a deal of money, been getting so high as 12 to pounds a month and very sturdy he is to and
if in case that you should get to hear about the vesel anytime he goes by the
name of William Fisk for he has got an American protection and he goes by name
so if he should come to Boston at any time it would be of great convenience for
he told me he would carry anything as you would wish as his father wished this
morning very much for to send to you about him and he does not know what is the
reason of him going to New York this time for they always did go to
Boston.
Yours truly,
R. Benjamin
This is a sad letter..............
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