The same which N onley Deposited Afew days before
the faluar of this Bank, This Banking house cold Last the best
But as the old saing is it is and use of bring for spitt
house in the State, These falluars was in fanway
with It ma not be all lost the roomer is the will pay twenty five
with are the Doller, and there is thousants of people in the
Dik some fram twenty thousant down to one hundred Dallers
so your can sum it all up and it has Prenad my
pure right well
your good land and is will A dopded for ethmost every think
wish to know a bout the quality land it is very 3
such as barley whete compotator rice shugar tobacco land
in all most all kinds of frouty
you what terms guilt flist stat to your the situation of the
with to know the pantily of land and rowel
land in this state and Every New state
The land here belongs to the United Stats Government
he grants every bitisin of his Domin to one hundred and
sixty Access of land and the go on and Impure it
and when it comes into market the price the required
is one doller and gur per efercy
But Idid not Squat ai the land that i have got
for this usen the best of the land was all taking upant
I informed before < took the thought Farming i)
of good location on the river and bought the improvements
and his right to the hundred and sixty teteres, clair yoursee
when government cals on nic the price i have to pay is s/Dolin
land as D please of which there is Thusan to of chero
and at qur per edera and the printey purches as mush valant
Unsigned letter, California, to his mother, (County Armagh?), 6 May 1855
Description
This is an excellent letter, but it's not written by one of the Williamson brothers; the writer's literacy level is too low and his expressions are too crude. Letter appears to be from a farmer who has lost several $1,000 through sickness and bank failures, about which he's surprisingly philosophical. Expresses very negative attitudes towards churches in California and about religion in general. He writes of relatives, who have names similar to those of the Williamsons, but who live in Ohio. [author writes that he lives forty-five miles from Sacramento].
Date
06/05/1855
Date Issued
27/03/2023
Resource Type
Text
Archival Record Id
p155/4/1/1
Publisher
University of Galway
Extent
7pp
Topic
Williamson Letters
Geographic
California,United States,Armagh (county),Ireland
Temporal
Nineteenth century,Eighteen fifties
Genre
Letter,Transcription,Reproduction
Note
Title and description by Professor Kerby Miller. Transcript text by PRONI.
