Toner Family Letters, Pennsylvania to County Tyrone, 1818-1819. (National Library of Ireland, MS. 2300) 2 Letters. Edward and Mary Toner, Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylyania, to Patt Donelly, "Near Gomroy Care of the Rev Henry Conwell Dungannon County Tyrone, June 7, 1818. Dear Brother & Couzen I Received your Letter and My Loveing Brother Peters Letter on one day that was the 27 of May th Last which surprized Me Much to Read The Contents thereof Concerning the Distress and poverty of Ireland which is a greavious heareing to Me to think of the Distress and want of that Contery and More so when I do think of My friends and Relations to sufer there in Destress and hardship and is not Able to Rach to a free Contery Like this is I understand that Edward Muldoon was the Barer of them Two letters he was here a long time Before them After spend- ing the winter in Lancaster for he Entrusted them to Another Man which was Neglected if he had posted them there I should have them in six Days Time therefore when you send Any More Letters Desire them to Be posted in Philadelphia or Lancaster and I Shall have them in a short Time for I can take Care of Any Letter that is sent in My Care for I am Better Aquent there Now than I Ever was in Gomproy sir I understand your Uneasyness Concerning ordination But you Need not be in the Least Uneasy only Dedicate your self to the will of god for if you were A priest the Night you were Born no Man Can Deprive you of it only this that you Must Be as pure as the Ceder of Lebannan which Is Encoruptable wood I have the Advice of three prest Concerning you Coming to this Contery Which is the one half of the Cleargy of this state as the have Told Me first the Revd Mr O Brine priest of pitsburg Who Allows that you will get free Collage in this Contery if you Didedicate your self to the service of the state or otherwise tatch A Lower Class if you are Able and Live independente and study Likewise that is to Be A secular priest which I Belive would be your Desire if you would wish to Be a Regular priest the Revrend Charles guire from the Coale Iland who Left there 30 years Ago and Came here Last Christmus to Be our priest after /Trevling? All catholick Conterys he was in Etily france & germiney in the Nine provences of Netherlans and Last of All in Bohemia he Can preach in five Defirent Languges he has Been professer in several Colageges he is a frier of the order os st frances - he says that if he had five Boys he would study them himself But the Must have Letters of Recommendations Along and you Must have the same Along so do not Neglecte it The Reverend Mr flen thinks that the jesuat friers is the strongest Body and likewise in riches But there is no Doupt if you were here and To Be well Recommended But you would Be Recaved in Baltimore or georgia or Any other part that there is A Collage in the United states so do not fret But Make the Best speed you can for its very Likely that your Luck or fortune was not Laid out for you in that Contery do not Be Like A greate Many that I had knowed Myself there in Ireland if the would only /buy? A New End to thire house the Could not find from thire heart to lave it Much Like the snaile when he Lives in his Box all winter and when he is Laveing it in