Robert McClurg/ McClorg, Whitehall, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to his father, David McClurg/ McClorg, Templemoyle, Bovevagh Parish, County Derry, 18 June 1820
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These lines are to yourselves alone and none else whatever.
Dear Father, Mother and family, you may probably think me
ungrateful and inconsiderate as also having succeeded ill
in this country when many less time here than I am have sent
something here before this time. I am most uncommonly
mortified that it is not in my power to send you something
before this time and even now it gives me the utmost pain
that at present I am not able. You may think it strange
but for one year I have made little and hardly hold my own.
Coming to Philadelphia I took a house at fifty dollars per
year and did not succeed so well in obtaining good pay
from my employer by whom I was treated most shame-
fully. I rather sank than made money. I am now in a place
near the city where my prospects are middling or I may say pretty good.
And believe me this country is far from what it was said
to be. You may have seen a letter from Robert Pollock
stating that his brother Joseph made from 10 to 20 dollars
per day, but that is altogether untrue, and from his own
statement he sometimes makes 1 dollar per day and some less.
It was stated to me that brother John intended going to Ireland
with a venture of tobacco from Saint John, Newbrunswick. No
letter came to me from him since I last saw him but one.
I hope he has not gone to the West indies but is singular
no answer came to me from him. You may think strange no
letter was sent by one of the Thompsons from Ballyhenry but he
went off sooner than I imagined. Frankford is the name of
Robert McClurg/ McClorg, Whitehall, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to his father, David McClurg/ McClorg, Templemoyle, Bovevagh Parish, County Derry, 18 June 1820
Description
[This item contains two letters addressed to the same recipients and written on the same day. In 1861 Whitehall was officially changed to Brunnerville ].
Transcript text by Professor Kerby Miller. Title and description by University of Galway. The names McClurg and McClorg are used interchangeably in this series so both are quoted.
