Robert McClurg/ McClorg, Whitehall, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to his father, David McClurg/ McClorg, Templemoyle, Bovevagh Parish, County Derry, 18 June 1820
them to no passenger. I had mentioned to you in the first letters
that John stayed in the British settlements, and if any means
of encouragement offered I would send for him, but as the times
are here at present, he is probably as well where he is.
However, I sent him the letters in Spring but have received
no answer, as also a letter to Pittsburg to friends Samuel
and John Pollock, but no return. I expect daily to receive
your letters, and shall write to you every opportunity.
I stated in a former letter how far from Philadelphia the
place was where I obtained a situation which was 14 miles
but through the attention of my friend Mr. John George
the present place was found three weeks after being 50 miles
from Philadelphia in a gentleman's family and in a
healthy and pleasant part of the country, where I have
two hundred dollars per year and found and the tuition easy.
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The land here for the most part is good and produces fine crops.
We have had accounts from the public prints of a severe winter
through Europe in general, and it has been the same in America.
Business of every kind is very dull here at present and wages very low.
Emigration to this country for the present year has (in my opinion)
wisely diminished. You may no doubt think I wrote hard and
unfavourable of the country in my first letter, but nothing
was said more than the voice of the public and a thorough experi-
ence of many here testified. Markets of every kind are very low, produce
in abundance every where and no consumption. Crops look very
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.
