Henry Neill letter. T.1796, PRONI Samuel Neill, Banbridge Co. Dron, Henry Neill, Louisville, Ky., to his father, Ireland, 1 April 1839. Louisville Ky. April 1 st 1839 Dear Father I embrace this opportunity of writing to you by A1r McMoran of this city who is now about to start for Ireland Hoping therefore this may find you and all other friends in the happy enjoyment of good health I am happy to inform you that both John & I have lived in the full enjoyment of that inestimable blessing ever since we came to this country And in the next place to give you some account of our situation I have now been in the employment of Messrs Jas & wm McCrum one year at a salary of Two hundred dollars & gets Boarding & washing in the family of Jas McCrum I have made an agreement for this year at an advance of one hundred dollars I am well pleased with this place & the country in general - this State differs widely from that of pensylvania tis as customary here to set up & sell Negroes at auction as it is horses in Ireland this is a trade in which there is great roguery practised by the rascally Negro traders who will often sell a man in one place & appoint him to meet him again in another place & sell him again in this way our papers are always thronged with advertisements of runaways (page 2) Some time ago MR Robert Henry called to see us on his way to the east to purchase goods & likewise on his return home He lives in a place called princeton in this State There are but few of our country- -men in this part in comparison to that of Pittsburgh the climate is somewhat different being warm in the summer however I believe it agrees with me very well as I have had as good health here as any place ever I lived