Year
1702
Sender Place
n.p.
Receiver
Israel Pemberton
Receiver Place
n.p.
Repository holding original letter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Full Date
1702-03-17
Document Type
Transcription
Keywords
Abigail Pemberton, Israel Pemberton, Jacob Janney, John Watson, Jeremiah Langhorne, James Logan, Quakers, Society of Friends, Social network, Rumors, Gossip, Communication network, Smallpox, Illness
Abstract
Letter dated March 17, 1702 (March 6, 1701 Old Style) from Abigail Pemberton to her brother, Israel Pemberton. She asks his help in stopping a rumor about her.
Transcription
[strikethrough: to?] [partially illegible—strikethrough and ink blot] th 6th of 1 mo 1702 [the 6th day 1st month 1702]
Dear Brother [Israel Pemberton]
this comes by cussen [cousin] J. Janney [Jacob Janney?] [Joseph Janney?] where by [whereby] thou [you] may know
that wee [we] are all well [axceping? [excepting/expecting]] / [exaping? [escaping]] [son?/from?] [And Roben and?]
prisila [Priscilla Pemberton] hath got [has gotten] a cold but I must bee [be] short but tell thee [you]
[strikethrough: thee] that I am sorre [sorry] to hear that thou art [you are] not very well
pray let me hear as often as thou canst [you can] for I heare [hear] the small
pox [smallpox] are much in your family but I was glad of the account
thou [you] gave me that the [thee] [you] ^[love/have]^ them so [illegible—ink blot] esily [easily]
But by thy mastes [your master's]
account we here [hear] that little ebee [unidentified person] is very ill which gives
mee mosmoll troable [me no small trouble] we^e^ [we] have not seen the articlles [articles] [strikethrough: so we]
but John Watson gave some account and if it be so as he
tells us wee [we] cannot concent [consent] to [it?/if?] [strikethrough: for] cossen [cousin] stayes [stays] so I
cannot give the perticular [particular] account but mother [Alice Pemberton?] has in
A leter [letter] to thy [your] master which thou maist [you may] see are our [strikethrough: of/ob?]
objections but If A tennant [tenant] come with anithing [anything] like termes [terms]
and a honnest [honest] man we shall be willing to go out as soon
as thy [your] master can settle the bisness [business] for there Is no accation [action/occasion] of
stay upon my account for Jeremiah [Jeremiah Langhorne] seems unwilling to
go to monthly meeting and I resolve not to go any other
way some have been pleassed [pleased] to say that it is because
I am in love with James Logen [James Logan] because I lodged ther [there]
for too [two] or thre [three] nights when I was [min?] [in] town bee [be] pleased
to let mee [me] hear what they say of it there whether the [they]
say anithing [anything] concerning him [min?] [in] town any that
may make that the reson [reason] thou [you] may teell [tell] them thou
knows [you know] to the contrary but say nothing of thy reson [your reason]
for it utill [until] I give thee [you] a further account theey [they] may
let mee [me] have a line from the [thee] [you] by the berer [bearer] all
our loves are to thee [you] this from thy afectionate [your affectionate]
sister
Abigail Pember [Abigail Pemberton]
[Postscript, written in bottom left margin]
Which I desire thee [you]
to keep secrit [secret]
[page 2]
To
Israel Pemberton
These
[series of three lines]
[Written in a more modern hand, on left side]
Abigail Pemberton
1mo 6 1702 [1st month 6th day 1702]
to
Israel Pemberton
HSP DAMS ID
16078
Language
english
Type
article
Format
application/pdf
Collection
PRINT Migration Network: Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions
Creator (Linked Data)
Jenkins, Abigail Pemberton, 1679-1750 [LC]
Abigail Pemberton Jenkins (Q102035806) [Wikidata]
Citation
Abigail Pemberton, n.p., to Israel Pemberton, n.p., 1702-03-17, vol. 2, pg. 180, Pemberton Family Papers, 1641-1880, 0484A, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PRINT, 16078, https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton/279/.