Year
1702
Sender Place
Bristol, [Pennsylvania]
Receiver
Samuel Carpenter
Receiver Place
n.p.
Repository holding original letter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Full Date
1702-04-16
Document Type
Transcription
Country, State, Location 1
40.100666, -74.851831
Keywords
Alice Hodgson Pemberton, Bristol Pennsylvania, Samuel Carpenter, Israel Pemberton, Robert, Thomas, Quakers, Society of Friends, Business, Debt, Illness, Social network, Women
Abstract
Letter dated April 15, 1702 (April 5, 1702 Old Style) from Alice Pemberton to Samuel Carpenter. Part of the letter concerns a financial plan to raise money for debts and legacies without having to lose either stock or servants.
Transcription
Bristo [Bristol] the 5 of th [the] 2 mo [month] 1702
dear ffrind [friend]
Samuel Carpender [Samuel Carpenter] I reseived [received] thine [your/your letter] dated this
instent [instant] and am satisfied whith [with] what the [thee] [you] [page tear: have]
dune [done] the marrieg [marriage] is not like [likely] to be acompished [accomplished]
yet I thinke [think] if the [thee] [you] thinkes [think] fit to settle bisne^s^ [business]
next month or sooner Iff [if] is [it] can be with convenia^s^ne [convenience]
Robert hath [has] been very ill nou [now] is sum thing [something] better
Ann not [a person?] is very weeke [weak] the tennant [tenant] is desiorus [desirous] of
cuming [coming] soon and I think it will be best I am [sen: crossed out]
sensable [sensible] of thy [your] exersise [exercise] and trouble mie [my] exersise [exercise]
hath [has] ^not^ been small sens [since] the [thee] [you] left us I am veri [very] well in
helth [health] blessed be the Lord for it I have much to saye [say]
to the [thee] [you] pray let me se [see] the [thee] [you] as soone [soon] as the [thee] [you] canst [can]
conveniantly [conveniently] heare [here] is many deats [debts] should be paid
I am under a concarne [concern] about them a fue [few] lines by [strikethrough: illegible]
this bairer [bearer] would be very exseptable [acceptable] time is short
In hast [haste]
Alice Pembertune [Alice Pemberton]
I have not seene [seen] the agrenent [agreement] but if it be as John
tels [tells] me hou [how] can mony [money] be raised for dets [debts] and legasies [legacies]
with out [without] the stock and sarvants [servants] be desposde [disposed] of and
concarnid [concerned] a barne [barn] will half the produse [produce] of this [page tear: place?]
bulde [build] the barne [barn] and find robin cloathes [clothes] I cannot se [see]
that it will I am not will ling [willing] theire [there] should be [cross out]
anye [any] intres [interest] upon my account nor as litle [little] as canbe [can be]
upon any others for it is aeting [eating?] thing these fue [few]
lines are the sacond [second] considerasion [consideration] I thought to had [have]
the sheep but we shal [shall] not difer [differ] a fue [few] lines from the [ink smeared]
[written on left margin]
deare [dear] love to the [thee] [you] thy [your] dear wife And famalye [family]
and Israel [Israel Pemberton] I should be glad to know what must be
dune [done] with thomas and Ann [?]
[page 2]
To
Samuel Carpenter
marchant [merchant]
these
[written on left side]
Bristole [Bristol] 5. 2d. [2nd] mo. [month] 1702
from
Allice Pemberton [Alice Pemberton]
Rd [received] ye [the] 7. anserd [answered?] ye [the] 8th
P [Per way of] – [Janney]
HSP DAMS ID
16079
Language
english
Citation
Alice Pemberton, Bristol, [Pennsylvania], to Samuel Carpenter, n.p., 1702-04-16, vol. 2, pg. 181, Pemberton Family Papers, 1641-1880, 0484A, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PRINT, 16079, https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton/280/.