Year
1700
Sender Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Receiver
Alice Hodgson Pemberton
Receiver Place
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Repository holding original letter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Full Date
1700-05-29
Document Type
Transcription
Country, State, Location 1
39.952583,-75.165222
Country, State, Location 2
40.313781,-75.126922
Keywords
Phineas Pemberton, Philadelphia, Alice Hodgson Pemberton, Bucks County, George [...], James [...], Joseph [...], Thomas Clark, Quakers, Society of Friends, Social network, Communication network, Agriculture, Economic network, Goods
Abstract
Letter dated May 29, 1700 (May 18, 1700 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his wife, Alice Pemberton. The contents of the letter include trouble with Phineas' affairs which have lengthened his stay and business conducted with Thomas Clark.
Transcription
The 10 th day of the 3/mo [month] 1700
my deare [dear] I want much to be with thee [you] I have
had no pleasure since I came to Town; things
go heavily on here about our publick [public] afairs [affairs]
wch [which] makes my stay uneasie [uneasy]; but doubt it
will be Long ere [before] I come home for we
have done little as yet, let Cozins [cousins] know
that I wold [would] have them as soone [soon] as they
Can after the house is up to get the
weather boords [boards] made; I have no acctt [account]
as yet whether the Shingles be come
to Buckingham; when the Stonework
is finished let all hands go to grubing [grubbing?]
Geo: [George …] & [and] James knows where that a -
little may be made ready for barley
afore [before] wee [we] go to mowing I shold [should] have
been glad to have had a few lines from
thy [your] hands by any that had comn [come in] down
Tell Cozin [cousin] Jos: [Joseph …] that Jan Gardiner has
sent the bond to Thomas Clark to be
put in Suite [suit] agt [against] him I Told Clark [Thomas Clark] I wold [would]
not trust him nor enter any action with
out [without] ready mony [money] he told me he wold [would] not
proceed in it untill [until] the latter end of this
month I told him the mony [money] wold [would] be ready
at Court this with my Endeared love to thee [you]
my deare [dear] Ab [Abigail Pemberton] & [and] pris [Priscilla Pemberton] I am In the same thine [yours]
P.P [Phineas Pemberton]
[left margin, written sideways]
ffor [for]
Phineas Pemberton
These
[written below in Phineas Pemberton’s hand]
I have sent
the bed & [and] blanket
by Geo: [George…]
& [and]
2 Sythes [scythes]
[right margin, in an archivist’s hand]
Phineas Pemberton
Philadelphia
3 mo. [month] 18 1700
to
Alice Pemberton
Bucks. [Bucks County, Pennsylvania]
HSP DAMS ID
16176
Language
english
Citation
Pemberton, Phineas, "Phineas Pemberton, Alice Hodgson Pemberton, May 28, 1700" (1700). Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions. 78.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton-transcriptions/78