Year

1702

Sender Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Receiver

Phineas Pemberton

Receiver Place

n.p.

Repository holding original letter

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Full Date

1702-01-02

Document Type

Transcription

Country, State, Location 1

39.952583, -75.165222

Keywords

Israel Pemberton, Philadelphia, Phineas Pemberton, James Cooper, William Smart, Israel Taylor, Quakers, Society of Friends, Social network, Quaker , Business, Goods, Health - illness

Abstract

Letter dated January 2, 1702 (December 22, 1701 Old Style) from Israel Pemberton to his father, Phineas Pemberton.

Transcription

I haveing [having] this oppertunity [opportunity] by my master gott [got] a
Little time to write to thee [you] heareing [hearing] thou [you] was [strikethrough]
very bad by Severall [several] people which made me ye [the]
the more willing for to write these few lines
I thinking for to heare [hear] that thou [you] was better
but In Stead [instead] of better worse which makes
me fort to [strikethrough] weep at the heareing [hearing] of it
and at Severall [several] other times when I think
of thee [you] what a great Los [loss] that we should
have if we should Loose [lose] thee [you] butt [but] I
Leav [leave] it to the Lord who knows better [strikethrough]
what to do then [than] man who Is the maker
of [strikethrough] ^us^ all being in hast [haste] Shall not
Enlarge much but deliver thee [you] to tell [strikethrough]
motr [mother] that I Received her Letter the day
before yester [yesterday] Dated the 28-9 mo [month] -1701 [28 January 1701] [strikethrough]
the things Shee [she] mentions in her Letter I know nothing
of [strikethrough] [strikethrough] but only of the Cloak and thats [that’s] gon [gone]
to the mill and hath [has] thy [your] mark but Since I write
to thee [you] about it Granmother [grandmother] has been hear [here]
and She told me that It was hers [her’s] but I was not
in the Shop when it came [strikethrough] So I can tell
nothing of the Rest of them bur [strikethrough] I will
in Quire [inquire] of James Cooper, as to the Line master
will be their [there] and then thou [you] mayest [may] Speak with
him about it

[page 2]

but if not [strikethrough] thou [you] mayest [may]
have it for 2 bush [bushels] at the same price
for I spoke to master and to william smart [William Smart]
I thought that two bushs [bushels] was to [too] Little but
william [William Smart] bid me Charge it [strikethrough] for 2 bush [bushels] at
28/p [28 pence] bushs [bushels]: In all at present from thy [your]
Duty full [Dutiful] [strikethrough] son

Israel Pemberton

phila [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] the 22 of ye [the] 10 mo [month]

1701
my love to mo: [ mother] & [and] to sisters

8-10-6
7:14:2
16 . 4

17-6
17-6
1 – 15 : 0
2

[page 2 right edge]

Philadelphia The 26^th^ “6 mo. [month]” 1701
1701…
fo: [for] frd [friend] In ^6^ Norton Wee [we] have Recd [received] [strikethrough] Israel Taylor

[page 2 bottom left corner]

Israel Pemberton Jr
1701

HSP DAMS ID

16076

Language

english

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