Pemberton Correspondence
Year
[1693]
Sender Place
Flushing, New York
Receiver
Phineas Pemberton and Phebe Pemberton
Receiver Place
Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Repository holding original letter
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Full Date
1693-12-17
Document Type
Correspondence
Country, State, Location 1
50.084958, -5.101268
Country, State, Location 2
40.176667, -74.827778
Keywords
Mary Bowne, Mary Becket, Flushing Long Island, New York, Phineas Pemberton, Phebe Pemberton, Falls Township, Bucks County, Quakers, Society of Friends, Social network
Abstract
Letter dated December 17, 1693 (December 7, 1693 Old Style) from Mary Bowne to Phineas and Phebe Pemberton.
HSP DAMS ID
15998
Language
english
Format
application/pdf
Collection
PRINT Migration Network: Pemberton Correspondence
Transcription
Flushing
The 7 of the 10 month
Honnored [Honored] freinds [friends]
Phinihas [Phineas Pemberton] and P Pemberton [Phebe Pemberton]
These may inform you that I am in helth [health] and
my deare [dear] husband all so [also], who hath [has] writ [written] to you from
yoark [New York] I was not willing to mis [miss] this opertunaty [opportunity] tho [though]
very short I have got a great Could [cold] coming in to the
great Roome [room] deare [dear] freinds [friends] preay [pray] mis [miss] no opertunaty [opportunity]
to let us here [hear] from you wee [we] Re seved [received] your leter [letter] sent by
father where in thou [you] menshanedst [mentioned] somthing [something] of our
parting which was with mee [me] in like manner ^as with thee [you]^ the fery [ferry]
bot [boat] ws gon [gone] of [off] from sore [shore] but I was very sory [sorry] that it
was not gon [gone] far anof [enough] that wee [we] migh [might] have come
adegean [again] to you for wee [we] could not get home that
night but a bout [about] hafeway [halfway] wee [we] sted [stayed] at the fery [ferry]
tell [until] I saw you in the midle [middle] of the bey [bay] I was a
fread [afraid] the win [wind] was too hie [high] upon which I was much
Consarnd [concerned] till [until] I hard [heard] from you, to here [hear] how much you got
I was glad to here [hear] that you were all well and I
should be glad to see yo [you] [page tear: illegible] I am in hert [heart] my very
deare [dear] Love to you both and youre [your] deare [dear] litle [little] one my
husband deare [dear] lov y [love] to you all I have not time to
writ [write] a quarter of my mind nor my [lov?] [love] I must Con
clud [conclude] and still Remen [remain] youre [your] dutiful child
Mary Bown [Mary Bowne]
[page 2]
for
Phinihas Pemberton [Phineas Pemberton]
Neare [Near] the falls
of delawer [Delaware]
in pensylvania [Pennsylvania]
ther [page damaged: illegible]
Mary Bowne
Flushing
10 mo [month] 7. 1693?
to
Phineas and Phebe Pemberton
Citation
Mary Bowne, Flushing, New York, to Phineas Pemberton and Phebe Pemberton, Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1693-12-17, vol. 2, pg. 100, Pemberton Family Papers, 1641-1880, 0484A, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PRINT, 15998, https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton/211/.