Pemberton Correspondence
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
Correspondence
Country, State, Location 1
39.952583, -75.165222
Keywords
Israel Pemberton, Philadelphia, Phineas Pemberton, James Cooper, William [...], Israel Taylor, Quakers, Society of Friends, Social network, Quaker business, Trade
Abstract
Letter dated January 2, 1702 (December 22, 1701 Old Style) from Israel Pemberton to his father, Phineas Pemberton.
HSP DAMS ID
16076
Language
english
Format
application/pdf
Collection
PRINT Migration Network: Pemberton Correspondence
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
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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
Citation
Israel Pemberton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Phineas Pemberton, n.p., 1702-01-02, vol. 2, pg. 178a, Pemberton Family Papers, 1641-1880, 0484A, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PRINT, 16076, https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton/277/.
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