Pemberton Correspondence
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
Correspondence
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
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.
HSP DAMS ID
16176
Language
english
Format
application/pdf
Collection
PRINT Migration Network: Pemberton Correspondence
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]
Receiver (Linked data)
Alice Hodgson Pemberton (Q102035755) [Wikidata]
Citation
Phineas Pemberton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Alice Hodgson Pemberton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1700-05-29, vol. 2, pg. 164b, Pemberton Family Papers, 1641-1880, 0484A, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PRINT, 16176, https://stars.library.ucf.edu/printmigrationnetwork-pemberton/366/.
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