Appendix to Minutes of Evidence Before Select Committee
Appendix X
Saint John NB. October 13th 1847
Dear Father & Mother. I take the present opportunity of
letteng [letting?] you know that I am in good health hoping
this will find you and all friends in the same. I wrote you
shortly after I came here but recevid [received?] no answer
which makes me very uneasy untill [until?] I hear from you
and how you are and all friends. Dear Father we had a
pretty favourable passage we Cast Anchor at Partridge Island
after 5 Weeks passage there were 4 Deaths on the passage but
the Second day after we arrived here and after the Doctor
came on Board the Sickness commenced we were then put on the
Island for 3 Weeks at the end of which time my dear Litle
[little?] Biddy died thank God I got safe off and continues
[continue?] to enjoy good health since Dear Father Pen could
not write the distress of the Irish Passengers which arrived
here thro [through?] Sickness death and distress of every
Kind the Irish I know have suffered much and is [sic] still
suffering but the Situation of them here even the Survivors
at that awful time was lamentable in the extreme there are
thousands of them buried on the Island and those who could
not go to the States are in the Poorhouse or begging thro
[through?] the Streets of St. John, let me know how James
Burns and Sister are and let me know how John Burns is, and
Biddy Kelly and family I am living 10 miles from St John
Churchland when you write direct the [sic] Care of the Revd
Edmund Quim [Quinn?] C.C. forwarded to Neal Quin Church Land
St. John N.B. If you would wish to come here I would like
you was here [sic] as I think times will mend here after some
time and dear Father I will soon send you some help let me
know if Catherine Bradley Mary McGowan and Mary Kinloghlan
wrote home as I do not know where they went to or where they
are. Milk and Butter is very dear here 4d. per quart and 15d.
per lb. I went to the country with my uncle but he went off
to the States since let uncle Paddy know that Thos. [Thomas?]
went to Boston with his uncle Thos. [Thomas?] got a place for
the Boys in Boston Biddy's two Sons [sic] do not neglect but
write as soon as you can as I will be uneasy untill [until?]
I hear from you.
No more at Present But remains your affectionate Daughter
till Death,
CATHERINE HENNAGAN [Hannigan?].
