[The next letter we have is from Nathaniel two years later]
Care Mr Thos [Thomas?] Battersby
Innkeeper
Dromore
County Down
For Mr Robert Taylor
Shanrod
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Philadelphia August the 24th 1830
Dear Brother,
Yours of the 24th May I recvd [received?] two days
ago but not from Mr Stuart [Stewart?] I heard about A week
ago that he was come in and I expected a letter, but not
having an opportunity of seeing him he posted it and it
was carried to me. I have not seen him yet. You will pease
[please?] excuse my few hasty thoughts as an opportunity
ocurred occurred to me about an hour ago of sending it to
belfast by hand with a Mr Wood brother of [A?] [?] who is
going off tomorrow morning who caried [carried?] you one
before. I have not wrote you since the one with Barnard
Millighan [Milligan?], an answer by the Francis Peabody
which was posted in Baltimore, and one Dated October 1828
and one from Nancy Dated Jany 1829 I recvd [received?].
In your last you gave me very little news and I have not
time to give much now on account of the short warning.
John Watts came to see me last fall and is here
- I seen him last week. The time I recd [received?] yours
I also recd [received?] one from John he is in Washington
and has got an office under
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the President at 1000 Dollars per annum. April was a year
when he was going there he came this way partly to see me
and he got some friends and James Brown was here at the same
time we spent a few days together he had A recommendation
from all the Legislature of this state and the Governor
also, and for the office he got he says there was one
hundred applicants but he obtained it. He wrote to me he
would be here this summer but he has not come yet.
James Brown was here at the fourth of July and
stopped two weeks. As to the Cloverseed I will send
it this fall if I am well and can get a vessel
for Belfast. I would sent [sic] it last fall if I
could get the oppurtinity [opportunity?] I could send
it any time by way of Liverpool but am afraid of it
being miscarried. I had a son born Feb 27th 1828 named
Nathaniel he is a fine boy, but he has took the Disentry
[dysentery?] A few days back which he is very bad with.
Jean and the rest of the children are all well, thanks be
to god for his mercies it is now getting late and I have
no more thought of at present but when you write me again
let me know a little more about the [old?] country and the
old neighbours.
no more at present
but remains your
affectionate
Brother
Nathaniel Taylor
PS I expect the next
my John will be able
to write it.
John recd [received?] a letter
from you the day before
he wrote to me.