To: Rector of Episcopal
Cullybacky [Cullybackey?]
Co [County?] Antrim
Ireland
[Postmarked]
PAID [LONDON?] DERRY SEPTEMBER 6 ..69 [1869?] COL [COLONIAL?]
PACKET E
PONTIAC AUG 24 [1869?] ILL [ILLINOIS?]
4 H BELFAST SP [SEPTEMBER?] 7 ..69 [1869?]
From:
Pontiac Livingston Co [County?] Ill [Illinois?] Aug 23rd
..69 [1869?]
To the Rector of the Episcopal Church
Dear Sir -
Circumstances compel me
to produce my Baptismal Record
Will you Sir be so kind as to find
It & forward me to America & I will
renumerate you at a future time -
I was baptized in Cullybacky [Cullybackey?] I think by
a Mr Johnson Episcopal about 1822
as ws have no record I cannot give
a correct date my Sponsers [Sponsors?]
In Baptism named me Margaret
Jane Kinnear infant daughter
of Alexander Kinnear & Elizabeth
his Wife my father being In India
at the time I have also Written
to the Prysptiern [Presbyterian?] Clergyman
of Said Town to Search the record
for Said Marriage of a Kinner [Kinnear?]
& Elizabeth Adger of Said
Township but have so far
received no answer from him
I wrote my cousin James
Kinnear of Belfast formerly of
Cully-backy [Cullybackey?] & he informs me
that at that time there was no
Register kept now I hope
that the Church of England
has not been so lose [loose?]
my Father Alexander Kinner [Kinnear?]
died in the Army in India
& unless I can prove my Mothers
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marriage I can not claim any
inheritance my parents were
married by the Reverend Mr Kinnear
a blind Preacher In Culybacky [Cullybackey?]
& now dear Sir I ask you a Christian
& gentleman do confer this favor
upon me a member of your Church
I would send you a stamp for
return postage but our Stamps
will not pass of course you will
pardon the liberty I have taken
to write you a Stranger I had written
to James Kinner [Kinnear?] Jnr [Junior?] but he did
not attend properly to do & I thought
that I would try the Stranger as
Sometimes we entertain Angels
unawers [unaware?] If you would forward
It In a newspaper or Send to
James Kinner [Kinnear?] Belfast he would
forward me
Yours Respectfully
Margaret Jane Kinnear Briggs
Mrs M. J. Briggs
