Robert Taylor
Shanrod
Care of Mr Thos [Thomas?] Battersby Inkeeper
Dromore
County Down
Ireland
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Philadelphia 29th July 1828
Dear Brother,
It is with pleasure that I embrace another
oppertunity [opportunity?] of writing you by A gentleman
going to Derry. Which when I wrote to you on the 20th Inst
I did not know of this man going, but I always wrote you
when I had the opportunity of sending it by hand this man
is a particular acquaintance of mine and he says he will
post it in Derry, but he intends stopping some time in
England if he does he will put it in A steam boat for
Belfast and I think it will not cost much that way, the
other letter I found the man I mentioned and [he?]
promised to post it in Derry also.
I have nothing particular to mention in this only to
show my willingness to write when opportunity serves.
We are all in good health at present thanks to god for
his mercies although there is A number of sudden Deaths
at present by reason of the excessive heat this last
week which was the hottest we had for several years, yet
the Summer was pleasant on account of frequent showers
which we had the Thermometer was from 96 to 100 in the
shade last week.
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I could have sent the Cloverseed with this man and
he would have forwarded it to Belfast but it would be
be [sic] old seed and I want to send new which will
not be untill [until?] fall, the way it is raised is
the second crop which the [they?] cut late in fall
and letts [lets?] it stand for some time in heaps until
it gets A little frost which makes it easy thrashed, and
the only time they sow it here is the 21st or 22nd of
March I have seen it sowed when there was both frost and
snow on the ground.
John has promised to be down here the last
of the month or the beginning of the next I wish
he had ben [been?] down before I wrote this he
has never been here since the first Sumer [Summer?] I
came here. I have nothing more to say only I enjoy good
health at present and lives happy and content.
When I write which I hope it will not be long to it
let me know the affairs of the Country and how you are
able to pay the rent the way markets is and what the
place looks like by this time.
Give my love to Mother Shusanna [Susanna?] an [and?] Nancy
and to all my enquiring freinds [friends?] and let me
know if you have more Children yet.
I have no more to say at present
But remains your
affectionate Brother
Nathaniel Taylor
PS When you write
Direct as I told you
in the last to Penn
[Pennsylvania?] township
Post office near Phila
[Philadelphia?] Pa for me
