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D3580 - Longsdon family of Little Longstone - [14th-20th Cent]
C - Correspondence
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D3580/C/82
Title
John Longsdon at Boston [United States of America] to his mother Elizabeth Longsdon saying that he has no very good news
Date
14 Aug 1809
Description
Prince Edward Island is no primeval paradise but a garden over-grown with weeds inhabited by a most complete idle collection of all Nations. He left Halifax [Nova Scotia] on Sunday 23 and landed at Boston on Sunday 30 July. He is impressed. Here as in England, business is overdone. Manchester houses have manufactured enough to serve the world for 4 or 5 years.
He has frequently visited George Barker from Darley Dale who is engaged in lucrative business and has 2 pretty children and a wife. He has no positive plans.
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file
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Longsdon family of Little Longstone
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Type
Canada
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