Carlile Pollock, New York, to his uncle, Reverend Dr. William Campbell, Presbyterian minister of Armagh, 29 July 1789
Description
The text reproduced here is taken from a copy of a letter which was written to the Rev. Dr. William Campbell, Presbyterian minister of Armagh, by his nephew Carlile Pollock in New York. Campbell (1727-1805) was a well-known and scholarly minister of the Synod of Ulster of New Light persuasion who had ministered in Armagh since his settlement there in 1764. He served as Moderator of the Synod from 1773 to 1774, and represented the Synod in various dealings with government. He was born in Newry and married his cousin Jane Carlile, also from Newry, in November 1758. Her sister Elizabeth married John Pollock of Drumcashalone (or Ashgrove), Newry. The Campbells had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters: Carlile, George and Hugh emigrated to America and settled in New York; their sister, Mary, married Isaac Corry, MP for Newry. The letter indicates that Campbell's son Robert, who was then 16 years of age, had emigrated earlier in the year to learn the Pollock family business in New York and to settle there. He died at New York on 16 June 1791. [Carlile Pollock relates the latest political news from America and observes the country is fast becoming a manufacturing nation, while relating their own efforts for growing flax as they did in Ireland. He is glad to hear Campbell may relocate to Clonmel as "anything is better than Armagh"].
Date
29/07/1789
Date Issued
27/03/2023
Resource Type
Text
Archival Record Id
p155/74/1
Publisher
University of Galway
Extent
2pp
Topic
Pollock Letters
Geographic
New York City,New York (state),United States,Armagh,Armagh (county),Ireland
Temporal
Eighteenth century,Seventeen eighties
Genre
Transcript
Note
Title, description and letter transcript from a published source. Citation for letter transcript from a published source: Patton, W.D. (1994). 'My Dear Uncle': a Letter from New York, 1789. Bulletin of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Vol. 23, pp. 21-25.