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James McHenry, Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania, to Thomas Moore, Baltimore, Maryland, 9 March 1817
Luaigh an doiciméad seo Amharcóir IIIF
Bailiúchán McHenry-Moore Letters
Title James McHenry, Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania, to Thomas Moore, Baltimore, Maryland, 9 March 1817
Description Also an excellent letter. McHenry remains optimistic and expands on the local economic opportunities and strategies of clockmakers, storekeepers, and grog-sellers, and relates the latter to the influx of poor and thirsty Irish immigrants into the Orwigsburg area to work on the canal. McHenry left his wife and children in Ulster but is 2 sending for them to join him; expects that his wife will bring additional capital, so they can keep and stock a store. McHenry also makes interesting remarks on religion, contrasting his (and, apparently, Moore's) former "latitudinarianism" to their newly felt need for more conventional religious faith.
Date 09/03/1817
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Cineál Acmhainne Text
Archival Record Id p155/5/3/1
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 5pp
Topic McHenry-Moore Letters
Geographic Orwigsburg (borough),Schuylkill (county),Pennsylvania,United States,Baltimore,Maryland
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen tens
Genre Transcript
Note Title, transcript and description by Professor Kerby Miller.
Creator / Author Name James McHenry