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Primary document
Title:
Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to Charles
Pettigrew, February 23, 1795: Electronic Edition.
Author: Pettigrew, John, 1779-1799
Author: Pettigrew, Ebenezer, 1783-1848
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 11K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2005-07-22, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Pettigrew Family Papers (#592), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to
Charles Pettigrew, February 23, 1795
Author: John and E Pettigrew
Description: 4 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 592 (Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
DocSouth staff created a 600 dpi uncompressed TIFF file for each image. The TIFF images were then saved as JPEG images at 100 dpi for web access.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Page 1
Skipperton
Feb 23, 95.
Hond Father;—
After a long & tedious journey we have at last arrived here safe. We
found things very different from what we left them. There was hardly one boy
but what had chang'd his room; & among the rest we lost ours. I
confess that I was much displeas'd at it at first, and spoke to Mr
Kerr
concerning it; & he told us that he suppos'd we must
have it again: but, upon a second consideration, we concluded that we would
move into another room, where ther were but four boys; two of them are sober
young men, that We likike very well & the othr two are small boys.
concerning it; & he told us that he suppos'd we must
have it again: but, upon a second consideration, we concluded that we would
move into another room, where ther were but four boys; two of them are sober
young men, that We likike very well & the othr two are small boys.Mr Hardy's son is also in a room just above us that had but four boys in
it. There was but one more room [in] the university
but what had its number of beds in it, & I preferred this far before the other.
Page 2
There are now 73 or 4 students at the University. They come very
fast, & there is not room for more than nine or then more; so that
those who propose comeing up from Windsor had better set of as quick as possible.
We met with a series of misfortunes upon the road;—as many as would
fill a small volumn. I will acquaint you of one of the worst, and you can
make Glas[g]ow inform you
of the rest. The worst was, when we got to the guts of Roanoak, the mare gave out
entirely; & would pull none at all, but I believe that it was
nothing but stubbornness, so that we were obliged to get one of Mr
Lyscum & leave the young horse to plough in his room, for he
was not able to go in the fills, but we have made the mair pull before all
the way. I will leave glasgow
to tell you all the rest, as I have not time.
to tell you all the rest, as I have not time.We have not yet settl'd with the
Page 3
steward, but we
expect to do it tomorrow. I am much affraid that we shall be much pushed for
provisions this year; for I am told that Mr
Taylor
buys corn by bag-fulls; so that
in case of necessity, we shall have to get in hollow trees, & do as
the bears do; for it would never do, to set off
home,—we should perish upon the roads. Mr
McCorkle
is not to be here this year,
& I shall send his letter back enclosed in mine.
Page 3
buys corn by bag-fulls; so that
in case of necessity, we shall have to get in hollow trees, & do as
the bears do; for it would never do, to set off
home,—we should perish upon the roads. Mr
McCorkle
is not to be here this year,
& I shall send his letter back enclosed in mine.All our class study french one half of the day, and lattin the other half;
but we shall be in a class in latin, and study
greek, when they study French. We shall be under Mr Delavo reading
latin, but Mr Kerr
or Hombs in the Greek.
or Hombs in the Greek.Please to give our duty to our mother
& complements to those who ask
after us.
& complements to those who ask
after us.We remain your Dutyful sons
In great haste—