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 SUSSEX B3fIGRANTS, 
 
 IN 
 
 UPPER CANADA. 
 
 
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 PETWORTH : 
 
 PRINTED AND SOLD BY JOHN PHILLIPS. 
 
 
 1837. 
 
 
 
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Th£ Earl of Egrbmont has 
 signified his intention to give the 
 same liberal encouragement to Emi- 
 gration this Year as on former 
 occasions, provided a sufficient num- 
 ber of Persons shall come forward 
 to take advantage of the opportunity 
 thi . again offered to them. If any 
 are disposed to do so, they must 
 make immediate application to the 
 Petworth Committee, 
 
 Petworth Jan. 9th. 1837. 
 
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 From John Barnes, who emigrated with his wife and family ^ 
 under tite management of the Committee ^ in 1836. 
 
 January 1st. 1837. 
 
 Dear Tather, Brother, and Sisters, 
 
 It is with pleasure I now take my pen in hand to 
 write a few more lines to you, in hopes they will find you all 
 in good health, as thank God it leaves all of us at present. 
 I was quite unwell soon after I wrote to you before, for about 
 3 or 4 weeks, but I did not leave my work but one week. 
 1 kept on till 1 wr s obliged to give it up, but the surgeons 
 soon picked me up again. I hope you received my first let- 
 ter. I am still at the city of Toronto, Upper Canada, and 
 there I shall remain for the present ; for I have been doing 
 well since I have been here, and I don't like to leave when 
 I am doing well. I have received another letter from cur 
 brothers, in States, and they wish me to come on to them 
 as soon as I could, but I cannot go at present : they said 
 they would come to Erie to meet me, which would be 130 
 miles, all land carriage. I have as much as 300 miles to go 
 to them from where I am, which would cost me £\Q j but 
 that don't stop me from going, for 1 have got the money to 
 go with, thanks be to God for it. I have been working for 
 the same gentleman, as I told you before. I have done 
 workuig at my own trade about a month, as the frost was 
 tco sharp for us ; but T have got some more work to do for 
 him in the spring. When I left off work, I had the amount of 
 147 dollars to take of him ; so I drew 40 dollars, which was 
 4^10., and the rest I left in his hands, as I do not want it at 
 
 F resent ; and I am in hopes 1 shall not want it this winter, 
 am living in his great house, and the gentleman is living 
 there himself ; so we are his servants ; so I hope, dear 
 father, brothers, and sisters, that you will feel happy about 
 me and my family ; for we are all very happy. I hope you 
 are all as happy as we are. Henry is at school for this win- 
 ter, but he did not much like going : he wished to go to 
 service, as he could get 4 dollars a month : that made him 
 ▼ery eager to go to service, but I thought that going to 
 school would be the best service for him this winter j as he 
 wants to go apprentice to a carpenter and joiner in the 
 spring, if I can get a place for him. Emma might been at 
 service if we could a let her gone, but we wants her at home, 
 for a waiting maid for the gentleman. It is a good place for 
 children, for they may have plenty places, when they get 
 the age of Henry and Emma : they may have a place almost 
 
any il:iy. Henry, — Dear Grandfather, I often thinks how I 
 should like to see you, hut you see my father is a going to 
 tie mc up in the s|)ring if he can get a place for me, and then 
 I must * • . If please God 1 shall live to serve my 
 time, and you are all living, I mean to come .ind see you all 
 once more, which I hope you will. Dear Brother Benjamin, 
 I must tell you that your trade is very good here, of all that 
 I can hear of it : but I am in hopes that you are like to do 
 well in the situation that you was a going in, when I left 
 home, and if you are like to do well, you will remain where 
 you are for the present, and stop at home with your father. 
 I shall see what turns up here after a hit. I am in hopes I 
 shall see all of you again after a little bit, if it please God all 
 is well with [us] . My dear brother Robert, I think that 
 your trade is good here, for I have seen in the windows, as I 
 have walked down tiie streets, papers for want of hands, not 
 as I think that you will come, only I just mention this to you. 
 Dear brother Henry and sister, 1 am now going to tell you 
 what chance I think I have got for you, if you like to come 
 out next spring. A few weeks ago the gentleman that 1 am 
 living with, asked me, if I had any of my friends that was 
 likely to come out to me. I told him that I had a brother and 
 sister, I thought would likely come to me, if they could get a 
 good living for their family. I told him that I had not wrote 
 to tell you much about it at present, but I must write to you 
 soon. Then he asked me what account I should give you of 
 the country, I told him that I must say that here was a great 
 deal better chance here than at home, for them that was indus- 
 trious, and kept themselves sober. Then he said, that I was 
 correct, but it was the case of nine out of ten that gave up to 
 drinking. Rut I told him that I was not afraid of you about 
 that. 1 told him that you was not of any trade, that you was 
 always brought up to farming work. Then he said, I have 
 a farm up the country you know, and if I could light with an 
 industrious man I should let him go on my farm in part with 
 me for a certain number of years. Then I said, that was 
 very good. So my dear brother and sister, I think here 
 is a good chance for you, if you think that you should 
 like to come to me. I hope you will pleaee yourself about 
 coming, I do not wish you to come, none the more for the 
 sake of me : but if you do come, I should be very glad to meet 
 you, and will do the best I can for you, in regard of helping 
 you, if you should want any. If you should come, and go 
 on the farm, you might want a little help first going on it. 
 And if you should come, mind you do not buy so much 
 
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 cluthes as I did. If I was a cuming again I would not buy 
 half so much as 1 did this time, for clothes is not so much 
 dearer as you might expect, but mind and bring your beds 
 as I did. Let any one say what they will about it, you will 
 come to me free of expence : for the city of Toronto is the 
 place where the superintendent, that goes out of Portsmouth 
 with you, will take you to j and I should be sure to know 
 when you come into harbour, and I will be at the wharf as 
 soon aa you are landed, so you may not be afraid that 1 
 should not meet you. And if you should come, look up all 
 the old halfpence you can, for they will be as much to you 
 as a new penny is, before you geta up to me : and with us 
 an old halfpenny is as much as a new one, but a penny piece 
 goes with us as with you, for two halfpence. I would be 
 much obliged to you to bring John 2 blue cr\ps, such as we 
 bought for him at Mr. Halliday's shop ; we paid is. 6d. for 
 his cap, and with us they are as much as a dollar or more, 
 as I am informed j not as we have bought them. I hope 
 you will make up your mind as quickly as possible, for I 
 longs to hear from all of you, and the sooner the better, for 
 then I shall know what to do. As soon as I know whether 
 you will come or not, and if you should come, I shall have 
 some more talk with the gentleman, as soon as I knows 
 whether you will or not. I hope, my dear friends, that some 
 of you will be so kind as to take this letter to Green, or send 
 for our dear mother to come to your house, so as nhe might 
 hear from us. Dear mother, 1 am happy to tell you, that 
 we have been doing so well since we have been in America ; 
 and we hope that these few lines will find you all in good 
 health, as thanks be to God it leaves all of us at present. We 
 have had a good bit of snow here, and some frop*-, it have 
 been very sharp for some time, more so than ever I knew at 
 home. But when frost and snow comes, we wish for it to 
 lay, because it makes good sleighing, that is, the carts and 
 carriages goes without wheels : they slide along : they are 
 drawn by horses, and goes very swift. We have a large 
 market here every day, except on Sundays, when any kind 
 of provisioning is brought in. Hogs are brought in by the 
 waggons, and all ready drest. 1 bought one. They are 
 selling now at about 7 dollars a hundred weight. Flour is 
 selling at 7 dollars a barrel : I thinks they hold as much as 
 4 bushels, for I find that it lasts my family as much as 6 or 
 7 weeks. Potatoes biive been selling at 4s. a bushel, all the 
 winter ; so I do not buy many of them. Hay is selling at 
 
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 7 and 8 dollars a ton : I bought a load last week for 7 dol- 
 lars : and oats for Is. 8d. per bushel. I bought some of 
 both, for the genllenian that I am living with. I do not justly 
 know what peas and barley is selling at, for I did not think 
 to inquire when I was in the market last. Dear brother 
 Henry, I am going to ask you, or brother Benjamin, if one 
 or both of you, will be so kind as to walk over as far as Bury 
 Common, to Samuel Gurr, and to Mrs. Green, so as they 
 might hear from us : they wished me to write to them, but 
 1 think this will be as well, for any letter I put in the post 
 cost me 2s. James Green, I am going to tell you that I 
 wish you had been able to come out with me, and if I had 
 known so much then, as I have known since, you should have 
 come when I did : but try and come out this next spring, if 
 you can any how, raise the money to pay your passage. If 
 you cannot raise the money yourself, if you know any one 
 that is a coming, and that will help you a little in paying 
 your passage, I will pay them again as soon as you gets to 
 me; you aud I could make it right, again after a little while, 
 for it is expected that trade will be very brisk in the spring ; 
 and if it should, wages will be very good. A dollar and a half 
 have been the regular wages a day, since I have been here. And 
 if Henry Long and you should come, I hope you will assist 
 one another as well as you can. You will find things more 
 convenient aboard ship, than what you might expect. We 
 said that time would seem so long, but I think that it wa» 
 the shortest that ever I knew, for I scarce know how the 
 time past away, whilst I was on board of the ship Heber. 
 James, we give our best respects to your mother, and to 
 your brothers, and sisters, and to George Smith, and to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Gurr, and their family ; and tell them that we are 
 very happy in the new country, but we often say we should 
 like to see them. Ellen is quite well, and we are in hopes 
 that Mary Ann is the same. Emma sends her kind love to 
 your sister Ann. James, you may tell Mr. Hills, at Bury 
 Mill, that I have not repented of coming to America yet, he 
 will know what you mean. And give my best respects to 
 Thomas Bridger, and his wife ; and to James Shepherd, and 
 his Avife ; and to Thomas Smith, farmer, as you calls him ; 
 and all enquiring friends. James, you will send me word 
 when my brother writes to me, whether you thinks of coming 
 or not. Dear brothers, you will be so kind as to take both 
 of my letters with you, so as they might hear them both read. 
 There is not ever a round frock worn in the city : but you 
 
 
may wcnr what you plcanc in the country. If they see any 
 one with a lung frooii, they 8ayB, there goes an Englishman, 
 with his shirt over his clothes. Shoes and Hats are u good 
 bit dearer here, than they are with you. Give our best res- 
 pects to Henry Hunt, and to John Quelch, and his family, 
 and to all enquiring friends. If any of you comes, you must 
 expect that there will be a little trouble through your voyage, 
 wherever there is a family of children j but if you means 
 coming, you must not mind that, it do not last for ever. I 
 do not mean to say, that every one have the luck as I had. 
 I was very fortunate, first coming into a strange country. 
 There was no more of my trade that went out with us, which 
 there was 266 of us aboard. We had 2 children born in 
 our voyage. We had a good voyage over the seas : we was 
 from the 27th. April to the 24th. May out of sight of land. 
 We had a good bit of snow on the 25th. May, had snow- 
 balling on deck. It was in the evening when we came to 
 Montreal. It was to our sorrow, there was a large slip hap- 
 pened in the new river, which caused us to go up the river of 
 St. Lawrence, which you would be surprised to see how strong 
 the water run ; in some places we were drawn by 3 or 4 
 horses, some places by 3 or 4 pair of oxen ; if we had not, 
 we should not have got up at all. W^e had a man, the name 
 of Randall, from Dunsfold, I thinks that he was got tired of 
 the river of St. Lawrence, for he fell, or jumped overboard, 
 and was lost. It was thought by many that it was his intent 
 to doit; it happened on the IGth. June, one night, as we 
 laid to. I could tell you a good bit more about our voyage, 
 but I have not room, so I nmst let it pass. I hope you will 
 not delay in writing to me as quick as possible,, Direct to 
 me, John Barnes, City of Toronto, Upper Canada, North 
 America, to be left at the Rev. Mr. Matthews' house at the 
 College. By the way of New York. Now to you, dear 
 father, brothers and sisters, I must conclude my letter with 
 bidding you al) farewell. Me, my wife, and children sends 
 our kind love to you all, and tc all enquiring friends. 
 
 I am your obedient son, 
 
 JOHN BARNES. 
 
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 From William Covrtnaye, who emigratud from Farnhnrst, 
 Sussex, under the maimgement 0/ the Committee, in 181^2. 
 
 January 10th. 163/. 
 Dear Brotlicrs and Sisters, 
 
 This conicB with our kind love to you, hoping it 
 will find you in good lienlth, as it leaves us at present. We 
 received your kind letter the 22nd. December last, and was 
 very gia(l to hear from you, but I was sorry to hear of the 
 death of my mother. 1 thought it very strange that I did 
 !iot hear from you before. We are very glad to hear that you 
 talk of coming to our country, for I think you cannot do a 
 better thing, for I think you can do a great deal better here, 
 than you can at home, by your talk. You can get land for 
 about lOs. of your money an acre, in a pretty good settlement, 
 and as good land as ever need to be, but you can get it cheaper 
 by going back further in the woods. They will give you, some 
 five years, some ten yearg to pay the money in, by paying 
 down one part out often, as you can get land almost on ivav 
 terms. As for myself, I am living and Edward Berry^ on 
 each of us 50 acres at present. We rent it. We have 
 been talking a good many times of going further up the 
 country to buy us some land, but if you arc coming, we will 
 wait till you comes, if you comes in the spring, and go alto- 
 gether . I have got along pretty well since 1 have been here. 
 1 have got two cows, and a waggon. I have not got my 
 team at present, I sold them, but I shall get a team in the 
 spring, if I have luck. I have bought a loom, for we follow 
 weaving flannel, for most people have their own cloth wove 
 here. We make our own soap, and candles, and sugar, some 
 springs ; but we have not many sugar trees here, but there is 
 plenty further up the country. Some people makes a large 
 quantity of sugar; some makes a thousand pounds in a 
 spring ; them that has a good many trees, some more and 
 some less. 
 
 This is Mrs. Pannell's hand of writing at the bottom, you 
 might let her see it. 
 
 {Pannell, Haslemere.J* 
 
 You wanted to know the prices of things here, I will tell 
 you the truth as near as I can. Flour is higher now than it 
 has been Jior 20 years, for the spring was so wet, that it 
 drowned our crops a good deal. Flour is 8 shillings of your 
 money a bushel, but our common price has been 3s. 6d. to 
 4s. a bushel, and line fat hogs about £1. 12s. a hundred 
 
 * This was urUten at the bottom of the sheet 0/ letter paper 
 which hud been taken out by the emigrant. 
 
Weight this scfison ; hut other seasons nhout 1 pound a 
 hundred. Beef, uhout l^d, to 3d. lb.; butter, in the winter, 
 Od.} Bugar, Gd. or 7d.; tea for '2s. 0:1.; good green tea for 
 3s.; tobacco, 6d.; clothinp^, about the same as it was when 
 we left Enghmd: good boots, Hs. per pair; shoes, Js.] 
 women's boots, 10s. per pair. Strong beer, about lOd. per 
 gallon ; strong cider, 8J;1.; whisky, 6d. per quart. You can 
 get a good cow for £li. or £3. 10s. of your money. A yoke 
 of oxen you can get from .£12. to £[(i. We get 2s. per day 
 for farmer's work, and otir board ; grass mowing, lis. and 
 board ; harvesting, 48. and board. James Enticknap wanted 
 to know how blacksmithing trade was here. Work is 
 different here of what it was in Ejigland ; but we soon get 
 into the way of it. I think he would do well here, for black- 
 smiths earn great wages here ; it is as good a trade as any 
 here, you may depend ; we would be happy to see him here, 
 and his wife, and family, for I know he would do well here. 
 Dear sisters, and brothers, I hope 1 shall have the happiness 
 of seeing you all here next summer, If my father will come 
 with you, I will take care of him as long as he lives, and I 
 live, and my brother George. Dear sisters, and brothers, if 
 you comes, bring as little as you can do with, for you can get 
 any thing here, as cheap as you can there for money, you 
 had better bring the money. Dear brother Randall, you say 
 your family is all girls : here is plenty of work for girls. I 
 think you had better come, for I think your girls might 
 get married to the young farmers : for they have plenty 
 of property here. If you come, you had better bring 
 a little brandy, and a few dried herrings, and a piece 
 of cheese, and bake a little bread very hard, and some 
 plumcakea, for fear you should be sea sick, if you are 
 found. I and my wife were not sea sick but a very little, 
 but my children were not sea sick at all. You had better 
 put your things into strong boxes, well bound up. You had 
 better bring a good gun, a flint lock gun or a rifle, if you can 
 get one ; for here is plenty of game here. Deer and 
 pheasants, turkeys, rabbits in some places. If you come, 
 bring me a horn lanthorn, for 1 have not seen any in this 
 country ; bring two hay cutting knives, one for me and one 
 for Edward Berry. If you come, you had better come to 
 St. Catharine's, in the township of Grantham, and enquire 
 for the Griggey's, and they will tell you where I lives, in the 
 district of Niagara, U. C. I hope you will take good courage 
 and come. Give my love to all enquiring friends. All I 
 forget to tell vou now, I will tell you when you comes. So 
 no more at present from WILLIAM COURTNAGE. 
 
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 Mrs. Courtnage to Mr. John Randall. 
 
 Dear Brother and Sisters, 
 
 I have the opportunity of writing to you, hoping it 
 will find you all in good health, as it leaves us at present. I 
 hope you will not think it too much trouble to take this to 
 ray father, to let them know how we are getting on. I think 
 it very unkind that they have not sent no letter, I wish them 
 to send a letter by you, to let us know how him and his wife, 
 and sisters, and brothers are. I am sorry to hear that they 
 has so much sickness, I am feared that they have a great 
 deal of trouble to get a shilling, Jis we hear the times are so 
 bad. T wish you to send word who my sister Hannah is 
 married to, and where she lives. I want to know all the 
 particulars about them, and whether they thinks of coming 
 to this country. I have four children. Hannah is grown 
 a great girl ; James grows much like his grandfather ; they 
 sends their love to you all. John and Mary Ann are 
 young yet. Give my love to my grandfather Deadman, and 
 to all. I was very glad to hear you was all well. If any of 
 you should come, I wisli you to bring 2 or 3 pair of black 
 stockings, and a fur cap for William, they are very dear 
 liere. The climate|is a little colder in the winter, and hotter 
 in the summer, but healthy, I should be glad to see you 
 all in this country. I send my love to all enquiring friends. 
 I must conclude for want of paper. So no more from your 
 loving daughter and son, 
 
 ANN & WILLIAM COURTNAGE. 
 
 So good bye. If you comes, you had better wear the 
 worst clothes you have got, on board ship. We have plenty 
 of fire wood in this country for cutting. I hope you remember 
 me and Edward Berry to my old friend William Enticknap. 
 So we wish you a happy new year, 
 
 WILLIAM COURTNAGE. 
 
 Mr. Jesse Morley, 
 
 Faridmrst, Sussex, 
 
 Printed by J. Phillips, Petworth. 
 
J?rom CoRNELiiJs Voice, who emigrated from BilUngshursty 
 Sussex, in a ship sent by the Petioorth Committee, with his 
 wife, 5 sons, and 2 daughters, and a nephew, in the Year 
 1834. He was a Carpenter and Joinery and his two eldest 
 sons and his nephew who loere grown up, followed the sane 
 trade. 
 
 Blajjdford, Upper Canada, 
 September 'iOth. 1835. 
 Dear Brother and Sister, 
 
 This comes with our love to you, hoping it will find 
 you all well, as thank God, it leaves us all. Cornelius has 
 still a wound ia his leg, but he is a great deal better. 
 Brother, I should [have] wrote to you before ; 1 wanted to 
 get settled, to see how I like the country. We all like America 
 very much, it is a pleasant country, particularly Biandford : 
 there is a many settled round here, most English. We had 
 a good passage over ; we landed at Quebec the first of June, 
 but o'-r vessel came as fur as Montreal : there we left, and 
 went on shore, and staid two days, before our doctor could 
 get a bojvt, as he was to see the whole party up to Toronto, 
 Upper Canada, and that was where we paid our passage to. 
 From Montreal to Toronto is *(300 miles. We travelled in a 
 large boat like a barge, up a new cut, and it being so much 
 up hill, that we past through a great many locks. Sometimes 
 we were drawn by horses, sometimes tied to a steani boat. 
 We travelled this way §4()0 miles, to Kingston, there we left 
 the boat, and all got in a steam boat. We had t200 miles up 
 to Toronto, 12th. June. As soon as they stopt the steamer, 
 we saw a gentleman on the wharf, we thought we knew : 
 as soon as we got out, he came to us: he ask us if we did not 
 come from Horsham. I said no, my name is Voice, from 
 Billingshurst. He said his name was Gurnett, from Horsham. 
 He is living at Toronto, carrying on the printing business. 
 He told me to come to him, he would help me to work : he 
 got work for me and William. Before we begun, our Doctor 
 come to our lodging ; he said he had been to the Governor, 
 to speak for the party, and the Governor said the married 
 men were to come to him, he [would] give 13 families each 
 5 acres of land, and build us a shanty as they call it, at 
 Biandford, and take us there free of expcnce. Our doctor 
 waa sent with us : it is a 10»/ miles further up the country. 
 We come 60 miles in the steamer to Hamilton, that was as 
 far as we could come by water. Our doctor hired 20 wag- 
 gons to carry us and our luggage the 50 to Biandford. We 
 reached there the 21 st. June : we were all put in the 'squire's 
 
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 barn, while our houses were building. Our houses were 
 bui!t with round trees hiid one on the other, with a few 
 boards for the roof, without any door, or window, or fire 
 place, we had to do the rest as wc could. Our land was full 
 of large high trees. We were in the barn just one month, 
 and some were there longer. William and John went out 
 the next day to get Mork, and got work for all. We get Gs. 
 3d. a day, English money. We were glad to begin work, for 
 we had but 3 sovereigns. We soon earned some money, and 
 then we all went to work at our house and land. We had a 
 new brick chimney and oven, we have 2 pair of sashes, a 
 front door, and a back door, and a good roof, and shingled ; 
 we have no tiles nor shites ; wc have got this done before 
 the cold weather comes. We have cleared our 5 acres of 
 land. The way we clear is, chop the trees down with an 
 axe, then chop them in lengths, and draw them together with 
 oxen, and burn them; this is a hard job to clear land, but 
 thank God, we have done. Brother, now I will tell you 
 what I have got, and what 1 have grown. I have got 4 
 cows, and 4 calves, them I am raising up : I have 4 sows, 
 and 20 young hogs. There is plenty of beech-nuts, we are 
 in hopes they will be good pork, without any more fatting : 
 we have about l(X) fowls, little and big, besides geese and 
 turkeys : we sell none, but eat them all, for they are very 
 cheap here. Your sister is making 20 pounds of butter a 
 M'eek. We have a good garden ; plenty of potatoes, and we 
 have all sorts of vegetables, cucumbers and nieh)ns grow on 
 the ground, the same as cabbages ; the other part of our 
 ground with Indian Corn and Oats, for cows and other things 
 in the winter. Our cows and hogs cost nothijig in the summer, 
 they run in the woods and keep themselves. I only wish 
 you had been here last month, to see your sister and the 
 girls making sugar in the woods, sometimes up to their 
 knees in snow : but they made 160 lbs. of sugar, and 60 lbs. 
 of treacle. The Yankees called it a good bunch, being a bad 
 sugar year. Your sister has learnt to make her own soap 
 and candles. Our house is about half a mile from the vil- 
 lage. We have a new church, and [an] English preacher 
 came up the day before we did. There was but two shops 
 when M'e came here, hut there is five more shops now built 
 since we have been here, and about 50 framed houses. We 
 can get any thing for money, the same as in England. 
 Brother and sister, if you can get here, I think it would be 
 a good thing for your family, as there is plenty of work for 
 your boys, and girls, and good pay. The same doctor came 
 out with Lord Egremont's veshcl last April, as came out with 
 us : he came to see us and told us he brought out 250 from 
 Sussex : he settled all the families at Braudtford, on a five 
 
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 acre lot eacli, the same as us. Wa came throu<);li Braiidtford, 
 about 25 milcB back : he told us that he was coming out 
 with another vessel load next April : he said that he was 
 going to take them that liked to go, to farm a new tract at the 
 side of Goderich, about 60 miles further up the country 
 than we are. William and John has oeen up there: they said 
 it was a lake, but rather unsettled. If you think of coming, 
 I can get you a five acre lot near ours, as I am acquainted 
 with the 'squire. You can change your money here, but 
 you must get that settled at home : you had better go to 
 Mr. Sockett, at Petvvorth, and you may shew hiia this letter, 
 and he will tell you the best way to get out. Go soon, as the 
 vessel will start the beginning of April. We wrote home, 
 but we have not received any letter from them, but we have 
 had a letter from Mary. 1 staid at home to write to you. 
 All four boys are gone to play a game of cricket: 
 they play 11 on a mle, lOs. to 5s., the trade against the 
 gentlemen. I cannot tell you which beat, they are not come 
 home. So I must conclude with all our loves to you, and 
 all your family. 
 
 CORNELIUS & ELIZABETH VOICE. 
 
 I forgot to say that Elizabeth was married 18th, July, to 
 a young man, the name of Coleman : he came from England 
 with us, they live on a 5 acre lot, joining ours. Brother, I 
 hope you will write as soon you receive tliis. This letter 
 is by the favor of a young lady that is coming home, she has 
 been out on a visit to her sister. 
 
 Direct to me, Cornelius Voice, Blandford Town Plot, London 
 District, Upper Canada, North x\merica. 
 
 From William Hewitt, who emigrated from Cockingy 
 Sussea', in the i^hip HtLer, sent out by the Petworth 
 Cummitteej in 183G. 
 
 Woodstock, Upper Canada, 
 July 6th. 1836. 
 
 Dear Father and Mother, 
 
 I take this opportunity of writing these few lines 
 to you, hoping to find you in good health, as they leave me 
 at present, thanks be to God for it. I am very glad to say, 
 that I am got here quite safe, and I tell you, that I ^o not 
 repent my journey, for I find it as good as it m as said it was, 
 and I am very well satisfied M'ith it : and I am happy to tell 
 you, that we had a very short, and good pleasant voyage of 
 
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 7 weeks to Quebec, and three afterwards to Blandford ; and 
 I was used very well all the way over, and we had every 
 thin^ for our use, and a very good living ; and was not sick 
 only 4 days, and that was not very bad, but there was some 
 very bad for a great wliile. I tell you, that I have got a 
 very good place. I have hired for 5 months, at 10 dollars 
 per month, board and lodging ; and I am about 4 miles from 
 Blandford, where I go every Sunday in the waggon to my 
 own church. James Budd lives at Blandford, and have got 
 a very good place, under a captain, a very great gentleman. 
 Master Budd works on the farm, and Mrs. Budd works in 
 the laundry, and the boys are all in places. They all live in 
 the houses in this country, and so do I, and lodge in the 
 houses. They are all English and Scotch, and they are very 
 good people. 
 {Here follows ar> acconnt of the country ^ the same as given in 
 
 several other letters before published.) 
 Here is plenty of work for men, and women ; and boys 
 you may apprentice ; they will take them, keep them, and 
 clothe them, and wash for them. George Budd is gone to 
 a tailor, and John is gone to a blacksmith, and Henry is 
 gone to live with # » * and they are all 
 
 fat work, Josepli and all. They are all very well in health, 
 and desire to be kindly remembered to you all. And I pray 
 you to remember me to all my brothers and sisters, and all 
 my friends and relations, and all friends. I am very sorry 
 I have not any more time to write now. Tell Mrs. Wingham 
 that her brother stopped at Prescott, because his children 
 was not well, and so he got work there, and stopped there. 
 
 * * * * I ^yji[ vvrite again 
 
 in a very short time, and will write to Mr. Challen, and will 
 tell you all about, and pray forgive all my mistakes and 
 blots, for I have no time at all. And so God bless you all, 
 from your affectionate son, 
 
 WILLIAM HEWriT. 
 
 The following is my direction, 
 
 William Hewitt, Woodstock, Oxford, London District, 
 Upper Canada, North America. 
 
 Please to answer this as soon as you can, and tell me all 
 the news you can. 
 
 To Mrs. William Hewitt, 
 
 Cocking, Midhurst. 
 
 Printed by J. Phillips, Petworth. 
 
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 From Jambs & Ann Wooob, who emigrated in 1836, in 
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 ^^^■—'-r:-'^^^' ^- /. ' August 20th. 1836. 
 
 Dear Mother, and Father, 
 
 This comes with my kind love to you, hoping to find 
 you in good health, as it leaves me at present, and my wife, 
 and child, bless God for it. We had a very good passage, 
 but were very sick. Little George is always talking about 
 
 little . Dear mother, we are as well as can be 
 
 expected after our journey, and I like this country very Well 
 at present ; and have got into good work, and am getting 
 3 shillings and nine pence per day. I can see here a good 
 chance for every man to get a good living here, if he is 
 steady ; and any man can be independent if he likes in the 
 course of three or four years, if he is steady. He can get 
 a hundred acres of land. And if any of you intend coming 
 to America, be sure and send us word, and whether you come 
 or not, by the return of post. 
 
 Dear Sisters, and Brothers, this comes with my kind love, 
 hoping to find you in good health, as it leaves me at present, 
 bless God for it. I like the country mucli better than I 
 thought I should, and I should like it much better if you 
 were nearer to me. Please to give my love to Charles 
 Edwards, and love to Wm. Long. Please to give Mr. James 
 Tilley's love to Mrs. Long, and likewise William Heather ; 
 and they are all doing well, and like the country very well. 
 Tea is from 3 shillings and 9d. to 5 shillings ; tobacco is 
 from, 1 shilling to Is. and 3d. per lb.; pork, per lb., 3^d. 
 to 4d. ; by the hundred, it is from one pound to one 
 pound four or five. Beef is the same; mutton is from 
 S^d. to 4d. per lb.; venison l^d. to 2d. Flour is from I 
 pound to 1 pound 5 shillings per barrel. Sugar is from 6d. 
 to 8d. per lb. Every thing is veiy reasonable here, except 
 clothing, and that is very dear. Be sure and send us the 
 particulars of every thing, when you write to us, and we will 
 send you some back. I have nothing more to say at present. 
 From your ever lovi j son and daughter, 
 
 JAMES & ANN WOODS. 
 
 Direct to me, Blandford, Woodstock, London District, 
 Upper Canada. 
 
 To Mr. Chandler, Tillington.