NC, Lenoir Co., letters, from Wilbur Tyndall/Noble Estate Records
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The Tyndall Collection from the "NOBLE Estate"
Copied and transcribed by Sloan Mason and Martha M. Marble
<mmarble@erols.com>with permission from the Heritage Room at Lenoir
Community College; Kinston, N.C.
(Surnames capitalized for easier reading)
Personal Letter
April 29, 1865
Dear Emma,
I want you to come to see me as I can't go to see you
Come and less do what we was going to do when the yanks
Come now this time I am? Have beged one pair of shoes
You come and do the same. I want to know what you mean saying
Someone has played the devil
I didn't know I had any one before
Would be happy to know who
They are Who do you call Capt. DELL/DOLL?
I heard from "Dan" the other day he was well and the only officer
That stuck up for the Regiment
I understand he has gone home twice the yanks burned
His Mothers Uncle David & Grandmothers houses and
Everything they had Come one soon & I can lite? you
A help about -everything in this state Oh! Do come
I must give love to all any-------------------
Save a ----------------------------------------
Self I received -------------------------
Dan last ---------------------------------
Any body don't -let anyone see this.
Em please come soon
Signed: Su? GRAY/GAY
(hard to read signature)
END OF DOCUMENT
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NOTE: The original is badly faded and torn which makes the copy
difficult to read
Envelope
Postmarked Gainesville, Nov 8 (no year)
John Kincy, Esqr
Tucaho Jones County
No. Carolina
Alabama Sumter County
Dear Brother,
I have taken the opportunity of informing you of my condition at this
time I am well hoping this may find you the same (next two words not readable)
my friends & relation I have not got into any business yet only I am ginning
for Ballard & Thompson mearley to fray my Expence tho the market for oversears
is now opening so I Expect (torn) uly to get a birth but not (torn) til
Janary. I have bin verry much satisfied owing to my state of condition from
her & left things unsetted & had but verry little money & did not now that I
had a friend which rendered me verry unhappy & was grieved to my last & rote
to Farther to that effect. He rote back to me saying to me he wanted me to
conten (torn) self this was no hope of doing any thing thare which I was
convinced before but it carried me ? so I thought but little more about it &
have been tolerable well satisfyed & think when I get home that I shall be
very well satisfied. I know that I am in (torn) orich & moneyd contry & sw
that a sober and industrious man can do well after a while acquaintance which
I do intend to use all the industry Economy and Sobirality that in my power
lies and try to get money Enough to straiten all my affairs in old Carolina
and then Bed it a long fare will you told me before I left tht you intended to
leave some time this winter. If you do I want you to come her or whereever I
may be at that time. I may not Stay about her as I have rote to Needom
Whitfield when he rites to me I may go there. You can easily find out where I
am. You can get verry good price for work that you can do you could get from
two to five dollars per day for Every day that you would work and board found
soif you remove. I want you to come her partice lar ? if I am her you must
rite to me soon as you get this. Rite me about all my affars nigh as you can &
whether you Expect to come her or not. It would be verring glad indeed to see
you her. I think of you and we could get in some business together that would
be very profitable. Excuse my ?? to be all the friend that I had in time of
need that I have neglected you. I thought I would rite until I got a home but
it may be some time yet So I must wind up my letter by saying remember my love
to all my friends & Father and family and I m truly your loving Brother.
Erasmus Kincey
November the 5th AD 1838 or 1858
Do not fail to rit to me when you get this. I want to hear from you. (torn)
very bad indeed I hve got aheap. I could say to you but not rite it my Father
stated the death's of severel good citizens which I was sorry to her of but
among them one old Tory I recken uncle Sam had not him to the stake as he had
others I time past - next few words not readable - Remaining your loving
brother until Death
E. Kincey
END OF DOCUMENT
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Envelope
Mr. Kinsey Noble or any of the Nobles Family in NC Lenoir County Kinston
Tennessee Lawrence County 21st June 1868
Dear nephews & all my connecions one & all.
There has several years passed over since I have had any news from any of you.
That notorious war put a stop to Every thing so that we have had no
corrispondence since. Tho it seem that we might have wrote to one another
before this time but I have kept a waiting thinking that some of you would far
(torn) with a Letter, until I concluded that you had all got Killed in that
wicked war, or that I was dead. But thank the Lord He has spared my life till
the present and were it not for an affection of my Lung, which I have had for
8 years & 6 months I would be tolerable stout for a man of 73 years. But my
lungs render me almost unable to do any thing at times and never able to do
verry much my Daughter Elizabeth is not verry stout tho able to keep agoing. I
have a son of John H. Ratcliff with me that is all the Family I have. I hope
this will come into the hand of some of my friends and find them all well and
doing well as could be expected so soon after such an accurred war. I Know not
what any of you was whether you was union or Rebel, as for myself I can tell
any body and every body that I was for the Union from beginning to End. I was
raised under the constitution in the union and thought we was doing well as a
nation - and could see no cause why we should desolve it and Risk doing any
better. But (torn) drop the subject for I could write a whole week bout it. I
will not procede to give you a short history of the times here. We have verry fine
wheat crop, corn is only midling. We are very dry tho, we have some
prospect for rain today. Old corn is worth from $2 to $2.50 cts pr barrel,
wheat $2 per Bu but the people think when the crop is got out it can be had
for $1 or 1.25. Bacon is from 18 to 20 cts, cofee 33 1/3 cts, sugar 20 cts,
salt about $1 pr bushel. Times is verry hard, money sarce and taxes verry high
say $2.50 a poll $1 pr hundred dollars and one half of that to school the
negro children together with the whites is what they tell me . I have not see
the nasty negro law & reckon the enxt time the south gits good holisom lws she
will be willing to keep them. I want who ever Receives this to be so good as
to write to me and indeed any of my friends in that county and give me all the
information they can in that country and not think that because I have been
absent so long that I care nothing for you that would be a mistake. I want
information out all of the relations and old acquaintence. The Reason I have
not wrote in such a wild way I do not Know who of the connections is living to
address particularly tho I will try to direct it so that any will take it out so
nothing more but Remains your affectionate friend to death.
P?RATLLTEF
NOTE: There is no signature that is readable, only initials and some of these
are probably wrong.
END OF DOCUMENT