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my Blessing and thankes for the same and when you write to Poor Peter 1 my Blessing to him and am heartily glad he is like to do so well. your sister Messenger gos to see Mr. and Mrs. Simons some times but I have not been so farr this half year for I very seldom go abroad so have not seen them but they are very well.

Pray Derect your next to me att the Right Honble the Lady Isabella Scotts, in Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square London. my Blessing to all the Rest of your famely and God Bless you good night

[L]ONDON, September the 12th, 1739.

[Addressed:] To Mr. Pelham att his house att Boston in New England.2

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Eceived of Mr. Bery: Coleman the Sum of 3 shillings being the firft Payment of the Subfcription fora Printin metre of the late Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, by which the Bearer is Entitled to the faid Print Paying 2 shillings at the Delivery of the fame, By me Peter Pelham

RECEIPT BY PETER PELHAM, JR.

1 The brother of Charles, born in England, and baptized at St. Paul's, December 17, 1721, later removed to South Carolina, and thence to Virginia.

* In February, 1738, Pelham occupied a house on Summer Street, next to that of Philip Dumaresque, and taught “Dancing, Writing, Reading, painting upon Glass, and all kinds of needle work." Boston Gazette, February 6, 1738.

Peter Pelham, Sr. to Peter Pelham, Jr.

MY DEAR SON,

I will assure you that I have not faild answering all the Letters I had the Joy and Pleasure of Receiveing from you in answer to one Dated April the 5th, 1739 and Recd June 12th, Answerd September 12th following: another I had Dated october 30th, Recd November 26th, 1739, and likewise Answerd February 19th, 1739-40 so that I hope my Dear Son will not Imput any thing wanting in me or Neglect in giveing you all the satisfaction you so Earnestly Desire in hearing from me as I am the same of you. but as the times are at Present it Cannot be much wonderd at our Letters being intercepted when it is so haserdus for all English ships to go any where abroad, who are very frequently taken by the spaniards. however I have the Pleasure of Receiveing your Last Dated March 14th I had the 1st of July by the Boston Trader who says [he] is to Return very soon, so [I] would not lose the opertunity of Writeing by him. tho you Referd me to the Britania Captaine Fores,1 I have venturd to send this answer by the same hands that Brought me your Letter. I am heartily Pleasd to hear, by Lady D: Lorain 2 that Came from Charlestowne in Carolina about a year ago, that my Grandson Peter was a very Genteel Clever young man being very well acquainted with him by teaching Miss Fenwick her sister to play on the Harpsicord which he Performs very well.

1 A Captain Fones cleared from Boston to London before March 17. New England Weekly Journal, March 17, 1741.

Elizabeth, daughter of John Fenwick, of South Carolina, married Henry Scott, a son of Henry Scott, Earl of Deloraine. Captain Scott was grandson of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, and Anne, Duchess of Buccleugh. Fenwick removed to England, and died there in 1747. His will is printed in South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vII. 27.

Lady D: Lorain was Married to Mr. Scott Captain of a man of Warr that was stationd att Carrolina whose Brother1 died a litle before he left that Contry with out Children so he Came to the title and he died that very night he Came to London. so she is now a widdow has one son about four years old now Lord D: Loraine, and another younger with her father and mother in Charlestowne. I Pray god give you Comfort and happyness with all your Children. I am heartily Pleasd at the Charicter you give of Dear Charles and I hope he will Continue to be a Blessing to you. I hope you will make my Blessing and kind affections Acceptable to your Dear Spoues and I wish all health and happyness to attend you all. Dear Son as to your Sister Messengers sending Cloaths that was the Dutchess of Monmouths,2 it is now about Nine years since she Died and Left the Poorest Wardrobe that Ever Dutchess did that had twenty thousand Pounds a year, and those Devided amongst three Women. and your Poor sister has been out of Place Ever since, so that you may Imagin she Cannott have where with to assist you. and your sister heley is as much Concernd. she has not any thing worth sending at Present her Lady has Lived in the Country alltogather, till now very Lately she is Come to towne, and has taken a house very near me, which will give me opertunitys to see her oftener than I have done these 14 years. your sister heley did in your first wives time gave a Captain of a ship a litle Box with a few things for her, which he Promist to deliver, who gave his man a great Charge to Put them up but the Captain saild and his man forgott the Box that he Put in the Clos1 Francis Scott, second Earl of Deloraine.

• Charles Mordaunt (1658–1735), third Earl of Peterborough, took the title of Duke of Monmouth in 1689. His wife was Carey, or Carry, daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser, of Durris in Kincardineshire. She is said to have survived her husband, so "about nine years since" may be an error.

sett, so she never had another opertunity of sending it. but she hopes in some time to have some little matter to send they both Desires their Best kindest Love and Affections and kind Rispect to you both and Blessing to all the Rest.

I hope my Dear son will Consider my near Aproach to 70 and Excuse the failing of my Eyes and a shakeing hand, which I fear will give you some troble to Read. I have no Ailment on me at Present but a Thorough Concern I am not in a Condition to assist my Dear Children according to my unfined love and affections which I Ever bore for them. I am very much putt to it to find my self in nesesarys in outward apparrell, for which I Cannot free my self from Debt theirfore [am] farr from assisting those I have so much att heart and I Can find no other Remedy but to Consider that all Events are from god and as his Providence orders all things according to his will and Pleasure, who shall say why is it so; I fear you will be out of Patiance with this Dull subject, but I beg you will take the sincearity of my good meaning, and with my Blessing to you your spoues and all the Litle ones, I will give you now no further troble, but my Desire and beg I may hear from you as soon and as offten as you Can, and that you will beleive me to be my Dear Son your most Intire and Ever Most Affectionate father PETER PELHAM.

LONDON, July 4th, 1741.

I so seldom go abroad that I have nott seen Mr. or Mrs. Simons above these twelve months, so Can give no account of them but by your sisters who gos to see them some times. so god bless you.

[Addressed:] To Mr. Pelham att his house att Boston in New England.

Maby my Dear Brother will be a little surprisd at haveing a letter from me, but I do asure you I have greate pleasure in wrighting to you and in hearing of your wellfair. but I have not allway the opportunity for some times I am in Irland and sometimes in England, and have been settled noware tell now, and now I hope I am, for my lady2 has taken a house in london. my Dear brother I have been four times in Irland, and the sickest sole all ways at sea that ever was. I hope to god I have dun going to sea now. I live with the same lady that I went over to. o my Dear Brother I long to see you but I am sure I never shall. since you are marrid a gaine to be sure you will not leave that place. poor mrs Guy is verey olde and verey poor. wee are all kind to her, or I dont know what she would have dun. she desierd when I wrote, her blessing to the children and kind love to you. thanke god my Dear father is verey well and looks most charmingly. my sister has been ill a long time and is but in diferant. now boath my father and she desiers to be kindley remembert to you. I must tell

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you that a long time a go when Patty was a live, hear was some gentleman in town who came from ware you are and was takeing his familey over to settle thare. I heard this at mr Simons so I desierd that he would take a small parcel and a letter to you from me and he promisd he would. So I left at mr Simons, for the gentle man would send thare for it, a letter and a short apron and a fann for dear Patty. accordingley the gentle man sent his 1 She was living in Chichester, England, in 1774.

2 Henrietta, Lady Conway, daughter of Lord Conway and Lady Mary Hyde. Edward Solly in 4 Notes and Queries, XII. 179.

• Martha, Pelham's first wife, whom he married in England. By her he had three sons, Peter, Charles and William.