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Title: Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew,
April 5, 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 scanned (OCR) by
Brian Dietz
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 13K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
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text
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:
2005-12-02, 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, April 5, 1795
Author: John Pettigrew
Author: Ebeneezer Pettigrew
Description: 3 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 592 (Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
Text transcription of this document was produced by OCR (optical character recognition) from R. D. W. Connor's A Documentary History of the University of North Carolina 1776-1799 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), vol. 1: 386-387. Used by permission of the publisher (www.uncpress.unc.edu).
Page images were made from the original manuscript held in Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Connor's transcription was compared against the original document and in the case of any discrepancy we have been faithful to the original.
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.
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Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
Letters, words and passages marked as deleted or added in originals have been encoded accordingly.
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.
Text transcription of this document was produced by OCR (optical character recognition) from R. D. W. Connor's A Documentary History of the University of North Carolina 1776-1799 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), vol. 1: 386-387. Used by permission of the publisher (www.uncpress.unc.edu).
Page images were made from the original manuscript held in Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Connor's transcription was compared against the original document and in the case of any discrepancy we have been faithful to the original.
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.
Letters, words and passages marked as deleted or added in originals have been encoded accordingly.
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
Orange
County
University
5th April 1795
Dear Father
Permit me to say there is nothing I undertake with as much real pleasure as
wrighting to you which is a duty I owe as a son for the tender affections you
have had in raising me up to this period of life, and I hope by our good conduct
and behaviour to make a double compensation for all your cares and trouble
concerning us.
We are both well at present, the splean is much as usual but I am about to use a
method which I am in hopes will be of some benefit, which is starroot steept in
spirits that I am to take twice or three times a day which is said to be very
good. Mr and Mrs
Kimbel are kind. I like my teachers Mr Ker
and Mr Harras
very well. I have got a quire of paper
and a paper of inkpowder, I have not got my shoes halfsoaled yet, as shewmakers
are very scarce at present but I expect one in town shortly.
and Mr Harras
very well. I have got a quire of paper
and a paper of inkpowder, I have not got my shoes halfsoaled yet, as shewmakers
are very scarce at present but I expect one in town shortly.Page 2
We are now going through the grammar and have had a great many of the notes to
learn; and the rules to pars which makes it midling difficult, but We are almost
through it, and have had but three Scholars since I came, but I expect ther will
be five or six by the latter part of this week; I hear no strange news except
that Colonel Lane in
Rolley
is dead, do not recollect anything more at present.
We both, give our love to our mother
and
grandmother, and to all that ask after us. brother Ebby
sends his love to Miss Mary Turner also,
and
grandmother, and to all that ask after us. brother Ebby
sends his love to Miss Mary Turner also,We remain your dutiful Sons,
N B I saw Mr
Daniel who told me you staid at his house
untill the evening and that his wife and you wer intimate acquaintance he
also said he was going to send his Son to School and board him at
Mr Kimbels but he has not sent him yet.
Page 3
The 10th Day of Theronidor anno Domini 1797.
Charles
Pettigrew
—1797
Chs Pettigrew
Commandments ten
Were
given to men—
John Patterson anno Dom. —
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