<hi rend="bold"> Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, February 23, 1795:</hi> Electronic Edition. Pettigrew, John, 1779-1799 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 ca. 11K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 Pettigrew Family Papers (#592), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from John and Ebenezer Pettigrew to Charles Pettigrew, February 23, 1795 John and E Pettigrew 4 pages, 4 page images 1795 Call number 592 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-07-22,</date> <respStmt> <name>Brian Dietz</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc06-88"> <body> <div1 type="letter"> <pb id="unc06-88-p01" n="1"/> <head> Letter from <name key="pn0001349" reg="Pettigrew, John" type="person">John</name> and <name key="pn0001347" reg="Pettigrew, Ebenezer" type="person">Ebenezer Pettigrew</name> to <name key="pn0001345" reg="Pettigrew, Charles" type="person">Charles Pettigrew</name>, February 23, 1795</head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="x" reg="x" type="place" rend="yes">Skipperton</name> <date>Fe<hi rend="sup">b</hi> 23, 95.</date> </dateline> <salute>Hon<hi rend="sup">d</hi> Father;—</salute> </opener> <p> 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 <name key="pn0000898" reg="Ker, David" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Kerr</name> 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.</p> <p>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0003338" reg="Hardy, Mr." type="person" rend="yes">Hardy's</name> son is also in a room just above us that had but four boys in it. There was but one more room [in] the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">university</name> but what had its number of beds in it, & I preferred <hi rend="underscore">this</hi> far before the other.</p> <pb id="unc06-88-p02" n="2"/> <p>There are now 73 or 4 students at the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>. They come very fast, & there is not room for more than nine or then more; so that those who propose comeing up from <name key="name0001244" reg="Windsor, NC" type="place">Windsor</name> had better set of as quick as possible.</p> <p>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 <name key="name0000983" reg="Roanoke, VA" type="place">Roanoak</name>, 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 M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0003385" reg="Lyscum, Mr." type="person" rend="yes">Lyscum</name> & 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 <name key="pn0003335" reg="Glasgow" type="person" rend="yes">glasgow</name> to tell you all the rest, as I have not time.</p> <p>We have not yet settl'd with the<pb id="unc06-88-p03" n="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 <name key="pn0001656" reg="Taylor, John "Buck"" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Taylor</name> buys corn by <hi rend="underscore">bag-fulls</hi>; so that in case of necessity, we shall have to get in hollow trees, & do as the <hi rend="underscore">bears</hi> do; for it would never do, to set off home,—we should perish upon the roads. <name key="pn0001127" reg="McCorkle, Samuel Eusebius" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> M<hi rend="sup">c</hi>Corkle</name> is not to be here this year, & I shall send his letter back enclosed in mine.</p> <p>All our class study french one half of the day, and lattin the other half; but we shall be in a class in <hi rend="underscore">latin</hi>, and study <hi rend="underscore">greek</hi>, when they study <hi rend="underscore">French</hi>. We shall be under <name key="pn0000425" reg="Delveaux, Nicholas" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Delavo</name> reading latin, but <name key="pn0000898" reg="Ker, David" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Kerr</name> or <name key="pn0000764" reg="Holmes, Samuel" type="person">Hombs</name> in the Greek.</p> <p>Please to give our duty to our <name key="pn0001351" reg="Pettigrew, Mary (née Lockhart)" type="person" rend="yes">mother</name> & complements to those who ask after us.</p> <p>We remain your Dutyful sons</p> <closer> <salute>In great haste—</salute> <signed><name key="pn0001349" reg="Pettigrew, John" type="person">John</name> & <name key="pn0001347" reg="Pettigrew, Ebenezer" type="person">E Pettigrew</name></signed> </closer> </div1> <div1 type="postscript"> <pb id="unc06-88-p04" n="4"/> <p>NB. Please to wright me by Outlaw<ref id="ref1" target="note1" rend="sup">1</ref> if you should see him before he comes up.</p> </div1> </body> <back> <div1 type="notes"> <note id="note1" target="ref1"><p>1. Possibly <name key="pn0003387" reg="Outlaw, Morgan" type="person" rend="yes">Morgan Outlaw</name>.</p></note> </div1> </back> </text> </TEI.2>