Ship letter from Havana to wife
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Recipient
Date Written
April 10, 1804
Bennet Munro was 28 years old when this was written.
The recipient, Sarah Munro, was 27 when it was received.
Bennet Munro died 4 years, 10 months, 12 days after writing this.
It was written 219 years, 5 months, 23 days ago.
It was a Tuesday.
Havana, April the 10 1804
Dear loving wife,
These few lines will inform you that I am well hoping them will find you & all friends well. I have this day but yours by St. Pitman one dated the first of March and the other the fourth which gave me great satisfaction to think that I have one that thinks it worth these panes to write a few lines to inform me of your welfare & the business I have left behind. I have sent $30 by Capt. Wordwell in the Brig. Nancy and one gar [jar] of honey which he will deliver when sent for of the crew’s safe. I have wrote by the Brig. before but she not sailing so soon as I expected and rec’d yours. I thought it my duty to give you a few lines informing you that we have in sixty hogsheads of molasses and one stop taken in on account of the Bovines that I mentioned before that was taken away but I am in hopes to begin to take in a [?] as soon as they can’t hurt us. We have herd of the Ship Reck of Capt. Earl. In the ship that the letter were sent by and I shall inform you of the [?] of Capt. [?] from the coast. Mr. Ponces is well as I have been informed. You mentioned of two sudding deth [sudden death] from [?]. I am very sorry to hear. I have nothing more to inform you at present but my respect to all friends and especially your sister Phebe.
I remain your loving husband,
Bennet Munro
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