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her aunt. She told me she gave Thomas a check for forty thousand dollars when they were married. He died in Amsterdam after having become poor

My father cleared about 100 acres in [[Western?]].  He had hopes, and it was the general opinion that when McGirk died he would leave him the farm at [[Western?]] but instead he left it to Horner's children and my father made up his mind he must go where he could make more money to pay for the land or lose all. My father and I went to Salt Point in 1806 and we were there a year before the family moved there in 1807. We went back to [[Western?]] and returned again in 1808. We boiled salt. My mother died Aug. 16 1808 and my father Aug 27" same year.  The children were all very sick except myself and Charles who was an infant. It must have been two months after my parents death when we returned to [[Western?]] and were taken under the roof of Hugh [[Muller?]] a poor man whom my father had allowed to build a house on his land. James afterwards went to live with his Uncle John who lived away back in the woods. He staid there five years. I went to Squire Salisbury's as did Mary Ann. Philip went to Wheelers, Thomas to Geo. [[Broytons?]] Philip afterwards went to Dr Blairs in Rome"

Uncle Philip tells me that his uncle Thomas told him that his grandfather lived in Co[[?]] (or Kerraven) and had an interest in a flannel factory in Drumskeldt. In the Rebellion they got into some difficulty and re[[?]]ed in Drumskeldt.

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