by Suzanne | January 21, 2023 6:35 pm
Margaret made this film with her family to show the evolution of the Woodside Farm.
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by Suzanne | November 30, 1804 12:00 am
[Written sometime between November 30, 1804-May 2, 1805.]
Mr. Waters,
I have sent the things as you desired, the list of which you will find enclosed. The number is not so large as you mentioned as Mr. Sillifant inquired of those who are well acquainted with fitting out young men & I sent the things accordingly. I have not sent any night shirts as I thought the three day which you have would answer that purpose extremely well. I have therefore left three shirts without frills, as the frills on your day shirts are as good as new & I wish you to have them taken off of from the 3 shirts you are going to make night shirts & sewn on the 3 calico shirts without frills. You will find 9 night caps the 3 new ones you already have makes the dozen.
The pocket handkerchiefs I hope you will like. They are not so expensive as silk – 4d a piece – & no one can know them from silk.
I have managed as well as I can respecting your things & if you want any other necessaries that you mind, I can procure on better terms then yourself. If you will let me know I will most readily do it for you. Your boxes are here & the things that we thought you would want I have sent; the remainder shall be taken care of. I hope you will be careful in your expenditure as with the strictest economy you will find it very expensive & hundreds of young men who enter the Service have not more than fifty pounds in the world to expend. Mr. Sewell cost his father £35. He has been very civil in mentioning you to some of the officers of Marines.
Miss Totness is at Holsworthy. I suppose I shall see her here next week.
I shall be very happy when I hear you have sailed & most heartily & sincerely do I wish you may enjoy your health & have the success you wish.
I remain your Sincere Friend
M.A. Sillifant
I have sent your bills which you paid in Exeter, as it is necessary they should be kept. Play ards [cards] as little as you can help. Whist is very expensive. It is so much so I never meet with any in this neighbourhood who play so high.
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by Suzanne | January 1, 1810 12:00 am
My Dear Govr,
I will be much Obliged to you if you will allow your man or one of your party to run down to the West end at Taylor’s for a Bonnet & Hat they have made for me. Capt.n W—-, will pay for them. I wish health & ev’ry success on your new appointment. Allow me to execute your Commands that of sending you a Uniform coat Staff I mean, my dear Watters if at any time you should want any thing that Halifax can afford, Command your old friend & messmate.
J.K. Kinsman
Will you ask old Taylor’s Son in Law if he has any Coral
[Note: This letter is one of several written to Thomas Waters Sr. by his former messmates while he was serving as Commandant of Forces on Ireland Island, Bermuda. Any references to “Ireland” really mean Ireland Island.]
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by Suzanne | February 20, 1810 12:00 am
Dear Waters,
As the Vesta is to sail to morrow for Bermuda, I take the opportunity of sending you a few lines to say we are still jogging on in the old way and we are all extremely dull and not a prize to be met with.
We have heard by the Vesta of the capture of Gaudaloupe. The Army was a week taken it and lost about 500 men.
I suppose by this time you are nearly tired of Ireland. We expect to return the latter end of March, until which time I wish every happiness that Ireland can afford.
I remain,
Yours sincerely
Jas Le Vesconte.
Excuse this miserable scrawl. Adieu.
[Note: This letter is one of several written to Thomas Waters Sr. by his former messmates while he was serving as Commandant of Forces on Ireland Island, Bermuda. Any references to “Ireland” really mean Ireland Island.]
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by Suzanne | February 21, 1810 12:00 am
Swiftsure at Sea, 21st Feb. 1810
My dear Governor,
I could not suffer an opportunity of sending to Bermuda to pass without expressing the earnest wishes of all your ci-devant Messmates that your Excellency enjoys health & quiet in your new government. We are as you left us, dull beyond description without a chance of changing the scene. The capitulation of Guadaloupe, of which the Vesta gives us account, terminates the French possessions in the Western world, and with it all our hopes of prize-money. We may therefore return to Bermuda, and with your Excellency, enjoy the good things of that delightful clime, where “none sickly lives, or dies before his time.”
I salute your Excellency, and remain with very sincere regard,
Your Excellency’s friend
John Gullett
[Note: This letter is one of several written to Thomas Waters Sr. by his former messmates while he was serving as Commandant of Forces on Ireland Island, Bermuda. Any references to “Ireland” really mean Ireland Island.]
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by Suzanne | April 8, 1810 12:00 am
To His Excellency Governor Waters, Commander of the forces
etc. etc. etc. Ireland.
With a piece of Beef and Potatoes, for the Governor’s household.
My dear Governor,
I could not suffer the opportunity to escape which is offered by our friend John to express the very sincere pleasure I felt on our return to hear your Excellency has enjoyed health & tranquility during our long absence. I was also gratified to hear the wisdom of your Excellency’s government extolled (both civil & military) by high and low, rich & poor. In short, it’s said justice was never administered in greater mercy. We much wish to see you amongst us. Do, if you can, come down, though only to dine and return the same evening which may easily be accomplished.
If you have leisure give me a few lines to say how you have passed your time, the books you have read, and the progress you have made in swimming. You must have been infinitely more comfortable than you would have been with us in our dull unsuccessful cruise.
It’s said you have excellent Hair cutters on your Island–pray are they public Servants or confined to particular use?
Have you any intention of remaining in your government or going with us to Halifax? If there is anything I can send you from this place or in any manner be useful, command me, for
I am my dear Governor,
very sincerely
Your friend
John Gullett
[Note: This letter is one of several written to Thomas Waters Sr. by his former messmates while he was serving as Commandant of Forces on Ireland Island, Bermuda. Any references to “Ireland” really mean Ireland Island.]
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by Suzanne | May 8, 1810 12:00 am
To Lieut. Waters R;M.. Commandant. Ireland.
Swiftsure May 8th 1810
Bermuda
Dear Waters
It is the particular wish of myself and the rest of your Messmates to see you as soon as it may be convenient to you to pay us a visit; indeed the sooner the better as there is little doubt that we shall be preparing to leave this Place shortly.
I have calculated the Sum that will be due to you from the Mess, which you can receive or take the value of it, in wine or other things that we have in hand. I particularly request you will let me know the Amount of the Sum you have laid out for Fish, vegetables or Fresh Meat, which I will repay you.
As I trust you will not fail to pay us a Visit shortly, I shall not now enter on further particulars relative to the Mess affairs, but reserve them untill I see you.
We are all tolerably well, but have been greatly shocked by a very melancholy Event which happened on the 4th Int in the Afternoon – the Death of Capt. Conn – the circumstances attending it are truly distressing. He either fell or jumped out of the stern windows (the latter is to be feared) while the Ship was going seven or eight Knots, and before the Boat could reach him (though they were soon out) he disappeared. You may well imagine the sensation this sad Accident has caused. We all liked and respected him and were greatly annoyed at finding his mind so disordered, as of late it frequently appeared to be. I join with your other Messmates in best wishes, and believe me
Yours truly
Geo. P. Wingrove
Should you meet with our Sheep have them secured. The Junon’s men are all fitted with Jackets and Musquito Trousers. Let me know what things you want.
[Note: This letter is one of several written to Thomas Waters Sr. by his former messmates while he was serving as Commandant of Forces on Ireland Island, Bermuda. Any references to “Ireland” really mean Ireland Island.]
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by Maria Rigetti | May 13, 1810 12:00 am
To His Excellency Governor Waters,
Commandant of the Forces. Ireland Island.
Swiftsure 13th May
Dear Waters,
I could not leave a worthy Messmate in the chance of not again returning to the Islands, without expressing the best wishes of my heart for your health & happiness, and to assure you I am rejoiced at the comfortable increase of your pay: – If at any time I can be of service to you, do command me for I am
really your friend
John Gullett
[Note: This letter is one of several written to Thomas Waters Sr. by his former messmates while he was serving as Commandant of Forces on Ireland Island, Bermuda. Any references to “Ireland” really mean Ireland Island.]
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by Suzanne | May 19, 1810 5:00 am
To Lieut. Waters R.M.. Commandant. Ireland
[cover marked “Recd this June 5th“]
Swiftsure May 19th 1810
Dear Waters,
The Money you will receive by Mr Renner is to be paid in the following Proportions.
Dollars
Wm Davey Drumr 7: 10: 0: 22 1/2
Richd Riley Prive 7: 10: 0: 22 1/2
Thos Talbot- Do 7: 10: 0: 22 1/2
Chrisr Kirk- Do 8: 3: 4: 24 1/2
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30: 13: 4: 92
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Riley owes Liley four Dollars and Rutter two if he is disposed (which I hope he is) to discharge the debts, he can give the Money to Mr Renner, who will, I dare say, have the goodness to remit it to me, at Halifax – Wishing you every degree of Happiness of which your present secluded situation is susceptible,
I remain
Dear Waters
Yours most truly
Geo:P:Wingrove
P.S. Kirk’s great Coat is found, but Riley had his shoes at Halifax.
You can I should think at any time through Mr Renner transmit Cash to purchase any thing that you may want from Halifax and I shall be ready to do all I can in procuring you whatever Articles you may stand in need of —
Cooper claims 2 Dollars of Kirk
There is a man on board here formerly belonging to the Tourterelle of the Name of Jenkins who has left a suit of Cloaths with a man of the Name of Madocks. Will you have the goodness to enquire against it and send it by the Indian if possible.
[Note: This letter is one of several written to Thomas Waters Sr. by his former messmates while he was serving as Commandant of Forces on Ireland Island, Bermuda. Any references to “Ireland” really mean Ireland Island.]
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by Maria Rigetti | August 24, 1810 12:00 am
John Sillifant to Thomas Waters R.M.
Addressed to Lieut.t Waters, Royal Marines, on board H.M.S. Ship Swiftsure or at Ireland Island, Bermuda’s, America
Coombe, 24 August 1810
[Note: Coombe is in the parish of Colebrooke, Devon ST]
My dear Sir,
Your letter of the 29 May afforded us much pleasure particularly as it gave us an account of your present happy situation & appointments. Those kind attentions you receive from Sir B. Warren I have no doubt are in consequence of your propriety of conduct & attention to duty & which is very gratifying to us. I wrote you a letter more than twelve months since which I conclude you never received as you do not mention it. I have herewith sent a parcel of Newspapers which I think may afford you some amusement & Mrs Sillifant has also sent some Flower Seeds etc. for your Garden. I suppose you know that Miss Totness is comfortably settled with my Sister in Crediton, but she is now on a visit to her friend at Stowpenny in Somersetshire. I saw Mr & Mrs Brown last week they desired to be kindly remembered to you. Hosgood (who has such talent for drawing & copying) is dead in London in consequence of great application according to Steels List. You will soon have a company. I observe there are near 120 first Lieutenants below you. I think you must be delighted with your present independant situation I wish you would give us a particular account of your Island its produce & the customs & manners of its inhabitants & your own employments & amusements and what friends you have on the Island. Let me know if you are to continue there & if we can send you any thing that will add to your comfort & the safest & best conveyance of a parcel. I have directed this by way of Halifax not knowing if there is any direct communication north the Bermuda’s. There is at present no prospect of peace. I am just informed that a cartel for exchange of prisoners is at last agreed to by Buonaparte – the price of corn is very high in this Country; Wheat17s to 18s pr Bushell, Barley 8s or 8s6d & Butchers Meat in proportion. We are now busily employed in getting through our harvest. Do write as soon as you get this that I may know it arrived safe & let me know if I can send you anything. Mr Prideaux is very well, do remember him in your next letter. Mrs Sillifant & my Sister join with me in kind regards & believe me always
Your friend
John Sillifant
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by Maria Rigetti | May 16, 1812 12:00 am
[E(dmund) Butterworth to his sister Elizabeth Butterworth [later Waters]]
Addressed to Miss Butterworth at Mrs Knight’s Boarding School Heyrod Hall, near Staley Bridge
[The left-hand quarter of the letter is missing]
Rochdale May 16th 1812
Dear Sister.
I once more take the oppor[tunity of] informing you, that we got home, very [early] at 8 O’Clock, in the Evening; we might [have] come sooner but we drunk Tea, at a [ ]Mr Bamford’s at Wrighton. I mentioned [to Aun]t about you wanting Tippet & Gloves; [she said] that you have not long to stay at School, [ ]. Nobody to send them by that it would be [much] use to your Fancy, when you come home. [A nu]mber of Soldier’s came here last Week in all [ ] Manchester; Cumberland Militia. Mr. [ ] House opposite our’s, is the Mess House, & [one of the] Captains resides in my Aunts House. My [Father was] last Week, at the Funeral of my Aunt’s Child, [ ] she has now none left. Roughlea has been [sold &] the Land belonging thereto; & purchased by [ ] Edmund; my Grandfather & Grandmother are [both we]ll & send their respects to you. We are all [well &] hope that you are the same. Give my Fathers [com]pliments to Mrs & Miss Knight’s & [believe] me to be
Your affectionate Brother
E.Butterworth
[Note: the transcriber of this letter has, where possible, filled in the gaps that were missing and this is indicated by square brackets. Where there is blank space enclosed by square brackets, it was not possible to determine what was missing.
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by Maria Rigetti | January 10, 1813 12:00 am
Mary Totness to her brother. Thomas Waters R.M.
Addressed to Lieunt Waters R Marines, Rochdale, Lancaster
Bath Jany 10, 1813
My dear Brother,
I am sorry my letter was so ridiculous, but as I know you are pleased at receiving letters I will write you notwithstanding your censure
You desire to hear of the West country it is but little information I can send you, not being in the habit of hearing.- Miss Tiekell tells me Mr S means to bring his son to Clifton at a private Acadamy, very soon, from the recommendation of Mr H no doubt. I was at Bristol for two or three days. What a delightful place is Clifton how much I should like to settle there or indeed at Bristol Mr Allen has left Colebrook – this to the best of my recollection is all I know worth telling you.- As for Bath – we have had Remble – and his Cato – set the people in ecstasy Now comes Mrs.Jordan. I purpose going Thursday to see her in Nell, in “The Devil to pay” then succeeds Mr.Betty – he receives very great approbation and polite attention from the great people here, in Exeter but little. I am told a Russian prince is in Bath a very fair, fat, short, ruddy man I wish to see him, never having seen the blood royal. Bath fills very fast always a great number of officers. I was at Miss Tickells a short time since, poor Mr T is quite blind. I did not see him, he is confined, they scarcely flatter themselves he will live through the winter.- Pray do read Miss Edgworths fashionable tales, the last that came out – Vivian etc etc, they are excellent how do you get on with recruits, making a purse, are you. You talk of the distance from Devonshire we have two in this house from Westmoreland – not sisters, one a Clergymans daughter the late vicar of Kendal’s and the other a Miss Faryer whose brother is on the Halifax station
Owing to my recluse situation I am incapable of being an entertaining correspondent – but if you will think it worth the labour of writing me occasionally, I shall most readily answer your letters and believe me dear Thomas your very sincere friend and sister,
M Totness
PS Oblige me by committing every scroll of mine to the fire – immediately. as you are a housekeeping man I must tell you that mutton is eight pence pr. lb Apples 3d pr peck – flour 7/4d pr peck potatoes 14d pr peck – I go to market now and then pigeons 3d a couple – –
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by Maria Rigetti | March 17, 1815 12:00 am
John Sillifant to Thomas Waters R.M.
Addressed to Lieut.t Waters, Royal Marines, Rochdale, Lancashire
Coombe, 17 March 1815
My Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 22 Ulto. afforded me much pleasure as I could not account for your long silence nor did I know where to direct a letter for you. I wrote several Months since to you at Woolwich, which letter I concluded you never received. I will immediately attend to your request respecting the money you have advanced on Mortgage & have given Mr Smith directions accordingly. There will also be two years interest due from the Mortgagers at the end of the year. I have therefore desired Mr Smith to demand the whole sum to be paid at that time which I hope you will approve of. I will then send you the whole, together with the balance of interest in my hand, or any part according to your wishes & directions. I confess we were a little surprised to find you are about to engage in a Manufactory. We wish you every success in the undertaking. I cannot give an opinion on the subject as I am totally unacquainted with the nature of it. I only hope & trust that it will not be necessary for you to quit the Marine service, as from the sudden change that has taken place on the continent it is very probable you may again be called into service. However you may now have accomplished what you told me you looked forward to do, viz. won the affections of a Rich Wool Merchants Daughter: which is certainly much more pleasant & desirable than a voyage to Bermuda.
Whatever may he [be] your future destination I assure you it will give both Mrs Sillifant & myself sincere pleasure to hear that you are happily & respectably settled in Life. I should be very glad to hear more particularly what the nature of the business is in which you are about to engage, & if it is to be in partnership with an established House etc. etc.
My Sister received a letter a few days since from Miss Totness, I hear she is going on extremely well in Bristol. Mrs Sillifant joins me in kind remembrance & best wishes – and believe me
My dear Sir
Yours sincerely
John Sillifant.
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