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Abercorn Tenants in Leckpatrick Parish Requesting Rent Abatement During The Great Famine, 1849
TO THE EDITOR:
SIR – As you have given publicity
last week to a letter, written by Major HUMPHREYS, reflecting not a little
on the Rev. M. CHAMBERS, might I ask the favour of you to give the same
publicity to the following, in vindication of his conduct in the proceedings
of the Leckpatrick Tenantry, and oblige yours,
A TENANT
Leckpatrick, 10th Dec. 1849
[COPY]
SIR – We, the undersigned, having
seen, in your paper of last week, a letter by Major HUMPHREYS, containing a
Declaration by each of the Gentlemen who signed the Requisition, calling a
meeting of Lord ABERCORN’S Tenants, in this parish, to consider the
propriety of petitioning his Lordship for an abatement of Rent, cannot allow
that letter to go before the world without at the same time expressing, with
all due respect to the Major, our most decided approbation of the conduct of
the two Rev. Gentlemen, viz., REV. M. CHAMBERS, and REV. B. McKENNA ,and the
other Gentlemen who signed the Requisition with them. All the
Requisitionists deserve our very best thanks for the straight-forward course
adopted by them in calling us together, but especially the two Rev.
Gentlemen of the parish, for their able, independent and manly advocacy of
our claims, these hard times, for a reduction of Rents.
(signed)
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William PORTER
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Robert SMYTH
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James PORTER
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Charles DONNELL
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William DONNELL
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James DONNELL
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John CHRISTY
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James McBRIDE
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James DOHERTY
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Hugh BROWN
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William REILLY
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John McSHANE
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John CHRISTY
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James KELLY
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Bryan KELLY
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James DEVIN
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David WEIR
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John BOAGLE
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Michael DEVIN
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James COX
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James PORTER
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John WEIR
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John PORTER
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William WEIR
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Thomas DORAGH
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Widow KIRK
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John McCAY
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Hugh DEVIN
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Neal McANULTY
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John McCAY
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John DONAGHY
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Charles McLAUGHLIN
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William DEERY
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James CARTEN
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Patrick KIRK
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William McCREA
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