NC, Lenoir Co., letters, from Wilbur Tyndall/Noble Estate Records ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be repro- duced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright (c) 2000 by Sloan S. Mason. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. by Sloan S. Mason SloMas7@aol.com ========================================================= The Tyndall Collection from the "NOBLE Estate" Copied and transcribed by Sloan Mason and Martha M. Marble with permission from the Heritage Room at Lenoir Community College; Kinston, N.C. (Surnames capitalized for easier reading) Personal Letter April 29, 1865 Dear Emma, I want you to come to see me as I can't go to see you Come and less do what we was going to do when the yanks Come now this time I am? Have beged one pair of shoes You come and do the same. I want to know what you mean saying Someone has played the devil I didn't know I had any one before Would be happy to know who They are Who do you call Capt. DELL/DOLL? I heard from "Dan" the other day he was well and the only officer That stuck up for the Regiment I understand he has gone home twice the yanks burned His Mothers Uncle David & Grandmothers houses and Everything they had Come one soon & I can lite? you A help about -everything in this state Oh! Do come I must give love to all any------------------- Save a ---------------------------------------- Self I received ------------------------- Dan last --------------------------------- Any body don't -let anyone see this. Em please come soon Signed: Su? GRAY/GAY (hard to read signature) END OF DOCUMENT ------------------ NOTE: The original is badly faded and torn which makes the copy difficult to read Envelope Postmarked Gainesville, Nov 8 (no year) John Kincy, Esqr Tucaho Jones County No. Carolina Alabama Sumter County Dear Brother, I have taken the opportunity of informing you of my condition at this time I am well hoping this may find you the same (next two words not readable) my friends & relation I have not got into any business yet only I am ginning for Ballard & Thompson mearley to fray my Expence tho the market for oversears is now opening so I Expect (torn) uly to get a birth but not (torn) til Janary. I have bin verry much satisfied owing to my state of condition from her & left things unsetted & had but verry little money & did not now that I had a friend which rendered me verry unhappy & was grieved to my last & rote to Farther to that effect. He rote back to me saying to me he wanted me to conten (torn) self this was no hope of doing any thing thare which I was convinced before but it carried me ? so I thought but little more about it & have been tolerable well satisfyed & think when I get home that I shall be very well satisfied. I know that I am in (torn) orich & moneyd contry & sw that a sober and industrious man can do well after a while acquaintance which I do intend to use all the industry Economy and Sobirality that in my power lies and try to get money Enough to straiten all my affairs in old Carolina and then Bed it a long fare will you told me before I left tht you intended to leave some time this winter. If you do I want you to come her or whereever I may be at that time. I may not Stay about her as I have rote to Needom Whitfield when he rites to me I may go there. You can easily find out where I am. You can get verry good price for work that you can do you could get from two to five dollars per day for Every day that you would work and board found soif you remove. I want you to come her partice lar ? if I am her you must rite to me soon as you get this. Rite me about all my affars nigh as you can & whether you Expect to come her or not. It would be verring glad indeed to see you her. I think of you and we could get in some business together that would be very profitable. Excuse my ?? to be all the friend that I had in time of need that I have neglected you. I thought I would rite until I got a home but it may be some time yet So I must wind up my letter by saying remember my love to all my friends & Father and family and I m truly your loving Brother. Erasmus Kincey November the 5th AD 1838 or 1858 Do not fail to rit to me when you get this. I want to hear from you. (torn) very bad indeed I hve got aheap. I could say to you but not rite it my Father stated the death's of severel good citizens which I was sorry to her of but among them one old Tory I recken uncle Sam had not him to the stake as he had others I time past - next few words not readable - Remaining your loving brother until Death E. Kincey END OF DOCUMENT --------------------------------------------- Envelope Mr. Kinsey Noble or any of the Nobles Family in NC Lenoir County Kinston Tennessee Lawrence County 21st June 1868 Dear nephews & all my connecions one & all. There has several years passed over since I have had any news from any of you. That notorious war put a stop to Every thing so that we have had no corrispondence since. Tho it seem that we might have wrote to one another before this time but I have kept a waiting thinking that some of you would far (torn) with a Letter, until I concluded that you had all got Killed in that wicked war, or that I was dead. But thank the Lord He has spared my life till the present and were it not for an affection of my Lung, which I have had for 8 years & 6 months I would be tolerable stout for a man of 73 years. But my lungs render me almost unable to do any thing at times and never able to do verry much my Daughter Elizabeth is not verry stout tho able to keep agoing. I have a son of John H. Ratcliff with me that is all the Family I have. I hope this will come into the hand of some of my friends and find them all well and doing well as could be expected so soon after such an accurred war. I Know not what any of you was whether you was union or Rebel, as for myself I can tell any body and every body that I was for the Union from beginning to End. I was raised under the constitution in the union and thought we was doing well as a nation - and could see no cause why we should desolve it and Risk doing any better. But (torn) drop the subject for I could write a whole week bout it. I will not procede to give you a short history of the times here. We have verry fine wheat crop, corn is only midling. We are very dry tho, we have some prospect for rain today. Old corn is worth from $2 to $2.50 cts pr barrel, wheat $2 per Bu but the people think when the crop is got out it can be had for $1 or 1.25. Bacon is from 18 to 20 cts, cofee 33 1/3 cts, sugar 20 cts, salt about $1 pr bushel. Times is verry hard, money sarce and taxes verry high say $2.50 a poll $1 pr hundred dollars and one half of that to school the negro children together with the whites is what they tell me . I have not see the nasty negro law & reckon the enxt time the south gits good holisom lws she will be willing to keep them. I want who ever Receives this to be so good as to write to me and indeed any of my friends in that county and give me all the information they can in that country and not think that because I have been absent so long that I care nothing for you that would be a mistake. I want information out all of the relations and old acquaintence. The Reason I have not wrote in such a wild way I do not Know who of the connections is living to address particularly tho I will try to direct it so that any will take it out so nothing more but Remains your affectionate friend to death. P?RATLLTEF NOTE: There is no signature that is readable, only initials and some of these are probably wrong. END OF DOCUMENT