Chronicling America - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

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678 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977

May 2, 1833

2 May 1833

Cholera in Ireland.

“Never” says a letter from Limerick of the 14th of March, “was there anything like the state of the surrounding country. The Cholera has spread all around. The Rev. Mr. Noonan, Curate of Knockany, was here […]

April 18, 1833

18 Apr 1833

Dispair Upon My Erin’s Brow

“Alas for poor Erin!– her pride has gone by, And the spirit is broken which never would bend;O’er the rain her children in secret must sigh,Y[?] ’tis treason to love her and death to defend.”[Moore. MR. […]

April 11, 1833

11 Apr 1833

List of Letters Remaining

Patrick Walsh & John Walsh, Wm. Flanagan

March 28, 1833

28 Mar 1833

St. Patrick’s Day.

To the Editor of the Virginia Free Press.Harpers Ferry, 19th March, 1833. DEAR SIR: — Before I enter upon an account of the celebration of St. Patrick’s day at Harpers-Ferry, the most romantic spot in Virginia, […]

December 13, 1832

13 Dec 1832

Canal Work Resumes

We are much gratified to find that the work upon the Canal has been resumed with great vigor since the disappearance of the Cholera. — Many hundred hands are busily engaged near Harpers-Ferry, and every thing […]

November 1, 1832

1 Nov 1832

Dead – Consort of Michael Walsh

Died,On Thursday morning last, in the 11th year of her age, Miss Hannah A. daughter of Mr. John Moore, of this county.On Wednesday, the 24th ult., Mrs. Nennis, of Halltown.On Friday last, Mrs. Walsh, wife of […]

November 1, 1832

1 Nov 1832

Turnpike Work

A deep feeling of melancholy came over us, a few days ago, as we passed along the turnpike between this place and Harpers-Ferry. In one part of the road, where, six weeks since, about thirty hands […]

October 25, 1832

25 Oct 1832

Hagerstown ravaged, Cholera.

THE CHOLERA.The angel of death has been busy among us during the past week. The pestilence that “walketh in darkness and wasteth in noon-day,” has left sad mementoes of its visitation. The cholera has numbered several […]

October 11, 1832

11 Oct 1832

Halltown Cholera Death

No new case of Cholera has occured in town for more than two weeks— the laborer from Halltown, who brought the disease with him, is dead— and we can again pronounce our village almost entirely free […]

October 11, 1832

11 Oct 1832

Halltown Workmen Death

On the same day [Saturday last], in this town, Mr. John Still, one of the workmen from Halltown, who had recovered from cholera, but whose disease assumed a typhoid character.

October 4, 1832

4 Oct 1832

Halltown Cholera

AWFUL MORTALITY.It becomes our duty this day to make a most appalling record of “Death’s Doings,” in our neighborhood. The desolating malady which has swept over our country, has no where been more fatal in its […]

September 27, 1832

27 Sep 1832

Cholera in Halltown

Since our last paper, two deaths have occurred from Cholera— one in town, and the other in the vicinity. As we have noted every case, we hope our good friends abroad, who seem so careful of […]

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