This letter lists 20 tenants of Ardstraw Parish in 1744. They would be living in either Strabane Manor or Derrygoon Manor. Note that most of the transcription below is also in the PRONI eCatalogue, however the names were not listed in their transcription. I’m adding them here so they’re searchable. The names are abbreviated in the letter (e.g., Jas for James); I have spelled out the full names.
Lifford October 12th, 1744
My Lord
the under named persons Tenants to your Lordship in the Parish of Ardstraw, importuned me to give your Lordship the trouble of this, concerning their Tythe, they say that they sett out their Tythe according to directions given them by your Lordship in a Printed paper which they shewed me, affirming they had precisely followed the Rules contained therein.
Now my Lord they are threaten’d to be put into the Bishop’s Court for substraction as they people are I know very unwilling to part with any money to support a suit, I am afraid they may be run into contempts and over power’d for want of money, notwithstanding the justness of their cause and what to do for them I am at a loss to know without your Lordship’s orders.
They told me if I woud not trouble your Lordship with it, they woud do it themselves.
No. Name
1 James Love
2 Robert Love
3 Christopher Love [“Crist: Love”]
4 John Love
5 William Love
6 Alexander Clark
7 James Robison
8 John Maxwell
9 James Fyfe
10 Samuel Wilson
11 Robert Porter
12 Archibald Hamilton
13 James Park
14 James Scott
15 Andrew Smith
16 James Boggs
17 George Duncans
18 Oliver Woods
19 Thomas Walker
20 Moses Scott
I am my Lord with Humblest Duty
your Lordship’s most faithful
and Obedient Servant,
Nathaniel Nisbitt
[P.S.] My Lord the most excessive rains has fallen here within these 6 weeks that ever was known, so that a great part of our Harvest is quite ruined, and the rest in a most miserable condition.