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Abercorn Estate: Memorial of Gratitude to the Earl of Abercorn re The Poor of Strabane, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1789

PRONI Ref. T2541/IA/1/16/33
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
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Memorial of the inhabitants of Strabane to John James, Earl of Abercorn

'We inhabitants of Strabane, beg leave, with all due respect and with sincere gratitude to return your Lordship thanks for your liberal donation to our fund established for relief of the poor. With respect of your Lordship, was unsolicited and it comes at a time when the distress of many indigent creatures in this place will require peculiar exertions of charity; this circumstances my Lord enhance the obligation and demand our warmer acknowledgements. Your Lordship may be assured that agreeably to your Lordship's wishes we will persevere in doing everything in our power to give permanence to the institution to which you have so generously contributed. Such benevolence is the natural result of feelings which do honour to the distinctions of nobility. That you may long live to enjoy these blessings with every happiness they can possibly bestow, is our sincere and ardent wish.

Signed by the following residents:

Surname Given Name
ALEXANDER John
ALLEN Archibald
BARCLAY John
CASHORE Andrew
CRAWFORD W[illiam].
EDIE Nathaniel
EDWARDS Nicholas
EVANS John
FENTON Benjamin
FLEMING James
FLEMING Patrick
FLEMING William
GAMBLE Andrew
GASTON James
GIBSON Joseph
HAMILTON Claud
HAMILTON James
HAMILTON Jane, widow
HAMILTON Thomas
HAMILTON William
HARVEY Adam, Rector of Camus
HOLMES John
INGRAM Jocelyn
JENKINS Andrew
KERR Josias
KERR Robert
LYON James
MCNEALLANY George
MEASE Andrew
MORTON Samuel
NEILSON William
ORR James
PATTON James
POLLOCK William
PORTER Frederick
PORTER Robert
REA George
ROSS William
ROULSTON David
ROUSSE James
SMYLY William
SPROULL James
STANNUS Ephraim
STEVENSON James