TO JAMES CREIGHTON BALL ESQ.,
of Shannon, Co. Donegal
DEAR SIR - Permit us to express the deep and unfeigned regret with which have heard of your intended departure from your native land. Your long residence amongst us, as an independent country gentleman, has impressed us with sentiments of esteem and admiration, which will not speedily be effaced. Identified as you have been with the best interests of this country and neighbourhood, and endeared to us by a long course of private worth and public usefulness, it is natural that we should view with painful feelings, an event which will deprive our social circle of an ornament, and the community of one of its most upright and valuable members.
To you, Sir, amid the depression incident on bidding farewell to your native home, it must doubtless be a source of high gratification, that you carry with you the best wishes of all who know you; that you leave behind you a living testimonial to your worth in the hearts and affections of your countrymen. In conveying to you our parting respects, permit us, Sir, to request your acceptance of the accompanying Pieces of Plate, as a sincere but very inadequate expression of our friendship and attachment. That you may long enjoy health and happiness, and continue to pursue in a distant land, your useful and honourable career, is the ardent wish of,
Dear Sir,
Your affectionate Friends,
| Name | Residence |
| Jas. Sinclair, Deputy Lieutenant | Co. Tyrone |
| John James Burgoyne, Kt. Provost of Strabane | Co. Tyrone |
| Benjamin Humfrey. J. P. | County Donegal |
| J. Hamilton, J. P. | Co. Tyrone |
| A. Hamilton, Clerk, J. P. | Co. Tyrone |
| John Colthurst, Clerk, J. P. | Co. Tyrone |
| James Galbraith, Treasurer | Co. Tyrone |
| Alexander Colhoun J. P. | Co. Tyrone |
| J. J. Decluzeau, C. C. P. | Co. Tyrone |
| James Purss, Clerk | Urney. Co. Tyrone |
| Arthur McHugh, P. P. | Strabane and Lifford |
| William Stewart, M. D. | Strabane |
| A. Gillespy, M. D. | Lifford |
| Alexander Leney, M. D. | Strabane |
| Alexander Auchinleck, C. P. | County Tyrone |
| William Bissett | Raphoe [Co. Donegal] |
| James Stirling | Walworth [Co. Londonderry] |
| F. McCausland | Bessbrook [Co. Londonderry] |
| John Semple | Castletown [Co. Tyrone] |
| John Smyth | Gallony [Co. Tyrone] |
| William McLead | Lifford |
| Thomas Brown | Milltown [Co. Tyrone] |
| Oliver Lecky | Melmount [Co. Donegal] |
| William Hutton | Grange [Co. Tyrone] |
| Robert Porter | Carricklee [Co. Tyrone] |
| Francis O’Neill | Mountpleasant [Co. Tyrone] |
| Robert McCrea | Glencush [Co. Tyrone] |
| Robert McCrea | Grange [Co. Tyrone] |
| John McCrea | Maghereagh [Co. Tyrone] |
| William McCrea | Maghereagh [Co. Tyrone] |
| John Holmes | Green Lodge [Co. Tyrone] |
| Robert Knox | Murlaugh [Co. Donegal] |
| Edward Joyce | Beechmount [Co. Tyrone] |
| James Cunningham | Liggartown [Co. Tyrone] |
| William Orr | Strabane |
| William Gamble | Strabane |
| Samuel Colhoun | Strabane |
| William Stevenson | Strabane |
| Samuel Morton | Strabane |
| Isaac Graham | Strabane |
| William Gwynne | Strabane |
| Hugh Hamilton | Strabane |
| William Doherty | Strabane |
| Joseph Henderson | Strabane |
| James Wilson | Strabane |
| James Porter | Strabane |
| James McIntosh | Strabane |
| Daniel Cook | Strabane |
| Nicholas Simms | Strabane |
| Richard Gwynne | Strabane |
| Patrick Loague | Strabane |
| Neal Doherty | Strabane |
| John McGuire | Strabane |
| William Boyle | Strabane |
| P. Glen | Strabane |
| James Brodie | Strabane |
| Andrew Mills | Strabane |
| Samuel Hughes | Strabane |
| Carroll and Gray | Strabane |
| James Patterson | Ballybogan [Co. Donegal] |
| Robert McCurdy | Castlefin [Co. Donegal] |
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