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Letter from Magistrate and Councillors to
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Copy Pitcairn Island
Septemr 12th 1853 Honoured and respected Sir, We the inhabitants of Pitcairns Island embrace the earliest opportunity of addressing your Honour thanking you for your disenterested Kindness towards us your fatherly kindness we trust will be indeliably impressed upon our memory. We may truly say when we were sick you visited us and the necessary articles you sent on shore were of great service to us. Through the goodness |
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of the Lord the sickness did not prove fatal to any although it was several weeks before we all recovered and even now some feels the effects of it. Will your honour be pleased to return our sincere thanks to the nobility and Gentry who so kindly subscribed to the Pitcairn fund, to the committee and all our kind friends and we hope by divine assistance we may live as becomes those who are bound by so many obligations. By your honours suggestion we have made a small chest of drawers for her gracious Majesty the Queen which we hope you will have the honour of presenting |
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to Her Majesty. It is made of the Island wood and we should be much pleased if Her Majesty would accept it as a token of our loyalty and respect. You know Honored Sir our means are very limited and our mechanical skill likewise and we hope Her Majesty will receive it as the widows mite the will for the deed. Will your honour give our kind respects to your Sons our kind friends Fairfax and Fortescue, Captain Chads and especially to our late Pastor Revnd W. H. Holman and all the Officers and Crew of H.M.S. Portland. We remain,
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Notes.
Pagination of the original autograph has been maintained. Sir Fairfax Moresby GCB (786 – 1877) was a Royal Navy officer. In 1850 Admiral Moresby became Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station. His main responsibility was to protect British commercial interests in Valparaíso in the face of unrest among the people of Chile. He also took an interest in Pitcairn Islands at this time and planned the emigration of the islanders to Norfolk Island. |
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Source.
Document no. 74. September 12, 1853. "Letter from Magistrate and Councillors to Rear-Admiral Moresby (First enclosure to Moresby's letter of 31 December 1853)". Pages 1372 to 1379.
This transription was made from a documents in a collection of documents at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library.
Last updated by Tom Tyler, Denver, CO, USA, Aug 3 2022.
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