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LETTER: John Jones to his Aunt. He is ashamed for not having written sooner, but about the time his uncle ?died his parents weren’t in too good a state when he and his brothers were young moving from place to place. Their uncle’s letters were kept until they were grown up. When J.J. re-read them recently bat had a great effect on them. He is on business in London. He went to see Mr. Thos. Jones, Great Marylebone Street, for his Aunt’s address; they sent him to Mr. Alin who sent him to Mr. Rees, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell who gave him an address. He doubts if he will meet his Aunt and cousins this side of the next world. A friend of his who is the king’s riding master showed him where his Aunt had been living. He wept. His parents lived most of the time in Anglesea; they live in Caernarfon at present. His mother’s health is indifferent, his father’s pretty well considering his age. Pour out of their ten boys and four girls alive. Henry died on Man of War Ruby in Jamaica, William died on the coast of Guinea the other eight died at home. Hugh, the eldest lives in America, taken in the American War he had hard times at first but now has a wife, four children and 400 acres of land. Owen and Evan are unmarried. Owen 26 and Evan 23. J.J. is thirty since last Christmas, Hugh is 32. Requests them to send him a letter. He is a farmer In Llyn Asks to be remembered to his cousins.
Cyngor Gwynedd