Deborah Fisher Wharton letter to Charity Rotch, Philadelphia, 11th mo 19th 1815

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				Philad  11th mo  19th 1815
		    One motive for taking up my pen at the
	present time, is to convey to my dear Aunt Charity some
	information respecting a family who have lately
	emigrated to Ohio, and for whom during their stay in
	Philadelphia, our feelings became much interested-
	The father of the family is named John Hoyle, who,
	with his wife, three daughters, and four sons, one of
	whom begin married, his wife and two children, and
	another grandchild, whose parents remain in England,
	make thirteen in family who embarked at Liverpool,
	in the brig Hercules, and landed here last ninth month,
	after a passage of a hundred and one days,a consider-
	able part of which time, they were on short allowance,
	and were even obliged for a few days to subsist on
	the dust of the sea-bread; they are members of our
	society, and were considered respectable in their own
	country   The father, and all his sons are farmers,
	which occupation they followed near Leeds, in Yorkshire-
	The probability of their ever increasing their property,
	so as to possess farms in Britain's Isle, oppressed
	as they were with taxes, was the cause of their
	leaving their native country, to seek another less