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December 12, 1849

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TO THE EDITOR

SIR – As you have given publicity last week to a letter, written by *MAJOR HUMPHREYS, reflecting not a little on the Rev. M. CHAMBERS, might I ask a favour of you to give the same publicity to the following, in vindication of his conduct in the proceedings of the Leckpatrick Tenantry, and oblige yours,

A TENANT

Leckpatrick, 10th December 1849

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SIR, - We the undersigned, having seen, in your paper of last week a letter by Major HUMPHREYS, containing a Declaration by each of the gentleman who signed a Requisition, calling a meeting of Lord ABERCORN’S Tenants, in this parish, to consider the propriety of petitioning his Lordship for an abatement of Rent, cannot allow that letter to go before the world without at the same time expressing, with all due respect to the Major, our most decided approbation of the conduct of the two Rev. Gentlemen, viz. Rev. M. CHAMBERS and Rev. B. McKENNA, and other Gentlemen who signed the requisition with them. All the Requisitionists deserve our very best thanks for the straight-forward course adopted by them in calling us together, but especially the two Rev. Gentlemen of the parish, for their able, independent and manly advocacy of our claims, these hard times, for a reduction of Rents.

(Signed)

BOAGLE John

BROWN Hugh

CARTEN John

CHRISTY John

COX James

DEERY William

DEVIN Hugh

DEVIN James

DEVIN Michael

DOHERTY James

DONAGHY John

DONNELL Charles

DONNELL William

DORAGH Thomas

KELLY Bryan

KELLY James

KIRK Patrick

KIRK Widow

McANULTY Neal

McBRIDE James

McCAY John

McCREA William

McLAUGHLIN Charles

McSHANE John

PORTER James

PORTER John

PORTER William

REILLY William

SMYTH Robert

WEIR David

WEIR John

WEIR William

*Major Humphreys was Agent to the Marquis of Abercorn and the hard times referred to were the effects of the Great Famine.

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Petition to Lord Abercorn from his Tenants in Leckpatrick Parish 1849 Extracted from the LONDONDERRY JOURNAL, and transcribed and submitted by Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia

Petition to Lord Abercorn from his Tenants in Leckpatrick Parish 1849
Extracted from the LONDONDERRY JOURNAL, and transcribed and submitted by Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia