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afledo i Tisdags natt Detta hafver jag wellat eder
underrätta pä dett att ni icke skall resa hit födan
är väl så om icke dyrare här än hos eder, arbete kan
wäl fås om man kunde språket, men pigor de hafver hvarit
stor efterfr&gan, af dem haver min piga och Carl
Anderssons Dotter och pigan anna antagit Tjenst, för 1
månad mot 1 Dollar i weckan, Johan Johansson och Petter
Gummesson hos en farmare för 1 månad mot 10 D: och
Boarding Kära Wänner för all del resen icke hit________________
för här är en Högst bedröflig tid för oss arma Emigranter
sä Gud sig öfver oss förbarme dett andra Sällskapet
hafver med stor plats fått ehuru mycket dåliga Hus––––––-
Carl Pettersson
Rock-Island den 26te october 1854.
• • *
...tell my Countrymen from Blekinge... that we...
arrived here 12 o’clock last Saturday night. A big
difficulty to get houses here for those who did not want to
put up at any hoarding house... so that some are and
have been completely disconsolate... The cholera broke
out among the immigrants Immediately after our arrival,
and a large part of them were confined to their beds. Some
have already gone the way of all flesh... Llljeblad’s
servant girl, Anna Haggman, and Swen Nelson and one
of the children of Hakan Swenson died on Tuesday night
... I wanted to tell you this so that you should not come
over here The food is quite as dear, if not dearer, than
where you are. One can probably get work if one knew
the language. There has been a great demand for servant
girls, of whom my maid and Carl Anderson’s daughter and
the maid Anna have... accepted service for one month
at one dollar a week. John Johnson and Peter Gummeson
have hired out for a farmer for a month for 10 dollars and
board... Dear friends, by all means, stay away from here
... for here is a most miserable time for us poor
immigrants—May God take pity on us... The rest of the
company have with great difficulty secured houses, very poor
ones, to be sure...
Carl Peterson.
Rock Island, Oct. 20, 1854.
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