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- 1852-1876 (Creation)
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115pp
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Archival history
Copies of the Gamble brothers letters were donated to Kerby A. Miller by John McGaughey, Magherascouse, County Down.
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Scope and content
Transcripts and reproductions of 16 letters written between 1852 and 1876 by brothers Andrew, James, William, Malcolm, and John Gamble, to their family in Magherascouse, County Down. All of the brothers/authors were emigrants. Andrew, a stonecutter, lived in the New York area and died in Newark, New Jersey in 1858. James, a miner and laborer, first settled in Ohio before becoming a miner in California in the 1850s; over the next twenty years he spent time in California, Oregon, and British Columbia. William, a small-farmer, lumberer, and lime-burner, settled in St. George, New Brunswick and had 12 children. He was joined in 1865 by his brother Malcolm. John was in Glasgow during the 1870s, where he worked in a laundry.