to Rev. Wm. Haley in Templeboy, Sligo. Ireland. Aug. 24, 1912 Rev. Father, Your letter of Jan. 15, was received and I did not answer it as I expected information as to the families relatives in Ireland. This information I did not get as I expected, but I have part of it which I will write as follows. My grand father Battles died at Ballanacara, at about 35 years of age. His wife Bridget -Tarceny Battles was born in 1797 and died sept. 16, 1865 of heart trouble. She came with her four children Bridget (my mother) Bridget 24, Martin 27,*Timothy 21, and Ann 18. Catherine died at age 15, and is buried with her father in Balanacara. The mother Bridget , bought a farm in Granby and lived there until she died at the age of 65. She had brothers, James Tarceny who lived opposite the chapel in Balanacara. Timothy Tarceny lived in Balanacara and had a wife and eight daughters . Timothy with his wife and daughters came to Canada. Grandmother had one letter from him , mailed at Port Huron Canada. There were a great many relatives of the Battles family. My mother Bridget Battles Farrell, had a cousin Patrick Haley, his father was also Patrick Haley. There were John and Martin Haley, brothers Matt and William and John. William seemed to be a favorite name of the family. My grandfather on the Farrell side was James Farrell and his mothers maiden name was Honora Madden. He had a brother Frank Farrell who married Betsy Hart. My grandfather James Farrell married Rebecca Armstrong, his children were Patrick (my father) Philip, Bridger, James, Rebecca, Jane , Honora and Robert. All were born I think in Balymote Sligo. My father claimed to have been born in Ballysdare, near Sligo city. My father Patrick worked from a small boy until he came to America, for Major O'Hara who was his land lord. He used to say, " I worked on Major O'Hara's Domain." Maj. O'Hara was a distant cousin of my mother. My father Patrick Farrell married my mother Bridget Battles at age 24 in May 1847 by Dean Durkin (My father always called her Beasie). They were married on Sunday afternoon about four o'clock and sailed on Tuesday for America. All her people came at the same time, on the same boat. It was a sailing vessel called, Fay. It took the ship six weeks to come from Sligo to Quebec. My mother suffered all the way from sea sickness and upon landing it was found that my father was suffering from ship-fever and he was kept in Quebec until better. They were anxious to reach John Hart who had married Betsy Battles, my mothers cousin, and who were living at Granby , South Ridge. Upon reaching there my mother was rapidly developing ship-fever and they were afraid to allow her in the house so she was placed in a shed. She remarked years later that she must have become unconcious but that she remembered hammering , as a thud in her ears ; while the men were putting a roof on the shack. It seems that she was put in the shed only over night, and the men of the neighborhood built a shack on the side of the road where she was cared for until well. Soon after they arrived in Granby, later in the fall my father went to West Shefford looking for work, as he walked slowly, still weak from his recent illness, his legs unsteady, a little girl whom he met started to run, thinking that he was intoxicated. He called to her and asked her why she was afraid, and she answered that she thought he was staggering and that she thought he was the tallest man she had ever seen. He was six foot 2inches in height. In a quiet, kindly voice he reassured the girl and told her he was looking for work, adding "take hold of my hand and I will walk with you where ever you are going ." Then the child answered " O my father is looking for a man to work for him and I will take you to him." She was Mary Wells and her father became the first employer of my father, this side of the Atlantic. He worked on the Wells farm for the rest of the year, until he was able to buy a place for himself. This was a farm about 90 acres with fifteen cows, in West Shefford. To my mother were born , at Farnham on the border of West Shefford, Mary Hanora, James E, Phil, Patrick John, Annie, Eliza Jane, Catherine Agnes, and Ellen Rebecca. Edward Henry was born after the family moved to Burlington Vt. and my mother was past 46. They lived in Canada twenty years, going from there to Burlington in May 1867. The following August Edward Henry was born. End of litter. NOTE--Going back to Tarceny boys in Quebec--one kept a road house ( a tavern) the other a store. NOTE AGAIN-Bridget Tarceny Battles, sold her farm and came to live with my father and mother at West Shefford, where she died two years before we moved to Burlington --Ellen Rebecca Farrell remembered Grandma Battles funeral, as very large, she sat on the banking with a Ploof girl. She was frightened at so many people around. Beasie Battles made her own bonnets- In the front had red and lavender flowers, nestled in her lovely brown hair , threw a viel over it; often took it off to iron it. Had only lost four teeth in her life. Martin Battles went to Boston after spring work and did work during summer as ship builder. There he met Catherine McDermott. He later went back and married her .The next year he brought his earnings back to help pay for the farm; after a few months he sent for his wife to come to the farm in West Shefford. She did not like farming and only stayed two years, until first child was born. Martin left all he had put in the farm to his mother. (Bridget Tarceny Battles ) and went back to Boston. Martin's younger brother Tady went with Martin on his first trip to Boston, then on to New York City . He worked there as a ship's carpenter. ANOTHER NOTE--When Grandmother Battles first brother died, she and Uncle Martin were notified that there was property left in Ireland. (This would be one of the Tarceny brothers. No one could go to Ireland , and when the other brother died, same thing happened, then the property went to the O'Haras. There was a Mr Fitzpatrick who was from Ballamara, Sligo Ireland, who was a pallbearer in uncle Martins funeral in South Boston, who told the Battles family that it was slack for the family not to have put in a claim for the Tarceny property in Ireland. " There was a good deal of property " he said. Mr. Fitzpatrick lived in Owensville R.I. NOTE: when John Battles died (son of Martin) was laid out in his casket, one of the children told a relative, that there was a hole in the glass and they got it for $25.00 dollars cheaper.(had to be Aunt Tan). Martin Battles had two thumbs on his left hand. He died at age 93years of age. Took salt water baths at "L" street bath house. *Martin Battles was the father of John Battles, who married Bridget Gregory. Patrick Farrell was a cousin of John Battles.

2nd Version of the P.J. Farrell Letter Copy of a letter written by Patrick J. Farrell to Rev. Wm. Haley in Templeboy, Sligo. Ireland. August 24, 1912 Rev. Father, Your letter of Jan. 15, 1912 was received and I did not answer it as I expected information as to the families, relatives in Ireland. This information I did not get as I expected, but I have part of it which I will write as follows: My grand father was James Battles on my mother’s side. He died at Ballanacara, Ireland (three miles from Sligo) at about 35 years of age. His wife (my grandmother) Bridget Tarceny Battles was born in 1797 and died Sept. 16, 1865 of heart trouble in West Shefford, Quebec. She came with her four children Bridget (my mother) Martin, the eldest; Bridget, my mother; Tady “Timothy” and Ann. Catherine died at age 15, and is buried with her father in Balanacara. She bought a farm in Granby and lived there until she died at the age of 68. She had brothers, James Tarceny who lived in Sligo opposite the chapel in Balanacara and Timothy Tarceny lived in Balanacara and had a wife and eight daughters . Timothy with his eight children came to Canada. My grandmother had one letter from him , mailed at Port Huron Canada. She sold the farm and came to live with my father and mother at W. Shefford, Quebec where she died. There were a great many relatives of the Battles family. My mother Bridget Battles Farrell, had a cousin Patrick Haley, his father was also Patrick Haley. There were John and Martin Haley also. Patrick Haley married my father’s sister Hanora Farrell and he had three brothers, Matt and William and John Haley. William Haley seemed to be a favorite of the family. My grandfather on the Farrell side was James Farrell and was born in Terarah Sligo. His father’s name was James Farrell and his mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Armstrong. He had a brother Frank Farrell who married Betsy Hart. My grandfather James Farrell married Hanora Madden. Their children were Patrick (my father) Philip, Bridget, James, Rebecca, Jane, Hanora and Robert. All were born I think in Ballymote, Sligo. (My father, Patrick however, claimed to have been born in Ballysdare). My father, Patrick Farrell worked from a small boy until he came to America, for Major O'Hara who was his landlord. He used to say, " I worked on Major O'Hara's Domain." Maj. O'Hara was a distant cousin of my mother’s. Patrick Farrell married my mother Bridget Battles at age 24, May 1847 by Dean Durkin (My father called her “Beazie”). They were married on Sunday afternoon about four o'clock and sailed on Tuesday for America. All her people came at the same time, on the same boat. It was a sailing vessel called “Fay”. It took the ship six weeks to come from Sligo to Montreal, Quebec. My mother suffered all the way from sea-sickness and upon landing it was found that my father was suffering from ship-fever and he was kept in Quebec until better. They were anxious to reach John Hart who had married Betsy Battles, my mothers cousin, and who were living at Granby , South Ridge. Upon reaching there my mother was rapidly developing ship fever and they were afraid to allow her in the house so she was placed in a shed. (Years after, she remarked that she must have become unconcious but that she remembered hammering , as a thud in her ears ; while the men were putting a roof on the shack. It seems that she was put in the shed only over night, and the men of the neighborhood built a shack on the side of the road where she was cared for until well.) NOTES SUPPLIED BY MY SISTER, ELLEN “NELL” MCCANNON My grandmother Bridget Tarceny Battles, bought a farm in Granby. Later she sold it and came to live with my father and mother in West Shefford where she died at the age of 68. Two years before we moved to Burlington, VT. That house burned to the ground during the night. My grandfather James Farrell was a signer on the charter of the Knights of Father Matthew, third name on the list. This was a temperance society in Ireland. The person who wrote that letter was P.J. Farrell (Patrick John Farrell). His parents were Patrick Farrell & Bridget Battles, whom he mentions in the letter. After their marriage in Ballysadare parish, Patrick & Bridget Farrell came to Quebec, Canada, living near Bromont in Shefford Co. Patrick Farrell later moved to Underhill, Vermont. His son Patrick John Farrell (the letter writer) died at Swanton, Vermont. The patriarch of the family was a James Farrell (wife, Honora Madden). He is buried in the cemetery at St. Xavier de Bromont in Shefford Co., Quebec. An old cemetery behind St. Francis Xavier Church in Bromont. JAMES O'FARRELL who departed this life April 21, 1873 age 79 years a native of Sligo Ireland O Father dear, its hard to part, With you we love so dear: But Jesus parted with His life, That we in Heaven with Him might dwell