Archibald McMillan and family fonds : H-1099 (Image 128 and 129)
Letter (transcribed; original can be found before the transcript)
Surinam
30th December 1804
...forwarded to me by my friends in the Virgin Islands...you may have heard of my quitting the Virgin Islands which I did upwards of two years ago for this place...
Mr. Murphy of St. Thomas....
Your cousin Donald Cameron, the son of Captain Cameron Strone, and my brother Arch. arrived here a few weeks ago...
Everything has turned upside down since you left Lochaber..
It is my determination to use every means I can to get my family settled in America they were always very much attached to Clan don...which you mention in your letter, as well as to yours and Glenpeans families...
...I may pay you a visit there sometime in 1806 or perhaps before.
Pray do you know of your cousin Capt. McMillan, you say nothing of him. I had no accounts of your cousin Arch. for several years, but I believe he is in the Island of Granada. I beg my best compliments to Mr. McMillan Glenpean and family, and all our acquaintances in your quarter, remember me in the kindest manner to Mrs. McMillan, Miss. Tommy and family...
My dear Arch,
Yours affectionately,
Alexander Cameron
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