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Transportation/Travel Homepage | 1823 travel journal of Laura Sherwood: Table of Contents

Warning: For serious researchers only: may be hard to read, as is the original
Background: Laura Sherwood, husband Samuel, and two of her children, Ann Eliza and Samuel Augustus left their home in Delhi, NY in September 1823 for a lengthy tour of upstate New York. Although the method of transportation for the majority of the trip is not clear, at least one entry indicates they rode on horseback. The journal describes people, scenery, accommodations, villages, and the opening of a canal aqueduct in Rochester. The journal abruptly ends before they return home.

Excerpt from page 31:

"(part of page missing) We found carriages on the bridge waiting to take us to Rochester. From the brige we noticed the Utica boat. and to our astonishment recognised several of Niagara acquaintance, among others the little Englishman and the other unknown  saw them move off with an undefined feeling of regret and I may add the painful feeling we may never see them more..."

"Came into Rochester when we hurried ourselves to Mr. Cummings church, where we had an (continued on p. 32)

 

Original journal in the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, Delhi, NY. Further information on the Sherwood Family is available in the Letters and Journals of Samuel and Laura Sherwood (1813 - 1823), edited by John Crocker, Delhi, NY, 1967,  available in the Delaware County Historical Association Archives and Milne Library, State University of New York College at Oneonta.

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