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"interesting sermon...in the afternoon staid home read the prayer book and indicted my journal thus far. night  []s approaching and we began to see the bustle of preparation for tomorrow's celebration..."

[Written by  Samuel Sherwood]

"Having promised my good wife in consequence of some mark of kindness on her part) to blot a part of a page of her delectable journal--[]mis -- Here are two modes of journalizing, one recording events which have actually transpired, another writing in anticipation of what may happen. One is the effect of memory, the other the production of fancy - let us indulge the latter -

6 Oct. The morning was ushered in upon the astonished Rochester by ringing of bells, and the roar of cannon, the town was on tiptoe, the Country was congregated, the military were in arms, the high + the low, all shapes figures + forms, came forth to view the Aquaduct, first recie...(part of page missing)

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.