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

Note: For serious researchers: 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 35:

"(line missing)...Before we had time to refresh ourselves with dinner a man came in haste to tell us the steam boat was in the mouth of the river and would in all probability leave us before we could reach it...

"...We went off packing, Mr S arrived soon and we were off, without Saying good bye to any one...

Original journal courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753. 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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