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Transportation/Travel Home page | 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 40:

"...going to shore to breakfast. At Wilson's hotel got our breakfast about twelve, after which we gained an introduction to Capt. Harrison, commander of this [], who politely took us thro a part of the rooms all neat and the situation of the whole uncommonly fine on an elevated bank of the lake..."

"We next went to the navy yard and entered the enclosure of the 120 gun Ship New Orleans, a stupendous work..."

 

 

End of reproduction.  The diary continues several more pages before ending with the travelers in Canada.

Original journal courtesy of 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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