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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

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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 6:

"Breakfasted at woods at 8 and found we had gone two miles our of the way to our great chagrin. Our ride from there to DeRhuyter 19 miles presented nothing novel or interesting a part of the way hansomely cultivated farms. and all the way a superior road (came to the Albany turnpike two miles east of Smyrna) From DeRhuyter (9 miles) to Truxton (a small village) the land seems rich and the farms well cultivated Almost every step of the way presented some pretty rural scene, having the Onondaga branch of the Chenango on our left. We stoped a few moments at Truxton but found the house so comfortless concluded to go on and take our fate..."

 

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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