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Title
Extracts from letters written, on a journey to the western parts of the United States and during a residence in the Illinois Territory
Creator
Fordham, Elias Pym
Date
1818
Place
East (U.S.)
,
Illinois
,
Illinois--Edwards County
,
Illinois--English Prairie
,
Ohio River Valley
Language
English
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life
,
Pioneers
,
Travelers
Description
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Summary
Volume containing extracts of seventeen letters, May 18, 1817-Oct. 30, 1818, and a journal, Dec. 7, 1817-Feb. 26, 1818, sent by Pym to unnamed English correspondents, regarding his journey from Richmond, Va., to southeastern Illinois, via Pittsburgh and Cincinnati; the settlement of the Birkbeck colony at English Prairie; and travels in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. In addition to full descriptions of the Illinois colony, there are observations on the land and people of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois; the cities of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, travel down the Ohio by flat-boat; the Rappite settlement at New Harmony, Indiana; frontier social classes; prices, wages, and labor in the west; and the outlook for English emigrants to the frontier. Also mounted maps of Pittsburgh, English Prairie, and Cincinnati; and a mounted sketch of a flatboat and keelboat.
Biographical/Historical Note
English civil engineer who at age twenty-nine (1817) emigrated to the new Birbeck colony at English Prairie in Edwards County, Illinois. A nephew by marriage to George Flower, a co-founder with Morris Birkbeck of the agricultural settlement, Fordham surveyed colony lands and assisted in the construction of dwellings, mills, etc. He later returned to England and engaged in a successful career as a civil engineer.
Extent
1 v. ([2], iii, [1], 127 p.) : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Format
Correspondence
,
Diaries
,
Manuscripts, English
,
Sources
,
Travel literature
Archival Collection Title
Edward E. Ayer Collection
,
Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection
Rights Status
No Copyright - United States
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Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
Link to Catalog
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Call Number
VAULT Ayer MS 289
BibID
991404758805867
Size
2461px × 3189px 22.47 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
File Created
06/07/2024
Filename
991404758805867_Ayer_MS_289_00001.tif
Unique Identifier
NL12C9NB
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