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though light clouds occasionally obscured the sun. We spent most of the day on deck, where we took our rocking chairs, and sat very comfortably, with our cloaks and bonnets on. Papa and Dick walked the deck most of the time, Mama knit and Caroline and myself sewed on our patchwork. We had some conversation with some of our fellow passengers?, whom we found had arrived in N.Y. but, the day before they left there, and like ourselves were bound for the west. The scenery along the river at this time of the year was indeed beautiful. The many farms, landings or villages formed as many a handsome scene for a frontier. We arrived at the highlands about dusk, which seen in the twilight appeared very gloomy and yet subblime. They cast a long shadow in the water, which was quite calm and smooth, making it appear as black as night. We watched a long time to catch a glimpse of the Anthony's nose, which is a point in the rocks, said to bear an exact resemblance of a man's Nose. 20th We were awakened about three, with the news that the boat would land in Albany, which we did not expect. We were soon prepared to go on shore, and leaving our baggage on board to proceed to Troy, we proceeded to Mrs Moseleys in Hamlinton St at the foot of which we were landed. We found none of them up, but soon aroused them. We took breakfast and then called on Mrs Cordell, whom we found very well, and busy preparing andpainting. Caroline staid with her to play with June, and Mama Papa Dick and myself proceeded to Franklin's store. After purchasing whatgoods we wanted we went to his house and took dinner. before this however, Papa had been to Troy and back, having seen our goods and baggage on board of a canal boat and engaged our unknown. After dinner we returned to Mrs Moseley's. Towards night, Harriet and i went out to take a walk and were met by Papa and Charles who had been out for the same purpose.
Title
Mary Sackett papers [box 01], 1841-1945
Creator
Sackett, Mary, 1825-1869
Date
1841-1849
Place
Great Lakes
,
Illinois--Winnebago County
Subjects
Canal-boats
,
Pleasant Valley Reading Circle (Laona, Ill. : Township)
Description
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Summary
Six folders of material relating to Mary Sackett and the Sackett family, including Mary Sackett's journal kept on a trip from New York City to Lanoa, Illinois in 1841 and 1842. The journal, kept for her brother, is detailed and informative about such topics as the daily activities while traveling by canal boat and steamship, descriptions of the passing landscape including a stop at Niagara Falls, life in rural Illinois while waiting for a house to be built, and the daily problems and chores of pioneer women in the 1840s. An 1849 manuscript pioneer newspaper, The Prairie Flower, of which Mary Sackett was the editor, consists mainly of original stories, poems, editorials and reports on local doings, sayings and notices relating to the Pleasant Valley Reading Circle. This group was formed to provide amusement "during the coming winter months." Also, a recipe for taffy, some penmanship exercises and two colored drawings, all undated. There is also some genealogical information regarding the Sackett family collected in 1945.
Biographical/Historical Note
New York born woman who emigrated as a teenager with her family to Laona, Winnebago County, Illinois. Mary Sackett was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1825, the eldest of the living children of Isaac Sackett and his wife Mary Johnson. The family was living in Brooklyn, New York, when Isaac decided to move them to the Middle West, where his sister Abigail and her husband Charles Cleveland were already settled. In 1841 and 1842, teenager Mary Sackett kept a lively, detailed journal of the journey from New York City to Laona, a small town in Winnebago County, Illinois. In 1847, when Mary Sackett was twenty-one, she married Hanson C. Pierson, who died a year later. In 1852 she married Samuel Chapman with whom she had six children. Little else is known about Sackett's adult life, and she died at age forty-three in 1869.
Extent
0.2 linear feet (6 folders)
Format
Diaries
,
Genealogy
,
Travel literature
Rights Status
No Copyright - United States
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Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
Link to Catalog
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Call Number
Midwest MS 38
BibID
835833
Size
3140px × 3651px 32.83 MB
File Created
07/29/2016
Filename
998358338805867_mms_038_box_01_fl_001_002.tif
Unique Identifier
NL1NSVL
Projects Tag
Chicago and the Midwest
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