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Page 3scratched out textscratched out text[scratched out text]] We returned home and spent the eveningin playing on the piano and singing. 21st We spent the forenoon with Mrs Moseley and Catherine and started about two for the Troy boat, on our way we stopped in Mr Amisworth's? store whotreated us with wine unknown and were joined by him and Charles, who accompanied us to the boat. The boat started about three, and after 25 minutes very pleasantsailing we arrived in Troy, which from the river appeared to be quite a place. There were many new houses going up along the banks of the river, and most of the houses near where we landed appeared to be new.We went on board the canal boat which lay but a few steps from thesteamboat landing. The cabin was very small, but neatly furnished having3 windows on either side, with blinds and curtains, two immovable setteeswhich contained bedding carved wood stools a looking glass and stove not forgetting the carpet & curtain which we could draw, and thus divide the gents from the ladies cabin. Upon the whole it looked much better thanI expected. Papa could not find his box of docks or weights, and had to go off and leave them the forwarders promising to send them on in thenext boat. We started about 5 o'clock though Papa or the Captain werenot on board, which gave us a no small uneasiness, but we soon learnedthat a canal boat was not like a steamboat and that there was no danger of them being left far behind. When we started there were fourpassengers beside ourselves, two old ladies being mother and daughter a young lady named Harriet Spencer and a young man by name Mr Holmes
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
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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
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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
3074px × 3691px 32.49 MB
File Created
07/29/2016
Filename
998358338805867_mms_038_box_01_fl_001_003.tif
Unique Identifier
NL1NSVJ
Projects Tag
Chicago and the Midwest
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