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As the weighlock was covered like a house. the weather cloudy it was darkand gloomy enough. I can assure you we were thankful to leave Utica. About noon it began to clear away and by two was quite pleasant. FromUtica to Rome, a small village, the scenery was beautiful, the rain hadmade ever thing green and fragrant so that it was delightful. to day we passed a umber of log cabins, which Papa assured us were much better orabout as good as Charles', I could hardly believe him it did not seem possiblefor decent folks to live in such looking places. The evening was very pleasant and moonlight and we all sat upon deck to enjoy it. Caroline and I sang for the amusement of the company who of course was very much pleasedwith it. Mr Holmes thought "The Lords of Creation" first rate and also "Nothing else to do26th We spent most of this day in the cabin as it was chilly, but were notas lonesome as the preceding day. At Utica we took on board two fluteplayers a clarionette player and a singer so today we had music enoughCaroline and I sang with the flute and without it and the youngman (the singer) also. As the dinner bell rang I was in the midst of asong, the singer said, "he had rather go without his dinner than to beinterrupted." From that I suppose he was very much enchanted. I expectboth of us would have been very much smit had he not happened to havebeen married a few weeks before, in the evening we sat on deck & listened to the flute & Clarionette. pleasant and moonlight.27th A very pleasant day most of which we spent in sewing. About two we arrived in Syracuse where our two old ladies went on shore to see some friends while the Captain went to do some business this being his native place, he returned in about but the old ladies were amongst the missing we waited for them till about 3, and then went
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
3168px × 3651px 33.13 MB
File Created
07/29/2016
Filename
998358338805867_mms_038_box_01_fl_001_006.tif
Unique Identifier
NL1NSVC
Projects Tag
Chicago and the Midwest
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