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off without them. It was so pleasant we begrudged every moment that we werelaying still, we had not proceeded but about 6 miles when we saw the two old ladieswaiting for us they had hired a horse & carriage and gone on to the next landing place, whenthey came on board they did not appear to like it much that we should have leftthem. I expect the Captain would have waited, but he had to be hindered at most veryby them and had just got out of patience. Just after we took them on board Harrietsaw the man whom she was going to see on another canal boat so we had to stop tohail him and take him on board and before night we stopped at a little villagewhere we landed them both with all their baggage, we had proceeded but a littlefurther before we were stoped again to take some freight on board, it seemed as ifevery thing was combined to prevent our making any progress today for you mustconsider that with poor fare? & we had begun to be quite impatient to arrive in Buffalo had very pleasant moonlight evening28th We spent most of the day in sewing and listening to flute players. During theday we passed a number of small villages at most of which we stoped to get freshwater or provisions; at one of them which was within 10 miles of Rochester all ourmen passengers but Papa went on shore to go to Rochester on foot it being nearerthan to go by the canal. The day was very warm and fine. We arrived in Rochesterabout 4 in the afternoon where we found the men waiting for us, they had beenthere a number of hours. Rochester is quite a large place, it puts me in mind ofN.Y. On each side of the canal the store houses are as thick as in Water street mostof them being 4 or 5 stories high. the river runs through the place over whichthey were building many very handsome bridges. Today Mr Holmes knit theheel of my stocking bound it off and got out of the slip and binding. Spent theevening on deck listening to flute and Clarionette.
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
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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
3101px × 3691px 32.78 MB
File Created
07/29/2016
Filename
998358338805867_mms_038_box_01_fl_001_007.tif
Unique Identifier
NL1NSVO
Projects Tag
Chicago and the Midwest
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