ABSTRACT

This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.

part |82 pages

Correspondence

chapter |12 pages

Shipton Family (1784–1816)

University of South Florida Library.

chapter |3 pages

Sharp Family (1812)

Wisconsin Historical Society, MAD 4/14/SC 134.

chapter |35 pages

Revd John Ingle (1813–28)

Continued in next volumes. Indiana Historical Society, Collection M167, Folder 3.

chapter |3 pages

James Matheson (1815)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/76.

chapter |12 pages

Samuel Mearbeck (1815–21)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 1/3.

chapter |8 pages

Saunders Hornbrook (1818–21)

Indiana Historical Society, SC 783.

chapter |2 pages

Abram Greenwood (1819)

Norfolk Record Office, MC 166/255/53, 663x.

chapter |4 pages

James Stott (1820)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters, 1/2.

chapter |3 pages

John Rose (1822)

Continued in Volume 2. Originals lent to Charlotte Erickson by Donald Beaton, Waddon Lodge, Upwey, Weymouth, 1964.

part |73 pages

Biographies

chapter |2 pages

Robert Baldwin (1760)

chapter |2 pages

Abijah Moffitt (1791)

chapter |4 pages

John Larwill (1793)

chapter |2 pages

Andrew Jackson Bull (1795)

chapter |5 pages

Revd Robert Armstrong (1798)

chapter |2 pages

Robert F. and William W. Wilson (1800)

chapter |3 pages

Thomas ‘Priest’ Jones (1800)

chapter |3 pages

Samuel and William Tizzard (1801)

chapter |2 pages

Revd James Jones (1803)

chapter |1 pages

John Makemson (1805)

chapter |2 pages

John Ewbank (1805)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas H. Woolley (1805)

chapter |2 pages

Isham Sedgwick (1806)

chapter |1 pages

Revd Andrew Heron (1807)

chapter |2 pages

John Joel Eakright (1811)

chapter |1 pages

Robert Grieve (1812)

chapter |2 pages

Joseph M. Sutcliffe (1812)

chapter |1 pages

Robert Hargitt (1814)

chapter |2 pages

John Harrison (1814)

chapter |2 pages

Timothy Thomas (1816)

chapter |4 pages

Christian Donaldson (1816)

chapter |2 pages

Humphrey Griffith (1817)

chapter |2 pages

John Collier (1817)

chapter |2 pages

George Sutton, MD (1819)

chapter |1 pages

Captain W. W. Pearce (1819)

chapter |2 pages

George P. Morris (1819)

chapter |4 pages

James Howard (1819)

chapter |2 pages

William Trabor Turner (1820)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Benton Cottingham (1820)

chapter |1 pages

William B. Hardie (1820)

chapter |2 pages

Samuel and William Tell Harris (1821)

chapter |3 pages

Samuel Ward (1822)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Edwards (1826)

part |157 pages

Other Materials

chapter |69 pages

Journal of Rachel Wilson of Kendal, ‘Visit to America’ (1768)

Library of the Religious Society of Friends, Friends House, MS BOX W1/15.

chapter |14 pages

Thoughts on Emigration (1794)

chapter |15 pages

Emigration and America (1798)