ABSTRACT
Saunders Hornbrook was born in Tavistock, Devonshire, in 1772 and became a woollen manufacturer. In 1817 he arranged for his son, Saunders Junior, to emigrate with his two sisters and prepare the way for the rest of the family to follow. The letters of 1818-21 are an important complement to the John Ingle letters and the history of the Birkbeck-Flower settlement. The first two are written by Hornbrook in 1818 and early 1819 from Fairstock, in Devonshire, to a J. B. Tomlinson. They report on the safe arrival of his son and daughters at Pigeon Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River in south-western Indiana, not far from Evansville, and his son's immediate meeting with Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, to whose settlement he was heading. Saunders Hornbrook Senior then joined his son and combined farming with wool and iron manufacturing. The next letters are from Hornbrook after his arrival in Indiana in 1819, back to his friends in England.
