Diaries (Unidentified) Collection,
1760-1855
Contents List
| Octavo Volume |
Date |
Location |
Item |
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| 1 |
1760 |
South Carolina |
Diary of a plantation owner detailing family matters, business
concerns,
financial records, and reports of Indian attacks during the French
and Indian
War. |
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| 2 |
1773 |
Boston, Mass. |
Interleaved almanac detailing weather records. Kept in An
Astronomical
Diary; or, Almanack ... 1773 ... by Nathanael Low ... (Boston: J.
Kneeland,
[1772]). |
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| 3 |
1778 |
Boston, Mass. |
Interleaved almanac detailing teaching duties, trips, and
movements of
British and American troops, as well as French fleet during the
Revolution.
Kept in An Astronomical Diary or, Almanack ... 1778 ... by Nathanael
Low.
(Boston: J. Gill, [1777]). |
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| 4 |
1779 |
Stamford, Conn. |
Fragment of three pages containing references to the capture and
imprisonment
of Gen. Gold Selleck Silliman (1732-1790) by the British, as well as
movements
of Revolutionary troops. |
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| 5 |
1783 |
Boston, Mass. |
Interleaved almanac detailing expenses of trips to New York,
Philadelphia,
Nantucket, etc., as well as sundry accounts. Kept in A Pocket
Almanack for
the Year ... 1783 ... (Boston: T. & J. Fleet, [1782]). |
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| 6 |
1783-1786 |
Boston, Mass. |
Diary detailing records of death dates of notable people, number
of people
buried and baptized in Boston for each month of 1784, as well as
details
of courts cases and a cure for consumption. The diary also includes
verse
and anecdotes of earlier times, and lists of executions. |
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| 7 |
1788 |
New Salem, Mass. |
Interleaved almanac containing brief, intermittent entries
concerning
town events and visits. Kept in Thomas's ... Almanack ... 1788 ...
(Worcester:
Isaiah Thomas, [1787]). |
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| 8 |
1793 |
Worcester County, Mass. |
Interleaved almanac containing records of a physician's house
calls and
charges, and trips to Boston and Worcester. Kept in An Astronomical
Diary:
or Almanack ... 1793 ... by Amos Pope ... (Boston: John W. Folsom,
[1792]). |
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| 9 |
1794 |
Wilmington, Del. |
Interleaved almanac containing book list, family notes, travels,
and financial
notes. Kept in McCulloch's Pocket Almanac, for the Year 1794 ...
(Philadelphia:
John McCulloch, [1793]). |
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| 10 |
1817 |
Philadelphia, Pa. |
Interleaved almanac containing records of weather, town marriages
and
deaths, and plantings. Kept in Poor Will's Almanac, for the Year
1817 ...
(Philadelphia: Joseph Hakestraw, [1816]). |
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| 11 |
1819 |
Boston, Mass., to New York State |
Diary of a journey from Boston to Lake George, N.Y., with detailed
descriptions
and record of mileage. |
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| 12 |
1822-1830 |
Philadelphia, Pa. |
Six interleaved almanacs, written by one person, containing
records of
city events, weather, medical cures, and sundry recipes for repair
of articles.
Kept in: |
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a) Poor Robin's Almanac ... 1822 ... Calculated by Joshua Sharp
... (Philadelphia:
D. Dickinson, [1821]); |
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b) Bioren's Town and Country Almanack ... 1824 ... Calculated by
William
Collom ... (Philadelphia: John Bioren, [1823]); |
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c) Langstroth & M'Dowell's Almanack ... 1825 ... Calculated by
Joshua
Sharp ... (Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, [1824]); |
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d) Poor Robin's Almanack ... 1826 ... Calculated by Joshua Sharp
... (Philadelphia:
D. Dickinson, [1825]); |
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e) Kite's Town and Country Almanac, for the Year 1827 ...
Calculated by
William Collom ... (Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite,
[1826]); |
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f) Columbian Almanac, for the Year 1830 ... by William Collom ...
(Philadelphia:
Joseph M'Dowell, [1829]). |
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| 13 |
1823 |
Philadelphia, Pa. |
Interleaved almanac containing records of weather, plantings, and
planting
experiments. Kept in The Agricultural Almanac ... 1823 ...
(Philadelphia:
Solomon W. Conrad, [1822]). |
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| 14 |
1828-1832 |
Worcester, Mass. |
Diary of a young girl with brief entries concerning visits, town
marriages
and deaths, 4th of July and Worcester County Centennial
celebrations. |
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| 15 |
1852-1855 |
Andover, Mass. |
Diary of a young woman with sporadic entries concerning teaching
school
and attending church. Kept in Jewett's Economical Writing Book ...
(Salem,
Mass.: John P. Jewett & Co., [1844]. |
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[purchased from Aiglatson, 2003] |
| There are also diaries filed in the Almanacs
Collection: |
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| 1788: Sturbridge, Mass. Farmer's diary records farming activities,
meteorological
observations, marriages and deaths, and other events. Kept in Isaiah
Thomas'
Almanack (Worcester, Mass.) for the 1788. |
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| 1799: Portland, Me. Three inserted leaves containing diary of
unidentified
minister, chiefly recording baptisms, deaths, weather, in Poor
Robin's Farmer's,
Merchant's, and Mechanic's Almanack, or the Register of Maine
(Portland,
1799). |
This collection of twenty unidentified diaries covers the period 1760 to
1855 and includes several interleaved almanacs. There is a set of six
Philadelphia diaries, for the period 1822 to 1830, written by the same
person, concerning events in the city, weather records, and sundry
"cures."
There are diaries written in Boston, Mass., also detailing weather,
travels, local records, and court cases.
The collection contains a diary kept by a South Carolina plantation owner
in 1760, with references to family matters, general musters and Indian
troubles during the French and Indian War, as well as financial records of
the plantation.
Another diary provides many descriptive passages concerning Lake
George,
N.Y., in 1819, while the diary of a young girl in Worcester, Mass., for
the period 1828 to 1832, refers to visits, local records, and town
celebrations.
The diary of a young female schoolteacher in Andover, Mass., details
her
teaching jobs and comments on bible passages she's heard preached upon.
The 31 December 1854 entry mentions her going to hear "Rev. Antinette
Brown" (i.e., Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)). She
comments, in her 20 January 1855 entry, that this is the "25th anniversary
of my birthday."
There are also two diaries pertaining to the American Revolution: one
is a
three-page fragment dealing with American troop movements and the capture
of an American general near Stamford, Conn., in 1779; the other refers to
American and British troop movements near Philadelphia and the arrival of
the French fleet in 1778.
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