Catalogue description Journal of Millicent Mary Chaplin

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Details of 1 FANE 6/12/3
Reference: 1 FANE 6/12/3
Title: Journal of Millicent Mary Chaplin
Description:

4 Aug. 1840 Left Quebec. Up the St. Lawrence to Port St. Francis. Wandover. Melbourne. Sherbrooke. Conditions of settlers, and what makes for success. Clearing of forests. Wolves. Persons loot in the woods. Sherbrooke was settled within the last twenty years, Stanstead, a neat village. Snake fences.

 

Georgeville on Lake Memphramagog. Into Vermont in the States: St. Johnsburg. Littleton village. La Fayette Mountains in Lincoln township. Birds of the woods. Wild raspberries. The White Mountains and the Green Mountains. Centre Harbour on Lake Winnipigsiogee, Shaker village and its inhabitants: a thriving community with some good farms.

 

Concord, (N.H.).

 

16-23 Aug. Boston. Description of city and surrounding country. Mr. President Quinsey of Cambridge College, and their visit to Cambridge. Unitarianism.

 

The Athenaeum.

 

By steamer from Boston to St. John (N.B.)

 

By coach to Fredericton, "a neat pretty town, in appearance.

 

By steamer from St. John to Annapolis, a small neat village. By coach to Halifax.

 

To Prince Edward's Island. Charlotte Town looks like "a pretty rural village by the water side".

 

Picton. Gaspé

 

Wrecks on this coast and their bad moral effects on the inhabitants who are enriched by them.

 

20 Sept. 1840 Return to Quebec.

Date: 1840
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical condition: Quarto vol.

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