John
Try
looking at the MOA (Making of America) website and reading some of the books
that they have online-FREE You could spend years on this one site and in
Michigan there is another one besides the Cornell site that I'm
showing here.
I
actually found references to a personal diary of the last treasurer of the
colony of NY and an 8 day summer expedition in 1775 up the Hudson and telling
how they were headed to the town of Bath to get relief from attacks of
gout. It also gave a view of what way people kept connected with one
another-and I must say that besides the current internet, they were probably the
fastest I have ever encountered in my lifetime:o) A letter from Albany sent on
Monday would have an answer back by Friday. That alone amazes me, considering
they were traveling by boat, carriage and horseback through some pretty rough
country.
Happy
hunting
Peggie
in balmy eastern OR