Migration, Internal -- United States.
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Pollock letters
Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240453]
Identifier: 805
Scope and content
Four letters by Pollock to a brother in Scotland; the first from Lake Mills, Wisconsin including instructions on how to prepare for emigration, advice as to costs, prices, clothing, household utensils, and other matters, and advice as to the exact procedures to be followed on the trip from New York, Albany, Buffalo, and the West in order to escape "runners," and to avoid the dangers facing uninformed immigrants; the second letter from Cambridge, Wisconsin describing his failure as a grain...
Dates:
1848-1869.
Turner family papers
Collection
Identifier: 689
Abstract
Chiefly letters written by members of the related Turner, Baker, and Wheeler families, describing their activities as they moved southward and westward from Massachusetts and New York.
Dates:
1799-1891.
William Pierrepont White and family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 399
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and related families.
Dates:
1728-1939.