A journey to Ohio in 1810 as recorded in the journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight

by Margaret Van Horn Dwight

1914 64 pages eng

Author Margaret Dwight (1790-1834) was the daughter of a physician and the niece of a President of Yale College. Her father died in 1796 and her mother later remarried, so Margaret lived with other family members. In 1810, at the age of 19, she traveled from New Haven, CT. to Warren, OH. by wagon to…