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- Margaret Van Horn Dwight
- Westward, Ho!
- The Journey
- Fat, Dirty, Ugly
- Mountain High, River Deep
- Journey’s End
Margaret Van Horn Dwight was born Dec. 29, 1790 into a famous family. She was the great-granddaughter of theologian Jonathan Edwards, and the niece of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale. She would have a famous descendant, the best-selling novelist Winston Churchill. Her father, a doctor, died in 1796. When her mother remarried, she sent Margaret to...
She traveled to Ohio in a wagon with a frugal deacon named Wolcott, his wife, daughter Susan and son Erastus. The six-week, 600-mile journey was slow and difficult. They could barely pass over the roads or climb the steep mountains. She found the taverns dirty and disgusting. During the journey, she learned how to eat raw pork and drink whiskey. Ma...
They set out from Milford, Conn., on Oct. 19, 1810, a cold and unsociable ride, she wrote. Each of the travelers was ‘thinking of the friends we had left behind & of the distance, which was every moment increasing, between them & us.’ Three days later (today a three-hour drive) they reached West Chester, Pa., where they stayed at Cook’s Inn. That n...
The small, dirty house served as a tavern, a store and, she imagined, a hog’s pen and stable. At night the house filled with noisy drunken men. The landlady was fat, dirty, ugly and suspicious. On Tuesday morning, Oct. 23, Margaret wrote: Along the way, they encountered many other wagons heading westward. “Waggons without number, every day go on,” ...
She found the roads ‘bad past description.’ Nevertheless, she described large stones and deep mud holes every step of the way. On one stretch the horses could scarcely move the wagon in the deep mud. “It has grown so cold that I fear we shall all perish tomorrow.” She climbed seven mountains on foot because the horses couldn’t pull them. It rained ...
On Dec. 1, 1810, Margaret Van Horn Dwight reached her destination: Warren, Ohio. “Cousin Louisa was as happy to see me as I could wish, & I think I shall be very happy & contented.” A year later she married, and began to have children. A daughter, Margaret DeWitt Bell, married John Logan Blaine, whose son Edward fathered the novelist Winston Church...
[The author of this journal was Margaret Van Horn Dwight, born December 29, 1790. She was the daughter of Doctor Maurice William Dwight, a younger brother of President Timothy Dwight.
May 16, 2011 · Three years later, in 1810, Margaret Dwight left New Haven to go to her cousins in Warren, Ohio. It was doubtless there that she met Mr. Bell, whom she married, December 17, 1811, a year after her arrival. William Bell, Jr., was born in Ireland, February 11, 1781, and after 1815 he was a wholesale merchant in Pittsburgh.
Dec 2, 2019 · Dwight's journal provides valuable insights into the social and cultural landscape of the time, making it a valuable resource for scholars and history enthusiasts alike. Margaret Van Horn Dwight, a well-educated and perceptive individual, embarked on this journey due to her husband's business endeavors in Ohio.
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Mar 16, 2021 · "A Journey to Ohio in 1810, as Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight" by Margaret Van Horn Dwight. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre.
