John Montgomery Roberts diary, Morton, Illinois, 1830
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- Created Date
- 1830
- Description
1830 volume. The diaries of John M. Roberts primarily focus on his family's daily farm life in Tazewell County. The Roberts family left their New York home in the summer of 1831 and travelled to Illinois by horse and wagon settling in Pleasant Grove Prairie. The diaries contain much information on the following topics: routine farm activities, farming expenses and proberty valuations, illnesses and medicinal cures, family births and deaths, local...
- Creator
Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886
- Contributing Institution
- Newberry Library
- Subjects
- Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886
Roberts family
Pioneers
Frontier and pioneer life
Farm life
Land settlement
Rural conditions
Emigration and immigration
Travel
Lithography
Manuscripts, American - Type
- text
- Format
- DiariesManuscripts (Documents)Genealogy
- Language
- English
- Rights
- The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductions
- Chicago citation style
- Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886. John Montgomery Roberts diary, Morton, Illinois, 1830. 1830. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/3607. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886, (1830) John Montgomery Roberts diary, Morton, Illinois, 1830. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/3607
- MLA citation style
- Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/3607>.