John Montgomery Roberts diary 4, 1830-1886
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- Created Date
- 1830/1886
- Description
The diaries of John M. Roberts primarily focus on his family's daily farm life in Tazewell County. The Roberts's 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 events, an...
- Creator
Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886
- Contributing Institution
- Newberry Library
- Subjects
- Pioneers
Boundaries
Whites
Human settlements
Agriculture
Immigrants
Travel
Property
Cost
Health
Medicine
Death
Manners and customs
Civil society
Lithography - Type
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- Diaries
- 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 4, 1830-1886. 1830/1886. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/37461. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886, (1830/1886) John Montgomery Roberts diary 4, 1830-1886. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/37461
- 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/37461>.