- Title
- Memory and account of new settlers in the American woods--1762, chiefly at Walpole, N.H.
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- Creator
- Lucy Fanning Watson (ca. 1755-1834)
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- Description
- In 1762, Lucy Fanning left Stonington, Connecticut, with her family to settle in Walpole, New Hampshire. The volume opens with an account of the move, on which the family traveled by sloop up the Connecticut River and then switched to a wagon and oxen for the remainder of the journey. When they arrived at Walpole, the Fannings purchased 150 acres of land and constructed a house. The family raised corn and wheat, fished, hunted, tapped maple trees for sugar, picked berries, and made their own clothes. Lucy recounted the details of village life and described buildings in town. After four years, the Fannings moved to Batsto, New Jersey to take advantage of the warmer climate As a child, Lucy lived in Stonington, CT, Walpole, NH, and Batsto, NJ. She married William Watson in 1772; son John Fanning Watson was born in 1779. She was a Methodist mystic and poet.
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- Format
- ["manuscript"]
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- Subjects
- ["Diaries","Women--Diaries","Walpole (N.H.)--Description and travel"]
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Memory and account of new settlers in the American woods--1762, chiefly at Walpole, N.H.
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