Collection: Samuel Woodbury Letter | Archival Collection Guides

A letter dated February 16, 1845 in which Samuel Woodbury, writing to his brother J.C. Woodbury, Esq. of Haverhill, New Hampshire, recounts the partly overland trip which included three voyages, one of them passage from Pittsburg to New Orleans.

Dates

1845-02-16

Biographical / Historical

Samuel Woodbury sends this letter to his brother from the town of Gainesville, Alabama. At the time the letter was written in 1845, Gainesville had a population of more than 4,000 and was the third largest town in the state. In the letter, Woodbury refers to cotton as the only commodity in the area. In fact, Gainesville shipped 6,000 bales of cotton to Mobile each year at this time in history. Woodbury begins his journey departing from Boston, a city with a population of 114,366 in 1854. The letter does not mention the length of time Woodbury expects to stay in Alabama, but says that if he does not find good prospects for work, he would return 'home' one or two months sooner.

Extent

1 Items

Language of Materials

English

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Guide to the Samuel Woodbury Letter
Subtitle: Record Group 1261
Status: Under Revision
Author: Processed by Lisa Glasscock. Finding aid added to ArchivesSpace by Elizabeth Bates, October 22, 2019.
Date: 2018-05-15
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin