Here is page #2 from an 1820 journal written by my third great grandfather, Captain William Smith Brooks. You can find the first page of this diary here: Diary page 1.
In this diary, he primarily lists the places he visited, boarded, ate meals etc, although in later pages he becomes a little more verbose in his descriptions.
Here is the transcription (please let me know if you can determine the last word in the fourth line down):
| Lebanon Springs Board etc. | 2.90 |
| Nausua Breakfast | 60 |
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| 8 Albany. Dinner & Horse Credendosy[?] | 1.13 |
| 8 Waterford Sleep at Hulls | 1.16 |
| 9 Hulls Breakfast | 37 |
| 9 Schenectady Sleep etc. | 1.25 |
| 9 Amsterdam Abbott Sleep | 81 |
| 11 Johnstown Anderson B- | 38 |
| 11 Oppingham Nelles. Dinner | 25 |
| 10 Little falls Morgon Sleep | 1.36 |
| Schyler Peacock | 40 |
| 11 Deerfield. Biddlecom. Dinner | 25 |
| Sunday toles | 60 |
| 11 Utica Sleep. Bags | 1.13 |
| 12 West Moreland Crarys Break. | 34 |
| 12 Lenox. Blosson Dinner etc | 63 |
| 12 Chestewingo Cary’d Lodge etc | 1.44 |
| Here it rained and I took the Stage | 1.12 |
| To Phillips in Manulius 16 Miles to | |
| Dinner Horse Shod | 1.69 |
| 14 Mercellus Sleep | 84 |
| 14 Auburn Breakfast | 50 |
| On this route I pass’d Cauga [probably Cayuga] Bridge over 1 Mile long here the prospect of [to be continued] | |
© 2014, copyright William C. Haskell
