JOURNAL OF TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSING BY GEORGE TURNER OF TITHERINGTON CHESHIRE

Description: JOURNAL OF A TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSING BY GEORGE TURNER OF TITHERINGTON, CHESHIRE AND HIS FAMILY, TO THEIR NEW HOME IN BERNE, ALBANY COUNTY, NEW YORK, IN 1832, kept in the pages of his business ledger Author: TURNER, George (1773-1833) Title: JOURNAL OF A TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSING BY GEORGE TURNER OF TITHERINGTON, CHESHIRE AND HIS FAMILY, TO THEIR NEW HOME IN BERNE, ALBANY COUNTY, NEW YORK, IN 1832, kept in the pages of his business ledger Publication: [various places: 1797-1804, 1832-33] Description: Olive green wallet-style leather ledger/journal, with a metal clasp. 15 x 10 cm., approx. 117 pp. George Turner's ledger first records his business and farming transactions in Titherington [Tytherington], Cheshire, England, dos-a-dos in the front and rear pages [approx. 78 pp. total], between 1798 - 1804. Then using another 39 pp. in the middle of the book he records his family's trip across the Atlantic to resettle in New York State in 1832. Very good, legible.Turner's farming accounts are brief entries mentioning dealings in veal, potatoes, manure, coal and other sundries with neighbors and customers. He mentions transactions with Thos. Smallwood & Co.; Edw. Hawkins, Mills; Doctor Stone; Jones & Braddock; George Ashley & Co.; Thos. & Simon Ashworth; Laurence Wagstaff; Braddock & Edge; and others, and nearby locations, Macclesfield; Roial [sic] Oak; Hurdsfield; Backstreet, etc. Beginning in 1832, he commences his travel journal: "Left Titherington 9 June 1832 to sail for American by the ship Glasgow." He and his wife and numerous children traveled about 32 miles the first day to Rainhill, spending two nights at P. Robinson's. They paid John Middleton for a cart and horse, then on 12 June they reimbursed a Mr. Jackson 37.0.0 for their Passage Money, part of which had been previously paid by J. James. They purchased some items for their journey including utensils, a chamber pot, ink stand, pen knife blade, corkscrew, and a lantern. On 16 June, "[w]e left Georges Dock all in good health and good spirits went about 1 mile down river here the capt. anchor till 2 o'clock 18th p.m." Their journey across the Atlantic commenced on June 18, and the journal becomes a record of who was terribly seasick and who was tolerably so. His wife seemed to be most sorely plagued. At one point, June 23, he notes grimly that "[w]e were all so bad that we could not wait one on another nor fetch our water nor empty our own potts." By July 12 they were about 200 miles from the Newfoundland Banks but the seas were still rough. On July 20, Captain Theaser of the Glasgow recorded all of their names, a list Turner repeats here: "George Turner, 57, Farmer, Cheshire; Dorothy Turner, 46..." [plus six children, aged 3 - 16; and a married daughter Elizabeth, 21, a silk weaver, and her husband John Milner, 30, a farmer]. He also gives a recipe for "A Sure Cure for Rumatic, by Thomas D[emey?], which lists salt petre and vinegar as part of the mixture. The trip took six weeks and they arrived at the "Quarrentine Ground" in New York on July 28. The doctor approved their passage into the city on July 31 where they purchased a few things, including spelling books and writing paper, before taking passage to Albany. From there they set off in two wagons for Peter Turner's farm in Berne, New York where they were to settle. They moved into the house [perhaps an inheritance] and over the next several months, Turner records purchases of household goods and provisions from Caleb Tompkins to outfit his new home. In January 1833 he buys another 167 acres of land for $1700. In April of the same year he purchases 25 apple trees. The last entry on June 22, 1833 lists the purchase of 10 lbs. of potatoes. The family was settling in. Tytherington [spelled here Titherington], along with the rest of England, experienced changes to its traditional patterns of life with the coming of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. According to "The Story of Rainow," compiled by the Rainow Women's Institute, [Macclesfield, Cheshire: nd, pp.51-2]: "Up to this time industry had been limited to the home, including the rural areas. The invention of machines, especially the cotton industry, led to the building of mills wherever a suitable supply of water could be found to drive a water wheel. The result was that industry was taken from the home and concentrated in the mills with the exception of some handloom silk weaving." An act of Parliament in 1796 authorized the enclosure of common lands in the area, a process that was essentially completed by the 1840s. The share each farm was alloted "varied according to the rights each farm had on it." Perhaps this affected Turner's decision to move to America or perhaps he inherited Peter Turner's farm in New York State at just the right moment. His own time there was brief. The family burial ground in Berne, Albany Co., New York, records that George Turner died on Oct. 10, 1833. Seller ID: 69077 Subject: Americana, British History, Travel We are a Washington, D.C. based bookstore in business for over 40 years. We specialize in Americana and general Antiquarian books. Terms All orders ship within three business days. Standard mail is USPS Priority Mail. Expedited and international shipping are also available. We offer combined shipping on multiple orders. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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