John Steele's Journal

Journal Kept by John H. Steele on a Journey from Peterborough, N.H. to Salisbury, North Carolina in the Months of November & December 1838

edited by John Lindenbusch

John Hardy Steele (1789 - 1865) was a prominent textile manufacturer here in Peterborough who was later governor of New Hampshire. This booklet chronicles his two-month journey from Peterborough to his native Salisbury in 1838.

This transcription is a wonderful primary source of one man's thoughts of that time.

 

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