Notes made by Thomas Dunn, Franklin Parish, LA, Submitted by: J. Ray Bowen August 2007 Transcribed as written by: DeWanna Robinson Lindo ************************************************* Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ Notes, infrequently made by one Thomas Dunn, of his journey from Liverpool to Winnsboro, LA. He started to work for a Mr. Linch on January 17, 1859. These notes have been entered on unused pages of Mr. Dunn's account book. **************************** We sailed from Liverpool on Wednesday May the 26 about 11 oclock in the forenoon we had a very pleasant sail out ___ about 2 oclock when a strong breeze of wind came on and lasted about 3 hours it very near made all the passengers sick May 27 we had a head wind all the day and the sea was very rough I was sick toward night Friday May 28 head wind that _______________ I was a little sick on thursday night and Friday morning. Saturday 29 wind rather more favorable and a beautiful sea all the day. Sunday May 30 ____ ____ and rain all the day towards night and not a very favorable wind which ( page ends) Sunday June 6 very Foggy all the day Monday June 7 a fine clear day we came in sight of a _____ ship today Thursday June 8 we got thethe pilot on board about 9 oclock this morning it was very thick all the day Wednesday June 10 was a very beautiful clear morning I saw the sun rise the morning for the first time since I came on board I got up about four oclock I always got up about 5 oclock during the time I was on board the ship we came in sight of Land this morning it was one of the most beautiful sights i ever saw in my Life we got up the _____ to New York about 8 oclock in the morning we got breakfast for the last time the moring aboard the ship we then got our boxes examined by the custom house officers i was then put ashore into a great big building and ___ ____ ____it is a place where emigrants land and they take your name wages trades and what state we was going too they put a check on our luggage and gave us an other so we could get it put on our selfs we then went in to the town of New York and got lodgings for the night. I must say i saw one of the finest confectionary shop in New York that i ever saw in my Life there is some fine Boardings in New York Thursday June 11 a fine and very hot we went and sent our luggage off to Zeleski and booked ourselves to Parkersburg about five hundred and sixty miles from New York. it cost me rather short of two pounds and my ____ about one pound five shillings i must say that living in New York is the better than in England and it cost me about a dollar a day for our board and lodging that is if 2 in english we took steamer boat at one oclock from New York to amboy that is about 15 miles we then took the train from amboy to Philidelphia we got into Philidelphia about 9 oclock at night we got very comfortable lodgings Friday June 12 is a fine beautiful place we started away from Philidelphia by train about 8 oclock and into Baltimore about _______ We started away about 11 oclock night from Baltimore one could not get away sooner we then rode all night till 5 oclock next night we then arrived at Parkersburg and we could not get away from there till Monday morning we felt a very ______ Sunday. Monday June _____ we booked ourselves from Parkersburg to Zileski we took the steamer boat fromParkersburg to _____that is about 10 miles it was a splendid boat. We had to stop off in _____ all this day for there was not any trains returning to Zileski Thursday June 15 we started away from _____ at 6 oclock in the morning and got into Zileski about 11 oclock we soon found Mrs Longden husband he lives in a wood house he has two horses and several pigs and two large orchards and a good few acres of land trade is very bad in Zileski there plenty of work but it is stop forwant of money they have built a large blast furnice and a large hotel a saw mill and some fitting shops but they are all stop for want of money if we had come last summer we should have got work directly here Wednesday June 16 we had a walk into the woods today there is thousands of frogs here they make a noise the same as a pack ofhounds at night and there is some of them about 15 inches long there is a vast of crickets here in the fields whistle very loud they call the frogs and crickets the american band of music Thursday June 17 -------------- (end of page) ****************************************** I started work for Mr.Linch on the 17 of January 1859 at Winsbro in Franklin Parish in the state of Lousiana North America. I want $25 c10 from John Willis for wages. I started... ************************ During the time that i was in New Orleans i recieved 44 Dollars & 30 cents for work that i had done during the time i was in Saint Louis i recieved about 120 Dollars. ********************************** I started from saint Louis to New Orleans on the 13th of November 1858 I started from Zoleski on the 6th of July for saint Louis I started from New Orleans to Winsbro on the 7th of January ******************************************* I started work for Mr Willis on the 3rd of Febuary 1859 ****************************** Willis ____ house took fire on the 23rd. of ___ 1859 ******************** I started again for Mr Willis on the 5th. of May. *********************** I went to New York Monday October the 3rd. ********************** I started work again on October 27th. ***************** I started work for Mr. Robert Flowers on Friday January the 27 th. ***************** Due to J. T. Dunn for building a hospitalfor ____ _____Flowers October 5th. 1860 $70 C 40 ******************************