Crossman Family diaries,
Ferdinand Joseph Fuller Crossman (1834-1864), the son of Martin Luther ( -1855) and Experience Robbins Crossman ( -1834) of Sutton, Massachusetts, settled on a small farm in South Sutton, Massachusetts, worked occasionally in the P. Whitin and Sons cotton mill in Whitinsville, Massachusetts, and per...
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| Format: | Kit |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Alexandria, Va. :
Alexander Street Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society.
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| Summary: | Ferdinand Joseph Fuller Crossman (1834-1864), the son of Martin Luther ( -1855) and Experience Robbins Crossman ( -1834) of Sutton, Massachusetts, settled on a small farm in South Sutton, Massachusetts, worked occasionally in the P. Whitin and Sons cotton mill in Whitinsville, Massachusetts, and performed various jobs for others. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in May 1864. He died at Andersonville prison in Georgia on 1 August 1864. Crossman married, in 1855, Adelaide Isham (1837-1892) of Williston, Vermont; they had three children. Adelaide Isham Crossman married Frederick P. Burr (1848- ), c. 1866, and moved eventually to Lawrence, Kansas, where she died in 1892. The diaries were kept primarily by Adelaide, although the greater part of the first volume, 1855, was kept by Ferdinand. The last volume, 1867, was written by Adelaide, but contains several passages written by Frederick. The diaries contain rather terse daily entries, but they provide information concerning life on a small farm in central Massachusetts during the middle part of the nineteenth century. They also include cash accounts interspersed among the entries and listed at the end of each volume. The 1864 account list includes recipes; the 1856 diary contains a loose receipt with two pencil sketches on the verso; and the volume for 1867 contains seven newsclippings of romantic poems. |
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| Item Description: | Online collection includes 863 images of documents. Title from HTML t.p. (viewed Mar. 25, 2011). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |