Notes on a Journey in America: From the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois, to Which Is Added Letters from Illinois

by Morris Birkbeck

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114 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1918

About the author

Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) was an English agricultural innovator, author/publicist, anti-slavery campaigner and early 19th-century pioneer in southern Illinois, in the United States. With George Flower he founded the English Settlement and the town of Albion, Illinois, and served briefly as the Secretary of State of Illinois.

Reviews

[Humphrey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Birkbeck's notes are diary-form, and they somewhat-endearingly are staged to track his own transformation from Englishman to American. His account is interesting for this reason, the care with which he undertook the project, and the fact that he traveled over land rather than by the Ohio River, as so many other contemporary chroniclers did.