Journal of the travels of Colonel John Boykin and Francis P. Lee from Morristown, New Jersey to Camden, South Carolina, August 15, 1833 - September, 1833

Mss.917.3.B69

Date: 1833 | Size: 1 volume(s), 1 volume, 24 p.
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Abstract

This is an account of overland and water travel between Morristown, New Jersey and Camden, South Carolina. It includes interesting information on the travel conditions of the time. The name Francis P. Lee appears at the end of the last journal entry.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 volume, 24 p.

Provenance

Gift from the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and accessioned, 04/--/1967 (1967 821ms).

Early American History Note

This journal is a short but interesting account of travel in antebellum America. The author of the journal is Francis P. Lee. Lee appears to be a young adult or teenager at the time. The journal begins on August 15, 1833 in Morristown and ends in Camden, S.C. on September 5. The journal details this trip. The journal writer, Francis P. Lee, is traveling with his father and others. The group, which appears to have been composed of members of the same family, traveled on a mix of overland coaches and steamboats. There are many observations on the social and cultural life of areas they passed through as well as details on what travel was like in the 1830s. The daily entries are very detailed and recount both the personal dynamics between the travelers and observations about the towns and people they meet along the way.

Francis Lee became an ordained Episcopal minister in 1836 in Philadelphia, headed a diocese in Tallahassee, Florida until 1841, returned to Camden in 1842 as a minister, and then traveled to Alabama to preach at a church there.

Indexing Terms


Genre(s)

  • Journals (notebooks).
  • Travel Narratives and Journals

Geographic Name(s)

  • Baltimore (Md.) -- Description and travel.
  • Camden (S.C.) -- Description and travel.
  • Charlotte (N.C.) -- Description and travel.
  • Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
  • South Atlantic States -- Description and travel.
  • United States - Description and travel

Subject(s)

  • Morristown (N.J.) - Description and travel
  • Travel
  • Travel.
  • Voyages and travels.