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Typescript copy of journals kept by John Borland, emigrant to the USA.
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Identifier: Acc.14314
Scope and Contents
The typescript, compiled by Borland's granddaughter Chloe Kearns, comprises a copy of Borland's reminiscences about his early life in Scotland and the lives of his children, apparently written on or after June 1882, and a copy of Borland's journal of his passage from Stewarton, East Ayrshire, to the United States of America, followed by a trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, in 1843. With photographs of John Borland and his wife Mary Borland, née Jamison, and...
Dates:
1843, 1882