1867-07-19-Hudson
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Autobiographical sketch of Mary C. Simmons
Simmons, Mary C. Autobiographical sketch (formerly in Msd 2050), pp. 1-2.
. . . With my parents and brothers William and Harry and sister Nellie we crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the sailing vessel the Hudson embarking at Liverpool June 20th, 1867. We were fifty-eight days crossing the Atlantic. …
My parents were advised to stay in Brooklyn for a year because it was unsafe to journey west at this time, as the Indians were on the warpath through the Black Hills that year. My father and brothers obtained work in Brooklyn and the next year we started across the plains…
