Journals, 1785-1840. [Microform]

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Journals, 1785-1840. [Microform]

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Describes her life as a lady of means on the island of Little Cumbray off the coast of Ayrshire, Scotland in the last decades of the 18th century; then, her marriage to James Archbald III and emigration to the Mohawk Valley in 1807 after which she records the hard but happy life of a wife and mother in a farming community in western New York during the first half of the 19th century.

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Archbald, Mary Ann Wodrow, 1762-1841

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Immigrant; Farmer; Homemaker; Pioneer. Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald, daughter of Rev. Robert Wodrow and Anne Ruthven, was born in 1762 and raised on Little Cumbrae, an island off the coast of Ayrshire, Scotland. She married James Archbald in 1789. They had a successful farm in Little Cumbrae and she produced textiles, knitted products and wove thread for professional weavers and tailors. In 1807 they emigrated to Mohawk Valley near present day Auriesville, New York. Mary Ann was an avid reader and w...