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Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s Journal, England, Wales and Ireland, 1822-1823, page 29
The town of Oxford
this town is forty mildes [miles] from london [London] and containes [contains]
thirty thousen [thousand] inhabitentes [inhabitants] suitatited [situated] on the side of
the River tames [Thames] It is helthey [healthy] and a greable [agreable]
the buildinges [buildings] thare [there] for the purpes [purpose] of lerning [learning]
Studantes [students] + thare [there] are fiftene [fifteen] hundred Students
Sum [some] lerning [learning] to be lawyars [lawyers] and otheres [others] to be prechers [preachers]
those are chefley [chiefly] lordes [lords] Sunes [sons] and great gentlemens
Sunes [sons] thay [they] are a rude Set of fellors [fellows] thay [they] ware [wear]
All goundes [gowns] and kapes [capes] to Distiungish [distinguish] them from
the other town people Som [some] times thay [they] git [get] afiting [fighting]
With the towens [town’s] people five or six hundred at
a time then thay [they] make bludey [bloody] work thay [they]
have to keepe [keep] solgers [soldiers] Constentley [constantly] thare [there] to keepe [keep]
Orders with them when the solgers [soldiers] aperes [appears] the
Mob Dispurses amedintley [immediately] to thar [their] quarters
I stopid [stopped] thare [there] three weekes [weeks] Dun [done] torable [tolerable] wall [well]
Concidring [considering] the weather [weather] was so bad left thare [there]
for Bath seventy two mildes [miles]
this town is forty mildes [miles] from london [London] and containes [contains]
thirty thousen [thousand] inhabitentes [inhabitants] suitatited [situated] on the side of
the River tames [Thames] It is helthey [healthy] and a greable [agreable]
the buildinges [buildings] thare [there] for the purpes [purpose] of lerning [learning]
Studantes [students] + thare [there] are fiftene [fifteen] hundred Students
Sum [some] lerning [learning] to be lawyars [lawyers] and otheres [others] to be prechers [preachers]
those are chefley [chiefly] lordes [lords] Sunes [sons] and great gentlemens
Sunes [sons] thay [they] are a rude Set of fellors [fellows] thay [they] ware [wear]
All goundes [gowns] and kapes [capes] to Distiungish [distinguish] them from
the other town people Som [some] times thay [they] git [get] afiting [fighting]
With the towens [town’s] people five or six hundred at
a time then thay [they] make bludey [bloody] work thay [they]
have to keepe [keep] solgers [soldiers] Constentley [constantly] thare [there] to keepe [keep]
Orders with them when the solgers [soldiers] aperes [appears] the
Mob Dispurses amedintley [immediately] to thar [their] quarters
I stopid [stopped] thare [there] three weekes [weeks] Dun [done] torable [tolerable] wall [well]
Concidring [considering] the weather [weather] was so bad left thare [there]
for Bath seventy two mildes [miles]
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Samuel Hadlock, Jr of Islesford, Maine, documented his travels in England, Ireland, and Wales, where he exhibited a family of Inuit people, and later also Romani people, as entertainment.
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Acadia National Park, Maine
Latitude: 44.3593788146973, Longitude: -68.2397308349609
NPS Museum Catalog Number : ACAD_30972
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Title: William Otis Sawtelle Collection 1692-1941
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Address: Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor ME
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Email: Acadia_Collections@nps.gov
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