Excerpt from Reminiscences, Sporting and Otherwise, of Early Days in Rockford, IllHis chief occupation, up to the time of his father's death, soon after which he sailed for the United States, was farming. Prior to this time he was married to Miss Lavina Atkins, daughter of Mr. John Atkins, a farmer living at Whitcomb, parish of Minehead his mother was still living.I sailed from Bristol in May, 1832, on board the bark Charlotte, the voyage was a tedious one of seven weeks and three days. We landed in New York at the breaking out of the cholera. There had been forty deaths on board a French vessel that spoke us at sea.I had letters of introduction to parties ih New York, but the city was terror stricken, and business at a standstill, and no hope of em ployment. We were advised to go on west, after remaining in New York a few days we concluded to do so. Arrived at Troy, I soon found employment, but this lasted only a short time, as thousands had left, and were daily leaving, on account of the cholera, which had already reached the city, and was rapidly spreading. There was nothing doing, and it would not do for us to be idle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.