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In the autumn and winter of the year 1704, Madam Sarah Knight,
a resident of Boston, made a journey on horseback from Boston to
New York, and returned in the same manner. It was a journey difficult
and perilous, “full of buggbears to a fearfull female travailler,” and
which “startled a masculine courage,” but which was performed by
this woman with the company and protection only of hired guides,
the “Western Post,” or whatever chance traveller she might find
journeying her way, at a time when brave men feared to travel
through New England, and asked for public prayers in church before
starting on a journey of twenty miles. She was probably the first
woman who made such a journey, in such a manner, in this country.
Madam Knight was the daughter of Captain Kemble, of Boston,
who was in 1656 set two hours in the public stocks as a punishment
for his “lewd and unseemly behavior,” which consisted in his kissing
his wife “publicquely” on the Sabbath Day, upon the doorstep of his
house, when he had just returned from a voyage and absence of
three years.
The diary which Madam kept on this eventful trip contains the
names of no persons of great historical interest, though many of
historical mention; but it is such a vivacious and sprightly picture of
the customs of the time, and such a valuable description of localities
as they then appeared, that it has an historical interest of its own,
and is a welcome addition to the few diaries and records of the times
which we possess.
Everything was not all serene and pleasant in the years 1704 and
1705 in New England. Events had occurred which could not have
been cheerful for Madam Knight to think of when riding through the
lonely Narragansett woods and along the shores of the Sound. News
of the frightful Indian massacre at Deerfield had chilled the very
hearts of the colonists. At Northampton shocking and most
unexpected cruelties had been perpetrated by the red men. At
Lancaster, not any too far from Boston, the Indians had been most
obstreperous. We can imagine Madam Knight had no very pleasant
thoughts of these horrors when she wrote her description of the red
men whom she saw in such numbers in Connecticut. Bears and
wolves, too, abounded in the lonely woods of Massachusetts and
Connecticut. The howls of wolves were heard every night, and
rewards were paid by New England towns for the heads of wolves
that were killed, provided the heads were brought into town and
nailed to the side of the meeting-house. Twenty-one years later than
Madam Knight’s journey, in 1725, twenty bears were killed in one
week in September, within two miles of Boston, so says the History
of Roxbury; and all through the eighteenth century bears were
hunted and killed in upper Narragansett. Hence “buggbears” were
not the only bears to be dreaded on the lonely journey.
The year 1704 was memorable also because it gave birth to the
first newspaper in the colonies, the Boston News-Letter. Only a few
copies were printed each week, and each copy contained but four or
five square feet of print, and the first number contained but one
advertisement—that of the man who printed it.
When Madam Knight’s journal was published in New York by Mr.
Theodore Dwight, in 1825, the editor knew nothing of the diarist, not
even her family name; hence it was confidently believed by many
that the journal was merely a clever and entertaining fiction. In 1852,
however, Miss Caulkins published her history of the town of New
London, and contradicted that belief, for she gave an account of the
last days of Madam Knight, which were spent in Norwich and New
London. Madam Knight’s daughter married the Colonel Livingston
who is mentioned in the journal, and left no children. From a
descendant of Mrs. Livingston’s administratrix, Mrs. Christopher, the
manuscript of the journal was obtained for publication in 1825, it
having been carefully preserved all those years. In Blackwood’s
Magazine for the same year an article appeared, entitled Travelling
in America, which reprinted nearly all of Madam Knight’s journal, and
which showed a high appreciation of its literary and historical merits.
In 1858 it was again printed by request in Littell’s Living Age, with
some notes of Madam Knight’s life, chiefly compiled from Miss
Caulkins’ History of New London, and again provoked much inquiry
and discussion. Recently a large portion of the journal has been
reprinted in the Library of American Literature, with many alterations,
however, in the spelling, use of capitals, and punctuation, thus
detracting much from the interest and quaintness of the work; and
most unnecessarily, since it is perfectly easy to read and understand
it as first printed, when, as the editor said, “the original orthography
was carefully preserved for fear of introducing any unwarrantable
modernism.”
The first edition is now seldom seen for sale, and being rare is
consequently high-priced. The little shabby, salmon-colored copy of
the book which I saw was made interesting by two manuscript
accounts of Sarah Knight, which were inserted at the end of the
book, and which are very valuable, since they give positive proof of
the reality of the fair traveller, as well as additional facts of her life.
The first account was in a fine old-fashioned, unpunctuated
handwriting, on yellow, time-stained paper, and read thus:—
Madam Knight was born in Boston She was the daughter of
Capt. Kemble who was a rich merchant of Boston he was a
native of Great Britain settled in Boston built him a large
house for that day near New North Square in the year 1676
this daughter Sarah Kemble was married to a son of a
London trader by the name of Knight he died abroad and left
her a smart young widow in October 1703 she made a
journey to New York to claim some property of his there. She
returned on horse-backe March 1705 Soon after her return
she opened a school for children Dr. Frankelin and Dr Saml
Mather secured their first rudiments of Education from her her
parents both died and as She was the only child they left she
continued to keep school in the Mansion house till the year
1714. She then sold the estate to Peter Papillion he died not
long after in the year 1736 Thomas Hutchinson Esqr
purchased the estate of John Wolcott, who was administrator
of the Papillion estate Mr Hutchinson gave the estate to his
daughter Hannah who was the wife of Dr Saml Mather. The
force of Madam Knight’s Diamond Ring was displayed on
several panes of glass in the old house in the year 1763 Dr
Mather had the house new glazed and one pane of glass was
preserved as a curiosity for years till 1775 it was lost at the
conflagration when Charlestown was burnt by the British June
17th. The lines on the pane of glass were committed to
memory by the present writer. She was an original genius our
ideas of Madam are formed from hearing Dr Frankelin and Dr
Mather converse about their old school misstress
And I know not but my wishes took effect for the dispute
soon ended with tother Dram.
To one who, unused to venturing abroad in boats on stormy
waters, has trusted her bodily safety to one of those ticklish Indian
vehicles, a canoe, this vivid account of the sensations of an early
female colonist in a similar situation may prove of interest; nor do I
think, after the lapse of centuries, could the description be improved
by the added words of our newer and more profuse vocabulary:—