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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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A new English settlement is emerging in Illinois, about 50 miles from Morris Birkbeck's prairie settlement and 10 miles from the Ohio River. Mr. Currie from Wellingborough, England, bought 10,000 acres and plans to recruit agricultureists from England. Pennsylvania Quakers have entered 36 quarter sections nearby, with daily emigrant arrivals. The settlement is healthy, contrary to prior claims, and winter has been fine up to January 18.
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From some secret cause, it appears another settlement is growing out of the prairie settlement of Morris Birkbeck. Several who went to join him, have now formed a "New English Settlement," about fifty miles distant from the prairies. and within ten miles of the Ohio river. A Mr. Currie, from Wellingborough, England, has purchased 10,000 acres of land, and intends going to England early this spring to bring out a number of agricultureists, to settle upon it. Thirty six quarter sections are also entered by Pennsylvanian friends, (quakers) near the spot, and a great number of families are going out to settle thereon. The account states, that there are almost daily arrivals of persons emigrating or migrating into these western wilds. Contrary to the calculations of the writer on Birkbeck's Letters, in the "Village Record," on the unhealthiness of that spot ; who indeed seems to have had an interested eye on Susquehannah county, Pennsylvania, the settlement has been remarkably healthy: the children being hearty, hale, and rosy, as when in England.
The winter had been unusually fine up to 18th January.
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Illinois
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Up To 18th January
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settlement remarkably healthy with hearty children; unusually fine winter
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Another settlement growing from Morris Birkbeck's prairie settlement; New English Settlement formed 50 miles distant from prairies and 10 miles from Ohio river; Mr. Currie purchased 10,000 acres and plans to bring agricultureists from England; 36 quarter sections entered by Pennsylvanian Quakers nearby; daily arrivals of emigrants; healthy contrary to prior unhealthiness claims