The Reuben King journal, 1800-1806
By: edited by Virginia Steele Wood and Ralph Van Wood.
Contributors: Wood, Virginia S.; Wood, Ralph V.; Georgia Historical Society.
Series: Collections of the Georgia Historical Society ;; v. 15; Collections (Georgia Historical Society) ;; v. 15.
Publisher: Georgia Historical Society
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Savannah, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: King, Reuben, 1779-1867 -- Diaries.; Pioneers -- Georgia -- Diaries.; Georgia -- Social life and customs.; Georgia -- Biography.
Description: Kings’s journal is a young man's unpretentious and poignant chronicle of daily life on the Georgia coast.    Upon completing his apprenticeship in the tannery trade, Reuben King leaves his childhood home in Connecticut.    Initially he heads to the west of the Alleghenies, but then travels to a small port town on the coast of Georgia, where his elder brother, Roswell, is well established.    While his brother manages the large rice plantations of Pierce Butler,  Reuben pursues his humble trade of tanning hides, where shaving bark off of oak trees is his most oft cited event.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.