Aaron Hamton Diary Transcript, 1813
Pocket diary of a journey taken by the author and several fellow Quakers from Kingswood, NJ to a settlement that is now in Erie County. It provides detailed descriptions of frontier and pioneer life; the social life and customs of native peoples, particularly the Seneca Indians on the Buffalo Creek Reservation. The diary provides many details of the Quaker settlement situated along Eighteen Mile Creek in the Holland Purchase. Original is at the New York State Library.