The Diary of Charles Fothergill, 1805: An Itinerary to York, Flamborough and the North-Western Dales of Yorkshire

"The document published here in Fothergill's diary of his adventures as he perambulated the county of Yorkshire between May 1805 and January 1806. It is the record of a young Yorkshire Quaker, of yeoman roots and bourgeois estate, in search of the history, antiquities, folk- lore, customs and other phenomena, both "natural" and "civil," of his native county." (p. 6) Charles Fothergill (1782-1840) married Charlotte Nevins in 1811, and in 1816 they immigrated to Upper Canada, and eventually settled in Toronto, Ontario.