A New England Woman's Perspective on Norfolk, Virginia, 1801-1802: Excerpts From the Diary of Ruth Henshaw Bascom.

Ruth Henshaw Bascom kept diaries of her Atlantic seaboard travels from 1799 to 1846. This excerpt is that of an unmarried woman, and reveals the place of Yankee merchants in the Virginia grain trade and the Yankee enclave that dominated Norfolk until the early 19th century. In 1802 Ruth Henshaw returned, with great relief, to Attleborough, Massachusetts. Primary and secondary sources; map, 51 notes.