Description: If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
I have written about a vessel named the Ariosto before – you can click here to check out the post if you haven’t read it.
It was common in days past for people from the same village or city to travel together to settle in a new place. This is what proved to be the case for several families traveling from Germany to America on the Ariosto . A total of 37 people emigrated on this ship from the Darmstadt, Hesse region of Germany to the same community in Randolph and Suffield Townships, Portage County, Ohio. I could not locate a picture of the Ariosto, but the ullustration above shows us what life would look like during such an oc
While researching on Ancestry.com, I found a document showing that the Ariosto arrived in the port of New York on 16 Oct 1839 after departing from Antwerp, Belgium. The Ariost o ‘s home port was Boston, Massachusetts and her captain was Daniel T. Lothrop.