Rebecca Burlend
Rebecca Burlend is the author of A True Picture of Emigration, a journal and guide written during the period of 1831–1845. She published it anonymously in 1848, receiving credit for the work in 1936.
Rebecca, her husband John, and five of her seven children left their home in Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, England for Pike County, Illinois, in 1831. Like many settlers arriving in the wilds of North America at the time, she and her family experienced numerous problems before finally achieving stability and success.
