Scope and Contents The writer of the diary is Amanda Crossman who was born as Amanda M. Burlingame in Governuer, St Lawrence, New York, USA on 15 July, 1818. She married Luther G. Crossman in West Bloomfield, Ontario, New York, USA on 19 April, 1837 until his death in 1879. The two lived for the majority of their lives in the town of Marengo in Calhoun County Michigan and had eight children starting with John Sidney (who died in infancy), George Harvey, Montgomery, Caroline (who died when she was five years...