Resurrecting the First American West

Jones - baited & had bread & milk - 62 rain 31 Few lodged drunken puppy B & S - 4 blacksmith Pas horse - 12 Rain June 1 Cambridge toll bridge - 25 New axle tree - 1 Blacksmith - 1-50 Supper & lodging & breakfast - 3-87 washing - 75 Mending Charles boots - 12 Busk for Elizabeth - 6 Baited at Washington - 25 Fair June 2 Belated & lodged at a private house David Wherry 1-62 Breakfast at Gills - 1-37 1/2 Baited at Morristown - 62 1/2 Blacksmith for waggon & horse - 75 June 3 Lodged at Sharpless B. & S. - 3.62 Ferrage across the Ohio - 87 1/2 Baited at Wheeling - 37 1/2 June 4 suppd and lodged at Beals - 2-50 Breakfast at Clays mille - 1-50 Baited horse Washington Morris - 37 1/2 Cakes - 6 June 5 Lodged at Cannonsburg S. & B. - 3.50 Fed horses at Hays - 37 At the bridge Pittsburg - 43 Freight of trunk - 2 Postage letter from Ky - 18 4 mile tavern lodged suppd 3.37 1/2 Blacksmith - 37 1/2 36.38 1/2

Monongahail river Redstone & Dunlaps Creek all here Washington County Adams Ordinary 2 Washington Town - 23 or Catfish - Wheeling on fork - - 35 Red Stone

Left Old Fork thursday 30th Sept, monongahail bearing N E from S W. pretty bottom a few High Hills on the way

encrease in sign [going?] fort 90 miles from ye Fort Red Stone [?] - a pretty situation as you leave the fort is [Yoh? York?] abo^t 20 miles abov Rams from [Lock?]. Alega. emptys in [the consor?] Ohio bears from y^e fort. abo^t ^N W. an Island just below. keep right side. keep close under the [?] of [Aleg^a?] as you get in the Ohio. here sun set the sun set Oct 2^d two small Islands about 20 miles down keep right side - 10 miles lower