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List of expenses for a trip from Kentucky to the Northeast, 1822

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Dol[lars] 22 started in Paris paid - 3.25 staid at Arnetts B & S - 4 Rain 23 Blue Lick ferrage - 25 Broke down - repairs - 56 Moore - baiting horses - 50 Anderson Mays lick lodged E thrown 5.25 Rain 24 Limestone paid Langhorne - 1 Breakfast at Stithes - 2 Ferrage - 1 Whiskey - 12 lodged at John Means 10 miles from Limestone - B & S - 3.50 Rain 25 West Union baited horses 50 Brush - creek - 2 crossed to Breakfast & paid for ferrage selves & horses - 1-50 Rain 26 Middletown baited - 50 lodged at Willis B & S - 4 Fair 27 paint creek ferrage - 37 1/2 Mrs Porter baited horses - 50 at Chilicothe bridge - 62 1/2 Thunder shower 28 lodged at Mays B & S - 3.50 Met a poor woman - 1 At Tarlton baited - 50 Lancaster lodged - 2-50 shower 29 Marquat break fast - 1-37 Somerset repair wheel - 25 Porters lodged B & S - 3-50 washing - 62 rain 30 Zanesville bridge - 56 45.23

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William Brown's memorandum book, 1790

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[insert- Sunday 10 states?] from Limestone to Washington is 4 miles bad Hilly road thence to Mays Lick 4 miles to Blue Lick 12 to Baurbon 20 to Limestone 20- crossing 3 branches of Licking the forks of Elk from wagot to Limestone about 2 oClock saturday night the 9th Oct the country this far is gen erally poorly timberd & very muddy from Limton to [Curd?] Ferry, at the across Kentuck at the mo of Dicks R. 22 some poor land places pretty well Timberd. thence to Harrod burgs 11 miles poor land but muddy thence to Wilson 27 miles crossing several branches of Salt R. between the fork of Chaplain Cr & another branch of S. R abot seven miles back from Wilson is a beautifull tract of well timberd Land poplar Ash &c very rich from Wilson to the [?] fork is abot 13 miles thence to Beards town 7 miles thence to the fork again [?] Beards Town stand in the Bend of the Cr wh is about 51 yds [wide?]

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