The Journal of Samuel Vaughan, June - September 1787

The scrap of paper pasted in at this place is a list, probably, of the children of [Mr??] Benjamin Vaughan, son of the writer of this journal, who came over to this country the year in which the memo was made, 1796, & who died at Hellawell in 1835, [??], 84. The list contains the several ages & weights of the children at this time - 1796 -

1787

7 neither so industreous, sober, or well informed in farming as the Germans who are the most valuable settlers.

To Lewisbourgh (lately [Left margin] 144 called Harristown) on the other side of the Susquahannah, a good road, the ferry 1 mile 10 rood wide; horse [1f?], light waggon [5f?] Loaded 7/6, plenty of Salmon Rock, pike trout & passed a delightful Island, cultivated & richly wooded, 3 1/2 miles distant Consecongens creek on which are many mills, has about 200 real houses some brick & many good Loghouses of two stories & likely to encrease [Left margin] 4

June 25 . . . To Carlisle town & borough, Cumberland County well cultivated in the town 500 houses a few brick but mostly of blue lime stone, well built generally 2 story high, the Lots 60 front 240 deep, a Court house, Goal Market, Episcopal, Presbeterean & a German Church, - Dickensons College lately founded at present 70 Students, 35 attend the Classicks, Chronoly & Geogra, 20' natural philosophy - 12 good houses now building, a Red soil on a blue lime stone - 1/2 mile from the town, theres large range of good brick buildings for stores &c. each 282 feet long 24 broad Do. Barracks of like dementions, hospital Magazine Foundery &c. of stone all built during the War & to which the Aca College is to be removed, when fitted for the purpose, Latent spring, running about 80 or 100 yards to the Westward, on which are Mills ^{vide plan page 68} -- they have a tollerable [Left margin] on the next page library & apparatus for Natural Philosop. [Left margin] Oct 26 Elect. Mashene [????opes] vide plan of Buildings [Right margin] 16 To Shipingsbourgh 500 houses mostly Log, at the end [Left margin] [symbol] of which is middle spring on which are 2 mills - [Right margin] 21 [Right margin] 185