[25] By D. Hewett’s American Traveller, the principal points on the Washington-Pittsburg route are given as follows:
| Distance. | |
| Montgomery c. h. | 14. |
| Clarksburg | 13. |
| Monocasy River | 8. |
| Fredericktown | 7. |
| Hagerstown | 27. |
| Pennsylvania State line | 8. |
| M’Connell’stown | 20. |
| Junietta River | 17. |
| Bedford | 14. |
| Stoyestown | 27. |
| Summit of Laurel Hill | 13. |
| Greensburg | 26. |
| Pittsburg | 32. |
| —— | |
| Total | 226. |
[26] Mr. Hewett gives this note of Montgomery C. H.: “This village is also called Rockville. There is an extremely bad turnpike from Washington to this place, so much so, that the man who keeps the toll house, after having taken toll, recommends travellers to go the ola road.”—p. 51.
[27] All the inns and public-houses on the road are called taverns.—Baily.
[28] Clarksburg.
[29] Hagar’s-town is ten miles from Boone’s-town.—Baily.
[30] McDowell’s Mill.
[31] Mr. Heighway, an Englishman who settled now at Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio.—History of Warren County, Ohio (Chicago, 1882), p. 412.
[32] Historic Highways of America, vol. ii, p. 109.
[33] The patriot-pioneer of Wheeling, the first settlement on the Ohio River below Pittsburg, which he founded in 1769, and where he lived until 1811. He was born in Virginia in 1747.