[13] This point is pretty definitely determined in the Journal. We are told that the mouth of Stony River (now Stony Creek) was four miles below McCulloch’s crossing. This would locate the latter near the present site of Fort Pendleton, Garrett County, Maryland, the point where the old Northwestern Turnpike crossed the North Branch.
[14] Greeland Gap, Grant County, West Virginia.
[15] Knobby Mountain.
[16] Near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia.
[17] Mt. Storm, Grant County. The Old Northwestern Turnpike bears northeast from here to Claysville, Burlington and Romney. Washington’s route was southwest along the line of the present road to Moorefield. Evidently the buffalo trace bore southwest on the watershed between Stony River and Abraham’s Creek—White’s West Virginia Atlas (1873), p. 26. Bradley’s Map of United States (1804) shows a road from Morgantown to Romney; also a “Western Fort” at the crossing-place of the Youghiogheny.
[18] Dunkard’s Bottom, in Portland Township, Preston County, West Virginia, was settled about 1755 by Dr. Thomas Eckarly and brothers who traversed the old path to Fort Pleasant on South Branch.—Thwaites’s edition of Withers’s Chronicles of Border Warfare (1895), pp. 75-76.
[19] Laws of Virginia (1826-1827), pp. 85-87.
[20] Laws of Virginia (1831), pp. 153-158; Journal of the Senate ... of Virginia (1830-31), p. 165.
[21] See Historic Highways of America, vol. ix, pp. 60-64.
[22] Journal of Thomas Wallcutt in 1790, edited by George Dexter (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, October, 1879).