[23] The Journal begins at the Ohio Company’s settlement at Marietta, Ohio.
[24] They crossed the Ohio River to the present site of Williamstown, West Virginia, named from the brave and good pioneer Isaac Williams.
[25] The Monongahela Trail; see Historic Highways of America, vol. ii, pp. 122-124.
[26] For an early (1826) map of this region that is reasonably correct, see Herman Böye’s Map of Virginia in Massachusetts Historical Society Library.
[27] Near Friendsville, Maryland—named in honor of the old pioneer family; see note 10, ante; cf. Corey’s map of Virginia in his American Atlas (1805), 3d edition; also Samuel Lewis’s Map of Virginia (1794).
[28] Bellville was the earlier Flinn’s Station, Virginia.—S. P. Hildreth’s Pioneer History, p. 148.
[29] The author has, for several years, been looking for an explanation of this interesting obituary; “broadaggs” is, clearly, a corruption of “Braddock’s.” Of “atherwayes” no information is at hand; it was probably the name of a woodsman who settled here—for “bear camplain” undoubtedly means a “bare campagne,” or clearing. The word campagne was a common one among American pioneers. Cf. Harris’s Tour, p. 60. A spot halfway between Cumberland and Uniontown would be very near the point where the road crossed the Pennsylvania state-line.
[30] A reminiscent letter written in 1842 for the American Pioneer (vol. i, pp. 73-75).
[31] Historic Highways of America, vol. vii, pp. 139-148.
[32] Historic Highways of America, vol. ii, pp. 76-85.