The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830

by Hazel Yearsley Shaw

Faux, W., Memorable Days, Early W. Travels, XI., 171, 196-197. Complains of the expense.

[510] Fordham, E. P., Travels, 118.

[511] Ibid., A journey from New Orleans up the Mississippi cost $90. Fearon, H. B., Journey, 337-338. Quoted from M. Birkbeck's letter of November 29, 1817.

Fordham, E. P., Travels, 59. The wagons from Baltimore to Pittsburg, made the journey of 240 miles in 16 days.

Fearon, H. B., Journey, 452-453.

[512] Flint, J., Letters, Early W. Travels, IX., 98, 74, 68, 101. Discusses the expense of traveling.

Faux, W., Memorable Days, Early W. Travels, XI., 198. Passage in steamboat from an eastern port to New Orleans was $200.

[513] Fearon, H. B., Journey, 196.

Ibid., 188. He speaks of meeting 20 wagons containing families from Massachusetts, Jersey, and Connecticut.

[514] Fearon, H. B., Journey, 213-214.