5th. Uling, a trader on the river, arrived with provisions.
9th. The hunters brought in about thirty deer and a great number of turkeys.
25th. Captain Hart’s and McCurdy’s companies came in from the survey of the seven ranges. They had a cold, wearisome time; their clothes and shoes wore out, and some of their feet badly frozen.
December 3rd. Uling arrived with twenty kegs of flour and ten kegs of whiskey and some dry goods. Our rations now consist of a little venison, without any bread; as a substitute we have some corn and potatoes. The weather is very cold and the river full of ice.
13th. Lieutenant Pratt embarked in a boat for Flinn’s Station (now Belleville), distant thirty miles below the garrison, for a load of corn and potatoes. The troops are in great distress for provisions. About twelve miles below they landed on account of the storm, and their boat was carried off by the ice with a considerable amount of goods in it.
19th. Weather more moderate. Ensign Kingsbury embarked for Flinn’s Station to make another trial for provisions.
22nd. Ensign Kingsbury returned with about sixty bushels of corn and about twenty of potatoes.
24th. We drew for our station about a peck of frozen potatoes. As Christmas is so near we are making all the preparations in our power to celebrate it.
25th. This being Christmas day, the sergeant celebrated it by a dinner, to which was added a plentiful supply of wine.
January 31, 1787. Hamilton Kerr, our hunter, began to build a house on the island, a little above the mouth of the Muskingum, and some of our men were ordered out as a fatigue party, to assist him, under the command of Lieutenant Pratt.