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[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 Boye's _Map of Virginia_ in Ma.s.sachusetts 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 c.u.mberland 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.
[33] The Iroquois Trail likewise left the river valley at this spot.
[34] _Laws of New York_, 1794, ch. XXIX.
[35] _Laws of New York_, 1796, ch. XXVI.
[36] _Id._, ch. x.x.xIX.
[37] _Laws of New York_, 1797, ch. LX.
[38] _Laws of New York_, 1798, ch. XXVI.
[39] _Laws of New York_, 1797-1800, ch. LXXVIII.
[40] Boston, 1876, pp. 11-53.
[41] Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
[41a] This name long since was abandoned. On the opposite side of the river, however, a new settlement grew up under the name of Unadilla, the beginnings of which date about 1790. See the same author's "The Pioneers of Unadilla Village" (Unadilla, 1902).--HALSEY.
[42] State Land Papers.--HALSEY.
[43] Sluman Wattles's Account Book.--HALSEY.
[44] Dr. Dwight's figures are for the towns.h.i.+p, not for the village, which was then a mere frontier hamlet, of perhaps one hundred souls.--HALSEY.
[45] "Reminiscences of Village Life and of Panama and California from 1840 to 1850," by Gains Leonard Halsey, M. D. Published at Unadilla.--HALSEY.
[46] A stage line, however, for long years afterward supplied these settlements with a means of communication with Unadilla, and it is within the memory of many persons still calling themselves young that for a considerable series of years, trips twice a week were regularly made by Henry S. Woodruff. After Mr. Woodruff's death a large and interesting collection of coaches, sleighs, and other stage relics remained upon his premises--the last survival of coaching times on the Catskill Turnpike, embracing a period of three-quarters of a century.--HALSEY.
[47] See _Historic Highways of America_, vol. xi, p. 199, _note_.
[48] _Travels in North America_ (London, 1839), vol. ii, pp. 29-48.
