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THE JOURNAL OF CONRAD WEISER, ESQR., INDIAN INTERPRETER, TO THE OHIO[1]
Augst 11th. Set out from my House & came to James Galbreath[2] that day, 30 Miles.
12th. Came to George Croghans,[3] 15 Miles.
13th. To Robert Dunnings, 20 Miles.
14th. To the Tuscarroro Path, 30 Miles.
15th and 16th. Lay by on Account of the Men coming back Sick, & some other Affairs hindering us.
17th. Crossed the Tuscarroro Hill & came to the Sleeping Place called the Black Log, 20 Miles.
18th. Had a great rain in the afternoon; came within two Miles of the Standing Stone, 24 Miles.
19th. We travelled but 12 Miles;[4] were obliged to dry our Things in the afternoon.
- ↑ There appear to have been two copies of this journal prepared, one as the official report to the president and council of Pennsylvania, which was published in the Pennsylvania Colonial Records, v, pp. 348-358. A reprint from the same manuscript appeared in Early History of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburg and Harrisburg, 1846), appendix, pp. 13-23. The other copy seems to have been preserved among the family papers; and was edited and published by a descendant of Weiser—Heister M. Muhlenberg, M.D., of Reading, Pennsylvania—in Pennsylvania Historical Society Collections (Philadelphia, 1851), i, pp. 23-33. We have followed the official copy, indicating by footnotes variations in the other account.—Ed.
- ↑ Weiser's house was about one mile east of Womelsdorf, now in Berks County, Pennsylvania. James Galbreath was a prominent Indian trader, one of those licensed by the government of Pennsylvania.—Ed.
- ↑ Croghan lived at this time just west of Harrisburg in Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County.—Ed.
- ↑ There were three great Indian paths from east to west through Western Pennsylvania. The southern led from Fort Cumberland on the Potomac, westward through the valleys of Youghiogheny and Monongehela, to the Forks of
