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CHAPTER II
A JOURNEY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
THOMAS Wallcutt of Massachusetts served through the Revolutionary War as hospital steward and received in payment therefor one share in the Ohio Company.[1] He went out to Marietta in 1790, and returned eastward by the half-known Virginia route. His Journal[2] forms an interesting chapter of travel on American pioneer roads:
"Monday, 8 March, 1790.[3] Pleasant, clear, cold, and high winds. We were up before sunrise, and got some hot breakfast, coffee and toast; and Captain Prince, Mr. Moody, Mr. Skinner, Captain Mills and