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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

1. See Historic Highways of America, vol. ix, pp. 60–64.
2. Journal of Thomas Wallcutt in 1790, edited by George Dexter (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, October, 1879).
3. The Journal begins at the Ohio Company's settlement at Marietta, Ohio.