2nd day the 20 checkPlace

Started Just as day ap-
-peared, a Cold frozen Morning.
We wanted a loaf of bread to make
use of provided not knowing but we should
have to lie on the Woods, were desirous to be provided with some bread we tried our
Landlord, and nearly every house
we came by for ten Miles, but
they unanimously informed us
they had no Bread baked, by them,
we Stoped at Lambs 10 miles the Last house
but one, in that settlement fed our horses and got our
Breakfast, and then with Industry
reached the Blockhouse

by sunset
our living of Late has been poor, both
for ourselves and horses, this is the
second night out of four that they
have had to do without hay, and we have
had no wheat or Indian Bread for tw[o]
days, and when often to drink our
Tea Without Sugar, we could get no
milk this Evening, not so much
as to put a Little in our Coffee, nei-