road, our 3 men with the assistance
of
two more got the axes to work it being
about 1/4m to Boatmans which
took near two
hours to get the waggon up where we must
leave it, we
endeavoured to persuade
some of them to go with us and help to open
the
road, but there being but two families and no neig
neighbours near, & they very busy planting
corn and out of provision, no
mill with
in 20m, the woman said she could
let
us have plenty of milk and butter but
had nothing else excepting a
little fresh
venison which was being a very good relish with
out
coffee; having just got our dinner, we then set to
unload
-ing our waggon and packing having two mens
saddles along welaped
one bed up in the wag
gon cover and tied on one horse sewed
up a sheet
for a sack filled it and a
bag we had along with clothing a load
for
another, allowing the provision for selves
and horses for the
other, night coming on
we got supper put some bread to rise and
went to
bed
Beyond Penn's Treaty