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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal B)

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furnished us with, we knew that we had left the
State Road, we pursued our Journey, and in
about half a Mile we came to a fork where tak-
ing the left hand road, went on a piece look-
ing every way for a house, through very
swampy Woods, we presently
came to a
2 nd fork, we were now entirely at a loss
which path to take, but after going along
both roads a considerable distance, we
were informed where Moses Wilson

had
moved to, but his House was so much out
of the way and such a bad road to it, that
we concluded to go about one mile fur-
ther on, to James Iddings's to breakfast,
his House being near the Road, where
Moses, and Wife came over to see us,
and I thought it strange to see such
good looking fnd s in the Wilderness, so
remote from Meetings, and more sur-
prising to see Mary Iddings in such a little
Cabbin, however we spent an hour or
two very agreeably with them, tho the
account the gave us of the Road was very
discouraging, Moses informing, that
he did not think we would be able to get
the Waggon more than 10 or 15 miles fur-
ther, and that far with difficulty, and
that he would send one of his sons with