forth & evidence that we are still
cared for.
After rising from an Early Dinner, mounted
our Horses for Home, Jacob Taylor

accompanying us, having Business as Batavia
our Road was across the Wilderness for about
12 or 14 Miles a single Horse Path. In
this afternoons Ride I met with several Dis
asters--but the Last & Worst was from a
Hemlock Knot sharp at one End & laying
in the Road--which my Horse stuck into his
Near Hind Foot an Inch & 1/8th in Depth the
effect of which was to lame him so much
as almost to Disable him from travelling--
in this situation I travelld ab. 5 or 6 miles
thro' an Extremely bad Road--perhaps
the worst, some part of it, that I ever saw
my Comp'y leavg me behind I had some very
unpleasant sensations, principally arising
from the Pain which my Horse evidently
traveld in--they at length came to Lake
Erie & there stopd for me after which
about one mile along Its Shore brought
us to a poor forlorn House kept by one
Enos