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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journal of Joel Swayne

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sold it at the rate of four Dollars per Gallon it
being an excellent medicine, a few rods from
the House was a stream of water which ap
peared large enough to turn a Saw-mill
the Man of the House informed us that it
proceeded from one Spring about 20
rods above

15th of the Month

set forward through the
Woods, and followed the course by marked
trees, which our pilot had done the Summer
before, we found the way worse this Day than
any we had hitherto met with, some places
very hilly and a multitude of trees and old
Logs lying in the way, which made it very
difficult getting along, other places the Ground
being pared with the roots of large trees with
many cavities between them, and overgrown
with moss which made it very dangerous
crossing, in the evening we arived at the House of
James Justice on the Waters of Brokenstraw
where we lodged that night on the floor
by the fire as we did the night before

16th of the Month

about noon reached the the
mouth of Conewango Creek

where a