Industry, PA Morning fogs delay departure. Lewis is encouraged when men in two boats loaded with furs tell him the Ohio becomes deeper twenty-four miles downriver. The barge must be unloaded and dragged by horses. They eventually pass Fort McIntosh.
Fort McIntosh
we set out at 9 this morning and passed a riffle just below us called Atkins’s got over with tolerable ease passed the mouth of big bever creek and came to ancor off Mackintosh being 2½ miles— discharge one of my hands.—
—Meriwether Lewis
The Treaty of Fort McIntosh (1785) forced the Delawares to cede their Pennsylvania lands to the Commonwealth and established the first boundary in the Northwest. One of the commissioners representing the United States was William Clark’s older brother, George Rogers Clark.
Guy Bryan
Mr. Gui Briant arrived with two boats loaded with firrs, he informs me that if I can reach, and get over the George-town barr 24 miles I can get on; this is some consolation.
—Meriwether Lewis
Unloading the Boat
passed the riffle below Mackintosh.— about three miles from this we stuck on another riffle the worst I think we have yet passed were obliged to unload and drag over with horses.— staid all night having made only six miles.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Notes
↑1 | Moulton, Journals, 2:70n1. |
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