After delays in shipping the expedition’s armaments, Meriwether Lewis finally leaves the Harpers Ferry Armory in present West Virginia for Fort Fayette in Pittsburgh.
Leaving for Pittsburgh
Keith Rocco/Tradition Studios Year: November 2002
“Artist’s rendering of Captain Meriwether Lewis inspecting his weapons and articles before departing for Pittsburgh, Pa. on July 8, 1803.”[1]“Meriwether Lewis at Harpers Ferry,” Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=2734773&id=2A7D3A84-1DD8-B71C-0704CA9F144A0AB9 accessed 14 May 2022.
12. O,Clock.
Harper’s Ferry July 8th. 1803.Dear Sir,
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I have been obliged to engage a second person [a teamster] who will be here this evening in time to load and will go on early in the morning: I shall set out myself in the course of an hour, taking the rout of Charlestown, Frankfort, Uniontown and Redstone old fort to Pittsburgh, at which place I shall most probably arrive on the 15th.
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Your friend & Obt. Servt.
Meriwether Lewis[2]Meriwether Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0521 accessed 11 July 2022. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | “Meriwether Lewis at Harpers Ferry,” Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=2734773&id=2A7D3A84-1DD8-B71C-0704CA9F144A0AB9 accessed 14 May 2022. |
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| ↑2 | Meriwether Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0521 accessed 11 July 2022. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 40, 4 March–10 July 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 680–681.] |
