Category: Travel Writing
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
[144] Probably _The Cow Chase_ (London, 1781), a satirical poem in three cantos, on an unfortunate sally made by Brigadier-general Anthony Wayne on Bergen Neck, on North River,...
3. PART II (1820) OF FAUX'S MEMORABLE DAYS IN AMERICAI reached, and rested at Petersburgh,[105] consisting of fifteen houses. I passed good farms. Our landlord of this infant town, though having an {333} ostler, was compelled to g...
14. volume x, note 2; Shawneetown, Croghan's _Journals_, in our volume i,[45] On returning to Philadelphia, and stating how I had disposed of the baggage I was greeted with grins and smiles; one said he would not give fifty dollars for my chance, ano...
5. volume iv of our series, note 145.--ED.[113] Major Zachariah Sprigg was an inn-keeper at Wheeling as early as May 21, 1781; in 1783 he was major of militia for Ohio County. Consult Draper MSS. in Wisconsin Historical...
8. volume xi of our series, note 36.--ED.[10] Franklin did not present a library to Philadelphia, but he is properly regarded as the founder of the Philadelphia Library, which he called "the _mother_ of all the North A...
6. volume ii, note 43.--ED.[135] This was probably Luther Rice, a Baptist preacher of much power. Born in Massachusetts (1783), he was ordained as a Congregational minister, and sailed as a missionary to...
2. Part II (1820) of Faux's Memorable Days in America, 1819-20;A VISIT TO NORTH AMERICA AND THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS IN ILLINOIS, with a Winter Residence at Philadelphia; solely to ascertain the actual prospects of the Emigrating Agriculturi...
13. volume x of our series, note 15.--ED.[37] Paoli, about forty miles northwest of New Albany, is the seat of Orange County; it was laid out in 1816 by a territorial commission, and the first frame building erected in...
4. volume x of our series, notes 28, 29. For Corydon, see Flint's[107] The Silver Hills extend north from New Albany through Floyd and Clark counties, the two most prominent peaks being the "Haystack Knobs," at Bennettsville; the principal ri...
9. volume x of our series, note 39. Concerning Bainbridge, consult Faux's[27] From another party which passed, I learned that the well-known Colonel Boon is still alive in the Missourie country; though the journals lately gave a circumstantial accoun...
12. volume iii of our series, note 39.This was probably Colonel Richard Taylor, father of General Zachary Taylor. He was born in Virginia in 1744, and served throughout the Revolutionary War. Removing to the Falls o...
1. Volume XIIA Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and...
11. volume iii of our series, note 28.--ED.10. volume iv, note 117.--ED.