Journal of Thomas Dean: A Voyage to Indiana in 1817 |
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afternoon arrived August baggage bank boat boiled corn bread Brothertown Indians canoe Celoron Chautauqua Lake concluded crossed Deansboro Delawares encamped fast fire five or six Fort Harrison Fort Wayne four miles Fowler Frenchman's Island gave Governor half past Harrison Indiana Sentinel island Jacob Dick journey July June Lake Erie lodged on board Longlewy Miami miles this day milk Mississinewa morning mouth navigation Niagara night o'clock P. M. Ohio one-half mile Oneida County Oneida Creek Oneida Lake packs passed past 7 P. M. Paul Dick Peleg Tabor prairie Raccoon Creek rained very hard rapids rocks rode sailed September shelter shoal shore short portages shower six miles soon started about half started early stayed stopped Thomas Dean Thomas Isaac three miles took breakfast took dinner town traveled treaty twelve miles twenty miles unwell Vincennes voyage Wabash River Wayne White River wind York
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Page 61 - ... with which to pay for them and did not want them. They saw our fish spear, and wanted that, so I let them have one spear, some salt, and a little tobacco. We went on our way, and after going two or three miles through swift water, came to a rocky shoal where the river was very wide, the bottom a rock, so that the water was not more than six or eight inches deep, and in many places not more than three or four inches. We took out our baggage, carried it 200 or 300 yards on our shoulders, drew up...
Page 54 - Meigs to a treaty there the 15th of September, so we concluded to go up in the morning. Marshall would furnish me with a horse to ride. It is about forty or forty-five miles from the Weas to the White River, making about 140 miles from Fort Harrison to White River, and five down and five up makes ten miles. August 7th. We took breakfast, hired a horse, and proceeded on up to the other town. We reached the settlement about 10 o'clock p. M., obtained some bread and buttermilk, then went on toward the...
Page 46 - We were called to another house across the street to sup, where everything appeared to be kept in good order by the women. We supped and retired to good lodgings in the apartment allotted to us, they having ground our flour and sent it on board the boat at evening. They spoke of many losses and hardships they have had in consequence of the war, and that they thought Tecumseh and the Prophet had been very much misrepresented, they and their people appeared to be peaceable people, and that they were...
Page 55 - ... or sixty-five years old. Paul and F. Fowler were directed to another house to lodge, and the rest of us lodged at the chief's. I had the most comfortable place. It was some boards or staves put on benches, and bullrushes laid on them, and a small pillow, though it was wet in the shower. August 8th. We got together in the morning and were served with some boiled corn and venison for breakfast. After breakfast the people began to come in, and we were soon served with another dish of squashes, made...
Page 54 - We went up and met several at his house, and appointed a council on the morrow. We were furnished with supper, which consisted of bread and herb tea made sweet, with which we refreshed ourselves. There was a very heavy shower of rain, with hail and thunder, and a violent tempest, so that it was near blowing some of the cabins down. We put up at the house of the principal chief. It was as good as any in the village, and he a plain, majestic looking man, sixty or sixty-five years old. Paul and F. Fowler...
Page 10 - ... their boat on wheels from Queenston to Chippawa (a portage of eleven or twelve miles), into the Niagara River, ascending the Niagara, and coasting the north side of Lake Erie, to the mouth of Catoragus Creek, and up it to a portage of eight and a half miles, over which they passed into Chautauque Lake, and down the Conewongo into the Allegheny. The Allegheny, Ohio and Wabash present a smooth and uninterrupted navigation to the head of the Wabash, a portage of nine miles, connects the Wabash with...
Page 70 - ... start in the morning for Detroit, and would supply us with two horses in the morning to go to Mississinewa, if he could. September 13th. In the morning I went up to the Indian that I had hired the horses from yesterday, to get two to go to Mississinewa, and he went with me to our quarters, 823193 but would not go without $10.
Page 40 - ... people from the State of New York, who were glad to meet us, and we them. Met Mr. Brown, son of Oliver Brown of York State. July 22d. We went to see the Governor at the receiver's office. He was there, but it being an improper place for a conference, it was proposed to meet at the inn at 1 1 o'clock AM We then proceeded to Governor Posey's, according to appointment, which was at 10 o'clock.
Page 11 - I discovered rock, and we had but just time to stop our headway and put about. The water on the shoal was not more than a foot deep. I considered it fortunate that we had not a fair wind and going very fast or we might have injured our boat, for we had no idea of there being any such shoal water in or near the middle of the lake. At 2 PM we landed on Frenchman's Island and took dinner.