February 24 to March 2, 1811

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Category: 1811 Travel Journal of Charity Rotch
Published on Thursday, 24 February 2011 10:51

View of Lancaster, Ohio& 26th we rode 27 miles to Lancaster. Stop'd on the way at Dittoes, a tolerably comfortable Inn. lodg'd at Sturgeons the land lord & several of the inhabitants of this pleasant little town, press'd our tarrying on acct of their wish to find a Settlement for a woolen Manfactory; & they nobly offerd to make up 500 acres for the Benevolent Institution if my TR wou'd consent to come into the neighbourhood;

we thot best to leave them & reach'd Shartlers Inn on the 27th a very comfortable Log house, & kind people perhaps 12 miles from Lancaster, in the morning rode two miles to Tarlton, & stopt at Lybrands Inn on of getting a pr of horses, the mud now being too deep for ours, to convey us comfortably, they being too much worn in a Journey of 700 miles; Mud Road by <script type='text/javascript'> <!-- var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy37412 = 'samatt' + '@'; addy37412 = addy37412 + 'flickr' + '.' + 'com'; document.write('<a ' + path + '\'' + prefix + ':' + addy37412 + '\'>'); document.write(addy37412); document.write('<\/a>'); //-->\n </script><script type='text/javascript'> <!-- document.write('<span style=\'display: none;\'>'); //--> </script>JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING <script type='text/javascript'> <!-- document.write('</'); document.write('span>'); //--> </script>one Drury furnishd us with a pair, & rode ours, we came on to Macutchins 9 miles; fared poorly, at least a poor house but kind landlady & found there was a better Inn abt 3 miles farther on, one Rickey. 1st of the 3rd m° rode 10 miles to the Sciota River: cross'd it in a flat, it is generaly forded when Low; & arrived at the much famed town of Chilicothe; which does not appear as interresting as some of those we left behind: particularly St. Clairsville & Lancaster; 2nd spent at our Lodgings at __llys Inn; no way extraordary; as to accomodations