. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. - arrived, they had to depend for their safety upon log fort de-fences, into which they might run in cases of alarm. In making such journeys to the west, of seven or eight weeks,(hey look as few articles of beds, bedding, and cooking utensils, asthey could possibly do with. Thejr clothing and other goods werepacked in »vooden boxes fitted to the wagon,—the women, girls andchild
. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. - arrived, they had to depend for their safety upon log fort de-fences, into which they might run in cases of alarm. In making such journeys to the west, of seven or eight weeks,(hey look as few articles of beds, bedding, and cooking utensils, asthey could possibly do with. Thejr clothing and other goods werepacked in »vooden boxes fitted to the wagon,—the women, girls andchildren, would be placed inside and ride, except when they came tobad roads and mountains,—sometimes they would get scattered andcreate anxieties,—sometimes the horses, and sometimes the peoplewere borne down with the current of water. None now can imaginewith what dread such a long and arduous journey was then at-tempted from New England, and few now can have a just concep*. HABRIS FRONTIER HOUSE, HARRISBURG.—Page 113.
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