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JOURNAL OF PETER AUDRAIN, Esq.
MEMORANDUM.
Pittsburg, June, 1796.
Foot Defiance—Four loaves of bread, 5 cents each; 12 pounds beef.
Fort Miami, August 9, 1796—Forty pounds of flour, 81 pounds of beef.
Greenville, July 26, 1796. —General Wilkin's wagon contains 1 quarter cask wine, 1 10-gallon keg brandy, 1 small keg of brown sugar, 1 keg of loaf sugar and coffee, 1 10-gallon keg, with biscuit, 2 trunks.
For Capt. Heath. —1 10-gallon keg of sugar, 2 trunks, 2 mess boxes.
Left Fort Washington on 19th of July, 1796, at 11 o'clock A. m.; arrived the same evening at Fort Hamilton; distance, 26 miles.
The country is very fine and thickly settled both sides of the road; amazing large fields planted with Indian corn; crops of grain and hay have been abundant; cattle fat and large size. The road in general very good and pretty level.
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