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EARLY HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK
My father and Mr. Joslin came by land with teams from Erie county, New York, and were on the road about seventeen days. We crossed the Maumee river by fording, at Perrysburg, and then we began to realize we were indeed in a new country. Nothing but reaches of marsh land, broken only by slight rises of scanty whortleberry barrens, upon which, here and there, was a dreary settler, who immediately paid for his rashness by chills and fever which rendered his stay quite certain, unless relieved by death, which not unfrequently happened.
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