Cuthbert Harrison, Wheeling, Va. W. Va., to Leven Powell, Loudoun County, Virginia
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- Box 1, Folder 32
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Gives a detailed account of his month-long journey westward with his family and others, especially traveling on the Monongahela River to Fort Pitt and further; Indians were unfavorable; the families fared well, and the wives "prove the greatest of Heroines"; hope to arrive in Ky. soon; is sending a Valuable horse in order for a "Negro woman" he left behind to be sent out as soon as possible.
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