Morning fog delays departure, but they eventually pass Fort McIntosh. Lewis is encouraged when men in two boats loaded with furs tell him that the Ohio River becomes deeper twenty-four miles down. The barge must be unloaded and dragged by horses before they stop near present Industry, Pennsylvania.
Fort McIntosh
Site of the Town of Beaver
Unknown artist. From Clarence M. Busch, Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania (State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1896), 484–485.
Fort McIntosh
we set out at 9 this morning and passed a riffle just below us called Atkins’s got over with tolerable ease passed the mouth of big bever creek and came to ancor off Mackintosh being 2½ miles— discharge one of my hands.—
—Meriwether Lewis
The Treaty of Fort McIntosh (1785) forced the Delawares to cede their Pennsylvania lands to the Commonwealth and established the first boundary in the Northwest. One of the commissioners representing the United States was William Clark’s older brother, George Rogers Clark.
Guy Bryan
Mr. Gui Briant arrived with two boats loaded with firrs, he informs me that if I can reach, and get over the George-town barr 24 miles I can get on; this is some consolation.
—Meriwether Lewis
Unloading the Boat
passed the riffle below Mackintosh.— about three miles from this we stuck on another riffle the worst I think we have yet passed were obliged to unload and drag over with horses.— staid all night having made only six miles.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Notes
| ↑1 | Moulton, Journals, 2:70n1. |
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