farm on Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, and locating a homeless emigrant on it, Mr. Sample "started back to Pennsylvania on horseback" according to his recorded recollections written in 1842;[1] "as there was no getting up the river at that day.[2] In our homeward trip we had very rough fare when we had any at all; but having calculated on hardships, we were not disappointed. There was one house (Treiber's) on Lick branch, five miles from where West Union[3] now is." Trebar—according to modern spelling—opened a tavern on his clearing in 1798 or 1799, but at the time of Sample's trip his house was not more public than the usual pioneer's home where the latch-string was always out.[4] "The next house," continues Mr. Sample, "was where Sinking spring or Middletown is now.[5] The next was at Chillicothe,
- ↑ American Pioneer, vol. i, p. 158.
- ↑ An exaggerated statement, yet much in accord with the truth, as we have previously observed.
- ↑ County seat of Adams County, Ohio
- ↑ Evans and Stivers, History of Adams County, Ohio, p. 125.
- ↑ Wilcoxon's clearing, Sinking Spring, Highland County, Ohio.—Id., p. 125.
