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May 4th. Arrived at Washington court house -

5th. & 6th. Halted at Colonel Arthur Campbell's where we repaired ourselves with
sleep - Our Host was very civil to us, but from the difficulty of procuring
Provisions in this part of the Country, some of the prisoners who were pressed
with hunger and fatigue broke out into very injurious language, and even
threatned to be revenged at a future day for the little attention payd to
their necessities - // some time after my arrival in Virginia, I received
a letter from {Colonel Clark} in which he lamented my having engaged in the
Indian war, & mentioned his father having been in my Grandfathers
family as Steward, and having saved my father from drowning in the
Boyne at the age of 13 years //

7.th Set out from Colonel Campbell's where Mr. Dejean stayed, and lay at
the plantation of Mr. Sayer -

8.th Passed Bail's fort, where the poor people saw us with some honor, as being
of kindred manners with the Savages - A remarkable sized stallion -
forded Pecks creek and some others, and in the Evening crossed over in
a ferry the new river or great Canhàwa, and were kindly and hospitably
received at the house of Colonel Ingles ~ here we rested for an entire
day - A beautyfull Girl his daughter sat at the head of the table, and
did the honors with such an easy and gracefull simplicity as quite
charmed us - The Scenery about this house was romantic to a degree
the river very beautyfull, the hills well wooded, the low grounds well
improved & well stocked, I thought his tecum toto consumerer ovo -
Mrs. Ingles had in her early years been carryed off with another young
Woman by the Savages, and tho carryed away into the Shawanes country
had made her escape with her female friend, & wonderfull to relate tho
exposed to unspeakable hardships, & having nothing to subsist on but
wild fruits, found her way back in safety, from a distance (if I remember right)
of 200 miles - however terror and distress had left so deep an impression
on her mind that she appeard absorbed in a deep melancholy, and left the
management of household concerns, & the reception of strangers to her lovely daughter.