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Expences on the Road for Man & horse in Pennsylvania Currency. Servants expence about 2/3 horse the same.
In Pennsylvania Bethleham Reading Lebanon Carlisle Shipingsbourgh Fort Littleton Fort Pitt Hannas town Fort Cumberland Bath Mill Creek Lancaster
Verginia & Maryland Frederiksbourgh New Kent Court house York Hobbs hole Port Royal Alexandria Annapolis Baltimore
Ham, bacon & poultry, of one sort or another always to be had upon the road, & often fresh meat or fish, dried Venison - Indian or Wheaten bread, butter eggs milk, often cheese, drink. Beer, Brandy or Whiskey,
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From North Tardevon at Cantuck Febry 1787
In Kentuck 50,000 Inhabitants, Soil rich, climate temperate provis. cheap Camberland . . . 8,000 Franklin . . . 21,000 Holsten . . . 5,000 Kentuck Hamberland now require Haken good, to [illegible] of 200,000 Dollers 20 Ann, which he supposes cost in Europe abour 45,000 Dollers supplied from Philadelphia & Baltimore by the way of Pittsbourgh & the Ohio, they pay about 1/8 in Cash, the rest in peltry - (provisions now gaind for [illegible], of which 12,000 supposed per Ann, the 2 last years
Franklin, the Cash of No. Carolina made a free State conditionally 2 years since but not accepted --. Kentucky by act of 1 Sep 1787 but not organized -- Priduce, Wheat, Corn, Rye Barley Oates, Rice, Indigo, Wool, Horses, 3,000 American farms at the [?]atches 30,000 French in Lusiana & Waback
