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Loving Friend [?] near Fort Frederick ye. 12th 2mo 1769
As the Wagoneer that had agree'd to take y.e last of y.e Goods
was to have come to receive them last Six Day, & that Day & night Rain'd so __
sucessively here that I expected him not to have come till Seven Day but is not
come yet. I got my horse saddle on y.e First Day in order to go by Virginia
in Quest of him but my Horse remains so Lame since I was at Winches
-ter that I thought of leaving him in Virginia & Getting another at some
_rate, but as I expect I can get him along in this side, to Cumberland it
being so much nigher [?] go I should proceed as soon as y.e higth of y.e
Creeks will [admit] which will not be before tomorrow by all accounts here I
intend to vet off y.e nighest way in hopes by going easy my Horse will
hold its & save it. [?] Imploying another & in case I went to see this
waggoner who lived in y.e other side of Winchester time would not [adonid]
mos to come come back here to Lead him & go with him into Virginia to buy
some corn & oaths which I was to have done by Samuels Orders in
this disappointment & Samuels Absence being gone after Hinton I think
it my best method to get to Cumberland to receive y.e Goods from y.e waggons
already Gone as soon as possible. Gen Clark has signed a lease of y.e [?]
there & I have [?] Letter to y.e officer which is Cpt. Parise &
road to pass & especially as I must be one night in y.e woods & may
happen to strike up my fire near some of y.e Places where y.e murders
was comitted as they talk of Several such places on y.e Road, but I tell
them that I apprehend more cause of being affraid of y.e licing than y.e
dead, in thire sense of it, but in Case we could firm y.e stay our Love
& fear on y.e Almighty being, we need not much fear either of them, &
as I have done neither, any hurt I expect none frome y.e poor dead