Part 20 (1/2)

For a brief note on Fearon, see Flint's _Letters_, volume ix of our series, note 119--ED

[7] I have since seen beggars--WELBY

[8] An account of Joseph Bonaparte's career in America will be found in volume xi of our series, note 36--ED

[9] It was burned down, it is supposed by incendiaries, the follointer, and many valuable pictures and much furniture and papers lost--WELBY

[10] Franklin did not present a library to Philadelphia, but he is properly regarded as the founder of the Philadelphia Library, which he called ”the _mother_ of all the North A the idea of establishi+ng such an institution, he drew up a plan (1731), and solicited subscriptions a, twenty-five persons had paid their subscription of forty shi+llings each, and an order was sent to England for books Franklin continued to take an active interest in the enterprise, aiding in selecting books, and fro volus, and contains over 190,000 volumes--ED

[11] In his will Franklin left 2,000 (still due him for his salary as president of Pennsylvania) for the i that that work of improve the bequest to the Schuylkill i it to a scheiven to Boston and to Philadelphia; under the direction of a certain board of select married artificers at five per cent interest He estimated that in a hundred years the principal would be vastly increased, and the greater part was then to be devoted to public works However, many borroere unable to repay, and their security proving worthless, the sum at the end of the first century was far below Franklin's expectation--ED

[12] The cent is about the value of one half-penny; one hundred is four shi+llings and sixpence sterling--WELBY

[13] The traveller's route as by way of the Lancaster Turnpike and the Pennsylvania Road, through Bedford and Greensburg to Pittsburg

For this route, see Harris's _Journal_, volume iii of our series, note 3--ED

[14] Cove Mountain forms the western boundary of Franklin County The road crosses it about fifteen e lies parallel to Cove Mountain, a few miles to the west--ED

[15] For bloody Run, see cu's _Tour_, in our volume iv, note 18 It is now Everett, Bedford County The battle was not with the natives, but between a band of enraged frontiers the savages with firear and Pittsburg, see volume iii of our series: F A Michaux's _Travels_, note 16; A Michaux's _Travels_, note 11--ED

[17] A brief account of the founding of Washi+ngton and Canonsburg (Jefferson) College may be found in Harris's _Journal_, volume iii of our series, note 31--ED

[18] In 1816 and the years i occurred what is locally known as the ”college war” Reverend Matthen, pastor of the first Presbyterian church at Washi+ngton, who had been president of Washi+ngton College since its incorporation (1806), was asked to resign, and Reverend Andrew Wylie was called froe to succeed hireat injury of both institutions--ED

[19] For the early history of the National Road, see Harris's _Journal_, note 45; and for its extension beyond Wheeling, see Woods's _English Prairie_, in volume x of our series, note 76--ED

[20] I have often been called upon to pay a dollar for passing over a bridge--_Welby_

[21] The Lancasterian Acade by the bequest of Noah Linsly, fore It received its charter in 1814, and is said to have been the first chartered school in a slave state granting free education to the poor The name was derived from the Lancasterian system of education, founded by Joseph Lancaster

See our volume xi The institution is now called Linsly Institute--ED

[22] Mr Fearon says the state of Ohio is one continued level, he must mean that part of it about Cincinnati; the chief part of the state is exceedingly hilly--WELBY

_Comment by Ed_ Ohio is hilly only in the southeastern portion, the part traversed by Welby He travelled along the State Road, which followed the old Zane's Trace through St Clairsville, Zanesville, and Chillicothe to Maysville, Kentucky

[23] The Dunkards, or Ger with the Mennonites in Gereneral, their belief was like that of the Quakers, save that they observed the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper A sect separated from the main body, and established a monastery at Ephrata, Lancaster County A considerable nurated into western Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah Valley--ED

[24] For the early history of Chillicothe, see F A Michaux's _Travels_, volume iii of our series, note 35--ED

[25] For a sketch of the founding of West Union, see Hul Bainbridge, consult Faux's _Journal, ante_, note 109--ED