hv_swaynej_diary_1798_060

About this time we received a Letter from our friends in Philadelphia desiring one of us to go to John Wilkins farm at Hickory Town about 50 miles down this River for a yoke of Oxen which journey fell upon myself, and I employed an Indian lad and embarked in a Canoe with several others Indians bound for Franklin, and arrived at Hickory Town in about one Day and having had a prospect before I left home of geting a Milch Cow at this place and not find- ing any here for sale, I concluded to ex-tend my enquiries farther and according-ly went on foot as far as Hickory Town but found none for sale. I then returned again to Hickory Town got a yoke of Oxen and proceeded homewards, the first days travel found the road very rough and Mountain-ous and in some places no path to be seen at all. The second day about dark got within 3 or 4 miles of Cornplanters Town where we were oblidged to lodge in the woods without any provisions or go home in the dark which