that he discharged all the various duties of the various public offices which the partiality of the public imposed upon him.

To me it is truly flattering and grateful to know this, and that he retained to the last a loving memory of his friendship The good deeds of men live after them. Please present my condolence to all his relatives in your region, and believe me Your grateful friend,

for me.

E. T. THROOP.

CHAPTER III.

REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS-FLATBOAT TRIP DOWN THE ALLEGHENY AND OHIO RIVERS.

IN

N the summer and fall of 1818 newspapers of the country were filled with glowing accounts of the Great Northwest, with prophecies of its rapid advancement, and exciting representations of its wonderful resources soon to be developed. Attention was especially directed to Illinois, by the discussion in Congress relating to its admission as a State into the Union. Several of Mr. Lockwood's young friends, knowing of his intended removal, joined with him in a plan of making the journey on a flatboat down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. Accordingly a party of ten, whose names will appear hereafter, was formed, with the agreement to join in the purchase of a flatboat and necessary supplies for the trip. Each one might take such private property for use or trade, as he desired. This party met at Olean Point, as it was then called, the latter part of October, and there purchased a boat, procured the necessary supplies, and without chart or pilot, or any experience in that or any other line of navigation, started on their trip. It was a grand enterprise, in which any young man of energy and spirit would have been glad to participate.

The voyage was made without any incidents worthy of record. The weather was fine, the river in good stage of water; the party was made up of young men from the best families, some of them well educated, and with good standing in various professions and lines of business. The feeblest one in the party was assigned to the cooking department, supposing there the work would be lightest, but within a week this was found to be the hardest position on the boat. The "feeblest" man was glad to resign and take his place at the oars. a propelling but steering power, and

The oars were used not as had to be kept ready for

immediate use to prevent running ashore, or striking some island or other obstruction in the river.

At Pittsburg Mr. Lockwood procured a book for the use of the party, bearing the accompanying title page. [See page 26.] This book must have been very interesting, as well as helpful to the party, with its full description of the river and directions to the navigator, with glowing accounts of the country in general, and of the thriving villages and cities soon to be. To the reader of the present day, it is both interesting and amusing, with its rough wood-cut of different sections of the river, looking like pieces of a great serpent, with a map of Pittsburg for its head, and its descriptions of places and things as they were seventy years ago. The only thing in it for us now is the following entry on the fly-leaf, the heading in the handwriting of Mr. Lockwood, and the rest in that of William H. Brown: SHIP ILLINOIS.

CAPTAIN LITTLE, Master.

Descended the Ohio in the months of November and December. Cargo: Live stock principally. Consigned to State and Territory of Illinois and Missouri. Sales indifferent, and prospects bad.

Samuel D. Lockwood and William B. Rochester, supercargoes; James Morrison, first mate; Thomas Rochester, second mate; Doctor Woodworth, surgeon.

DAVID E. CUYLER,
DANIEL CURTIS,

JOHN C. ROCHESTER,

WILLIAM H. BROWN,

Seamen.

This ship Illinois, in the persons of two of its crew, Samuel D. Lockwood and William H. Brown, brought to our state as valuable a cargo as ever entered any of her ports.

The party reached Shawneetown about the 20th of December, without accident, except an occasional wetting in getting their boat off sand bars or clear of snags, and all in excellent health and spirits.

On their way down the Ohio, they passed a steamboat, the first any of the party had ever seen. They had looked for this

THE

NAVIGATOR,

CONTAINING

DIRECTIONS FOR NAVIGATING THE

MONONGAHELA, ALLEGHENY,

OHIO, AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS;

WITH AN AMPLE ACCOUNT

OF THESE MUCH ADMIRED WATERS,

FROM THE HEAD OF THE FORMER

TO THE MOUTH OF THE LATTER;

AND A CONCISE

DESCRIPTION OF THEIR TOWNS, VILLAGES,

HARBORS, SETTLEMENTS, &c.

WITH MAPS OF THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF LOUISIANA

AND OF

THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIVERS,

AS DISCOVERED BY THE VOYAGE UNDER

CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK.

TENTH EDITION.

PITTSBURGH,

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY CRAMER & SPEAR,

FRANKLIN HEAD, WOOD STREET.

1818.

with a great deal of interest. Alas! how disappointing the longed-for sight; an immovable hulk, the machinery still, fires extinguished, hard aground on a sand bar, waiting for some moving in the waters to recover it from its impotency. The flatboatman's occupation was not yet gone.

The following incident the writer has learned from many conversations between Judge Lockwood and Mr. Brown, where the story was told with a good deal of mirth on the part of one and not a little indignation manifested by the other.

On leaving Auburn, the party changed most of their funds, at the suggestion of a bank president there, into new bills of his bank, just from the engraver. At Olean Point, payments for the flatboat and other purchases were made in these bills. When everything was ready for the trip down the river, the party spent the night in their cabin, expecting to start early the next morning; but their slumbers were disturbed by the arrival of the sheriff with a posse, who arrested the whole company as a band of counterfeiters. The storm of indignation that arose can be imagined, but not described. The young lawyers had a chance to show their oratory, but the sheriff must perform his duty. The whole party was marched off to the justice's office. A brief explanation opened the eyes of the justice, and the parties were discharged without trial, but the indignation did not subside. Olean Point never had any friends aboard the "ship Illinois."

The most amusing part of the story is the way in which it became public. The members of the party agreed among themselves never to mention the affair to others, and as there were few newspapers in those days, with correspondents greedy for local items, the whole matter was for several years kept quiet; but some seven or eight years after, when Judge Lockwood was holding court in Edwards county, a man was brought up for trial, who, to the surprise of his counsel and against their advice, insisted upon a change of venue on the ground that the judge was prejudiced against him. When assured by the counsel that this could not be, and pressed for the reason for his feeling in the case, he told the story of the arrest of the counterfeiters; that he was the sheriff that made the arrest, and was afraid the judge