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very high ones, and his dogs were always ready to defend 

 their master's family and property. Hogs became so numer- 

 ous in the woods, that many of them became wild, and multi- 

 plied until the war of 1812 gave their flesh a value, and they 

 were killed. Cattle and horses multiplied greatly in the 

 meantime, and the people had begun to drive them over the 

 mountains, at an early day, to a market. The people lived 

 in log houses, raised Indian corn for their bread, and as to 

 meat they found wild turkeys and deer in abundance in the 

 woods. Domestic fowls and hogs multiplied wonderfully, in 

 a country where there was so little winter for which to provide. 

 And as for pleasure-carriages, we do not believe there was one 

 in the state when it was first organized. Not a few persons, 

 wore moccasins, instead of shoes, and leather made of deer 

 skins for coats or hunting shirts and pantaloons. Thus dress- 

 ed, equipped with a large knife, and a good rifle gun, the men 

 went about their daily business. When the state was first or- 

 ganized, we do not believe that there was even one bridge in 

 the state. The roads were few and it was no easy, matter for 

 a stranger to follow them. For ourselves we preferred follow- 

 ing the pocket compass or the sun, to most of the roads, in the 

 Virginia Military tract; and this even ten years after the or- 

 ganization of the state government. Travelers carried their 

 provisions with them, when starting from any of the towns 

 into the then wilderness, now thickly settled parts of the state. 

 Judges and lawyers rode from court to court, through the for- 

 est, and carried their provisions or starved on their route. 

 Though they generally got into some settlement before night 

 fall, yet not always, as we shall long remember. When the 

 streams were swelled with rain, they swam every stream in 

 their way. 



The people of that day were greatly attached to president 

 Jefferson and DeWitt Clinton, because they had favored the 

 admission of Ohio into the Union. The then administration 

 of the general government were almost worshiped by our peo- 

 ple, and were greatly caressed in return, by the objects of 

 their reverence. We were then weak, and not feared; but 



