The book Holmes Hinkley An Industrial Pioneer 1793 1866 was written by author Walter S Walter Swain Hinchman Here you can read free online of Holmes Hinkley An Industrial Pioneer 1793 1866 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Holmes Hinkley An Industrial Pioneer 1793 1866 a good or bad book?
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Joseph Dunbar, a planter from Mississippi, near Natchez, proposed to pay my expenses, if I would take to his plantation some negroes and horses he had bought in Maryland. This I readily consented to do, as I wanted 18 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH to see something of the Southern country. I travelled most of the way on foot, with the negroes, from Washington to Wheeling, on the Ohio River. ^ Here, Mr. Dunbar gave me two hundred dol- lars, to pay my expenses. My company con- sisted of two white men, t...en blacks, and twenty horses. Our route was through the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. The Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians oc- cupied the entire territory. We were on horseback for fifty days, which brought me to Mr. Dunbar's plantation, within twenty miles of Natchez. At this time there were no steamboats on the Western waters. Mr. Dunbar and two other families went down the river in flatboats. In consequence of ^ Much of interest to the present generation was omitted in this brief sketch.
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