Washington And the West; Being George Washington's Diary of September, 1784
Washington And the West; Being George Washington's Diary of September, 1784
Washington, George, 1732-1799
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Leaving his brother's at noon of September 4th, he reached the house of one Stroud,^® between Opecken Creek and Martinsburg, by nightfall. Stroud was " not much " on the region between the Potomac and Youghiogheny or Cheat, but he had traversed the West * and knew some of its characteristics ; for instance, he told Washington ♦Mr. Stroud was, without doubt, closely connected with the family of that name which was murdered near the Great Kana- wha in 1772. See Virgil A. Lewis, History of West Vi...rginia (Philadelphia, 1889), 113-114; R- G. Thwaites, Withers^ s Chron- icles of Border Warfare, 136-137. 119 WASHINGTON AND THE [IT of the glades ^^ of the Alleghanies in Garrett County^ Maryland, and Preston County, West Virginia ; these glades were then, even more than they are in our day of summer resorts, the beau- tifuii sunny spots in those wide expanses of rugged heights. The largest glades are the Great Glades of the Youghiogheny, spreading out east and west from the " Yoh *' River, as it is called lo- cally.
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