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to pass at the custom house at Bristol by Wm. Cornelius Fry, Glass Bottle Manufacturer [in] Old Market and got a passage in the Brutus, Capt n . John

Bunce, to Philadelphia, the vessel was the property of Mr. John Warder,

merchant of that city. We departed from Mud Dock in the city of Bristol on Sunday morning the 6 th of September 1801 at 6 o’clock p.m. in company with

Jacob and James Ashman from Bath and a girl in the cabin –------------ Morreen

Mate ––----------

We arrived at Philadelphia on Thursday the 15 th of October. Some part of the

goods were forwarded to Pittsburgh prior to my arrival and all the party beside

my father, mother and Fanny Porter ––– and Joseph Jackson who procured

employment in the vicinity of Philadelphia were gone forward to Pittsburgh. We left it on the 6 th of Nov. with all our luggage and after a fatiguing journey we arrived at Pitt[sburgh] the 23 rd. on Tuesday the 1 st of Dec. we left

Pittsburgh. Chapman, Hunt, Dover, wife and child went down the river in a

trade boat belonging to Humphrey and Co. storekeepers, Harrodsburg on Saturday the 28 th 4 days before us. We proceeded down without any