Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)
10th The ground was so much frozen
that it bore up our horses & waggons
most of the way but whare it did break
in it was terrible [bad] we crossed Elk
Creek by fording the stream brother Luce
got his horses mired in mud but
we drew him out & went on passed
through Springfield & put up for the
night at the In of a clever man
from Vermont by the name of John Scots
$3.00 10 m[iles]
