The transcribed travel diary of Daniel Beale contains references to his visits with people in Jefferson County. The diary, which begins in early 1802, describes Beale's journey from Ohio to North Carolina and back. A Quaker, the Beales were later among the early inhabitants of Hamilton County, Indiana.

Original spelling and punctuation is retained by the transcriber.

May, 1802: the 17 I went on for lost creek and got to john cannadays near the panter [Panther] springs abought 35 miles and the 18 went on to lost creek and to Isaac Williams and found them all well and got 20 miles and on the 19 went to the lost creek preparative meeting where I saw some of our friends and there was a summons for a comitee of women to search for a child that was supposed to be live born and put in a hole and covered which was an awful sight and the mother of it taken and committed to gaol [jail] and kept under guard and the 20 I went to some of my cousons and to see the crimenel which was a sorrowful sight and not to be forgot and stayed the night at the three springs and the young woman and her sister went off and the guard lying asleep

and the 21 I went over the river holson to trogdens ford and over the mountain at powder springs gap and to clinch river at the mouth of siccamore and lodged there 25 miles and the 22 I crossed clinch and went on my way over powels mountain and over powels river and through the valleys and over the Cumberland mountain and cross yallow creek and got 35 miles...

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