[5] See Winthrop Sargent, _History of an Expedition against Fort Du Quesne_, 366-373. This monograph was published in the United States in 1855 by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The first 280 pages contain an introductory memoir by Sargent; pages 281-358 include the journal of Robert Orme, one of Braddock's aides-de-camp (this is the only American edition of Orme's record), and pages 359-389 the journal of a naval officer which is very frequently referred to as the Seaman's Journal. Of this second journal there seem to be two texts, one preserved in the Royal Artillery Library at Woolwich, England (printed in Hulbert's _Historic Highways of_ _America_, IV. 83-107), the other in the possession of the Rev. Francis-Orpen Morris of Newburnholm Rectory, Yorkshire, to whose father it was given by Captain Hewitt. The second text is the one published by Sargent, but the variations between the two manuscripts are unimportant for the present purpose. This paper will refer to the Sargent edition of the second journal under the caption of _Seaman Journal_; and in citing the _Orme Journal_ it will also use the pagination of Sargent. [6] On this day Washington was appointed an aide-de-camp to Braddock. [7] Braddock to Sir Thomas Robinson, _Olden Time_, II. 237. See also Hulbert, _Historic Highways_, IV. 68; and Franklin, _Works_ (Bigelow ed.), I. 251, 257. [8] _Orme Journal_, 315; see also Thomas Balch, _Letters and Papers relating to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania_, 34-35. [9] See _Burd Papers_ (Mss.) in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. At the time of Braddock's defeat this Pennsylvania road was completed to the summit of the Alleghany mountain, some 20 miles beyond Raystown, now Bedford, Pa. (see _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, VI. 484-485). In 1758 General Forbes constructed a road (now commonly known as the Forbes Road) from Bedford to Fort Duquesne. This route runs about parallel to the Braddock Road, though many miles north of it. [10] Hulbert, _Historic Highways_, II. 89-91. In 1753 the Ohio Company had opened up this path or trail at great expense; and in 1754 Washington had repaired the road as far west as Gist's Plantation (Mt. Washington). See Washington, _Writings_ (Sparks ed.), II. 51. [11] _Orme Journal_, 323-324. [12] The construction of the Cumberland Road was authorized by an act of Congress, approved March 29, 1806, and entitled "An Act to regulate the laying out and making a Road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio" (United States, _Statutes at Large_, II. 357). By the provisions of the act the President was required to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three discreet and disinterested citizens to constitute a board of commissioners to lay out the road. The men selected were Thomas Moore and Eli Williams of Maryland, and Joseph Kerr of Ohio.