[60] _Orme Journal_, 344. James Veech says in his _Monongahela of Old_ (p. 60) that this encampment was "a short half mile below New Haven," on land then (1858) owned by Daniel Rogers; but Judge Veech is confused by Orme's entry of June 28, which says, "The troops marched about five miles to a camp on the east [west] side of Yoxhio Geni" (_Orme Journal_, 344). It is worthy of note that Orme uses the term "the troops marched" and not his customary phrase "we marched," a circumstance from which it seems reasonable to infer that the advance column halted a day at this encampment, and that on June 29 the officers and the rest of the army at Gist's Plantation joined it here. [61] See Shippen's drafts, to which reference has already been made. Through the courtesy of J. Sutton Wall, chief draughtsman of the Interior Department, Harrisburg, Pa., who has made a draft connecting a number of tracts lying southward from Stewart's Crossing along the line of Braddock Road to Gist's place and the foot of Laurel Ridge, the writer has been greatly aided in the preparation of his own sketch. In the connected draft a few of the tracts do not show the road; but a sufficient number do show it to corroborate the conclusions reached by him relative to the course of the road from Gist's place to Stewart's Crossing, and hence to enable him, on the accompanying map, to lay down the road between these two points with greater accuracy. [62] _Olden Time_, II. 543; Veech, _The Monongahela of Old_, 60-61. [63] _Orme Journal_, 345; Veech, _The Monongahela of Old_, 61. [64] Mr. Truxell writes to me, under date of November 30, 1908, that this farm has been owned by the Truxells since 1806, and that in the course of his life he has ploughed up at least a quart of bullets, sometimes as many as a dozen at a single ploughing. [65] In regard to Braddock's movements on July 1st and 2d, the writer desires to offer a plausible solution of some statements in Orme's journal that have led to no little confusion and inaccurate assertion on the part of those who have written on the subject. "On the first of July," says Orme, "we marched about five miles, but could advance no further by reason of a great swamp which required much work to make it passable." This bivouac, as has already been said, is undoubtedly on the farm of John Truxell. The army, which was close at the heels of the advance or working party, had to halt there till a corduroy road could be thrown across the swamp, a process that required time.