"I wait now for the last Convoy and shall, if I do not meet with further Disappointments, begin my March over the Alleghaney Mountains in about five days. The Difficulties we have to meet with by the best Accounts are very great; the Distance from hence to the Forts is an hundred and ten miles, a Road to be cut and made the whole way with infinite Toil and Labor, over rocky Mountains of an excessive Height and Steepness, and many Stoney Creeks and Rivers to cross." Braddock's army under Halket and Dunbar proceeded to Fort Cumberland from Alexandria by various routes. Governor Sharpe had had a new road built from Rock Creek to Fort Cumberland;[15] this was probably Dunbar's route and is given as follows in Braddock's Orderly Books:[16] MILES To Rock Creek[17] -- To Owen's Ordinary 15 To Dowdens 15 To Frederick 15 From Fred^k on y^e road to Conogogee 17 From that halting place to Conogogee 18 From Conogogee to John Evens 16 To the Widow Baringer 18 To George Polls 9 To Henry Enock's 15 To Cox's at y^e mouth of little Cacaph 12 To Col. Cresaps 8 To Wills Creek 16 ---- 174 Halket's regiment went from Alexandria to Winchester, Virginia by the following route as given in Braddock's Orderly Books: MILES To y^e old Court House 18 To M^r Colemans on Sugar Land Run where there is Indian Corn &c. 12 To M^r Miners 15 To M^r Thompson y^e Quaker wh is 3000 wt corn 12 To M^r They's y^e Ferry of Shanh 17 From M^r They's to Winchester 23 -- 97 At Winchester Halket was only five miles distant from "Widow Baringer's" on Dunbar's road from Frederick to Fort Cumberland.