_a_: Feedbox: 1, Top. 2, Side, showing pin and lug for securing to tongue. 3, End, showing bracket into which the chains hooked for traveling. _b_: Front end panel: 1, Bottom end rail. 2, Middle end rail. 3, Top end rail. 4, Standard, or upright, forming end framing. 5, End boards. 6, Bow. 7, Corner plates. _c_: Rear end gate: 1, Staples for end-gate standards. 2, End-gate hasps and hooks. 3, Pins to secure gate to upper side rails. 4, Crossbar to give extra support to end gate. _d_: Rear wheel. _e_: Cross section of wheel: 1, Boxings, of cast iron, wedged in hub to take wear of axle. _f_: Front wheel: 1, Felly, or felloe. 2, Spoke. 3, Hub, or nave. _g_: Floor of wagon, from under side: 1, Crossbeams, the center and rear ones being heavier, and projecting at the ends to hold the iron side braces visible in figure 8,_a_. 2, Bottom side rails. 3, Floorboards. 4, Position of rear bolster when bed is on running gear. 5, Front bolster, showing hole for kingpin. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1959 [Footnote 1: _Pennsylvania Archives_, ser. 8, vol. 5, Morris to the House, Dec. 19, 1754.] [Footnote 2: Robert Orme's Journal, _in_ Winthrop Sargent, _The history of an expedition against Fort DuQuesne_, p. 288, Philadelphia, 1855.] [Footnote 3: Benjamin Franklin, _Autobiography_, p. 166, New York, 1939.] [Footnote 4: _Pennsylvania Archives_, ser. 1, vol. 2, pp. 295-96. Franklin suggested that St. Clair, with a body of troops, would probably enter Pennsylvania and take what he wanted, if it could not be obtained otherwise.] [Footnote 5: _Ibid._, ser. 1, vol. 2, Morris to Peters, May 30, 1755.] [Footnote 6: _Ibid._, Shippen to Morris, June 13, 1755.] [Footnote 7: The modern spelling is given above. A number of spellings were common in 1755, among them Conegogee, Connecochieg, and Cannokagig.] [Footnote 8: This is the modern spelling. Among those used in 1755 were Yoxhio Geni and Ohiogany.] [Footnote 9: _Pennsylvania Archives_, ser. 1, vol. 2, Shippen to Allen, June 30, 1755. Also, Orme's Journal, in Sargent, _op. cit._ (footnote 2) p. 329.] [Footnote 10: Originally spelled Conestogoe. The first known reference to a Conestoga wagon appears under date of 1717 in James Logan's "Account Book, 1712-1719," the manuscript original of which is in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. It is likely that the reference was only to a wagon from Conestogoe, and not to a definite type of vehicle.] [Footnote 11: The term seems to have been in common use by 1750 since a tavern in Philadelphia, called "The Sign of the Conestogoe Waggon," was mentioned in an advertisement in the _Pennsylvania Gazette_, February 5, 1750, but another advertisement, (_ibid._, February 12, 1750), in referring to what was apparently the same establishment, uses the term "Dutch Waggon."]