8th.—I begged the general for leave to go to _Lancaster_, having some business, which he at last granted. I went to captain Sinclair for a horse, who ordered me to go to the chief justice of the town; who ought to procure one for me, in the province service. According to this order I went; but the justice told me, that he did not know how to get any horse; if I would go and look for one, he should be glad if I found any. But having no mind to run from one to another, I resolved to walk, as I had done before: and so travelled along, and came about ten miles that day to a tavern keeper’s, named _Chesnut_. 9th.—To-day I crossed the _Susquahanna_ over the ice, and came within thirteen miles of _Lancaster_. It was slippery and heavy travelling. 10th.—It rained all the day. I arrived at three o’clock in the afternoon, in _Lancaster_; and was quite refreshed, to have the favour to see my brethren. FOOTNOTES [1] _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, viii, p. 132; _Pennsylvania Archives_, iii, pp. 412-422. [2] Journal of this journey in _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, viii, pp. 142-145. [3] _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, viii, p. 147. [4] _Pennsylvania Archives_, iii, pp. 556, 557. [5] _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, viii, pp. 341, 419, 463, 466, 469, 491; _Pennsylvania Archives_, iii, pp. 581, 582, 689, 702, 703. [6] All Indians are excessive fond of rum, and will be drunk whenever they can get it.—[CHARLES THOMSON?] [7] Willamegicken (Wellemeghikink), known to the whites as James, was a prominent brave of the Allegheny Delawares, who had been employed as a messenger between them and the Susquehanna tribes of the same race. He had agreed to accompany Post on this journey, for which the Pennsylvania Council had voted to supply him with a horse. _Pennsylvania Archives_, iii, p. 415; _Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, viii, p. 148.—ED. [8] Bethlehem is a Moravian town built in 1741-42, after the retreat of these people from Georgia. Count Zinzendorf organized the congregation at this place, and named the settlement (1742). For the first twenty years a community system prevailed among the inhabitants, called the “Economy.” Portions of the buildings erected under that régime are still standing. See “Moravians and their Festival,” in _Outlook_, August 1, 1903. In 1752, the brethren built a large stone house for the accommodation of Indian visitors, and those who escaped the massacre of 1755 were domiciled there when Post passed through.—ED. [9] These two treaties were made with Teedyuscung: the first at Easton in July and August, 1757, whereby the neutrality of the Susquehanna Indians and the Six Nations was secured (_Pennsylvania Colonial Records_, vii, pp. 649-714); the second at Philadelphia in April, 1758 (see _Id._, viii, pp. 29-56, 87-97).—ED.