Not a street was paved, not even the footwalks, except for such irregular slabs of stone, or brick, or planks as had been laid down by the owners of adjoining houses. Major Thomas S. Forman who passed through Pittsburgh in December, 1789, related that the town was the muddiest place he was ever in.[56] In 1800, there was little improvement. Samuel Jones was the first Register and Recorder of Allegheny County, and held those offices almost continuously well into the nineteenth century. He resided in Pittsburgh during the entire period, and his opportunities for observation were unexcelled. His picture of the borough in 1800 is far from attractive. “The streets,” he wrote, were “filled with hogs, dogs, drays, and noisy children.”[57] At night the streets were unlighted. “A solitary lamp twinkled here and there, over the door of a tavern, or on a signpost, whenever the moon was in its first or last quarter. The rest of the town was involved in primeval darkness.” REFERENCES CHAPTER II [29] LAURA G. SANFORD. _The History of Erie County, Pennsylvania_, Philadelphia, 1862, p. 60. [30] JUDGE J. W. F. WHITE. _Allegheny County, its Early History and Subsequent Development_, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1888, pp. 70–71. [31] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, December 14, 1793. [32] Act of April, 22, 1794; Act of September 12, 1782. [33] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, November 2, 1793. [34] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, November 23, 1793. [35] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, May 31, 1794. [36] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, June 21, 1794. [37] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, November 2, 1793; _Ibid._, June 28, 1794. [38] H. M. BRACKENRIDGE. _Recollections of Persons and Places in the West_, Philadelphia, 1868, pp. 44, 68. [39] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, December 29, 1798. [40] NEVILLE B. CRAIG. _The History of Pittsburgh_, Pittsburgh, 1851, p. 295. [41] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, April 30, 1802; _Ibid._, April 16, 1802. [42] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, May 13, 1803. [43] LEWIS BRANTZ. “Memoranda of a Journey in the Westerly Parts of the United States of America in 1785.” In Henry R. Schoolcraft’s _Indian Antiquities_, Philadelphia, Part III., pp. 335–351. [44] THOMAS CHAPMAN. “Journal of a Journey through the United States,” _The Historical Magazine_, Morrisania, N. Y., 1869, vol. v., p. 359. [45] _The Navigator_ for 1808, Pittsburgh, 1808, p. 33. [46] THOMAS CHAPMAN. “Journal of a Journey through the United States,” _The Historical Magazine_, Morrisania, N. Y., 1869, vol. v., p. 359. [47] SHERMAN DAY. _Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania_, Philadelphia, p. 345; REV. WILLIAM HANNA: _History of Green County, Pa._, 1882, pp. 247, 248. [48] _Pittsburgh Gazette_, February 1, 1800. [49] F. CUMING. _Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country_, in 1807–1809, Pittsburgh, 1810, p. 225. [50] _The Navigator_ for 1808, Pittsburgh, 1808, p. 33. [51] F. CUMING. _Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country_, in 1807–1809, Pittsburgh, 1810, p. 226.