go aboard of the Chesapeake for Toledo we left Mr. Foots chest in the store house at Buffalo and paid for storage and the passage to Erie and took a receipt for it and sent on to Mr. Foot --- we all took a deck passage with the promise of being landed at Toledo but when they got their pay they said that they would not land at Toledo until they had been at Detroit and was on their return to Buffalo But while we were at sandusky the Cincinnati from Cleavelan came along and the Captain told the passengers that he would put them aboard her to go to Toledo if they were willing to go but while the lay at the dock some distance apart I lay upon bench and fell a sleep – when our boat got ready they came along side of the cincinati and put the passengers aboard of her and with the rest of them went my company and took my trunk along with them leaving me behind they new not where when I awoke I found that the Boat had but just put off carrying me with them for Detroit. ---the weather was very pleasant while we were upon the Lake until the last night after we were separated the wind began to blow and those that were on board of the Cincinati began to (continued on p. 4)

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