The following information on Nathaniel is taken directly from "The Newlin Family: Ancestors and Descendants of John and Mary Pyle Newlin" (1965) by Dr. Algie I. Newlin and Harvey Newlin, pages 519-523:

Nathaniel, the youngest of the six children of John and Mary Pyle Newlin, was the only one born in North Carolina. As the youngest he inherited the paternal home in the valley of the Haw River. Here Nathaniel and Catherine's family grew to ten children and here all but the three youngest spent their entire childhood. Four of them had married before 1826, when Nathaniel sold the old home, to join the great Newlin exodus from North Carolina to the West. Nine of the ten children joined the westward migration.

The West was not new to Nathaniel. In 1819 he made a two-thousand-mile meandering journey which took him to most of the Quaker meetings and settlements which had grown up between western Pennsylvania and Crawford County, Illinois. Though this extraordinary journey was prompted by a religious concern it is not likely that Nathaniel closed his eyes to the character and potential of the new country through which he passed.

The Minutes of Spring Monthly Meeting (NC) for February 2, 1819, carry the following account of a transaction which placed the Meeting's stamp of approval on Nathaniel Newlin as 'an Elder in good esteem' and approved the proposed pilgrimage to the meetings and homes of western Friends:

'And our Friend Nathaniel Newlin expressed a willingness to accompany our Friends Hannah Thompson and Mary Harvey through their religious visit to Ohio Yearly Meeting and Lick Creek Meeting and some families thereaway, with which (this) meeting unites, he being an Elder in good esteem.'

This 'Minute' was a letter of introduction which carred the Meeting's recommendantion of Nathaniel Newlin to all Friends and Friends meetings in the path of this long journey. With meticulous care, Nathaniel recorded in his diary a log of the distance travelled each day, the place of each night's lodging, the meetings attended and the homes visited. A few interesting observations and encounters are recorded, such as-Killing a rattlesnake on the way out, 'the butifulest I ever saw...'-meeting with Elias Hicks, one of the noted Quaker leaders, at the time of the Great Separation which would soon explode, and stopping at the home of Benjamin Butterworth and wife, who weighed 365 and 275 pounds respectively. While crossing Indiana they travelled for three days a wilderness road, in uninhabited country, and spent each night in the forest. On the return from Illinois smoke from prairie fires darkened the skies for three days, often concealing the sun completely. The Diary gives little information relative to spiritual life of the people along the way, not a word about the character of the sixty meetings attended and nothing relative to any business transacted in any of the meetings for business. Strangest of all, there is no mention of either of the two 'esteemed' women Friends who made this rough journey with him. The occasional use of the first person pronoun indicates that he was not alone. It is quite possible that the Diary was written to refresh his memory for a fireside story which must have made many an interesting evening for members of the family and for neighbors during the winter months.

It is believed that the journey was made in a buggy (or possibly a surrey type vehicle) drawn by two horses. The great circular route was determined to a great extent by the location of Friends Meetings to be visited. Starting in the Spring Meeting community, they faced north across Virginia, and the narrow neck of present day West Virginia, across the Maryland Panhandle and the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania, then across the West Virginia Panhandle into estern Ohio. From there they went to the Wilmington, Ohio area and on to Cincinnati. The long detour to the northwest to Whitewater Meeting (Richmond, Indiana) was a sharp break from the direct line to Lick Creek, near Paoli, Indiana. From this point in southern Indiana they made another long detour to Crawford County, Illinois and back across the Wabash to Honey Creek Meeting, a few miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana. From this point they began their homeward journey, which led them again, for a second short visit, to the Lick Creek community. From here the route which they followed to their Carolina home is important because it must have been a much-travelled emigrant road from North Carolina to southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. On the return route the important places noted in the Diary include: Louisville (Kentucky), Bardstown, Danville, Crab Orchards, Cumberland Gap, Powells River (Tennessee), Tazewell, Clinch River, and down the Holston River valley to Abingdon (Virginia), across New River, the Blue Ridge Mountains; back into North Carolina, possibly near Mount Airy, and from there to the Spring Meeting area.

By Nathaniel Newlin's count they travelled 2014 miles, attended sixty Friends Meetings, and visited numerous families of Friends in 117 days. While en route most of the nights were spent in homes along the way, though in a few instances the sparsity of houses in southern Indiana forced them to camp in the wilderness.

During forty-two of the 117 days visits in homes and attendance of meetings cut their total travel distance down to two-hundred miles. In the seventy-five days when travel was unhindered their daily average was 24.2 miles. Their longest day began at a forest camp, at three o'clock in the morning, and ended fifty-five miles away.

Important to Newlin history were their visits in the homes of Newlins who were closely related to Nathaniel. Near Wilmington, Ohio, they were in the home of John (D3) and Esther Stubbs Newlin, for a visit with them and their seven children. John, the first Tarheel Newlin to 'go west,' was the son of Nathaniel's deceased brother, Eli, and Sarah Hadley Newlin. In the Lick Creek community, in Orange County, southern Indiana, were two sons of James, deceased, and and Deborah Lindley Newlin: William (A7) and Jonathan Newlin (A9) who had gone there less than two years before. The Minute from Spring Meeting didn't indicate any extension of the pilgrimage beyond Lick Creek. It is quite likely that the journey was extended to Crawford County, in southern Illinois, in part, at least, because of relatives there. And could the desire to see the land in which many Newlins had recently settled have had some influence? Only one Friends meeting for worship was reported in that state and that near the home of Robert Holladay, Nathaniel's nephew, son of Robert and Hannah (Newlin) Holladay. Whatever prompted the journey into Crawford County the night of November 2, 1819, was spent in the home of John and Sarah Holladay Newlin, near Palestine, Illinois. Nathaniel missed a good chance to fill one of the gaps in history when he failed to give a description of his brother John's home. It is easy to imagine the children and grandchildren of John and Sarah Newlin, all recent settlers in that area, gathered by the fire to hear the news from 'Carolina.' And did they fail to tell the visitors about farm land on the Illinois side of the Wabash?

After this short stop the travellers made their way back across the Wabash into Indiana for an equally short visit in the area of Honey Creek Meeting, a few miles south of Terre Haute. Here they attended Honey Creek Meeting and held one meeting for worship in a home. The question pops up again; did Nathaniel have an interest in the land on the east side of the Wabash Valley? He did not go to the site of his future home in Parke County, forty miles to the north.

In 1826 Nathaniel and Catherine with all their children and grandchildren, except the family of Joseph and Ruth (Farlow) Newlin, joined together in an emigrant train of twenty-one persons, to begin life anew in the area of Bloomingdale, Indiana. On the 26-VIII-1826 Spring Monthly Meeting of Friends gave its approval of the removal to White Lick or Honey Creek Meeting, Indiana, of Nathaniel and Catherine Newlin, with six of their children. Their three married children and their families, all armed with certificates, made the same move with their parents: first, John and Ruth Woody Newlin and their four children-Isaac, Zimri, Mahlon and Enoch; second, Mary (Newlin) and Enoch Morrison and their children-Eli and William; and third, Jacob and Sarah (Woody) Newlin and their baby daughter, Sina.

Joseph and Ruth (Farlow) Newlin remained in North Carolina. Honey Creek Meeting, located near the present town of Prairieton, reached out for its membership over a radius of at least forty miles. Nathaniel and his band of descendants settled about that distance from the Meeting House. They attended a subordiate meeting called, at that time, Elevatis, the beginning of what is today Bloomingdale Meeting. Between the founding of Honey Creek Meeting in 1820 and the arrival of the Newlins, near the end of 1826, approximately one-hundred and fifty Friends from North Carolina took their membership to that meeting, and one-third of them were from Spring. One way to keep from getting homesick in a new land is to take relatives and other neighbors along. It is possible that Nathaniel's report on his 1819 tour of sections of Indiana helped to stimulate this migration from the Cane Creek and Haw River valleys.

Before they had passed their first year in Indiana, Nathaniel's daughter, Hannah, married, in Elevatis Meeting, James Siler, son of Adam and Sarah (Hadley) Siler, who had gone from Cane Creek, North Carolina, in 1817. In 1865 their daughter, Martha L. Siler, married William V. Outland, whose parents had moved from Contentnea Meeting, in Wayne County, North Carolina, in 1832. On 6-V-1829 Nathaniel's third daughter, Eleanor, married Exum Morris, son of Jeremiah and Margaret Morris of Contentnea Meeting, NC. Since his certificate of membership did not reach Indiana until after his marriage it is believed that Exum Morris had only recently arrived in Indiana. To a great extent Nathaniel Newlin and members of his family were living in a society of North Carolinians on Indiana soil.

'The Rockville Tribune' pays them high tribute: 'Of stout heart and steady arm were these sturdy pioneers who came from the North carolina hills in search of new homes in the Northwest territory. They arrived here with all their possessions in a wagon, happy when they had money enough to enter a piece of land, even if they had not a cent left for future use.' ('The Tribune's Penn Township Special Edition,' May 1899, p. 1).

Since all of their certificates were issued to either White Lick or Honey Creek Meetings one can only speculate on the reason for the dual designation. It is well known that the 1820s saw Quaker migration to Indiana at high tide. Their widely scattered communities and meetings were springing up over the southern half of that state. In 1819 Nathaniel Newlin had visited the Honey Creek community but he did not get closer than thirty-five miles to the farm he eventually bought. White Lick was sixty-five miles from Honey Creek but there was no time for a scouting trip to that community. One can only wonder if Nathaniel went to Indiana with the intention of using one or both of these communities as bases for extensive prospecting for the best available land and community for his future needs. Since he waited three years before making his purchase one can be quite sure that a thorough search was made.

Eli Newlin-F10-the tenth, and youngest, child of Nathaniel, gives the only available description of the life of the family during their early years in Indiana. 'We came in by way of Terre Haute and camped by the Peyton Wiilson home...' This seems to indicate that this family caravan came from North Carolina over the Wilderness Road through Kentucky and along the entire route followed by Nathaniel and his two companions in their return to North Carolina in 1819.

'Peyton Wilson had gone to the mill but he soon came home with his grist on his horse. He emptied about one half of his meal for us and told us to bake it. He then took his gun and shot a two-year-old-beef, and told us to skin it, and hang the hide in the shed, and cook the beef and eat it. This was our reception.' And a hospitable reception it was!

'We then settled on what is now known as the Greenberry Ward Farm, where we lived about three years. The house had two rooms and so father's family occupied one room, and brother John and family occupied the other.'

This indicates that Nathaniel and Catherine Newlin and their six unmarried children lived in one room and John and Ruth Woody Newlin and their four children lived in the other room. The latter's twins had died two years before, at the age of eleven months. Their baby, Enoch, was less than one year old when they arrived in Indiana.

Jacob and Sarah Woody Newlin and their one-year-old baby, Sina, shared 'a log cabin 12 by 14 feet' in size with Mary (Newlin) and Enoch Morrison and their three children. The Morrison's youngest was an infant when they began the journey. Truly the housing shortage in this new country was acute.

Eli Newlin's account of the acquisition of their farm land indicates that there was keen rivalry in the prospecting for good land. 'One 4th day at meeting we heard that John Moulter was going to enter the same land that we were wanting, and as father had not money by him, his son-in-law, Exum Morris (just married), loaned him $100 to go and get it with. We went home from meeting, and brother Duncan saddled the fastest horse we had and laying whip, started for the land office at Crawfordsville. He got there safely and procured the land.'

'As he went to get his horse, he met John Moulter, who was somewhat crest-fallen when he saw that he was beaten in the race. ...houses were to be built and fields to be cleared. The houses were all very much the same, built of logs, small, puncheon floors, clapboard roof, chimneys built of sticks and mud. Doors hung on wooden hinges, and hung on the outside to economize room. And for the same reason the chimneys were built on the outside. The fireplaces by which we lived and by which we cooked, were large, five feet wide...Bread was baked before the fire in iron ovens. These ovens are like large skillets, and have legs, so as to put fire under them, and have iron lids made in such a shape as to put fire on top. Johnny cakes were baked in the ashes.'

Eli Newlin's story tells how they cleared away the underbrush and small trees and 'deadened' the large trees in preparation for cultivation.

'As our bread was about all corn bread we took corn to be ground at Beard's mill at West Union, and sometimes had to wait all night for the grist. And I remember that in some way or other, our folks procured a sack of flour, and then we had biscuits every first day (Sunday) morning, as long as it lasted...'

During their first winter in Indiana the family relied on wild hogs and other wild game for their supply of meat.

'Our bedsteads were made by fastening two poles on planks into holes in the wall, and a post of some kind for the other corner to rest on, then boards laid across for slats. Chairs were scarce, the lack being supplied with homemade stools and benches. The baby's cradle was a sugar trough...We had no lamps or candles, but our light was made by burning a twisted rag in a tin of grease.'

They paid twenty-five cents to get a letter from the post office.

'We went to meeting at the old meeting housedown by the grave yard and our meetings were mostly silent meetings. But sometimes a minister would come along, generally on horseback, and preach us a sermon. I remember that one day Amos Kimberly came from the east, on horseback, to visit our meeting. He had hurt our horse's back in some way, and he was riding on the blanket with the saddle behind him. He preached a powerful sermon from the text, 'He that thinketh he knoweth something, knoweth nothing as he ought to know.' It served to arouse some who were tending toward the Hicksite belief, and caused them to forsake that belief entirely.'

Nathaniel Newlin and other members of his family participated in the establishment of Bloomfield (now Bloomingdale) Monthly Meeting in the place of Elevatis Preparative Meeting. When Nathaniel objected to the use of the name 'Elavatis,' the Clerk, Jerry Siler, asked, 'What will thee have it?' He replied, 'I don't know; some kind of bloom.' The Clerk then asked, 'Will field do thee?' 'Yes, that will do.' So the new meeting was named Bloomfield by two Friends from the Cane Creek valley of North Carolina. (From 'The Rockville Tribune, Penn Township Special Edition,' May, 1899, p. 4).

He was on a committee to have the Land of the Meeting surveyed and a graveyard 'staked off.' His son, John, was one of the first Trustees of the Meeting. Nathaniel was an elder in the Society of Friends for seventy years. ('History of Vigo and Parke Counties,' p. 286.) In addition to operating a farm, Nathaniel was a harness maker. He worked at the latter until within six hours of the end of his long life.

For four decades Nathaniel's life was in the area of Bloomingdale, where it ended in 1867, just seven months short of the century mark. In this same community his great-granddaughter, Mary (Newlin) Allee, lived her remarkably long, beautiful, and rich life. She died there in 1962 at the age of 105. These two persons, whose lives overlapped for eleven years, and who knew each other well, together had a life span of almost two-hundred years, beginning in a day when speed for fast travel was about one-seventeenth of a mile a minute and ending in an age when astronauts were circling the earth at 17,000 miles a minute.

The above-quoted manuscript by Eli Newlin, entitled "Pioneer Days," was, in 1965, in the possession of his granddaughter, Allie Newlin Pearson of Bloomingdale, Indiana.

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This ends the quoted information from the Newlin genealogy. According to a newspaper article "Unique Parke County Family Tree" by Dorothy J. Clark, newspaper unknown, Nathaniel Newlin made "his home for one winter near Rockville (in Parke County), but later entered land where the depot was located. For over fifty years he was the acknowledged leader of the Quakers in the community (incorrect--Nathaniel died 41 years after settling in Bloomingdale). The original name of the meeting place was Elevalis, which by his request was changed to Bloomfield, and later to Bloomingdale." This article was discussing an article about Nathaniel's grandson, Exum Newlin (1830-1917), who wrote a poem on the Newlin family history. Ms. Clark goes on to say, "The father of Exum was Jacob Newlin, born in 1801 in North Carolina, and coming to Parke County after his marriage to enter 60 acres. The journey from the south was made in wagons and took seven weeks. Jacob built the first barn in the county which was used for years by his neighbors for storing their grain." Exum Newlin was the father of Mary Emily Newlin Allee (1856-1962), who in her 105-year life had the unusual fortune of knowing seven generations of Newlins, since she knew her great-grandfather Nathaniel and lived to become a great-grandmother.

The following biographies of Nathaniel Newlin and a son and son-in-law have been copied and pasted from the website http://www.rootsweb.com/~inparke/BiosPennTwp.htm

Penn Township Biographies

Enoch MORRISON, a native of NC settled in Penn Twp. in 1826, and died in 1833. He was a member of the Friends church. His son, Eli Morrison was b. in NC in 1824. He lived on a farm and worked at his trade as a carpenter. There are many buildings in the county that are proofs of his skill as a good, honest workman. He was a consistent member of the Friends Church until his death. Taken from the Historical Sketch of Parke Co Atlas of IN Centennial, 1816-1916, p. 121.

Eli NEWLIN, farmer, Bloomingdale, was b. in Orange Co., NC in 1816. His father, Nathaniel, and his mother, Catharine HADLEY were natives of NC, from which state they came to Parke Co. in 1826, and first located on the farm now owned by G. WARD. There were 12 of the family when they came to this county, of whom there are now but two living, Hannah SILER and the subject of this sketch. Mr. Newlin's father d. in this county at the age of 99 years and 7 months. He was an elder in the church of the Society of Friends about 70 years. Mr. Newlin's mother d. about 1840. Mr. Newlin has been a resident of the county since he came with his parents in 1826. His pursuit in life has been that of an humble tiller of the soil. He now resides at the old homestead to which his parents removed shortly after they came to the county. He has long since been a devoted member of the Society of Friends, and politically is a Republican. Taken from: p. 286 History of Parke Co IN; JH Beadle, Chicago: HH Hill, 1880

Nathaniel NEWLIN settled in Penn Twp. in 1826, coming from NC where he was born. There were 12 in the family. He remained a resident of Penn Twp. until his death in his one hundredth year. He was for 70 years an elder in the Friends church and was a man of integrity who infused into the life of others high qualities of virtue. His son Eli was b. in Orange Co, in in 1816 and came to this county with his parents in 1820, and became the owner of the farm possessed by his father. He died several years ago in Bloomingdale. He also was a life member of the Society of Friends. Taken from the Historical Sketch of Parke Co Atlas of IN Centennial, 1816-1916, p. 121.

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In 1996, I, Bryan S. Godfrey, while visiting one of my Newlin relatives, obtained a typed transcription of my great-great-great-great-grandfather Nathaniel Newlin's diary of his 1819 mission to the Midwest, and I photocopied it. In 2009, I retyped it so it could be electronically recorded, making some grammatical or spelling revisions in brackets. I do not know whether it was Dr. Algie I. Newlin or someone else who typed the transcription that I photocopied, nor do I know where Nathaniel's original handwritten diary is located, but Dr. Newlin definitely read it as shown by his comments on portions of it in his 1965 Newlin genealogy. Having a love of not only family history, especially my Quaker heritage, but also travel and geography, I enjoyed retracing this journey using road atlases and hope to retrace it by automobile as closely as Nathaniel's route apparently went. Nathaniel's diary is as follows:

Diary of Nathaniel Newlin during trip to Indiana and Illinois and return to North Carolina 1819

Day 6th of the 8 mo 1819. The weather dry and warm the rodes [roads] dusty staid [stayed] at Joseph Thompsons traveled 14 miles.

7th Day. The weather much as yesterday the same appearance of rain in the evening. Traveled 16 miles and staid Simeon Cothvine Person County.

1-8 Day some cloudy in the morning past [passed] threw [through] Leesburg and Milton ford and Danville past along where it had been a good shower the evening before. Seen some middling good corn one field of very good traveled 24 miles and staid at Cap John Waterses in (Pittsylvania) County, Virginia.

2-9 raind some last night past along this where there had fell a good shower the poorest prospect of corn this day I believe I ever saw tho some was middling well stalked it appeared it was past recovery the weather not quite so hot traveled 31 miles and staid at Capt. Glases.

3-10 Corn some better than yesterday Crost wards bridge over Stanton two hundred yards long including the butments which are of stone. The bridge is built on six stone pillars which are large and hansom traveled 21 miles of raff [rough?] rode and staid Goodmans in Camel [Campbell] Co.

4-11 Traveled 21 miles and staid at William Davises Linchburg [Lynchburg, VA].

5-12 Crost James river on the bridge which is constructed like Stanton with eleven pillars past threw Amherst Corthouse and New Glasgow the day warm and rode very dusty traveled 25 miles and staid Captain Roanes in Amherst County.

6-13 The wether warm and roads very bad traveled 24 miles staid at Landerafts Nelson County.

7-14 Crost the ridge at Rockfish Gap 3 miles up traveled it in two hours got into a good rode before evening and got amongst Dutch farmers busy brakeing fallows [?] rained a few drops on the dust traveled 21 miles and staid at [unreadable].

1-15 traveled 31 miles and staid at Heepers [?] this day past [passed] threw [through] kereletown [?] (Harrisonburg) had a very hard shower of rain in the evening.

2-16 Past [passed] threw [through] several little towns had a hard shower in the evening traveled 26 miles and staid at Woodstock.

3-17 Traveled 32 miles and staid in Winchester at Samuel Browns

4-18 Staid at our kind reind [friend?] Rowns and attended there [their?] meeting 1 ½ miles from town.

5-19 This day went to Hopewell meeting 6 miles and after meeting went to Isaac Browns 4 miles Samuels father.

6-20 Traveled 24 miles and staid at Vannosdails killed a rattlesnake the butifulest that I ever saw.

7-21 Traveled 24 miles and staid at Tmonoe [?] in Maryland

1-22 Traveled 28 miles after traveling 7 miles we took the turnpike at Cumb [Cumberland, Maryland] and staid at Tomblesons this was a wet day in Maryland yet

2-23 Clear and cool the cold increast so that about twelve oclock we had to put on more close we crost bridge over Youghiogheny River cost 44 thousand dollars [presumably not to cross, but to build!] traveled 29 miles and staid at Ink in Pennsylvania.

3-24 Traveled 24 miles and staid at Ely Hains in Brownsville that past called Bridgport.

4-25 Rested at our kind friend Hainses and attended Redstone preparative meeting in the evening went to David Cattels a kind friend 1 ½ miles and staid.

5-26 Went 5 miles to Westland monthly meeting and after meeting to our friends Jose Balls 11 miles this day crost the Monongahela River at Craford ferry.

6-27 past threw Washington traveled 27 miles and staid at Woodrings

7-28 past threw Wellsburg, Pennsylvania crost the Ohio River staid at Benjamin W. Lous Smithfield traveled 28 miles.

1-29 Rested at our kind friend and attended there meeting called Smithfield.

2-30 Traveled 10 miles and staid at John Holsons our kind friend Joel Hutton our pilet [pilot].

3-31 Went 1 ½ miles to Croscreek meeting returned for Smithfield called a few minuets with a woman that has been afflicted with a canser [cancer] stoped at John Hansons and dined staid at William Woods traveled 13 ½ miles Wiliam our pilet.

4-1 atended York meeting dined at James Rusels and he pileted us to Samuel Rarbers where we staid all night after traveling 10 miles

5-2 atended Westgrove Meeting dined at our friends Samuel Harbers he pileted us to Neomiah Matson 5 miles in Harris Ville where we lodged the wether for several days has been very warm and dry great complaints for water where we are now we have to carry it near half a mile.

6-3 Atended Harris Ville meeting then met with Elias Hicks and companion dined at Matsons Reuben Griffiths pileted us to Merick Stars in Mountpleasant where we expect to bord during the yearly meeting after being there a few minutes we had the agreeable company of Enock Person and wife traveled this day 6 miles.

7-4 Atended the select early meeting.

1-5 atended fore and afternoon meeting for worship

2-6 atended the first siting of the yearly meeting for disaplin [discipline] in the afternoon went to see Ruth Adkinson about 1 ½ miles.

3-7 atended in the morning the Select meeting and then a siting of the meeting for disaplin and in the evening the meeting for Suferings which have the reviseal of the Disaplin before them.

4-8 Atended the meeting for Sufferings in the morning 11 oclock the meeting for Disapline in the evening the meeting for Sufferings again.

5-9 atended the Select meeting in the morning the publick meeting for worship in the afternoon the meeting for Suffering

6-10 atended the meeting for Sufferings in the moning at 10 oclock the meeting for Disaplin in the evening went to see Ruth Adkinson staid all night.

7-11 Atended too [two] settings [sessions?] of the meeting for Disapline and then it concluded.

1-12 Left our kind friend Merick Stars and attended Short Creek meeting ½ mile went back to Mountpleasant and dined at Isieal Frenchs traveled 10 miles and staid at Thomas Smiths.

3-14 Past threw Barnsville and Washington traveled 30 miles and staid at Cambridge.

4-15 traveled 25 miles and staid at Moses Dillins Zanesville frost.

5-16 Crost [crossed] Muskingum River past threw Putnamtown and Sumerset traveled 26 miles and staid in Rushville.

6-17 Past threw Lancaster traveled 33 miles and staid in Jefferson

7-18 forded Sioty past threw old town traveled 28 miles and staid in Greenfield the weather warm and dry and the rode [road] extronery [extraordinarily] dusty water scarce and very indifferent.

1-19 past threw Monroe and Leesburg attended Fairfield Meeting and dined at Union Williams then past threw Lexington traveled 17 miles and staid at Joel Wileses.

2-20 Past threw Morgantown and Wilmington traveled 19 miles and staid at John Hadleys.

3-21 rested until after diner [dinner] then went to Joshua Harveys traveled 1 mile.

4-22 went to Nath Carters to brakefast [breakfast] attended Little Creek preparative meeting there met with our friends Daniel Haveland and Sarah Emlin and companens [companions] dined at George Madens staid at Ely Harveys traveled 9 miles.

5-23 atended Springfield preparative meeting and had the company of the friends names yesterday dined at Calop Harveys traveled 10 miles lodged at William Harveys.

6-24 atended Cosses Creek monthly meeting pilets William Harvey and John Newlin dined at David Whitsons traveled 10 miles lodged at William Harveys.

7-25 went to John Newlins to brakefast attended Springfield monthly meeting dined at John Hadleys traveled 7 miles and lodged at William Hadleys.

1-26 past threw Clarksville and to Salem 8 miles and attended Hopewell meeting dined at Jese Williams traveled 10 miles lodged at Benjamin Butterworth man and his wife weigh 360:275

2-27 atended a meeting this morning appointed at Benjamin Butterworth past threw Montgomery traveled 22 miles and lodged at Elias Fisher in the city in Cincinnati

3-28 Atended Cincinnati meeting dined at Elias Fishers past threw Carthage traveled 12 miles and lodged at Oliver Martins.

4-29 atended a meeting this morning at Oliver Martins for a few friends living in the neighborhood past through Springfield and Hamilton and crost the big Miami River then past through Jacksonburg traveled 25 miles and lodged at Joseph Stubbs.

5-30 past through Dover this day crost a great number of beach roots traveled 26 miles and lodged at Robert Hills in the Indiana.

6-1 10 mo. Attended the Select Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders at Whitewater traveled 3 miles lodged at Jeremiah Coxes.

7-2 atended the quarterly meeting for Disapline which was large it was thought that one third of the people could not git seats lodged at Robert Morisons in Richmond.

1-3 atended the meeting for public worship at this meeting we met with our friends Daniel Haveland and Sarah Emlin and there compaions [companions] dined at Jeremiah Coxes traveled 4 miles and lodged at Caleb Harvey

2-4 traveled 13 miles to Thomas Simons attended a meeting there in the evening held in his barn traveled 4 miles to Mathews Simons and lodged there.

3-5 took the stone quarry trace through the wilderness traveled 20 miles lodged in a small cabin

4-6 continued our journey lodged in the woods this night.

5-7 this morning set out on our journey about three oclock past a little tavern called Genarea but no accommodations to be had in it got some oats went on to a branch and took our lodgings this day and yesterday traveled 55 miles.

6-8 continued our journey through the wilderness reached the settlement of Driftwood and lodged at William Coxes this has been a very wet day yet we traveled 18 miles.

7-9 a little shift of snow fell last night past through Brownstown and Livone traveled 34 miles and lodged at Samuel Lindleys crost the Museatatas River this day.

1-10 atended Blue River meeting traveled 2 miles and lodged at James Whites.

2-11 dined at James Meridays atended the Mountpleasant meeting in the barn at one oclock in the afternoon traveled 11 miles and lodged at Frances Newbys NB [?] just through Salem James White pileted us this day.

3-12 past Libomy [?] dined at Thomas Lindleys traveled 21 and lodged at Hannah Holadays.

4-13 attended Lickcreek meeting traveled 3 miles lodged at Samuel Chembers.

5-14 Owen Lindley pilet this morning begun to visit familys Samuel Chambers Hannah Holaday James Hadley James Lindley dined at Owen Lindley William and Jonathan Newlin and James Crow traveled 7 miles lodged at Thomas Lindleys.

6-15 atended Blue River select quarterly meeting held at Lickcreek traveled 3 miles lodged at Hannah Holadays.

7-16 atended the quarterly meeting for Disapline traveled 3 miles and lodged at Thomas Lindleys.

1-17 atended the publick meeting for worship traveled 3 miles and lodged at T. Lindleys.

2-18 begun to visit familys Thomas Lindleys Peyton Wilson Joshua Hadley dined at Aaron Maris William Lindley traveled 8 ½ miles lodged at Jonathan Joneses.

3-19 this day visited Jonathan Jones Levy Gilford Owen Lindley Lostra dined at Thomas Lindley James McVey John Maris traveled 10 miles and lodged at Tomas Braxtons.

4-20 Thomas Braxton Thomas Maris attended Lickcreek meeting dined at Jonathan Lindleys pileted after meeting visited Nathaniel Carter Joseph Tomlinsons Daniel Dossons traveled 9 ½ miles lodged at Jonathan Lindleys.

5-21 Adam Davises Ely Hadleys Jese Towels John Towels Catherine Pickharts dined at John Marises Daniel Darah Wiliam Hoggetts Thomas Coffin and Ephram Done in Paoli spent about twenty minutes in a cave traveled 7 miles and lodged at Thomas Lindleys Jonathan Son [?] this day travel down Lickcreek.

6-22 Continues on Lickcreek John Freeman Ebenezer Done Gravener Greer Mary Fresur dined at Abraham Osburns and had a siting with four familys in this house Samuel Holadays Abram Holadays Robert Holadays traveled 12 miles and came back to Thomas Lindleys and lodged.

7-23 Continues on Lickcreek William Bails William McCreechens John Dixons Joseph Farlows and dined at Elizabeth Burger Evens Jones Thomas Adkinson and John Adkinsons traveled 10 miles and got home to our freind Thomas Lindleys.

1-24 Atended Lickcreek meeting dined at Jonathan Lindleys had a sitting in Daniel Freemans family traveled 6 miles and lodged at Joseph Farlows.

2-25 Joseph Farlow pilet visited Honey Towels Simon Dixons George Maris William Truebloods and dined at Jonathan Dones Stephen Kersey and James Adkinson traveled 15 miles and lodged at Thomas Hadleys.

3-26 Thomas Hadleys John Williams Abraham Woofingtone John Sybole dined at Joseph Farlow Solomon Stout John Stout Ransom Davis and Lewis Thomases traveled 19 miles and lodged at James Lindley

3-27 William Lindleys Thomas Lindleys W.L. Son David Lindley attended Lickcreek preparative meeting Dined at David Lindleys had a sitting in Henry Brays family traveled 12 miles and lodged at William Harned on Potok

4-28 William Harned pilet visited John Helawais Abigail Brown John Lougherty John Hobson Dined at Jonathan Lindleys after dinner visited John and Edward Brayson Samuel Milican traveled 18 miles and lodged at Samuel Chambers.

5-29 Went to Thomas Lindleys this morning made some preparations for going to the Wabash and lodged there.

7-30 atended Lickcreek monthly meeting dined at Adam Davises past threw Paoli traveled 6 miles and lodged at Thomas Lindleys.

1-31 traveled 25 miles crost east White River traveled this day 29 miles and lodged at Doctor Porters.

2-1 day of 11th Month this day crost West White River past threw Bruceville traveled 34 miles lodged at Thomas Emersons.

3-2 past through Shakertown crost the Wabash at McCarter 20 miles above Vincennes past through Palistine [Palestine, Illinois] traveled 26 miles and lodged at John Newlins in the Illinois state past through Washington.

4-3 traveled 9 miles and attended a meeting near Robert Holadays, and dined after meeting at his house then traveled 2 miles in all 11 miles to Samuel Pervoss and lodged there.

5-4 traveled 8 miles and crost the Wabash at McCluers above McCarters 30 miles then 9 miles in all this day 17 and lodged at Moses Hoggetts in the Indiana state.

6-5 atended Honey Creek meeting dined at Moses Hoggetts traveled 6 miles to Jeremiah Wilsons had a meeting there in the evening and lodged there this day was remarkable smokey on account of the prairies being so much on fire it was so smoky at noonday all the clear there was no shadow to be seen.

7-6 Past through Merom traveled 34 miles and lodged in Carlisle at Halls this day much darker than yesterday the sun not seen until near ten oclock although clear the leafs much on fire as we past on

1-7 The woods much on fire this day tho not so dark as yesterday crost West White River at the same place where we crost as we went out traveled 31 miles and lodged in Washington at Bostons.

2-8 The smoke wors today than it has been crost East White River traveled 30 miles and lodged at George Frenches.

3-9 Past through Paoli traveled 21 miles and got home to our kind friends Thomas Lindleys.

4-10 Atended Lickcreek meeting.

5-11 Preparing for our journey homeward a refreshing rain this morning cleared up warm and pleasant it has settled the smoke that has been so disagreeable.

6-12 Set out this morning for home dined at Robert Holadays past through Fredricksburg traveled 16 miles and lodged at Horners

7-13 Past through Greenville crost the knobs traveled 25 miles and lodged at D. Heals in Albany.

1-14 Crost the Ohio passed through shiping port Louisville and Mount Vernum traveled 24 miles and lodged at Wrights in Kentucky.

2-15 Past through Bardstown and Hillsborough traveled 31 miles and lodged at Beeys.

3-16 Passed through Springfield and Willisburg traveled 27 miles and lodged at Southerlands.

4-17 Passed through Danville and Stanford and a good rain last night with thunder and lightning the rode very slippery traveled 25 miles and lodged at the Owleys at Crab Orchard.

5-18 Rained last night and today and hailed cleared up cool in the evening past through Mount Vernon traveled 21 miles and lodged at Grissoms on Big Rockcastle.

6-19 No water to be had fit for the horses to drink traveled 20 miles and lodged at Freemans.

7-20 traveled 25 miles and lodged at Stewarts.

1-21 traveled 10 miles and crossed Cumberland River in all this day 23 miles and lodged at Co Hogans at the foot of Cumberland Mountain.

2-22 Crost the mountain and Powels River past through Tazewell and traveled 24 miles and lodged at Evanses on Clinch River in Tennessee.

3-23 forded Clinch River and mountain past Benas Station traveled 20 miles and lodged at Buckharts.

4-24 Past through Rogersville and Surgoinsville traveled 29 miles and lodged at McWilliamses.

5-25 Crost North Holston River past its boat yard on Rosesville on Holston River traveled 25 miles and lodged at Curtens.

6-26 traveled 21 miles and past through Abingdon traveled in all this day 31 miles and lodged at Biers.

7-27 traveled 30 miles and lodged at Cullops.

1-28 traveled 17 miles and past through with 11 after makes 28 this day and lodged at Waltons.

2-29 Crost New River traveled 27 miles and lodged at Daniels on the top of the Blue [?] River.

3-30 Crost the blue ridge traveled 32 miles and lodged at Gordens in North Carolina.

4-1st 12 mo. Traveled 30 miles and lodged at Joseph Carvers

5-2 traveled 25 miles and lodged at James Dick.

6-3 traveled 30 miles and lodged at home.

"In 1819 Hannah S. Thompson, Mary Harvey and Nathaniel Newlin visited families and attended meetings, but there is no record of their credentials or where they came from."

Comment by Bryan S. Godfrey: The Cullop's that Nathaniel lodged at about five nights before his trip ended is, I can safely assume, the still-extant Frederick Cullop House on present-day Route 11 (then the Wilderness Road) near Atkins in Smyth County in Southwest Virginia, just north of Marion, the back of the property adjoining present-day Interstate 81. Frederick Cullop (1772-1825) was the son of German immigrants to Pennsylvania. In 1825, he shot himself, and the bloodstains from his suicide can still be seen inside the stone house.