Search Results for: Meriwether Lewis

Lewis is in Pittsburgh waiting for his military barge to be built. Two Ohio River boats of the day—barges and pirogues—are compared in the context of navigating from Pittsburgh to New Orleans.

Lewis is in Pittsburgh having a military barge built prior to departing down the Ohio River. The Ohio river boatmen he would have seen are described by François André Michaux and Timothy Flint.

Lewis is in Pittsburgh having a barge built prior to departing down the Ohio River. Pittsburgh’s point of land between its two rivers was described by François André Michaux after his 1802 visit.

Lewis waits in Pittsburgh for the barge to be built prior to departure down the Ohio River. Manufacturing and ship building on the Monongahela River is described by François André Michaux.

Lewis is in Pittsburgh having a barge built prior to departing down the Ohio River. Wagon freighting between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh was described by François André Michaux after his 1802 visit.

Clark writes a letter from the Falls of the Ohio telling Lewis who is in Pittsburgh that he has found some eligible recruits and is getting his affairs ready for departure down the Ohio River.

Lewis is in Pittsburgh waiting for the barge to be built prior to departure down the Ohio. The timber used for Ohio River shipbuilding was described by François André Michaux during his visit in 1802.

Lewis is in Pittsburgh preparing for departure down the Ohio River. The “local situation of this place” is described by Thaddeus Harris during his 1803 visit as the “key to the Western Territory”.

From Clarksville, Indiana, William Clark pens a letter accepting Meriwether Lewis’s invitation to join the “enterprise” to explore the Missouri River to its source and from there to the Pacific Ocean.

Lewis is in Pittsburgh preparing for departure down the Ohio. He left no written record of this day, but the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers were described by Thaddeus Harris during his 1803 visit.

In Frederick, Maryland, Inspector General Thomas Cushing gives Lewis instructions for the soldiers that will soon join him. Lewis travels somewhere between Brucetown and Gainesboro, Virginia.

In Washington City, President Thomas Jefferson orders a copy of Alexander Mackenzie’s Voyages from Montreal and Aaron Arrowsmith’s map of North America. Both of these were used by Meriwether Lewis.

On behalf of Meriwether Lewis, U.S. Army Purveyor of Public Supplies Israel Whelan purchases tents, cloth, and two dozen “Hooks & Eyes” from Philadelphia upholsterer Richard Wevill.

Philadelphia merchants Harvey & Worth sell over 1100 awls Israel Whelan, U.S. Army Purveyor of Public Supplies. The awls will be used as gifts for the Native People that they will meet.

Israel Whelan buys sixty-three pounds of pig tail tobacco from a Philadelphia tobacconist. Tobacco will be an essential ration for the soldiers and a critical diplomatic tool among the Native Nations.