John May, had made the same trip just previously.

His experiences were very like those of Dr.Cutler; but in his journal he told them more entertainingly, being a man of considerable humor and sharp observation.

He travelled on horseback from Boston.

In Philadelphia he put up "at the sign of the Connastago Wagon" -- the kind of wagon then used in the up country, and afterwards for two generations the wheeled-house with which the pioneers moved westward across plain and prairie.

He halted for some days in the log-built town of Pittsburg, and, like many other travellers of the day, took a dislike to the place and to its inhabitants, who were largely Pennsylvania Germans.