He worked hard and lived roughly, and he and his family had little beyond coarse food, coarse clothing, and a rude shelter.

In the severe winters they suffered both from cold and hunger.

In the summers there was sickness everywhere, fevers of various kinds scourging all the new settlements.

The difficulty of communication was so great that it took three months for the emigrants to travel from Connecticut to the Western Reserve near Cleveland, and a journey from a clearing, over the forest roads, to a little town not fifty miles off was an affair of moment to be undertaken but once a year.

[Footnote: "Historical Collections of Ohio," p.