| From | |
| Litchfield to | |
| Harwinton | 8 Miles |
| Burlington | 14 |
| Farmington | 22 |
| Hartford | 31 |
| Manchester | 38 |
| Vernon | 45 |
| Tolland | 49 |
| Willington | 56 |
| Ashford | 60 |
| Woodstock | 70. |
At 4 of the morning we departed from Litchfield for Hartford— All my
fellow passengers of yesterday save one man had drop’d here and there on
the way; others, fewer in number took their places; among them a
handsome young woman, with her husband— She was very sick on the way— We
breakfasted at Burlington, and reached Morgan’s United States Hotel in Hartford at 1/2 past 11—
Here my companions again dispersed, and I took passage in another hire
for Boston— It left the Stage office half past Noon, and took up fifteen
passengers including six children, five of them with one woman; also a
blind old man, and a National Bostonian named Newell— The heat was intense—the dust choaking and
powdering— It was four O’Clock when we reached Vernon where we dined—
That is Mr Newell and myself.— The woman
with 5 children, and another with one had left us— Just as we alighted
at Vernon came on a thunder gust, and the rain in torrents fell &c
for nearly three hours— Our Stage was afterwards stalled, and drawn out
of the mire by two pair of oxen— At Ashford, I was recognized by
the old couple where I breakfasted on the 9th: of December 1830— We rode
in the dark till ten at Night when we came to Woodstock, and took
immediately to bed.