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Excerpt from The National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe: Instituted 1716, Reorganized April 15, 1916
It was just 200 years before that Governor Spotswood, man of vision as well as action, dreamed of crossing the Appalachian Mountains and was the first to successfully achieve his purpose. John Fontaine, who accompanied the expedition, wrote of the adventure; Hugh Jones, A. M., chaplain of the Honorable Assembly and minister at Jamestown, Va., retold the picturesque narrative in 1724; Howe the historian, Edward Ingle of Balti more, and many others to whom the adventure made appeal, told the story, each in his own way. From these painters of past events is glimpsed a picture of Governor Spotswood and John Fontaine setting gayly out, on August 20, 1716, to attempt that which had hitherto been deemed impossible. They were joined en route between Williamsburg and Germanna by several gen tlemen, 14 rangers and 4 Meherrin Indians. They carried ample provisions and did not lack liquid refreshment, for their scribe enumerates white and red wine, asquebaugh, brandy shrub, two kinds of rum, champagne, canary, cherry punch and cider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
