It's very enlightening to read DeWitt Clinton's journal again (I had read parts of it a few years ago.) I now know, after a couple of years of research, that my 3rd great grandfather Isaac Woolson followed basically the same route through Niagara County in September 1810, just a month or so after Clinton: along the Ridge to Lewiston, up the river to Buffalo, then back to Lewiston to settle on the Ridge just below the Tuscarora Indian village. The journal paints a very clear picture of the Niagara frontier at the time. I would like to learn more about why the shipping of salt played such a large role in the trade of the area. --- Raymond Scott Woolson A few miles North of Clinton's Ditch.