| He made plans to make the weeklong journey by flatboat down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Marietta, in Washington County, Ohio. |
| Washington had spent all week rowing through his neighborhood in a scavenged flatboat. |
| Before the advent of the steamboat in 1818, it could take as long as a year for a flatboat to travel from New Orleans to Nashville. |
| The flatboat and keelboat of the Mississippi River arose from specific navigational requirements. |
| While traveling west with his family on a flatboat in 1817, he noticed through the cracks in the deck the arm of a child who was drowning beneath the raft. |
| Nuttall then headed east to St. Louis with some fur traders and continued on to New Orleans by flatboat. |
