From the Draper Manuscripts: Interviews conducted by Rev. Shane Approximately 1850-54 Transcribed by Bryce Henderson Stevens June, 2002 by kind permission of the Library, University of Wisconsin [N.B. All errors are my own. Reverend Shane had a clear hand, but when he wrote a surname only once, with nothing to compare it to, I often had to take a best guess. There are many instances where Rev. Shane wrote names in ways that reflect his own 'best guess', and I have not altered them. E.g., Carothers vs. Crothers, and Boone vs. Boon. Shane used many parentheses to edit himself. Often, these parenthetical quotes were obvious corrections to his manuscript, and in those cases I have inserted his additions or corrections without comment, according to my best lights. He used (parentheses) and ((double parentheses)) copiously. Where I have included those, they are as he used them. Wherever I have had serious questions about my interpretation of a name or place I have used a [square bracket]. These interviews are not dated: they are thought to have been conducted in the years about 1850 - 1854, when Shane resided in Lexington.] I would encourage any interested parties to consult the microfilm records of the Draper Manuscripts. I have made every effort to be accurate, but can not guarantee accuracy. This transcription is subject to copyright law. Permission is granted to the Jessamine County Historical and Genealogical Society, Nicholasville, Kentucky, and to Jo Arnspiger, Web-Master, to publish and use these records as they see fit, so long as they do acknowledge permission for publication from the Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.] 1. Thos. BUTLER [Draper: 11CC215] Came out here in the fall of 1789, thro' the Wilderness. There were 300 persons in Co: and 100 guns. John HUTTON, belonged to McMURTRY's S., somewhere between Harrodsburg, (Shaker T.,) and Danville. John TODD, and Jas. HUTTON, Jas & Jno: were bros.) were the other 2, that formed a party. They had been keeping a canoe at the mouth of Dick's River. It had gotten loose, & floated away. They had found it, and were taking it back again. Coming to Hutton's Ripple, the channel confined itself to the left hand (north) side of the Ky. River. They were close to a willow bar on this side, and paddling close up to where the bushes grew thick to the water's edge, when some Indns: that were there concealed, fired and mortally wounded John HUTTON. The other 2 escaped to the Station. The Indns: overtook HUTTON, on the bank, and killed him. He might probably have died, at any rates, of his wounds. The pursuing party found the 2 indn: guns, at the foot of the cliff, where the turn-pike crosses the river. Below this point the Indns: co'd not well be pursued. They left no traces, as they went on the rocks, & in the water, so as that they left no trace. It was aftwds: found that the Indns: always got away, about this place, and that they had an encampment here. From this, the Creek adjacent to these rocky cliffs, was called Indn: Cr:. The place where the indns: come together, was about 3/4 of a mile from the River, up the Cr:, & right in its bed, where the 2 forks came together, a 1/4 of a m. from here, right aside the now turnpike. At the mouth of Shawnee-Run, the indns: had a salt spring. Suppose it was a place resorted to formerly, for the purpose of getting salt. And it was camped upon, when Hdsbgh: was besieged. The Ky. River was our frontier, in common with McAffee's Station, all the way down the Ky. River, when I 1st came here. [remainder of page 1 blank] twds: Harrodsburgh. HUTTON was not able to travel, and was left in a secure place in a cave. Next day when the Coy: retd:, he was found to h. b. pulled out by the wolves, & destroyed. The indns: had drawn the canoe ashore, went (gone) down to the point above Indian Creek (Pt-) (East of Indian Creek), cut through now by Curd's road turn-pike, gone up this point, & then broken their own guns & thrown them over the cliffs, keeping the guns taken fr: the canoe. Capt. Wm. CAMPBELL's (think he was at Mr. Steel's) The day after we got to this ((place - & then follow - what I cannot decipher - "Murr 9" Mar. 9-?)) an express came to him ((who?)) that the indns: were coming up to Grant's S.. He went. They never discovered any Indians. 3. Robert GWYNN [Draper: 11CC216-217] Cane down here was only in very little patches; and that not the bit rank quality, but a kind of maiden cane, as high as a man's head. Here the timber was white, red, and black oak. There ash and Walnuts. Wherever bit ash or big walnut now grows, there was cane land: But little black walnut is not on what was cane ground. The Shawnee Run indn: trace, was never more than a foot wide. Was a foot deep. It passed thro' Clover bottom, where McCLANAHAN made a pre-emption: called so, bec: the Buffalo Clover grew up there in a little space, about twice as big as this house. (a stone house w. 3 rooms on the ground floor.) Came to Ky., fr: Augusta, thro' the Wilderness, in 1784. Came immediately to this place, fr; Crab-Orchard. A few scattering farms; had settled out in this part. My f. came right to this spot he settled on, in co: w. David KINCAID, who had been out here and located land, but on this occasion had gone back into Calf-pasture to see perhaps to some business. (D. K. had a bro: named John,) D. K. remained here until the game began to get scarce, and then moved up beyond Strodes' S., above Winchester. From there, he moved up on the Ohio, in the bottom between Tygart's and the mouth of Little Sandy: and then actually went, in co: w. BOONE, up the Mo:. They got a keel bottom boat. The same year perhaps, that Scotty's son was killed. We lived in a little cabin, a story and 1/2 high. The lower part only, was filled, and the chimney was not carrd: up higher than the 1st story: just high enough to carry the smoke out of the house. Our family: had all gotten in, the doors were all fastened up, and it was about an hour in the night: tho' we hadn't yet gone to beds. The horses began racing around, widently pursued by the indns:. They would rush up to the doors with their bells on. It was a dark night with a little drizzle of rain. The cabin was all shut up, and nothing co'd be seen that was without. My f. went up stairs w his gun, to look around, and see if he co'd make any discovery. As he looked out at the gable end, thro' the wider cracks, that were in the logs up there, he saw a gun flash. He hollowed to his w. to put out the fire, that the indns: might not see. Next morning he went out & saw the plain prints of the feet & butt of a squatting indn:. In those times they always shut the doors towds: night, and never opened them again, till after we had peaked out the post-holes next morning. The BURNT S. was right on the way from Lex. To STRODY's S. Wm: GARRETT (of Capt. G ((& bro; of Hugh?))) and the family of Mr. BLACK, came out the next spring after the fall that my f. came. Ned CATHERS, Tom WILSON, and Hugh CUNNINGHAM, were out on this side, soon after my f. came. Then GARRETT came in the spring, to the nghbhd: above. Thos. WOODS, f. of Archibald WOODS, was w. him. 4. Mrs. SHANKLIN, widow Robert SHANKLIN came out in 1774 or 1775. Came here in the fall 1775, & staid till the spring 1776. Was out 10 mos., till he raised a crop, & planted some corn in Mercer. SODOWSKY had been out in 1775 - gone back, and came down this fall. 1. David WILLIAMS, 2. Peter CASEY, 3. Jacob SANDUSKY, 4. Ebenezer SOVREIGNS 5. Peter HIGGINS 6. Isaac HITE 7. Robert SHANKLIN ((What 7 were these? Those with SODOWSKY in the Canoe?)) We built 2 boats at Morgantown, Pa. And started for Ky. The 1st day of Sept., 1784. One boat was for horses, the other a family boat. Had 4 fams: - 1. Robt. SHANKLIN's, 2. Richard SHANKLIN's, 3. John H. , 4. Jacob SANDUSKY's, and Wm. MORRIS, Andrew BURNS, Jas: ALEXANDER, and Elijah QUEEN, young men. As they were floating along, eating their bkft:, my mother saw an indn:, w. his gun raised, ready to fire. She told the Co:, & they threw the stern out, so as to get farther from shore. The boat was so protected at the sides, that the indns: co'd not have killed any one. That evening when they landed to stop for the night, they heard ground-squirrells, or owls, or wolves, in different parts of a circle round. Mrs. SODOWSKY, who had been a prisoner among the indns:, knowing the cause of the sounds, they pushed off, & went on. We came to Clear S., on Clear's run, about 18 ms: fr: Louisville. I think it was in Dec. when we got there. Were a long time on water. After Mr. SHANKLIN got to Clear S., he didn't know where his land lay. Had to come up to Hdsbgh:, to get a man to find where his land lay. He built 2 cabins, about a m. or 1 1/2 ms. From Clear S. It was new-year's day, when he got into them. Father & Uncle Rd., Jas. ANDERSON, and Andy BURNS, apprenting to my f. (the day) to my uncle, (and QUEEN). We were all there, until Oct., in peace. Rt. SHANKLIN had been off somewhere, & bought a cow, and was driving her home. He stopped at this Blue Lick run, only about 200 yds. from the cabins, to let his horse drink, and was always positive that he heard a gun snap at him. This was the evening before what follows. Jas. ANDSERON had gone into the cornfield, to cut corn. My f. was at the corner of the house, grinding at the hand-mill, when he heard the gun, not more than 50 or 60 yds. from the cans. He run in, and got his gun; and when he got to the spot, the smoke of the gun fired, was not more than 10 feet from the ground. ANDERSON, instead of running to the house, went in the opposite direction. And thus the indns: got between him and the houses. As he jumped the cornfield fence, he sprained his ancle, & there was another indn: outside there, who then soon caught him. He wo'd have escaped fr: both, if he had not sprained his ancle. 3 indns: now took him in charge, and carrd; him off a little pc. To a sink, and there waited till the other 4 indns: came up, when the went to the knobs, about 2 ms. off. There the staid the remainder of the day, and trimmed & painted, him. At night, they started on to cross the Ohio. The indns:, at the first, had painted ANDERSON black. But he gave them intimations that he was a gunsmith, and co'd repair their guns. They then daubed him w. spots of red; an indication of more pleasure. Had picked out all his hair, but the crown. His hands were tied behind. His plan was O.K, he did let them get & keep on a little before, till, as they were passing over a log, he was 8 or 10 steps in the learch, & stopped & squatted behind the root of this tree, in a spice-bush. When they missed him, they stopped & hunted awhile; but being unable to find him, they whistled on their chargers, and went on. ANDERSON slipped his arms under him during the night, and with the aid of his teeth, succeeded in loosing his hands, and got into Mann's Lick, (about 7 ms. from our place,) naked, trimmed, & painted, sometime next morning. There were 7 men about the house, the morning before, when A. was taken. 5 had started to go in pursuit of those indns: that were after ANDERSON. And 2 that had jumped out of bed, and started, just as they were, when they had gotten 60 or 70 yards off, on the top of a hill, stopped, and remarkg: that all ought not to leave the women and houses alone, and nothing being replied, (each) added I will go back: & then these men started & came back. When they had gotten back, the women told them they had seen indns: before the door, (in front of the door,) behind a log, jump up & peep over. My mother sd. She had seen one raise up 3 times, before they went into the house. (They might have shot them, if they had thought the men wo'dn't have gone farther. Father supposed he had more men, too, than they had expected, as he had hired on or 2 to help him cut up corn that morning.) One of the men then got on the top of the house, by the chimney, and called for the 5 to come back, there were indns: there. At this the 5 returned, divided into 2 parties, and went around the log. Here they could distinctly see where 4 indns; had been in wait; w. the prints of their hands and feet. The indns: had made their escape, on hearing the call. Mrs. Rd. & Mrs. Robt. SHANKLIN were both out milking, at the time ANDERSON's gun was heard. Mrs. Rd. said, "ANDERSON has done something noble." "Lord," says Mrs. Robt. "ANDERSON had no gun." And the next thing was, ANDERSON's voice, crying indns! indns! Mrs. Robt. had milked the 6th or 7th of 8 cows, and now cleared a high fence, into the yard, w. both buckets of milk, and wt. spilling a drop. Such was the consternation caused by the attack, and the anxiety for the fate of ANDERSON, that the cabiners utterly forgot to eat any thing during that whole day. On the next morning, as Mrs. S. was getting ready bkfst:, ANDERSON made his appearance. ((notes - irreconcilable. Suppose I didn't understand. Jas. ANDERSON, apprentice, was in the field, cutting corn, the evening before. Killed an indn:. 9? cows to milk. 7 were done, & 2 to do. I was milking a cow. I was cutting corn in the field. Or Jas: ANDERSON was cutting corn in the field. 2 buckets, one in each hand. Jumped the fence with them, clear, and they all raised the laugh, to see me)) Father was a blacksmith, & sometimes obliged to be from home: and as he co'd not think of leaving his family in these cirs:, & there was no prospect of a termination to the indn: hostilities, he now removed to withen 3 ms. of Danville, the thickest settled part of Mercer: the thickest settled & oldest part of the Coy:, &, whh: furnished more employment for his trade. My f. moved over here, the spring SCOTT's son was killed; had to send hands down to help guard Scott's landing, while they would plant. My f. sd., when he was 1st. in Ky., ther were but 4 women in Ky., and they were at Hdsbgh:. Mrs. DENTON, Mrs. McGARY, Mrs. ASHBY? And Mrs. HARROD. There were just enough for 2 four handed reels: and part of the men would guard at one time, and part at another, while the rest alternately danced. When SODOWSKY went over the River, he found Hdsbgh: evacuated; the men had left little notes, stuck up on the trees, stating that the indns: had become so troublesome, they co'dn't remain here longer. They hadn't ammunition, (enough for provisions, but not for an attack,) was the reason they didn't go through by lands. ((I suppose they might not have known the way through the wilderness, and have been afraid to try to go.)) When out in 1774, my f. was down in Jefferson, and wanted to write or send some word back to Va., and for that purpose, started for Hdsbgh:. The 1st night, he was taken w. a severe rheumatic pain, fr: a fall of rain, so that he was detained 8 or 9 days in the woods. He had to lift his leg over every log; and had not game been very plenty, he must h. suffered. ((SANDUSKY's return by water, evidences his knowledge of the Geography of the country, and is a striking illustration of the isolated distance, and the hazard of the attempted settlement.)) A little scotchman, down on Salt River, below Shelbyville, abt: 20 ms: from Louisville, between Bullit's Lick & Shelbyville, had been out & killed a bear. It was near a sink; and he drew his prey into it, to skin & put up. There was a big indn: at that time in hearing, whose large track had been seen for 4 or 5 yrs., in every depradation committed in that nghbhd:. The little scotchman had drawn his prey into a little cluster of bushes, so thick as not readily to be seen, although distinctly heard doing his work of carving. The big indn:, while endeavouring to ascertain the cause of these sounds, trod on a little stick. At the crack, the little scotchman looked up, & discovered the big indn:, w. a broad grin, looking down upon his exposure. He reached down & took up his gun, & killed the indn: - with a fire so effectual into the pit of the stomach, that his countenance retained its grin, after his body had fallen lifeless to the ground. See No. 7. P. 48. Fayette Father sd. he co'd see an indn:, most any day at all, during the 60 days of the siege at Harrodsburgh, by watching 2 or 3 hours. They wo'd go out after night, go way off from the fort and hunt, & come in in the night again. He had to go out, one night, with a white horse. When he came in, he led his horse by the length of a long buffalo tug, so that if the indns: sho'd run up to attack it, he wo'd be at a little distance, and wo'd run. He got in safely. A man, during the siege, was wounded, 70 or 80 yds. from the fort. A guard went out to bring him in; we knew that as soon as the man was gotten, the indns: wo'd fire, and the guard had agreed to break & run. My f. had to cross a high horsed log, whh: happened to be in his way. He sd. he cleared it, and aftds: went out, and the fairest run he co'd take, he co'd only reach the top of it. My f., at night, even when there was no danger, as night came on, wo'd glare his eyes around, & keep glancing and watchful. There was a turnip patch in a clearing near Hdsbgh:. When the cows went up to a field of weeds, on one side of the place, & began to smell, and appear affrighted, they discovered to the people of the fort, that there were indns: there. This was in the morning. A man went out, by calling, to keep up a cry, to let it be seen that they were not known of. 2 cos: went out, in the meantime, to the other sides of the field. One co: came up, fired, & killed one & wounded others. The same by the co:, on the opposite side. And again in the field, by this 1st. party, a 2d. time. The indns: from Chillicothe, attacked Voss's Station, on the forks of Roanoke. Took my mother, when a child, w. her mother, & her mother's sister, (aftwds: Mrs. Abhm: INSKIP,). Her father, Col: VOSS, was not at home then. She didn't get back, (my mother,) till she was 14 or 15. She had been way up on Goose Creek, at the salt-works, w. the indns:, making salt. She told my f. of the works, & urged him, telling him he ought to go and take them up. A party cutting hay, on the S. Br. of the Potomac. My g. g. f. was from Poland. He was no hand to labour, but was a great scholar. He was sd. to be able so speak 7 difft: languages, & to have given the name to the Sandusky Bay, and owing: from being the 1st trader that ever went there to trade w. those indns:. I never got any writing from my g. f. & don't know how he spelled his name. But my f. retained the polish form, SODOWSKY. My 2 uncles, Jas. And Anthony, made use of the anglicised form SANDUSKY. The hay party was cut off by the indns:, who killed one of the finest warriors, in all the white settlement, of that party. At a time previous to this, they were all out gathering sessg [?]. It was a time of peace w. the indns:, and a party of indns: had been around about the encampment for some time. The guns were all standing out, as if they were in perfect security, till suspicion of the indns:seemed to begin to rise in their minds. It was immediately discovered by the indns: and before my Uncle Sam co'd finish whispering his suspicions, both parties rushed simultaneously for the guns. One indn: got in pursuit of my uncle Sam, & he ran untill he had passed thro' a glade - and came, and jumped down the steep bank of a creek. ((Does this belong to GWYNN, or who?)) CRAWFORD, cleaning flax. She went into the garden to get some vegetables for dinner. They took up the loceding [?] hoe, and chopped off her head. He went into the house to make up a fire, and kept possession of it, whh: they at length set on fire. The boys were at work at the barn. They somehow got notice, and made their escape. 5. Mrs. Ephm: JANUARY, Dau: of Andrew McCONNELL [Draper: 11CC221-24] We landed at Bear-Grass, 15th of April, 1780. Perhaps 30 or 40 boats came down in the same coy:. Some persons were killed on boats that came down a few weeks after ours. On landing, we immediately came out to Spring's S., where was not a log yet cut. Suppose they built 30 or 40 cabins there. The women were carried 6 ms. off to Floyd's S., till the cabins were built. Called Spring S., so many little springs, staid all summer: beautiful place. Many waters at the Spring S., I tho't it as pretty a place as ever I had seen. So level. The sugar trees and Buckeyes were all out. The place where you went down to the springs, was all grassy. No hills. All broke up. None of them had any way of living there. Some had gardens. Some raised corn; some picketing. Most of the fams: that came down, went out to Spring S. We were just camped out, out by Floyd's. The men came there at the close of the day. Andrew McCONNELL, lived for about 5 yrs., about 20 ms. above Pittsburgh whh: was then the back woods, and very little settled. Forks of Yah. My f. had lived a little while in Pittsbgh:, 1st., & left us behind - there - to go to school, until he moved up the river, when he come and got us. The indns; haunted about Pittsburgh for a long time. I have wondered, sometimes, how they ever got it settled. Tather and Uncle came down together, and planted corn by Lee's Town (about Lee's Town.) Father said if my uncle wo'd go up & bring down the fams:, that he wo'd stay and take care of the crops. (and gather in the crop, and take care of it.) When he got up, he co'dn't sell his land, and he only bro't down his w. that spring. The following winter my 2 bros: came down. Sister & myself were left together up there. (When he to up, he co'dn't sell his farm; and only took down my mother and 2 bros:. They went down in canoes. My sister and myself, staid with Uncle's family, and went to school. As they went down, they were frozen up. One YOUNG, was shot in the canoe, by another's gun, or his own, going off. They didn't get down, till the river broke open. (They had their plantation about Lee's Town.) Sometime that summer, they were attacked by the indns:. My f., at the time, was up at Harrodsburgh. There was also, at the time, a stranger in the house. My mother had sent out the bound boy, and her 2 little twins, to the brush enclosure, to suckle the calves, and bring the cows up till she wo'd milk them. The bound boy was shot, and died that night. Of the others, one was taken, and the other hid. But they were very much attached to each of them, and the one that was taken, thought he co'dn't go without the other, and pointed out where he was to the indns:. When they got over among the indns: towns, (they had passed thro' 2 or 3,) on their way to their own, they met a trader, who had known their father in Pittsburgh, and knew them as soon as he saw them. He asked them if they knew him? They replied, yes! his name was NICHOLSON. The indn: owners were reluctant to give them up, but some of the other indns: made them, & he gave a rifle for them. Adam Baxter McCONNELL, and Wm: Barber McCONNELL. (My Uncle had taken the boys (my 2 bros:) & mother down, the previous winter. The same spring after - (the 1st spring that followed?) he came back, before Harvest a little while. It was about 60 days from the time that he had left, to the time the boys were bro't: in at Pittsburgh. He had left the boys in Ky:. He had never heard of their being taken, before he then saw them; and this prevented them from going down, till 2 summers had passed. Bob ELLIOTT bro't the boys in from Pittsburgh. As they cam along, uncle was at John FULTON's, about 1/2 m. from his house, where they were reaping. One of the boys pulled off his hat, & waived it in the air. When he was Jas: F. he knew him. J. F. said who they were. My Uncle wo'dn't believe it. He sd. he knew them, & got over the fence, and came down to where they were. After the taking of my bros:, my f. determined to take back his family. A co: at that time was going up. Part divided and wo'd go by land. My f. wo'd have gone that way too, but that he had his wife along, the the river party was the strongest. The co: my f. & m. were in, was a co: from Va. They had been out, I suppose, looking for land; and were on their way in. Some of them were pretty wild fellows. The land party were Pas: and tho't they wo'dn't stay w. the others. The water party got up unmolested. The Pas:, 7 in no:, were attacked by a party of indns:. The 2 cos: were not far apart at the time; for one of the men went down to where the others were, on the river. One went up to Wheeling for help. A bullit was shot thro' Col. Robt. PATTERSON's arm, and lodged in Jatny TEMPLETON's. I saw it taken out, after they got to Pittsburgh. (I saw it cut out.) He was tomahawked in the back too, and yet got off & got home to his mother's, at Cannocogig, and there died of the small pox. PATTERSON's arem never quit running. The indns: had come on them while in their beds. 2 (or 3) killed. McBRIDE, I think - & McNITT. David PERRY (was from our own nghbhd:) went up to Wheeling. David VANCE (was from our own nghbhd:) staid w. the wounded, and fed them on pawpaws till we could come. Isaac CRIER (way from our own nghbhd:,) came down to the boat. The summer before we left Westmoreland, the indns: came on a family 6 or 7 ms. from us, who were going out to plant corn, & killed 5 of them. MARSHALL, one of the 5, was his wife's bro:. We brought flour and corn, plenty, down the river with us. People tho', who come through, and didn't get out of the wilderness; this hard winter, saw hardships. Father and Uncle raised corn at Field's S., before they went there. Not very much though; they had all to clear, and soon after they were done planting, they were taken a heat, way out on a campaign. Heaps of people were in waiting, up in Pa., w. boats; had collected there from distant parts. Were waiting the moving of the waters. Were so low, they co'dn't get down that fall, as they had intended, and never rose till Xrtmas:, and then froze just right up. Uncle and father raised no crop that summer at Spring S. In the fall (1780) my uncle attempted his remove up to Field's S., above Harrod's S. Had but 2 sons. One, Adam, was yet in Pa., now at Xenid. The oldest, Jas:, was in the canoe, w. his f. Just buried him in the water, so that the indns: sho'dn't get his scalp. They had to leave the canoe. It was a wet, rainy morning, and they co'dn't get but that one gun off, or suppose all might have been killed. (Uncle Wm: was oing up in a canoe, with 4 other men. He had removed his family, and part of his other things, to Field's S., near Harrod's S., or beyond there, and had come down, perhaps to Louisville, gotten a canoe, and was making his way round to Spring S., when 5 indns: that were concealed under a raft, shot Wm: McCONNELL, who was steering, in the head, and killed him.) (In the fall of 1780, this.) I heard the gun that shot some man on the trace from Louisville. He was a stranger to us. Suppose he must have been coming up. I was much alarmed, for my husband had started for the same place; but he hadn't kept the trace, and never heard the gun. I was down at one of the springs at the time. Hunter W. & dau: were killed in the S., after we left. They had come there after we had left. Had lived within a m. of us, in Pa:. Oldest dau: marrd: on Jack DUNNING, & went to Natchez. Don't know how they were killed. That fall. Peter JANUARY remained at the Spring S. that summer; and Saml: (the one that since died at Maysville,) and Jas:, went up to Lexington, and raised a crop: That fall, father (in law?) and his other 2 sons, & son in law, Wm: McCONNELL, moved up to Lex., a little before we did. My husbd:, Ephm: J., & I, were marrd: the winter before we came down. 10 men came down from Lex:, to guard us up. 10 from Spring S. went the 1st. day w. us, as they were going out any how to hunt. At night they came and camped with us. The next night we camped by Fkft:, and there 10 men more, fr. Lex:, met us, & went on to Lex: w. us. That 10 that retd: to the Spring S., were waylaid on their return, by 17 indns:. They sewes up Buckskins, and carrd: water (to drink?) and made a blind so that they could watch the trace. Some were killed, and some were taken prisoners. Joe WILSON was one. He was carried to Detroit. His family was taken on to Field's S., got home, & came there. STEEL and LYTLE, went from Spring's S. to Lex:, after we did; and Matt: WYLIE, (that was killed at Bat: of B. Licks,) went from there to McCONNELL's S. Father went up by Baird's T., and wintered all that winter in a cave. The next spring they came up to Harrodsbgh:. My husbd: helped my f. move his family, up from the cave to Hgh:, and then we removed over there, and staid near 2 years. We came back to Lex: in July, and that Augt: the Blue Lick Battle was fought. Nich MILLS, a boy went out w. a slide to bring in a load of wood. This at Hdsbgh:, while we were there, before the B. L. Battle. While he was putting the load on, a gun fired, & killed him. I heard that gun. 16 went to the B. L. Bat. Fr: Hdsbgh:, under Col: McGARY. 8 ret'd: my f. was one killed. My mother, after that, moved over here. 1. Andrew McCONNELL, 2. Ona STEVENS, 3. Clough OVERTON, 4. Jas: BROWN, boarded with Joe LINDSAY. 5. Joe LINDSAY. Both killed out of one house. At Lex:, old Mr. WYMORE, & Henry DONLEY were keeping sentry, while the men were repairing a last end of the fort. They had set down to crack walnuts, and began to think it wasn't right. When they got up, they saw 5 indns:. WYMORE was shot, and the indns: scalped him; but DONLEY shot the indns: from behind a cherry tree. Had a whet-stone and knife in his hand. They scalped the indn: and stuck the scalp up on a fork, in Lex: for a long while. Just left the silver hanging to it. They got away WYMORE's scalp. This before B. L. Battle. 1. Jas: McCONNELL - PATTERSON's 1/2 bro:, my 2d. cousin - was buried right in the road. 2. SHARP - killed too. 3. Si- COLLINS. 4. Ephraim JANUARY. 5. Thos: STEVENSON (from McConnell's Station) 6. Wm:? STEVENSON (from McConnell's Station) No. 6 supposed killed an indn:. 11 footmen from Lexington. for Bryan's Station? 6. Mrs. (Samuel) SCOTT Mr. CAMPBELL was the preacher in North Carolina, where I came from, after I left. I think on Haw river. We moved to Clinch - at Moore's fort. Was wintering at one place, 8 miles off from the Fort, and about a mile from the fiver. One PHILLIP's family was killed between us and the river, near to the river. (Mamma was gone up with a neighbor, Mrs. KILGORES, to Castle's woods, near the Fort, to buy some sheep at a sale. My mother, and Mr. And Mrs. KILGORE, AT THE TIME.) He was away in Carolina at the time. One boy escaped. I think by crawling under the beds. All the rest of the family were killed. About 2 years after this, we moved over on to Holston, to get rid of the Indians. Had lived on Clinch 8 years. Went on to Holston to spend one year, and get ready to come to Ky:. (One year while we lived on Clinch, we had no need to fort, and did not fort. Cowan's fort was about 2 miles from Moore's. We went to it one year, but it was too weak; but 7 or 8 families. The Indians attacked it. Miss WALKER, then the Widow Ann COWAN, was taken, going from Cowan's to Moore's. Her, and her sister's son, William WALKER, were taken. (Her sister's son: her sister married a WALKER.) As soon as the dead were buried, we all left, and went to Moore's fort. Her brother, Matthew WALKER, that went with her, was killed, and the other man that went with her was shot at, but escaped, and got into the fort. This Mrs. COWAN had just gotten back from her captivity, as I passed the Crab-Orchard coming out. (Two of old Robin MOFFET's sons got in, after we came to this country. They were taken from a sugar camp, sometime in those wars.) Captain SNODDY's and William and Joe MOORE's wives were sisters of her. They had moved there from Clinch. Were forted there. I had come 300 miles without seeing a house, after leaving Powell's mountain, not far from the river. Saw no sign of a house on Cumberland Mountain, except where some men had put up a few logs, and done some cutting, as if they were going to build. I began to be discouraged. Thought I never should see a house again. Hadn't seen one for 300 miles. Matthew (?) COWAN brought the express from Moore's Fort, to Houston's, (where we had been the year before, on a/c of getting good range, and were again this year. Houston's was some miles from Moore's, still higher up Clinch - and Black's Station was lower down.) that 300 indians were coming to attack Houston's Station. The next morning he would start to go back - and thought that he could get away, that he knew he could get through, but was shot. His horse got in safe. His wife fainted when she saw the horse - a stud horse - all in a power of sweat. He was brought in wounded, and died. There, my father, John McCORKLE, was at the time. There were 300 to 21 families. I think the men didn't exceed 30. The Indians staid there about 8 days, killing the cattle. They were Cherokees. None of the men in the fort were killed. Relief came in from Holston, and then they left. A company of 60 men came in to Moore's Station from Kentucky. Had gone out another way I suppose. One Mr. BROWN, that was a Presbyterian, and, died over by Danville, was one. My father bought a tract of one Mr. ZEANSY [?], from Botetourt, or Augusta, (where these Moore's and Cowans and all 1st. came from. All Pennsylvania people.) of 6000 acres. Gave him a horse to ride in on &c. but never got the land. One summer, (I don't know whether longer,) (I don't know where Daniel BOONE himself was,) Daniel BOONE's wife and 2 daughter's were at Moore's Station. The men had gotten very careless, and while the guards were out, they would all go out and play at ball, and those that were not playing, would go out and lie down, without their guns. This time, only old daddy THOMPSON was left in the Fort. And Mrs. BOONE & her 2 daughters, and Miss Hannah BARR, and 2 or 3 others, determined to load their guns light, like Indian guns, some half dozen, and go out the other side of the Fort from the men, and fire them off as rapid as they could. They then ran in and slammed the 2 gates too, so that no one could, or did get in, but one Ben: SMITH, a young man, (sent as one of the guard, to take his tour, from our Houston's), who jumped over and got his gun. Some were in so great haste, they run right through the pond. They were all exceeding mad, and wanted, some of them, to have the women whipped, and the men had like to have got to fighting among themselves. Had 2 or 3 fights. This quarrel did not grow out of whiskey, for they had none. While BOONE was prisoner, Mrs. BOONE, and her daughter and son in law, spent a day or two there, on their way into Carolina. BOONE was there with his family, staying, at sometimes. I don't know when. The spring of 1780, we moved out of Tait's Fort, close on Moccasin Creek, and higher up towards Holson than these others, over to Holston to get ready to come to Kentucky. 12th July, my father died. We lived up the rich valley. Were not forted. The Indians came through Moccasin gap, as far as Holston river, right often. But no farther. There it was, in a year or two, I think we heard Mr. CUMMINGS. He lived 8 or 10 miles from us. We staid on Holston 4 or 5 years. Mr. CRAIGHEAD preached at one of our neighbor's. Jimmy LOGAN's. In a barn. The house was small. He was on his way out westward somewhere. We spent one year in August, 2 years, I think, before we came to Moccasin at Tait's fort. Old Clear Creek, a frame, about half a mile from the Stump Meeting house. NEWLIGHTS never occupied it. HUDSON came down, from Nicholasville, preached at Mrs. JANUARY's, Ebenezer, and then at Mr. LAMPKIN's: Held a sacrament at Mr. LAMPKIN's. REED preached some before Mr. HUDSON did. William SCOTT. ((married)) Grizella CAROTHERS. Was an Elder until Mr. RANKIN. Exhorted. It occasioned som fuss. Some thought it ought not to be. Mr. RANKIN wanted him to be turned out for letting Isaac MUNDEY, a baptist preacher preach in his house, and hold meetings there. We had no meeting nigh, and the neighborhood was getting thick, and he thought it no harm. They wanted to censure him for it. RICE said, would to God we had more such men as Isaac MUNDEY, would feel to do God's work. William SCOTT was a member under old Mr. CAMPBELL, in North Caroline, and afterwards under Mr. CUMMINGS. Old John SCOTT, the father, was a member in Par. Had the Eldership in Mr. CAMPBELL's church, North Carolina. Thomas SCOTT, Nancy CROTHERS; - (Married sisters in North Carolina.) Joined the NEWLIGHTS. James CROTHERS. Died at the time of Cholera. Old Elizabeth JOHNSTON. Old Thos. J. - an Elder of a church in Bairdstown. Died here. The one that was in Mr. CRAWFORD's church. Simson FROST. Martha FROST. Simson F. was in the battle of King's Mountain. Martha FROST was a member at Mr. CAMPBELL's in N. C. Mrs. Martha KENNEDY. Her husband killed at the Blue Licks, from Harrodsburgh. 7. John LOWENS [Draper: 11CC227-28] In 1798, came along. Stopped at the mouth of Big Sandy. BOONE was in a cabin, 200 or 300 yards from the Ohio, Virginia side. Ate the first bear meat I ever had there. BOONE's children were all gone then, and he and his wife, were alone. About 2 years after he moved to Mo: We came, October, 1787. Moved to Hickman, 2 1/2 miles from Nicholasville. We were about 12 miles from Boone's Station. Young Daniel BOONE came to my father's singing school, a year or two after he came. Think they moved to Lime stone, before going to Sandy. He, and John TAYLOR, (old Zach's son, now living with Col: Dick TAYLOR, near Louisville - about 6 miles,) came together. McNITT was the teacher. Widow HITE is dead. Mr. WILLOUGHBY deceased. Samuel McDOWELL raised his family over by Danville, and then moved over here, 1 1/2 miles from Nicholasville, about 1792. Died there. His son Caleb, to whom he gave the place, married a Miss McDOWELL, of Rockbridge, where his father came from, but he died first. SPEERS now owns the place. Grandson, Samuel McDOWELL, living up beyond Nicholasville. Singing school was held at Caleb's, by McNITT, before he died. Judge McDOWELL's son, William, was judge after him. When he got too old, and the county was divided. Old Mr. RUNNELS, about 3 miles from Nicholasville, down Jessamine. 8. Capt. Joe TAYLOR, Clover bottom (?) [Draper: 11CC228-33] Came to Lexington, June 17, 1784. Then went a week to Robin JOHNSON's fort at the crossings. John KAND [?], Geo: McDONALD, Abraham DALE, Mrs. SINGLETON, my sister, and myself, and, John TAYLOR, and a Negro woman, came down in a pirogue. There was a fort at Limestone, and the Indians had driven away the people and burnt the fort, when we got there. My brother John hid $1800 worth of goods, in the woods, at Limestone. We were 14 days coming down. John TAYLOR's family was then at Craig's fort, within 4 miles of Genl. Ben. LOGAN. When we came down, we met a company of surveyors at Limestone, who bought our pirogue in 40 minutes, and went up to Pittsburgh. Capt. William WRIGHT was the surveyor, and there were 12 or 13 more, chain carriers. Got $8.00 for the canoe. David TANNER was forted there at the salt works, with about 5 or 6 kettles, about 100 yards from the fort, and right beside the path we traveled. The fort included about 3/4 of an acre. David TANNER was a brother of John TANNER. John TAYLOR went over to Craig's fort, and got 4 or 5 pack-horses, and we went for the goods. We passed the salt-works there, and before we got back, while we were there, a widow WILLIAMS, from the lower end of Fauquier, not far from Fredericksburgh, with his daughter and son, and a number of others, 4 or 5, and had the small pox, and were not permitted to come into the fort on that account. They were about 100 steps from Tanner's. The Indians killed 5 or 6 that night. These young Williams' were all that escaped, and they both, both tomahawked and scalped, and the young man's thigh broke. They couldn't help them in the night, and then, in the morning, they took in and put in one corner of the fort. 'Twas said, the Indians took the pox, and it killed hundreds. (At Tanner's Station we met Simon NEWTON with 13 chain carriers, and were so strong, we comped out, and next day went 40 miles to Bryant's Station.) There were there Betty and Polly SHIPP, with Joe ROGERS, and my sister stopped with them, and we stopped at one Shandy WILLIAMS'. We got butter, and buttermilk, and Johnny cakebread. These young WILLIAMS I saw 2 years afterwards at Russel's cross-roads, in Lexington. It was at one SMITH's, in the only shingle roofed house in Lexington. The end stood facing Main Street. About 40 steps from the fort. There were two forts, about 80 or 100 steps apart, both on the same side of Main Street. The road led to Russel's Spring. He boarded at that time at ROGER's; a single man yet. Our company, as we came out, all sold their horses, for iron, at Pittsburgh, to be delivered at the falls of the Ohio. John TAYLOR took his goods to Ben. Craig's Station, where LAMME [?] lives, about 4 miles from Lexington. Capt. Ben ROBARDS, (Ben Robards, salt works,) married a dau. of John FIELDS. A grand nephew of his, same name, kept a tavern. Squire GRANT, I think killed in 1790. Son of the Grant's Station man. John - (afterwards was Col: and Genl:,) bro: to Squire, whose name ((Squire's name)) was probably William. There was such a brother. A scouting party was defeated above the mouth of Lougherry Creek, Lougherry. A company of 10 or 15 was reased from the crossing, under Col: Robt. JOHNSON. When they crossed the river they were attacked bnd JOHNSON gave way, ran down to the river, and was first to get into the little flat bottomed ferry-boat, hollowing to them to retreat, and got out at the far end, and hung by his hands on the outside, till they got into the boat, and then they pushed over to the other side. There were 40 or 50 indians, and they would all have been cut off, but for their retreat. Col. JOHNSON's cowardice was in his not waiting till his men got in. Squire GRANT was killed in the retreat. David JONES was a baptist preacher. Chaplain to the standing army, out at Fort Meigs. He lived and died in Philadelphia. Was one of the greatest kind of ironsides. He told me of the land owned by David WOOLPUR, a sea-captain in Philadelphia. John TAYLOR took on the purchase money, in old saddlebags, and went on from this county in 1791, and purchased of this sea-captain as he was just on the verge of starting. There were 300 acres surplus he bought of Gov. GARRARD, 17 May, 1790. This whole tract of land was divided equally between my brother, and John TANNER, who paid for half of it. It was opposite the Big Miami. My brother settled below the mouth of the Big Miami, about one mile, on a big mound. TANNER's was exactly opposite the mouth of the Lougherry. John TAYLOR settled in Woopur's bottom, on Woopur's Creek. TANNER settled on the Ohio bommon, and built a for there. I think the boy was in company with some others, in a canoe, on the other side, and the indians caught him. John TAYLOR, the father, married Sally RUCKER. He 60, she 16. Ned TAYLOR, the oldest son, married Susan RUCKER. Then Jeremiah RUCKER, one of the brothers, married the oldest daughter of John TAYLOR. Ned TAYLOR and his father were both preachers: Ned a licentients [?] only. William TANNER, I think, the one that was taken. His father died before he got here, while he was on the way. TANNER sold his woods, down here by Mortonsville. With this money he made that purchase. When I came here he lived up by Boonsborough. From Boone, TANNER moved to Woodford, then to Caldwell Co:, and then to New-Madrid, Mo:, and in 1826, I saw TANNER's son, with his 2 little sons. When he found he was not to get and equal division of the estate, as his father was dead, he flourished his tomahawk and went off very much exasperated, and never was heard of more. About the last of June. TANNER was in New-Madrid in 1812. He waded 3 miles in the water, and saved some of his stock. Died soon after, and his wife moved to Princeton, Caldwell Co:, and to Cadiz, Trigg Co:. Jas: RUCKER's wife was a daughter of old John MORTON. Ben ROBARDS salt works, were down on Licking. GRANT settled it. The father of those boys. When I don't know. Moses BLEDSOE, a Baptist preacher in Clark Co:, married a daughter of his. ------ BLEDSOE, a son of Joe BLEDSOE. Billy, Moses, and Joe, sons. The The 2 first were baptist preachers. The 3rd a lawyer. Capt. HUBBELL. The boat was surrendered to him to command. Had been down several times before. Was an excise master under old John ADAMS. Lived, at the time he was coming down, near Frankfort, 4 1/2 miles, and for some time after. Died no great distance from Lexington. I was in John BELL's boat a day in the rear. We were not troubled. April, 1787. Samuel SCOTT. Gilbert's Creek, opposite Scott's landing. Shot 5 bullits through him. VALENTINE floated down the river, and wasn't found till he was half eaten up by the fish. Found near to where Col: Billy STEELE settled. One KIRKHAM had a fort there then. Zach: WHITE had the place. Son in las of Billy STEELE. Sewell WOODFORK took a company of 14 of us, and pursued the 15 indians to Lillard's big spring. 100 ferruled arrows with spears, and 40 hair knapsacks with provisions. Jas: GUDGEL was the man's name, at Dinnant's (Denient's) pound. 1. Tully CRAIG. Not a preacher. Father married TULLY too. The mother was a HAWKINS. 2. John CRAIG; had a station a mile from Jimmy BROWN's. GISTY went from Boonsborough to Bryant's Station. Had fought 9 days and nights there, and had failed to take it. CRAIG went to Bryant's Station. Moved there in 1782, I think was then. Commanded at this time of GISTY's attack. REYNOLDS, a young man in the station's talk with GISTY. CRAIG got up, and answered himself. Said the people that's in this fort intends to defend it as long as &c. They then fought 3 days and nights. He sent Tom BELL, and another man, to Lexington, for supplies. In 1783, CRAIG moved to Elkhorn. 3. Lewis CRAIG came out from Spottsylvania, with the organized church. 4. Elijah CRAIG came here in the fall of 1785. Settled near Georgetown. 2nd was never a preacher. His son John, on the Ohio, in Boone. The old man always lived in Boone. Sold his land to Peyton SHORT, and moved to Boone, in 1791 or 2, with sally PAGE. 5. Joe 6. Ben 7. Jeremiah Lewis CRAIG 1st preacher to Clear So: Elkhorn. John SHACKLEFORD 2d pastor. George Stobald SMITH came preachers in the fall of 1784. Richard CAVE " " " John TAYLOR " " " William HICKMAN preached awhile. BRADFORDS were scotch, but of the English church, and relations of John TAYLOR. My bro: sold that land to old judge SHORT. Robt: NEWMAN joined the indians, and had liked to have ruined all the army in Scott's campaign, and was seen, in the last war, with the British. The women Cooks had been, or were washing. William WORLEY commanded at the pounds. When I threw up to him about not firing on the Indians in the night, he got a grudge against me, for which he never forgave me. Would have killed me at any time he could. Those 15 men, DEMINT told me, came over with louped rifles, to kill SCOTT. When KASMER was defeated, SCOTT raised a company, and went out and nearly destroyed their towns. They were for revenge. So DEMINT told me. Sam: SCOTT, killed at the landing, & Merrit SCOTT, killed at KASMER's defeat. This incited SCOTT to revenge. 17th. March, 1785, a party of us were going in, and the Indians attacked a coy:. I scalped Bill CORNSTALK, who was one of those Indians, Son of Capt, while at a dancing in Versailles. He was boasting how he had gotten scalps. I lost my blankets, &c. For some cause, did not much prize my friend TAYLOR's conversation. Had a long story about RUCKER, I think it was Taylor. When he told me of the Versailles adventure, I was disgusted. Had more of the air of one loving to tell stories, than of a simple-hearted pioneer. Mem. The CRAIGS seem to have lost their zeal for preaching, when they got away from persecution. The indians do not love life as do the whites. They have a species of fatalism. That true bravery, which a love of truth, and the practice of Xry: required, was not their kind. The indians were as little willing to lose life as any men could be. Their bravery was that of fury, and passion, and artifice. Their death that of violence and impetuosity. If they died for noble sentiments, yet they did not hesitate to run, when these were in question, if life could be saved. The indians could never have remained near the whites, while this was true. They died from before them, under these influences. The scotch were enterprising and adventurous. They shrank from no hardship. BRAINARD found them far out. They waited not for hardship, or peril, or necessity, to drive them out. To them, these were indifferent matters. So much so, that they do not seem to have much taste in alleviating their condition, or rendering agreeable, or tasteful, their state in life. The greatest good sense was covered over with a despising of ostentation, that amounted to the highest accentricity. The Germans were laborious, as was STONCE, MITCHELL, &c., but they were not either spirited or adventurous. The scotch were daring and enduring. They ventured out where none others, in common, would: and thus becoming habituated to arms, and indian warfare, were the greatest enemies the indians had, and, whom they most feared. Adventure, rather than lucre or lands brought them out. And while some of the finest English families have run through vast estates, the remnants of the less enterprising and extravagant scotch, have yet good homes and plenty. O'Kane and Haynes Debate. Pp. 144. Indianapolis, 1840. McCLANAHAN, on the road from Germantown to Cincinnati, 4 or 5 miles from Powersville, at Willow Creek, has Baptist Ministry. Dr. A. YOUNG. Clear-Creek [Draper: 11CC234-36] Col. MEAD lived about where MARSHALL & HEADLY now lives. The pleasure grounds are now all ploughed up. Richard, the son, a lawyer, lives down towards Louisville somewhere. Kidder MEAD, married a woman of low family, in Clover Bottom. Don't know what became of him. Wm? One dau: married a BYRD. Another Genl. MASSIE. A 3rd. a WOODSON, father of tucker WOODSON, senator from this county. MEAD spent a great deal in entertaining people. Never would receive pay. Every man was a gentleman, and as such stayed as long as he pleased. The Mead place, on his death, was sold to ROBERTS. ROBERTS sold later to CARTER, and he to Marshall HEADLEY. The place was known as Chaumiere. Think it was about, or on MEAD's place, that Samuel WILSON taught. It was the 1st. place he taught in Ky:. Robt. J. and Wm. L. BRECKENRIDGE went to him. They had a blow up, WILSON and they, & then they and I went to O'HARA, on South Elkhorn, (about where old Mr. RICHEY lived.) (in that neighborhood.) 2 or 2 1/2 ms. from Pisgah. I was with O'HARA a couple of years, and they were there some of the time. (Cabell and John went to WILSON. Got most of their education there. They did not go to O'HARA.) O'HARA purchased property in Frankfort, improved it, quit South-Elkhorn, & went to F. to live. I then took up O'HARA's foreign scholars. I taught between Dr. MARSHALL's & Pisgah. I had 12 or 14 scholars from Dr. MARSHALL's - boys who boarded there & went to school. Among these, the BRECKENRIDGES - Robert & William. I was older than they, and they were part of the time schoolmates, and then pupils. I taught 2 years in the Pisgah neighborhood, and these 2 BRECKENRIDGES came to me. Robert went to Princeton after that. Samuel WILSON was born and educated in S. C. Was no professor, by no means. Was accused of scepticism. I don't know that he was a sceptic. Some eccentricities. A daughter by 1st. wife, Mrs. RICE, a member of the Presyn. Chh: at Nicholasville. She was out in Fulton, Mo: - and was there deranged, and in jail for security. She had a little property. RICE was a worthless fellow. WILSON had sons - Virgil, Horace, Tasso. His 2d wife was a sister of Oliver ANDERSON - now a widow, living at Nicholasville. Samuel WILSON's 1st. wife was a DAUGHERTY. Big John DAUGHERTY a bro: of hers. John DAUGHERTY dead long ago. Paris DAUGHERTY, a son of John DAUGHERTY, a hunch-back - (school-teacher?) a son of this John - grandson of Saml. WILSON. (Account somewhat confused.) Mrs. Martha ? FLETCHER, Nicholasville. (g. d. ?) Ssamuel WILSON died of Cholera, in Mo: - Palmyra. He was intemperate, and he and his wife lived apart, for 3 or 4 years before his death. S. W. sided with Dr. HOLLEY. Helped Dr. H. in his controversy with McFARLAND, and others. Had a great deal of vanity, but was a plain (looking) man, that did not look like he had any sense. Was a day man - wrote on politics. (Some one at Dr. YOUNG's, happening there while I was there, and joining in conservation, said he had known Dr. GILBERT, the celebrated cancer doctor, in Ill:. He was then a tailor, & a Methodist class leader.) 5 ms. below where the Harrodsburgh turnpike crosses the Ky: river, the Shawnee-run ferry road crosses. The Shawnee run ferry road & the Harrodsburgh road are one from Lexington, out to Higbee's Mill. Just before or on reaching the bridge, over South Elkhorn, they for; so that you can take the Shawnee run road, which takes to the right, without crossing the bridge. The Harrodsburgh road, keeps straight on, and is now a turnpike. The S. R. road is a dirt road, that runs a somewhat parallel course with this turnpike, crosses they Ky: at the mouth of Shawnee-run, and goes on to Harrodsburgh. Where this Har. T. p. crosses the Ky: river, there was formerly, for a long time back, no ferry. In early times, the ferry there was called Todd's ferry. The crossing was not good, and the ferry was not used. The Todd's ferry road went on to Tennessee. To go from Nicholasville to Harrodsbgh:, you come over from Nicholasville, into this Har. pike. The Frankfort road - and through Versailles, and on by here, is made to follow this Har. t. p. a short distance. It comes on the pike to Dr. YOUNG's, and there turns to the left, immediately after passing his house - goes with it half a mile, and then turns off to the left, and goes over into the Nicholasville road. It is 7 or 8 miles from Dr. Y's to the Woodford line, along this Fkft: road. Dr. Y's is 13 1/2 ms. from Lex:. You continue on a m. farther on down the t. p., then turn to the right - and 2 1/2 ms. to the right, on the dirt road, takes you to Clear Cr:. The Woodford line there runs through that farm on which the mill is, that is just below Clear Cr:. The ferry from Nicholasville, (a dirt road,) crosses the Ky: river, right opposite to Shaker Town. You went up the hill, and were right at the town. Lewis' ferry is 4 ms. below the ferry coming from Nicholasville to Ky: river. The line of Woodford starts from the Ky: river at the point where the Har. t. p. crosses the Ky: river. Dr. Y's 5 ms. from the Ky: river. Old Joe TAYLOR, lived in Clover bottom, Woodford Co: - Drank. WALLER lived in Jessamine, about 2 ms. from here, on the road from the mouth of Hickman to Frankfort, by Versailles. Col. MEAD lived about 5 ms. from here, towards Lex:, to the right of this pike, between this and the Nich: pike. The place where the Har. t. p. crosses the Ky: river is called Brooklyn. The houses are along the river for some distance. The straight road from Dr. Y's, (the dirt road,) goes to old Shaker ferry. HOLLOWAY, Elder in Clear Creek chh:. Keene is on the road from Lex: & by mouth of Shawnee-run. Mrs. FROST, a most excellent woman - a Pbyn:, lived in sight of Keens, in a stone house, towards the Ky: river from Keene - (Shawnee-run road.) Lost her sight and was blind, severl (2 or 3 years,) before she died. When she laid down she had her Bible placed where she could put her hand upon it, and feel that it was there. And so when she sat at a table. It was so much a habit with her to have the Bible there, that she could not go to sleep without it. She would open the Bible, and put her hand upon the chapter, and read it off from memory, just as if she could see. Could repeat hymns by rote in the same way. She would remark how great was the privilege she had once enjoyed, of reading that book for herself, and that if she had learned to repeat the scriptures at the time when she could see, she would now have them in her mind to enjoy. She once heard, it seemed to her as plain a voice as she ever heard, saying to her she was no Xrn:. It seemed to come over her shoulder. She said she knew who it was. She turned and replied, what is that to you? You needn't to trouble yourself. Dr. CLELAND was an old friend and acquaintance of hers. He asked her, once, what if she was sent to that other world where the Devil and his company are? Why, she replied, there would be war in hell. She said she would never give up. Her daus: are now married and gone to Mo:. Her 2 sons, who were sots for sometime, are both thoroughly reformed, & she lived to have her prayers answered, and see them both in the church. Their wives were professors before they were: both wives were baptists, and both sons joined the baptist chh: with them. Chas: STEWART (Rev.) got all his property by his 1st. wife. At his death, he willed it all to his 2d. wife and family, for 15 yrs. At the expiration of that time (without any security that it would not be spent,) it was to be equally divided among all the children of both wives. There were 3 children by the 1st. wife - one son, James Wm, and two daus:, Mary Elizabeth, and Sophia. Sophia is now dead. Going along from Mr. HOLLOWAY's towards Versailles, you come to the middle fork of Clear Creek: beyond, from his house, where you cross the Lex: and Shawnee-run road. The stump meeting-house is about 200 yards in Woodford: It is calld, also, the Cave Spring meeting house. The 1st. cross road toward Versailles, from Mr. HOLLOWAY's, on the Fkft: road To Harrodsburgh 0 17 ms. Lex: -- 12. Fkft: -- 23. Mouth of Hickman, 12. Turning to go to Lex: Cave Spring Meeting house 1 m. Delaney's ferry - 10 ms. From Keen to Mrs. LAFOU's, where Sinking Creek heads, 2 ms. about. Mr. SANDUSKY (the infidel man,) lives to the left of the Delaney's ferry and Shawnee-run road, (to the left going to Lex:) on Sinking Creek. To McCown's ferry, 15 ms. (What point this? In Woodford?) Delaney's road leaves the Shawnee run Road, about a mile this side of where Sinking Creek crosses the Shawnee run road. John MAHAN - Jessamine - in Clear Creek chh: Brooklyn - There di use to be a ferry, down there, a little lower down. The road, through, went down the other side of the ravine from the present pike. One CHAMPION, kept a little boat, and took people across there. Not much used however. Old Shaker road, comes along from Nicholasville & goes to Old Shaker ferry. Instead of crossing at that ferry, the travel mostly turns off from this road, and follows a right hand, along the cliff, and turns into the pike that leads to Brooklyn, about a mile from the river; and so down to the river at B. Munday's ferry, and mouth of Shawnee-run, are the same. The road turns off to go there, just at Higbee's mill, just at the bridge. This si the Shawnee run road to Harrodsburgh. A dirt road. Goes through Keene, where is the mineral spring. Crosses the mouth of Hickman and Fkft: road, not far from Dr. HOLLOWAY's. Striking Clear Creek at this road, on the left hand side, going from Lex:, ms. from Lex:, ms. this, the Lex:, side of Keene. Mt. Pleasant Mtg. Is in Jessamine. Oregon is new. Was not started before slack-water navigation. Cummins' ferry, next below Munday's: 4 or 5 ms. below, by the river. You leave the Shawnee-run road to go to Cumming's ferry, 2 ms. after the Shawnee run road crosses the mouth of Hickman & Fkft: road; leave it right at the end of Mr. MAHAN's place; and from where you leave it there, and turn to the right, it is 6 ms. to the river. It was Armstrong's ferry, before it was Cummins'. Jones' ferry next to Cummins - 3 ms. below. You keep along on the Cummins' road, instead of turning down, until you come to Jones' ferry. Oregon is 3 or 4 ms. below Jones'. You keep on the direction of the same road, that led to Cummins' & Jones' ferries, and it takes you to Oregon. That rout is the best to and from between Oregon & Lex: - you can go back on the hills by a mill, but it is not so good a way. New Shaker ferry. Before this it was Lewis' - and before that, a BRADSHAW's, I think. The road - (a dirt road,) that turns to the left at Dr. YOUNG's, goes to this ferry. Leads out by Brown YOUNG's, the Dr's son. It is called the Curd road. This road passes out by Mt. Freedom meeting-house, a methodist church; or if republicans, they chiefly use it. Old Billy WILSON, an Elder in Clear Creek, lives close by Mt. Freedom, & the methodists have made some efforts to get him. He lives 6 ms. from Clear Creek. The mouth of Hickman, is where the Danville road from Lex:, crosses the Ky: river. A little stone house stands right at the entrance of the bridge, on the north side of the river. The mouth of Hickman is just above the bridge. The scenery, at this point, is equal to any on the Ky: river. The Clear Creek church is, I think, about 2 ms. further on towards Versailles, on the mouth of Hickman and Fkft. road - then the Stump meeting-house. This Clear Creek church, was once a Pbyn: Mtg. house. The Stump Mtg. house is just in the edge of Jessamine. On the corner of old Tommy SCOTT's place. John MAHAN's g. f. had been a Pbyn:. Went off with the NEWLIGHTS. Edmund WALLER in Jessamine. Just opposite to Mr. HOLLOWAY's. Had a small place there, not more than about 50 acres, and a few negroes. John GARRISON - lives on South Clear Creek - ( 1/4 or 1/2 m.) a short distance lower down than the Clear Creek (Pbyn: ) church, on the opposite side of the Creek from the chh: - i. e. on the right hand side going down. The Clear Creek chh: is on the left hand side, as you go down the Cr:. Mr. G. is not more than a 1/4 m. from the Woodford line. He lives in Jessamine. 3 ms. from his house to Brooklyn, where the Harrodsburgh (Curd's) road, crosses the Ky: river. Campbell STEEL built this house where Mr. GARRISON now lives. Mrs. G. was a Mrs. STEEL, son of C. S., before marrying Mr. GARRISON. Was a Miss McDOWELL, dau: of Saml. McD., son of James McD., near Nich: Mrs. G. a member of the assoc. Refd. chh:. Clear Creek Church, on South Clear Creek, left hand side going down, in Jessamine, not more than 1/2 a m. from the Woodford line. Ebenezer (Assoc: Refd: chh:) is in Jessamine too, but only a few yards - 20 yards - within the line of the Co: of Jessamine. Ebenezer chh: is not on any water course. Mr. LAMKIN lives in Woodford, near to Ebenezer, as Mr. GARRISON is not far from Clear Creek. Mr. LAMKIN lives on the other side of Ebenezer from Clear Creek Mtg. H. Mr. (Pr.) GORDON married a Miss _____ and boarded with Mr. WOOD. The other Mr. GORDON married first and 2dly. a dau: of Rev. Jas: SMITH, of now Springfield, Ill:. Ephraim Sowdusky [Draper: 11CC141 - 145] Ephraim Sowdusky, a great infidel. Jos. Lowry wrote out a part of Sowdusky's statement for him: Perhaps he has it all now. Jacob Sowdusky was camped down by Higbee's Mill, in June 1774. It was a wet time, and they were washing and drying there. Jacob heard the Buffalos out on that flat, went out to kill some, and shot 3. He thought he could outrun them, they stood about so. (He met a drove coming into the Creek to water. They run about & stopped, as he went in among the flock, and shot them.) Aftwds: he shot a young buffaloe bull - in the nose, & he ran so, he had never seen the like. (After that, he thought it would take a horse to run w. them.) Douglass, the surveyor, was killed. His heir was an only dau:. All the estate fell into David Ross' hands. Thos: Carneal was Ross' agent. Douglass' dau: lost her virtue, and marrd: a worthless man, who tho't only of her fortune, & David Ross easily found means of getting it from him. Douglass had this survey at the Big-Bone. My f. never got a cent till the agents came to get him to show them their corner. My f. sd. the estate owed him £40, and he never wo'd go, unless they wo'd give him half his wages, and also an overcoat, for one whh: had been burned, at a sugar camp, where they were making sugar. Tom - f. of Tom. Carneal. Davis Carneal, was partner w. David Ross, in Big-Bone. My f. went down, & superintended the makg: of salt, in 1797 - 8 - & 9 - 3 years. Carneal, however, had started the furnaces, and put up kettles - before that time. John Smith - 1. - was the last of the surveying party that died. 2. Isaac Hite. 3. Willis, fr; Va. 4. Mordecai Batson, Matson- 5. 6. 7. Jacob Sowdusky These went down the river in 2 canoes. When they got to the falls, they sent forward my f. and Jno. Smith - to see if there were any signs of Indns:, that wo'd prevent their making a portage. They came to a little path; the night previous it had rained - and there they saw the fresh tracks where the indns: had come down that morning, for water. They knew the indns': encampment must be somewhere near in the bottom there. They just pushed off their canoes; got in, and went on down over the falls: thinking if death was to be, it wo'd be preferable being drowned, to being massacred. While they were on the bank of the Mississippi, at Orleans, they overheard 2 men, captains, who were passing along, in conversation. One remarked - they looked like people in distress. The other replied, there were oods. of such people along the Mpi:. Well, they were God's people, sd. the 1st captain, and he wo'd see who they were. He obtained from them a narrative of their adventures, took them on his vessel, and carrd: them round to N. Y., they one day discovered an elephant's tooth, & spoke of it by name. A scotchman, seeming to hold him in contempt, asked him where he had ever seen an Elephant's tooth? My f. replied, that he had seen just such things at Big Bone. When the Capt. heard this, he took him into his room, and obtained a full statement of the whole affair, relating to Big-bone. On their final parting, the Captain opened his chest of money, and told them just to take whatever they wo'd need. I don't know whether he ever got any thing back. The family had gotten news of the affair, and never knew but that they had all been killed, or taken, till he had gotten within 3 or 4 ms: of his place, on the S. Branch of the Potomac. His father was then killed by the indns:; his mother was yet living. Moorfield - Co: shot. The Hites, the Naumetres [Namuetres??], and the Inskips, were all on the South Branch. Andrew Sowdusky, my g.f., was watching a lick to catch their horses that were running at large in the mountains. Another man was w. him. When the indns: came on them, he saw a white man, whom he knew, and tho't he wo'd be safe with. That very man thwkd: and killed him - probably fearing he wo'd make disclosures on him. Before this time, my f's older brother;, Saml:, (w. the rest of the family, his f., &c, and 2 or 3 other fams: being in a cabin,) had a very fine dog, whh: my f. had been after him to kill - a great big dog. One morning, between day-break & sunrise, just as they were getting up, they heard the dog and an indn:. There were only the g.f., my uncle Sam:, and another man. The last was so badly scared, he just stood stupid, as if frightened out of his senses. He co'dn't have done anything to keep the indns: off. The dog sprang on the foremost indn:, seized him by the throat, and actually pulled him down. All that they co'd do, they co'dn't hit the dog w. their thwks. At last they made out, after shooting the dog through the loins, to separate him from, & to rescue the indn:. The dog recovd:, and died of good old age, but was never of any more service. This broke the attack. The cabin had a double door, upper & lower. G.f. shut the lower one, and stood in the upper door, ready to fire. A frenchman came up in abt: 20 steps of the door, and put 2 bullits, a doule load, into the facing of the door. My g.f. also fired, and missed. The frenchman , all the way out, said he had killed one damned great big Englishman. He dropped his knapsack in the yard: somehow let it fall and didn't take time to pick it up. It had 3 pair of Moccasins besides other things, in it. Both had fired at the same time, the frenchman, and my g.f. An indn:, behind some bushes, g.f. shot the parch-corn out of. My uncle Sam: jumped, and in the hurry of the moment seized, by mistake, another man's gun, and co'dn't shoot well: (The gun of one of those who were absent.) A double barrel gun. He put it back, and got his own; and by this time the indns: had all gotten out of the yard. One was abt: 60 yds: fr: the cabin, behind a dead oak. My uncle put a cap on the top of a ram-rod, and wo'd hold it out for him to look at, and fire when he found no one fired. The indn: still waited, and began to peep, & then to put out his head more and farther, at length he got it out so far, Sam; fired, and down the indn: fell. He was not hurt, however. Sam: had knocked the dry oak into his eyes. The ball struck above the top of his head, and only went in the breadth of a bullit. 2 indns: picked him up under their arms, and carried him off. My f. sd. Harrodsbgh was settled 1st. (In allusion to the controversy w. Busbgh:.) Jas: and Anthony Sowdusky, were down in 1773. Came fr: the 2. Br: of the Potomac. My uncles, (these were), Jas: and Anthony, were in the expedition by Bowman. Marshall is wrong in complaining. The towns were strung along, up and down the r. for 5 ms:. Bowman failed to get round, according to arrangements, till just at day. They were to march round 1/2 way, and to lay in ambush, till they met Bowman. The indns: discovered them, and they were thus deprived of the advantages they wo'd have gained. A Negro bro't in the report, that Girty was only 13 ms. off, at another town, w. all the warriors, and that an express had been sent for them. Instead, however, of Marshall's panic, it was the failure to get around, that determined Bowman to withdraw. They got a great many horses, whh: they bro't off in a hollow square. Keeping a co: of troop to drive off the indns:, when they came up - as the indns: did not want to fight, but only to delay the army. Anthony Sowdusky was saved at the Blue-Lick Defeat, by Boone's son's death. He go young Boone's horse, and came off. Just as S. was starting, he heard a man begging him to take him up, for God's sake not to leave him. Wwhen he had gotten him up, and come onto Licking, just as his horse jumped down the bank, 7 bullits were fired into his clothes, and only one grained the skin. ((Who was this?)) He was run down; ((the man was, & before getting to Licking?, or who was it?)) and co'dn't run any further. Just reached his hand out, as he walked along, and caught the bridle. The indns: were in sight. Boone's being killed, saved him. He had gone to get his horse, where he was hitched, and 2 indns: were there untying him. He tho't his horse had been (was) wounded, he stood so long, when he jumped down. When the army searched the Blue Licks, they saw 3 indns: passg: up the opposite bank - smoking their pipes. When the indns: were seen to be encamped, a council of the officers - Trigg, Todd, & McGary, was held. Boone's opinion was asked. He sd., officer, his advice was not to act. He didn't think it was prudent. McGary said, the greater the danger, the greater the glory: any man that was not a coward to follow him. Mrs. Blackford sd. there was scarcely a house in Hdsbgh:, that had not lost a f., bro:, or husband. She sd. she had never seen such time in her life. She was a dau: of Anthony S. Jacob Sowdusky, came down in Co: w. the surveyors, Jas: Douglass, Hite, & Floyd. He carrd: the chains for that survey on whh: Mrs. Lery now lives. Douglass offered him a oood. [sic] acres of land, there, for his summer's hire, & he wo'dn't take it. He sd. it was so far off; and he didn't know whether he wo'd ever be back. Clark's campaign was in 1780. (At the Pickaway towns). The fall after the hard winter. Every 5th man in Ky. staid to protect the setts:. The rest, about a oood. in no., went on the campaign. They scraped down corn in Ky. and made bread, before they started. The season was remarkably forward. Clark passed up the r., w. the main army, on this side. Col: McGary led a coy: on the opposite side. When they had gotten nearly up to now Warsaw, McGary came upon about 19 paddles, & more in the process of being made - and indns' [illegible]. The indns: themselves had retreated. Orders came fr: Clark, for them all to come ever. (They had started on that side). One company came over; the last was to come yet, about 18. The indns:, after they had discharged their guns on them, came down on them w. thwk: & knife. My f. had gotten his of 3 canoes full 1st; and was just going to push out backwards, (his mother had told him never to suffer himself to be shot in the back,) when the volley came, and they all jumped out into the river. One man was pursued by and indn: w. thwk:, and as the man wo'd dive or rise, the indn: wo'd strike him in the head or butt. The man was sent to Louisville, to the Hospital, and died in consequence of the probe running into the scull. 500 guns, I suppose, were shot from the Ky. shore, when the indns: made this attack. The army took the village, cut up their corn, destroyed their towns, and came back w. about 18 only lost. The battle was on the 1st of August. When Clark came in sight, the indns: appeared calm & composed, walking or standing about in perfect order. Clark ordered Major Harrod to occupy that point of woods off to the left. My f. said he was mightily pleased, when he heard the order to Harrod. He didn't want to go where those indns: were so composed. (Were only 300 indns:.) They tho't that in the point of woods, they wo'd be pleasantly situated. On getting there, they were surprised to find indns:. The 1st they knew, a gun fired, and killed one man. The action was thus bro't on. The indns: possessed a ground full of ridges; about a gun shot off, they fired, and then run, till they got another opportunity to fire. The firing, after all, did but little execution. As the army retd:, they heard of the intention to build fort Washington. My f. helped to cut & lay the logs of the 1st Block-house, that was ever built where Cti: now is. They crossed & recrossed at that place. Jacob See, John Shelp, and John & Joe McNeill, &c. all came over on to this side of the river to hunt; and made their encampmt: in the head draws of Clear Creek.Shelp's wife's previous name was McNeill - these 2 young McNeills were Shelp's step-sons. See came out over these ridges and met w. a strange dog, whose ears were cropped, and whh: he took to be an indn: dog. He found also a piece of Wampum. He sd, in fact, he tho't he cod: smell indns:. He went back to the encampment, & told to Shelp his apprehensions. Shelp recd: them in perfect jest, and wo'd treat them in no other way. This produced a coolness between them - and See, w. the sulky indifference peculiar to these reckless times, determined to share the danger of whatever fate might be impending. After lying in wakeful mood, a long time, he heard sounds whh: he knew not whether were indn: of wolf steps. A surly growl of his dog was heard, and then the retreating footsteps of the sound. See now got up, put on his hunting shirt, tied his belt around him, w. knife & shot-pouch - and taking his gun, lay w. it in his arms, the muzzle down between his legs, & the britch in his arms. In this attitude, he fell into a quiet sleep. About the time the owls begin to hollow, i.e., just before day, he heard footsteps all around him, approach where they lay, but was unable to rouse himself from his slumbers. Suddenly a dozen (great no:) of guns fired in upon them, and scattered the fire all over them. See jumped up, and ran off the distance of 70 yds:, w. all his strength. Somehow, however, he had the impression that he was shot in the hips; and stopped at 70 yds. in his wound. While standing there, 2 indns:, who had seen him start, and were in pursuit, came up behind the same tree, stood a moment to listen, and then passed on. See finding his wound not dangerous, or rather that he co'd run, for he had no wound at all, left his 2 friends further to pursue their course alone, while he sho'd turn aside, and reach ther other side of the encampment, to get the horses. (He stopped the bells on the horses, and cut loose the hobbles. ((Had he done this, and tied them up, on the 1st alarm?)) ) He untied them, and made off wt. delay for Hdsbgh:. Jos: McN., the elder of the 2 boys, got out, and got into a tree top. Next morning he sd. he co'd hear the indns: whooping and hallooing about the camp, till at length they went entirely off, and the sound of their noise died away in the far distance. After the indns: had left awhile, J. McN., sd. he heard See's dog - passing all around through the woods, howling, & moaning; and discovered, at length, that he encircled the spot where he was, coming nearer every round, till at last he came and looked into the very tree in whh: he was, and on seeg: him Jn. Fondled on him w. great delight. Finding the indns: were finally gone, McN. left his retreat, and directed his course towds; Hdsbgh:; striking the Ky. R. at the mouth of Shawnee Run. The dog here got on the chase of some elk in the bottoms, and it being too late to cross the r., McN. went on up the bank to seek a place of lodgg: for the night. He found some projecting cliffs, w. recesses in the rocks, into one of whh: he crept. While he there lay, he saw distinctly, 2 wolves pass the mouth of the cave. A 3d came along, and had gotten 1/2 way along, when it turned its head, and accidentally saw the boy. Starting back, it gave a bard, and then bounded in. The boy screamed, and the wolf was still frightened & kept at bay. In the meantime the dog came to his rescue, the boy crept farther in; and the dog and the wolves were snapping at each other all that night. The next morning he crossed the ripple at the mouth of the Shawnee - Run, and came on, striking the Harrodsburgh trace. This wo'd h. led him straight; but on reaching it, he took the wrong end. The dog started the other way, & wo'd go some distance. The boy then called to him, & coaxed him on. The dog wo'd come, jump up, and fondle on him, but all at once wo'd fall down, & run off, w. his tail hanging down, until nearly out of sight. They got into Hdsbgh: that night. The 1st thing See knew of his dog, was a salutation, w. every expression of joy, as See met the dog on the next morng: after the dog came. McN. got up and run, when See did; and the indns: seeing See run, didn't go up to the camp immedy:, but waited till morning. McN. sd. when he got up to run, he saw Shelp bleeding at the breast. But See tho't Shelp had started to rise before the indns: had yet seen him. Shelp was scalped. His head had been found down in this nghbhd:, w. the marks of the scalping knife on it, said I've been here. When the dog circled the camp, every time he came near the tree top, into whh: the boy had jumped, he wo'd lift up his head & smell. Mr. Asa Farrar [Draper: 13CC1 - 6] Mr. Asa Farrar, (some of the family write the name Farrow,) conversed with at Dr. Young's (a son in law, member and Elder of Clear Creek Pbyn: church:) Mr. Farrar is a Pbyn:, makes his home more commonly at Mr. W. M. Todd's, (another son in law,) bookseller, Frankfort, Ky:. Asa Farrar, born in Vermont. Left 4 ms. of Bennington, Vt., 8th of October, 1788; and arrived at Lexington, Ky:, 19th Dec. 1788. My wife came in May, and I in December. When we got to Maysville, we found a cabin say 12 feet square, having the 3rd log sawed out. 'Twas up on the bank. I crept into it. While we were at Maysville, a boat came down the river and landed say an hour by sun, in the evening. The boat had a dead woman, two wounded children, and a dead horse, on boards. The persons on board didn't know the woman was dead. One of the children was sucking at her breast. The boat had been attacked by indians at the Three Islands. This was about 20 days before we got to Lexington. They put that dead woman into that cabin that night, threw out the dead horse into the river, and next morning put the woman back and went on down. This was the only cabin in Maysville. There was no furniture in it. We were 2 days getting up the hill; taking up a little of the plunder at a time. There was at this time no road leading from Maysville to Lexington, till after you left the Blue Licks. We found a horse-mill, and tavern, and some cabins, at Washington. One house at Blue Licks. Some cabins at Paris. And 1 at Bryant's Station. I was 5 years in Lexington before I saw a table or a bed-steads. Tables were made of hackberry, split, & the heart taken out so that it could adzed, and then set on 4 legs. Bedsteads were made by resting the one end of a rail on the side of the cabin; the other end on a fork. There were no, at this time, over 100 men in Lexington. As many of them as we could get, were employed 2 days in clearing out the roads from Brennan's now Chiles', as far as what we called Vanpelt's lane; in clearing out to where the race ground was. There was one burr oak so large we couldn't get a saw long enough to run through. Had to cut on each side to let the saw in. Have no doubt the tree was four feet over. Forest of Burr oaks & black Walnuts. This road led out to Levy Todd's, where was the clerk's office; 3 miles out of town. The part I speak of that we cleared these 2 days was on what is now Main Street. A hurricane had filled the pass way, and they were now clearing it out. There was a trace, in this direction, to Boonsborough; and the road was at this time opened up to that place. Levy Todd afterwards moved to town. The road was opened, 4 or 5 years, (it was after 1796, for I was at the clerk's office, out there, in Feb. /98, to get my license to marry,) the office was burned. The place was where Wickliff's house is now. 'Twas believed the office was set on fire to destroy lands claims. Those who could get oral testimony, were enabled in that way again to establish their claims. Twice the citizens of Lexington, after we got there, went into the fort from fear of indians. One report was that there were 300 indians at the Crossings. The young men in Ky: were offered an in and an out lot in Cincinnati for going to help build Fort Washington. McClellan, McMillan, & Paxton [Payton?] were of the company. I was not one, but was down there frequently. I recollect down there on a flat, I stuck my toe against a beech root, running a foot race, and knocked off the nail, and never found it. Saw the quarter-master's wife, then, a large, fleshy woman, fall from a ladder, strike a chair, 2 slats of the chair back were either out, or she broke them out, the top of the chair passed under the ribs of her right side, and came out at her neck. The top knob of the chair post was sawed off to get the post out again, and she got well. (Dr. Young, sitting by, says it could not have been under the ribs, it must have been only under the skin. To which Mr. Farrar replies he did not see it, it was only told him so.) The older of the 2 Riddles came in, (this he told me himself,) with a party of Indians to steal horses. His father had a stud horse which he determined to take. He went to his father's house, and saw him kneeling in prayer. He raised his gun to shoot his father; but something prevented him, he knew not what. He however got the stud horse. The younger bro: was a Baptist preacher. When the 2 sons were delivered up, the father was there, with a suit of clothing apiece he had prepared for them, which he gave to them; but in about 2 hours after they were in indian dress again. I was at Wayne's Treaty, and saw this myself. Elijah Vaughn, (lately from Madison,) John Keizer, and Daniel Bradford, are the only old settlers now in Lexington, who were there when I arrived. Old Mr. Jones, (sign-painter,) is the next oldest settler of those now living. Jane Keizer. I joined the church in Lexington, 50 years ago this last, or next May. Dr. Welch has a son at Vevay, Indiana. Dr. Bishop preached his first sermon in Lexington, in the Presbyterian Church, by invitation. Mr. Rankin was absent at the time. He accepted the invitation. Was a man of liberal spirit. Text - "There shall be a handful of corn in the tops of the mountains - &c." While Bishop was a professor in Transylvania, he and another man, Methodist, undertook to visit every family in Lexington. All but 2 received him. Calhoun came to Lexington while we were there. He was accustomed to walk out in the direction in which were our belled horses. Father & I suspicioned him of a design on them. So, one evening, I followed him, truing and pursuing him up, untill at length he got behind a log, where he engaged in prayer. I retreated from the spot, and we feared him no more. The 1st time I saw Dr. Blythe I was hauling dirt. He came along, a pompous, well dressed young man, and asked me my name. He took out a pencil & memorandum book and noted it down. I thought then he was intending to report me to the Trusties for hauling away the dirt from the old seminary building that had been burned down. The removing of the dirt had been prohibited by law? Hickey, a catholic, was at Lexington when I got there. Father of Judge Hickey. Trigg. The girl he went off with, is now the wife of Dr. Brown, a catholic, living half way between Clear Cr: & Lexington: to the right hand of Elgin's, the tavern. Mrs. Trigg died in Frankfort about 2 years ago. Trigg was restored again, but never was taken again by the hand in respectable society. They had no children; but raised a young woman, to whom they left the property, above Frankfort. Mrs. Innes, now with John J. Crittenden; rolled to church on a rolling chain. Joined at the age of 87. Mrs. Crittenden said she had come in at the 11th hour. No, she replied, at the last hour. Barking exercises. I witnessed them myself. Mr. Cameron went to Lexington, with his saddle-bags & portmanteau full of pamphlets against Light. ((Mr. Farrar thinks this is the origin of a somewhat similar story about Welch; for whom Mr. Cameron has been interchanged.)) He went into Andrew McAlla's. While there his horse and all his baggage were taken. He came across to my house, and spent the night. Next morning we searched, but the horse could not be found. He went home; and in about a week after the horse was gotten, but never any thing else. Mr. Cameron sent for a young preacher he had met with, down about the mouth of the Ky: river. He did not know him, but, addressing him in the style of Timothy, told him that he wanted him to come and see him. The young preacher was not at home, and did not get the 1st & 2d of Mr. Cameron's Letters. But when Mr. Cameron wrote the 3rd time, he got all 3. Mr. Cameron had seen him in the pulpit, and had taken a liking to him. He simply advised the young preacher, (when he came,) to marry young.