Kentucky -- History; Roads -- United States; Wilderness Road
Whilley, Bacon acct.
Henry Clark, 6
Hardy Rawles, 2 0
James Young, 12
John Warren, 6
Peter Sidebottom, 6
John Willey, 6
Moses Collier, 12
Abraham Himberlin, 1 0
Alex Blane, 12
John Jones, 18
Levi Todd, 1 0
Thomas Ball, 12
"Besides these, it appears from a note in the memorandum book there were
other subscribers. Among the Innis papers I have found the following
paper:
'Colonel John Logan and Colonel James Knox, having consented to act as
commissioners to direct and supervise the making and opening a road from
the Crab Orchard to Powell's Valley, provided funds to defray the
necessary expenses shall be procured, we, the subscribers, do therefore
severally engage to pay the sum annexed to our names to the Hon. Harry
Innis and Colonel Levi Todd, or to their order, in trust, to be by them
applied to the payment of the reasonable expenses which the said
commissioners may incur in carrying the above design into effect, also
to the payment of such compensation to the said commissioners for their
services as the said Innis and Todd may deem adequate.'
June 20, 1792.
Thos. Barber, $10
Wm. Crow, 5
Green Dorsey, 18
John Cochran, 4
David Gillis, 10
Wm. Petty, 1
John Warren, 10
Wm. Kenton, 1
Philip Bush, jr., 10
David Rice, 1
John Rochester, 10
John Rogers, 1
Samuel G. Keen, 5
Padtrick Curran, 1
John Reedyun, 1
Daniel Barber, 1
Philip Yeiser, 3
"The money subscribed was disbursed by Harry Innis. Men were employed as
'road cutters,' as 'surveyors,' to 'carry provisions,' to 'grind corn,'
and 'collect bacon.' The pay was two shillings sixpence per day, and
the work extended over twenty-two days in the summer of 1792."[28]
The Kentucky legislature passed an act in 1793, which provided a guard
for pilgrims on the Wilderness Road; in 1794 an act was passed for the
clearing of the Boonesborough fork of the road, from Rockcastle Creek to
the Kentucky River. In 1795 the legislature passed an act to make the
Wilderness Road a "wagon road" thirty feet wide from near Crab Orchard
to Cumberland Gap. Proposals being advertised for, the aged Daniel Boone
addressed Governor Isaac Shelby the following letter:
"Sir feburey the 11th 1796
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