During the latter part of the year 1775, a great many adventurers and surveyors, principally from Virginia and North Carolina, made their appearance in Kentucky; and for all such, Boonesborough was a place of general rendezvous. Some united themselves to Boone's colony, and remained permanently at his Station: others clustered abound Harrod's Old Cabin, and the Fort which had by this time been erected by Logan, and made "improvements" in the vicinity of each; but most of them returned to their several homes after having made such locations and surveys as they thought proper. Among those by whom Boone was visited in the course of this year, were several men who have subsequently rendered very important services in the settlement of the West, and attained great and deserved celebrity: such were Simon Kenton, John Floyd, the four brothers McAfee, and others. A tolerably good road, sufficient for the passage of pack-horses in single file, had been opened from the settlements on the Holston to Boonesborough, by the party which Boone led out early in the following spring; and this now became the thoroughfare for other adventurers, a number of whom removed their families from North Carolina to Kentucky, and settled at Boonesborough, during the fall and winter of this year. Colonel Richard Callaway was one of these; and there were others of equal respectability. [Footnote 24: History of Kentucky.] CHAPTER X. Disturbed state of the country in 1775--Breaking out of the Revolutionary war--Exposed situation of the Kentucky settlements--Hostility of the Indians excited by the British--First political convention in the West--Capture of Boone's daughter and the daughters of Colonel Callaway by the Indians--Their rescue by a party led by Boone and Callaway--Increased caution of the colonists at Boonesborough--Alarm and desertion of the Colonies in the West by land speculators and other adventurers--A reinforcement of forty-five men from North Carolina arrive at Boonesborough--Indian attack on Boonesborough in April--Another attack in July--Attack on Logan's Fort, and siege--Attack on Harrodsburg.