The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790Henderson, Archibald
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The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
Henderson, Archibald
Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, Old; Kentucky -- History -- To 1792; Southwest, Old -- History; Tennessee -- History
18 Howe: History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina.
19 Virginia Historical Magazine, xiii, 127-8-9.
20 Draper: MS. Life of Boone; Draper Collection, Wisconsin State
Historical Society.
21 Rowan County Records, Salisbury, N. C.
22 Rumple: History of Rowan County.
23 Logan: History of Upper South Carolina.
24 "Diary of Bishop Spangenberg" (1752), North Carolina Colonial
Records, v.
25 Sheets: History of Liberty Baptist Association.
26 Moravian Community Diary, preserved at Winston-Salem, N. C.
27 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 6.
28 J. F. D. Smyth: A Tour in the United States of America (London:
1784), vol. 1. Chapter xxiii.
29 Unpublished MS.: "In the Olden Time."
30 Margry: Navigation of the Mississippi, iv, 322.
31 Raunié: Chansonnier historique du xviiie siècle, iii, 132-3. This
translation is by Barbara Henderson.
32 J. Haywood: Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee (1823), 223.
33 Byrd: History of the Dividing Line.
34 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 25.
35 D. D. Wallace: The Life of Henry Laurens, Appendix iv.
36 See also Hewit in Carroll's Collections, i, 435. Fort Prince George
was located in the fork of the Six Mile Creek and Keowee River, in the
southwestern part of Pickens County, and was completed probably by the
end of 1753 (South Carolina Gazette, December 17, 1753).
37 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 140.
38 Cited in Channing, History of the United States, ii, 5-73 n.
39 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 333, 357.
40 Moravian Community Diary.
41 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 849.
42 Virginia Historical Magazine, xiii, 225-264. North Carolina Colonial
Records, v, 560, 617.
43 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 579.
44 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 641, 742, 849. Cf. also Hunter:
Sketches of Western North Carolina, 325.
45 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 604, 639.
46 Virginia Historical Magazine, xiii, 263; North Carolina Colonial
Records, v, 606, 609, 613.
47 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 585, 612-4, 635, 637.
48 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 610; Cf. Timberlake's "A Draught
of the Cherokee Country" in Avery's History of the United States, iv,
facing p. 347; Ramsey, History of Tennessee, 57.
49 Summers: Southwest Virginia, 57-60.
50 Virginia Historical Magazine, xv, 254-7; Waddell, Augusta County
(second edition), 115-6, 150-1.
51 North Carolina Colonial Records, v, 606-8.
52 Summers: Southwest Virginia, 60-1.
53 Williamson: History of North Carolina, ii, 37, footnote.
54 North Carolina Colonial Records, viii, 563; xi, map facing p. 80, and
p. 227.
55 North Carolina Colonial Records, v. Introduction, pp. xxx-xxxi.
56 Carroll's Collections, i, 433; ii, 519-20; Draper's MS. Life of
Boone, iii, 65-6.
57 Sparks: Washington, ii, 322.
58 Journal: "Concerning a March that Capt. Robt. Wade took to the New
River," in Summers, Southwest Virginia. 62-66.
59 Carroll's Collections, i, 443-4.
60 South Carolina Gazette, May 12, 1759.
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