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
61 South Carolina Gazette, July 14, 1759.
62 South Carolina Gazette, Aug. 4, Sept. 22, 1759.
63 North Carolina Colonial Records, vi, 221.
64 Draper: MS. Life of Boone, iii, 75.
65 North Carolina Colonial Records, vi, 229-230.
66 For a full account of the part which Fort Dobbs played in this Indian
warfare see the monograph, Fort Dobbs, by Mrs. M. H. Eliason.
67 Maryland Gazette, May 8, 1760; Haywood: Natural and Aboriginal
History of Tennessee, 239-40; North Carolina Colonial Records, xxii,
822.
68 "Notes on the Indians and the Early Settlers of Western North
Carolina," Collections of the North Carolina Historical Commission.
Printed in Papers of A. D. Murphy, ii, 380 et seq.
69 Maryland Gazette, May 8, 1760.
70 South Carolina Gazette, Dec. 23, 1760; Feb. 28, April 11, 1761.
71 North Carolina Colonial Records, vi, 622.
72 J. S. Johnston: The First Explorations of Kentucky. Filson Club
Publications, No. 13.
73 William and Mary College Quarterly, xii, 129-134; Young: Genealogical
Narrative of the Hart Family (1882); Nash: "History of Orange County,"
North Carolina Booklet; Henderson: "A Federalist of the Old School,"
North Carolina Booklet.
74 North Carolina Colonial Records, ix, 349.
75 Turner: "The Old West," Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings,
1908.
76 Cf. "Memoir of Pleasant Henderson," Draper MSS. 2CC21-23; W. H.
Battle: "A Memoir of Leonard Henderson," North Carolina University
Magazine, Nov., 1859; T. B. Kingsbury: "Chief Justice Leonard
Henderson," Wake Forest Student, November, 1898.
77 "The Life and Times of Richard Henderson," in the Charlotte Observer,
March 9 to June 1, 1913; Draper's MS. Life of Boone; Morehead's Address
at Boonesborough, 105 n.
78 C. W. Alvord: "The Genesis of the Proclamation of 1763," Michigan
Pioneer and Historical Collections, xxxvi.
79 Sparks: Works of Franklin (1844), iii, 69-77.
80 J. M. Peck to L. C. Draper, May 15, 1854.
81 Washington to Crawford, September 21, 1767, in Sparks: Life and
Writings of Washington, ii, 346-50.
82 Haywood: Civil and Political History of Tennessee (1823), 35.
83 Ramsey: Annals of Tennessee (1853), 69-70.
84 Ramsey: Annals of Tennessee, 69.
85 Cf. C. W. Alvord: "The British Ministry and the Treaty of Fort
Stanwix," Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings, 1908.
86 North Carolina Colonial Records, vii, 851-855. For Tryon's line,
ibid., 245, 460, 470, 508.
87 Johnson to Gage, December 16, 1768.
88 Jefferson MSS. Department of state. Cf. also Weeks: General Joseph
Martin.
89 Hanna: The Wilderness Trail, ii, 216, 230, 255; Darlington: Journals
of Gist, 131.
90 "Narrative of General William Hall," Draper MSS., Wisconsin State
Historical Society.
91 Draper: MS. Life of Boone, viii, 238.
92 Summers: Southwest Virginia, 76.
93 Papers of A. D. Murphy, ii, 386.
94 Pennsylvania Journal, October 29, 1769.
95 Compare "John Finley; and Kentucky before Boone," being chapter seven
in volume two of C. A. Hanna's The Wilderness Trail (1911).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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