146 Cf. "The Beginnings of Westward Expansion," North Carolina Review, September and October, 1910. 147 Draper MSS. 1 CC 2-9, Wisconsin State Historical Society. 148 Jefferson MSS. 5th Series, v. 8. In MSS. Division, Library of Congress. 149 Draper MSS. 1 CC 2-9. 150 Diary of Morgan Brown in Tennessee Historical Magazine. 151 Enclosure 6 in Dunmore to Dartmouth, No. 25, March 14, 1775, Public Record Office, Colonial Office, 5:1353. 152 North Carolina Colonial Records, ix, 1117, 1129-1131. 153 Draper MSS. 4 QQ 1. 154 Virginia Historical Magazine, viii, 355. Cf. also Draper MSS. 2 CC 5. 155 Letters to Washington, MSS. Division, Library of Congress. 156 I am indebted to Miss Lucretia Hart Clay for the privilege of examining the extensive collection of Hart and Benton MSS. in her possession. 157 The voluminous records of the treaty are found in the Jefferson MSS., vol. 5. MSS. Division, Library of Congress. 158 "Narrative of Felix Walker," Original MS. owned by C. L. Walker. 159 Hulbert: Boone's Road. 160 Original of Henderson's Journal is in Draper MSS., 1 CC 21-130 A. D. 161 Hall: Sketches of the West, i, 254-5. 162 This quotation is taken from the original manuscript. The version in De Bow's Review, 1854, is imperfect. For better printed versions of Walker's two accounts, see Memoirs of Felix Walker, New Orleans (1877), and Journal of American History, i, No. 1 (1907). 163 Original journal of William Calk, owned by Mrs. Price Calk. 164 Letters to Washington, MSS. Division, Library of Congress. 165 North Carolina Gazette. 166 Draper MSS., 1 CC 160-194, deposition of Arthur Campbell. 167 Draper MSS., 1 CC 160-194, deposition of Arthur Campbell. 168 Draper Collection, Kentucky MSS., ii. For a contrary view, cf. P. Henry's deposition, Kentucky MSS., i. 169 Published in Virginia Gazette, March 23, 1775. Cf. "Forerunners of the Republic", Neale's Monthly, January-June, 1913. 170 Draper MSS., 4 QQ 17. 171 Letters to George Washington, MSS. Division, Library of Congress. 172 Draper MSS., 1 L 20. 173 Henderson and Luttrell to the Proprietors, July 18, 1775; printed in Louisville News-Letter, May 9, 1840. 174 Nathaniel Henderson to John Williams, October 5, 1775. Copy supplied by heirs of B. J. Lossing. 175 "The Struggle for the Fourteenth American Colony," News and Observer (Raleigh, N. C.), May 19, 1918. 176 In connection with Transylvania, consult G. W. Ranck: Boonesborough: Filson Club Publications, No. 16; F. J. Turner: "State Making in the Revolutionary Era", American Historical Review, i; G. H. Alden: "New Governments West of the Alleghanies before 1780." 177 In a "Proposal for the Sale of its Lands" (Virginia Gazette, Sept. 30, 1775), the Transylvania Company offered to any settlers before June 1, 1776, land, limited in amount, at the rate of fifty shillings sterling per hundred acres, subject to an annual quit-rent of two shillings. Cf. facsimile. 178 Draper MSS., 2 CC 25.