179 These increased rates were voted at a meeting of the Proprietors of Transylvania at Oxford, N. C., September 25, 1775. American Archives, iv. 180 Draper MSS., 47 J 1. This memoir has often been printed. 181 Cf. for example, Mason to Washington, March 9, 1775, in Letters to Washington, MSS. Division, Library of Congress. 182 Letter of date May 19, 1776. Draper MSS., 33 S 292-295. 183 Original in Virginia State Archives. 184 Original in Virginia State Archives. This and the aforementioned petition are printed in the Virginia Historical Magazine, xvi, 157-163. See also J. R. Robertson: Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky, Filson Club Publications, No. 27. 185 Cf. "Richard Henderson and the Occupation of Kentucky, 1775," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, December, 1914. Also A. B. Hulbert: Pilots of the Republic. 186 Original in North Carolina State Archives. Printed in Ramsey: Annals of Tennessee (1853), 134-138. 187 Haldimand MSS. 188 Original in Draper MSS. Collections. It has recently been printed in Colonial Men and Times (1915), by Lillie Du P. Van C. Harper. 189 Haywood: Civil and Political History of Tennessee, (1823), Appendix, 500-503. 190 Journal Virginia House of Delegates, Nov. 4-17, 1778. 191 Hening: Statutes at Large, ix, 571. Cf. also Starling: History of Henderson County, Kentucky. 192 Cf. Sioussat: "The Journal of Daniel Smith," Tennessee Historical Magazine, March, 1915. 193 The original journal is in the archives of the Tennessee State Historical Society. 194 N. Hart, Jr., to Wilkins Tannehill, April 27, 1839, in Louisville News-Letter, May 23, 1840. 195 The original document is preserved in the archives of the Tennessee Historical Society. It is printed, with a number of minor inaccuracies, in Putnam: Middle Tennessee, 94-102. 196 Acts of North Carolina, 1783, ch. xxxviii, North Carolina State Records, xxiv, 530-531. 197 For a more extended treatment of the subjects dealt with in the present chapter, see "Richard Henderson, the Authorship of the Cumberland Compact, and the Founding of Nashville," Tennessee Historical Magazine, September, 1916. 198 "Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary Patriot and Border Hero," in North Carolina Booklet, xvi, No. 3, 109-144. 199 While Draper's King's Mountain and its Heroes is most valuable as a source book, it is very faulty in style and arrangement. The account of the battle, in particular, is deficient in perspective; and in general no clear line is drawn between traditionary and authentic testimony. 200 F. B. McDowell: The Battle of King's Mountain (Raleigh, 1907). This account was prepared chiefly from unpublished letters from Isaac Shelby to Franklin Brevard. 201 A Sketch of the Life and Career of Colonel James D. Williams, by Rev. J. D. Bailey (Cowpens, S. C., 1898). 202 A valuable source is the King's Mountain Expedition, by David Vance and Robert Henry, edited by D. L. Schenck (Greensboro, 1891).