Cumberland: Colony, 200, 341, 342, 343; leaders, 341; desire alliance with Spain, 343, 345; traders, 330, settlements, 283, 288, 309, 310, 330, 340, 345, 346; settlers, 328, 342; desire separation from North Carolina, 343; valley, 280; region, ch. XVII, 280, 345, 347. Cumberland: outlaw, 165. "Cumberland Compact": drafted by Richard Henderson, 285-286. Cumberland District: 331, 339, 341. Cumberland, Duke of: 100. Cumberland Gap: names, 100, 115; traversed by traders, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 126, 145, 158, 229; see Ouasioto Gap. Cumberland Mountains: 100, 113, 138, 233. Cutbird, Benjamin: 139. D Darien: 144. Dark and Bloody Ground: 126; origin of name, 223-224. Dartmouth, Earl of: 208, 209, 238. Dean Swift: 154. Declaration of Independence: 258; read at Boonesborough, 272. Delaware: 8; valley, 8. Demere, Capt. Raymond: 76; takes command of Virginia Fort, 66; surrenders Fort Loudon, 90-91. De Peyster: 298, 299, 301. De Soto, Fernando: ch. XII. Detroit: 273. Devonshire, East: 21. Dick, Captain: Cherokee hunter, 126. Dinwiddie, Gov. Robert: 50, 53, 55, 58, 65; 67, 70, 72. Dividing Line: running of the North Carolina-Virginia, 269; William Byrd's History of the, 35. Doak, Rev. Samuel: 293. Dobbs, Gov. Arthur: 55, 73, 77, 92, 93, 169; sends commissioner to treat with Indians, 59; begins erection of Catawba Fort, 62, 70; orders building discontinued, 71. Dobbs, Edwards Brice: 54. Doddridge, Joseph: on conditions of pioneer life, 125. Donelson, Col, John: 194, 206, 222, 288; runs boundary line, 193; meets Richard Henderson, 269; leads party by water route to French Lick, 282; diary of, quoted, 269, 283-284. Donelson's line: 194, 224, 239, 242. Dragging Canoe, the Cherokee chief: 223, 290; leads Indians in battle, 262-263. Drake, Enoch: 235. Drake, Joseph: 125. Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of: 196, 198, 199, 200, 204, 206, 210, 211, 220, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 248, 249, 254. Dunmore's War: ch. XIII, 196, 214. Dugger, Julius Cæsar: Tennessee pioneer, 137, 187. Dutch, Pennsylvania: 12, 302. Dutchman's Creek Church: 185. E East India Company: 201. Eaton's Station: defence of, 262. Echota: 64, 66, 307. Edwards, Rev. Morgan: on exodus of Regulators for North Carolina, 175. Emery, Will: 127. England: land-mad, ch. XI, 4, 21, 43, 201, 247. English: 67, 120, 274; settlers, 5, 96; Revolution, 6; parliament, 7; colonies, 13; troops, 66; settlements, 46. Es-kip-pa-ki-thi-ki: 117, 150. Et-chow-ee: 89.