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Subject: Tip #66- The Third Time Line
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:25:15 -0400 (EDT)

In looking again at Collins's History of Kentucky, another
fascinating time line is shown which he calls the "Annals of Kentucky".
1745: The Shawnees of Kentucky had retreated on the banks of the Ohio,
Miami and Muskingum to avoid their southern enemies - being now at
peace with the Menguys, and allied with them against the Cherokees,
Catawbas, Muscologees, Chickasaws, etc.
1750: Christopher GIST receives instructions from the Ohio Company to "go
out to the westward of the great mountains, in order to search out and
discover the lands upon the irver Ohio, down as low as the great Falls
thereof; and to take an exact account of all the large bodies of good
level land, that the may better judge where it will be the most
convenient to take their grant of 500,000 acres."
1754: James McBRIDE, with others, in a canoe, passes down the Ohio tomouth
of Ky. river, and cuts his initials on a tree.
1756: Mrs Mary INGLIS, the first white woman in KY.
1764: The Shawnee Indians remove from Ohio to Pennsylvania, and from Green
river to the Wabash.
1766: Captain James SMITH, Joshua HORTON, Uriah STONE, Wm. BAKER, and a
mulatto slave of Horton's, named Jamie, 18 years old, explore the
country south of Kentucky, and the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, from
Stone's River (which they so named after their companion Stone), above
Nashville, down to the Ohio.
1769: June 7: John FINDLAY, Daniel BOONE, John STEWART, Joseph HOLDEN,
James MOONEY and Wm.COOL from the Yadkin river, N.C., reach the Red river
in KY., and continue hunting until Dec. 22. Stewart is killed, Boone left
alone.
1773: June 22: Capt. Thomas BULLITT, Hancock TAYLOR, (both surveyors),
and others, in one company, and James McAFEE, George McAFEE, Robert
McAFEE, James mcCOUN, Jr. and Samuel ADAMS, in another company, going
together down the Ohio, reach the mouth of Limestone creek, where
Maysville now stands, and remian two day.
1774: May: Capt. James HARROD, Abram HITE, Jacob SANDUSKY, James
SANDUSKY, and 37 other men descend the Ohio, encamp at the mouth of
Deercreek, where Cincinnati now is, and upon that ground cut the first
tre ever cut by white men. They go on down the mouth of Kentucky, and up
to that stream to what is now Mercer county, where in June, they lay off
Harrodstown 9afterward called Oldtown, and now Harrodsburg), and erect a
number of cabins. Oct: After the battle at Point Pleasant, Oct 10, three
of the soldiers, John Whittaker WILLIS, John ASHBY, and Wm. BOLLAND, of
Stafford and Fauquer counties, Va visit Kentucky in a periogue and pass
down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans, thence via Pensacola and
Charleston to Virginia.
1775: Feb: Capt Wm TWEETY, Samuel COLBURN, James BRIDGES, Thomas
JOHNSON, John HART, William HICKS, James PEEKE, and Felix WALKER
leave Rutherford county, NC to "explore a country by the name of Leowvisay,"
(Louisa, or Levisa, now Kentucky). They proceed to Watawgo (Watawga) river; a
tributary of the Holston, at a point now in the state of Tennessee,
remaining some days. July7: Miss Betsey CALLAWAY and her sister Frances,
Daughters of Col. Richard CALLAWAY, and a daughter of Col. Daniel BOONE - the
first named grown, the others about 14 yars old- are captured by five
Indians,
from a conoe in the Kentucky river, within sight of Boonesboro. Their fathers
and friends recapture them, uninjured, next day, thirty miles distant. Dec 6:
Kentucky county established by Virginia out of part of Fincastle county, VA.

more later
Pat

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