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Subject: Bryan Station and Scott Countians
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 03:15:41 -0400 (EDT)

This has been requested , and so I will post to list. If you find that it
doesn't interest you please delete.

the Draper manuscripts contain numberous references to Bryan Station, with
Document 1MM146, showing a list of defenders who were there in "the campaign
in 1786." The lists, one of which is reproduced below, include many early
settlers of Scott county. Check other militia lists that are being
transcribed and published.

This was also sent to me by one of our subscribers on the Craig list, but
when I tried to send it to the list, it wouldn't work so I went searching for
it, in the approiate county and was able to find it.

Collins History of Kentucky states that Bryan, or Bryant, Station "was about
five miles northeast of Lexington, on the southern bank of the north fork of
Elkhorn; settled by the Bryans in 1779, but a cabin had been built by Joseph
Bryan, a sonin law of Col. Daniel Boone, in 1776." The history of Bryan
Station included a number of Indian attacks. In one such attack the women
listed below prevented the fiery destruction of the station in 1782 by
carrying buckets of water from the spring to the station.

Next message will includee the names of Women who are memorilized on a
memorial wall at Brian Station Spring.

Pat

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