INDEX
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INDEX
A
Abingdon:
134
,
191
.
Adams, John:
250
.
Adams, Samuel:
241
,
250
.
Ahualco:
144
.
Alamance: see
Battles
.
Alexander, Abraham:
172
.
Alexander, James:
27
.
Alexander, Moses:
27
.
Alexander, Capt. Nathaniel:
62
.
Alexander, William:
27
.
Alibamu Fort:
65
.
Alleghany Mountains:
100
,
142
,
155
,
246
,
259
,
311
.
Alleman's Ford:
36
.
Alrichs, Herman: describes ambuscade of Braddock's army,
54
.
Amazons:
267
.
America:
111
,
134
,
159
,
234
,
248
,
329
; continent of,
198
; history of,
286
; emigration to,
7
; people of,
173
,
186
,
198
,
199
; democracy in,
ch. XIV
-
ch. XV
,
174
; colonies of, necessity for union,
65
-
66
.
American: cause,
185
; congress,
329
,
341
; confederation,
215
,
259
,
291
; republic,
329
.
American Revolution:
12
,
123
,
239
,
259
,
267
,
270
,
277
,
305
.
American Union:
319
,
335
,
336
,
342
,
348
,
349
; see
Union
.
Americans:
190
,
300
,
329
,
339
,
340
; pioneers,
283
; civilization of,
ch. X
,
199
; character of,
ch. X
,
30
-
31
,
195
.
Amherst, Gen. Jeffrey:
93
.
Anderson, Colonel:
308
.
Anshers, James:
52
.
Appalachian Mountains:
4
,
5
,
42
,
107
,
137
,
139
,
334
,
343
.
Arkansas:
122
.
Atlantic Ocean:
4
.
Atta-kulla-kulla, Cherokee chief:
66
,
74
,
76
,
217
,
242
,
262
.
Augusta:
79
.
B
Bacon, Francis:
172
.
Bailey, Capt. Andrew: leads sortie from Fort Dobbs,
80
-
82
.
Baily, Francis: on frontiersmen,
ch. XIV
.
Baker, John:
139
.
Baker, William:
121
.
Bainton, Epaphroditus:
130
.
Balboa:
155
.
Baptists:
175
,
185
,
190
.
Barbour, explorer:
122
.
Battles
: Alamance,
168
,
175
,
182
-
183
,
186
,
189
,
219
; Great Kanawha, of the,
203
-
204
,
209
,
305
; King's Mountain, at,
ch. XVIII
,
289
,
327
; Lexington,
244
,
277
; Long Island Flats, of,
262
-
263
; Musgrove's Mill, at,
291
.
Beaujeu, Captain:
53
.
Been, John:
196
.
Been, Mrs. William:
264
.
"Belle Riviere":
156
; see
Ohio River
.
Bentham, Jeremy:
246
.
Benton, Jesse:
222
.
Benton, Samuel:
170
.
Benton, Thomas Hart:
170
.
Bethabara:
38
,
56
,
75
,
85
,
161
,
162
,
166
; invested by Indians,
88
.
Bethania:
87
.
Bienville (Blainville) Céloron de:
46
-
47
,
98
,
116
.
Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de:
42
.
Big Bone Lick:
116
,
156
; see
Great Bone Lick
.
Big Lick:
33
.
Big Salt Lick:
284
; see
French Lick, French Salt Springs, Great French Lick, Great Salt Springs
.
Black Fish, Shawanoe chief: adopts Daniel Boone,
274
.
Bledsoe, Anthony:
194
,
327
,
332
,
339
,
340
,
341
,
342
,
344
.
Bledsoe family:
123
.
Bledsoe, Isaac:
126
; discovers lick,
124
.
Bledsoe's Lick: discovery of, described,
124
-
125
.
Blevens: hunters named,
109
.
Blevens, William:
119
.
Blount, William:
348
.
Blowing Rock:
134
.
Blue Licks:
156
.
Blue Ridge:
3
,
5
,
97
,
142
.
Board of Trade: Johnston to,
3
; Glen to,
51
; draft royal proclamation,
106
.
Boiling Spring:
243
,
253
.
Bonn, Dr. Jacob:
85
.
Boone, Anne:
23
.
Boone, Daniel:
16
,
20
,
22
,
29
,
38
,
41
,
101
,
108
,
110
,
115
,
119
,
129
,
130
,
ch. IX
,
131
,
132
,
133
,
134
,
142
,
144
,
148
,
153
,
155
,
156
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
185
,
190
,
200
,
212
,
221
,
225
,
226
,
227
,
231
,
232
,
235
,
236
,
280
,
282
; personal appearance,
37
; at Braddock's Defeat,
54
-
55
; meets Richard Henderson,
105
; explores Tennessee for Henderson & Company,
109
; serves under Waddell,
133
; explores Kentucky for Richard Henderson,
ch. X
; clears Transylvania Trail,
226
; asks aid of Judge Henderson,
227
-
228
; returns to Boonesborough,
253
; rescues daughter,
271
; rescued by Kenton,
272
; captured,
272
; adopted by Black Fish,
274
; deceived by Indians,
274
.
Boone family: settles in North Carolina,
34
,
36
,
117
.
Boone, George:
21
,
165
.
Boone, James:
137
.
Boone, Jemima: captured by Indians,
271
.
Boone, Jesse:
137
.
Boone, Squire:
21
,
34
,
35
,
36
,
37
,
105
.
Boone, Squire, Jr.:
29
,
142
,
156
-
157
; sent by Transylvania Company to aid Daniel Boone,
153
.
Boone, William:
23
.
Boonesborough:
199
,
215
,
254
,
277
; Henderson arrives at,
235
; Transylvania convention at,
244
-
248
; Boone returns to,
253
; capture of girls at,
270
-
271
; besieged by Indians,
272
,
273
,
274
-
276
; Henderson returns to,
282
; corn sent to, from French Lick,
284
,
285
.
Boone's Caves:
157
.
Boone's Ford:
36
.
Boston:
8
,
180
.
Botetourt; Governor, of Virginia:
192
.
Boyd's Creek:
307
.
Braddock, Gen. Edward:
53
,
58
,
135
,
295
; defeat of, described,
53
-
55
.
Brandmüller, John: pilgrimage of,
14
-
15
.
British:
49
,
102
,
189
,
261
,
270
,
276
,
289
,
290
,
292
,
294
,
296
,
299
,
302
,
342
; Crown,
191
,
200
.
Brobdignags:
154
.
Brown, Francis:
57
.
Brown, Jacob:
194
,
224
.
Brown, the widow:
337
.
Bryan family:
203
.
Bryan, James:
22
.
Bryan, Joseph:
22
.
Bryan, Martha:
33
.
Bryan, Morgan:
22
, settled in Pennsylvania,
22
; in Virginia,
23
; in North Carolina,
16
,
34
; leads frontier rangers,
75
-
76
,
83
; in Rowan,
35
.
Bryan, Morgan, Jr.:
22
.
Bryan, Rebeckah:
132
,
160
.
Bryan, William:
22
,
33
.
Bryan's Station:
22
.
"Buffalo Bill" (W. F. Cody):
ch. XV
.
Bull, Lieut. Gov. William:
88
.
Bullitt, Capt. Thomas:
204
.
Bullock, Leonard Henley: Member Transylvania Company,
218
.
Bunker's Hill: battle of,
277
.
Burke, Edmund: on charters,
ch. XI
.
Burnaby, Andrew: describes life in backwoods,
32
.
Byrd, Col. William, 3rd.:
59
,
91
,
92
,
94
,
133
,
187
,
208
,
210
,
249
.
Byrd, William:
36
,
45
,
98
,
130
; describes Yadkin region,
35
.
C
Calhoun, Patrick: family attacked,
79
; commands Provincial Rangers,
89
; relatives of,
168
.
Calk, William:
235
; with exploring party from Virginia,
226
.
Callaway, Elizabeth: captured by Indians,
271
; rescued,
271
.
Callaway, Flanders:
271
.
Callaway, Frances: capture by Indians,
271
; rescued,
271
.
Callaway, Col. Richard:
253
; commands in defence of Transylvania Fort,
275
-
276
.
Callaway, Samuel:
110
.
Camden:
292
.
Camden, Lord Chancellor:
201
.
Camden-Yorke opinion:
207
,
239
,
240
,
241
.
Cameron, Alexander:
194
,
261
.
Camp Charlotte:
212
.
Campbell, Col. Arthur: interested in Kentucky lands,
208
; seeks partnership in Transylvania Company for Patrick Henry,
240
; leads force against Cherokees,
307
; plans Greater Franklin,
323
.
Campbell, Colonel William: leads Virginians,
293
; elected commander King's Mountain expedition,
294
; at King's Mountain,
296
,
299
,
300
.
Campbell, David:
314
,
321
.
Campbell, John:
263
.
Campbell, Robert: scalped,
82
.
Cape Fear:
53
,
75
.
Captain Will:
151
.
Carlisle:
144
.
Carolina:
116
,
118
.
Carolinas, the two:
75
,
139
,
201
.
Carter, John:
224
.
Carter's Valley:
195
,
224
.
Carteret, Lord: lands of,
9
.
Caswell, Gov. Richard:
57
,
318
,
322
,
340
.
Catawba Town:
59
.
Catawba Valley:
10
,
13
.
Catawbas:
35
,
45
,
59
-
62
,
64
,
65
,
70
,
71
,
72
,
96
,
118
,
146
; towns of,
96
; country,
131
.
Cession Act:
310
-
311
,
326
.
Charles the Second:
42
.
Charleston:
32
,
33
,
38
,
66
,
68
,
88
,
94
,
161
,
167
,
289
.
Charleville, Charles: at French Lick,
44
.
Charlotte:
289
,
294
.
Cherokees:
15
,
28
,
49
,
59
-
60
,
65
,
67
,
68
,
70
,
72
,
73
,
77
,
78
,
86
,
88
,
89
,
91
,
96
,
111
,
112
,
114
,
116
,
123
,
127
,
133
,
140
,
141
,
159
,
187
,
192
,
193
,
202
,
206
,
216
,
221
,
222
,
225
,
239
,
242
,
249
,
252
,
265
,
266
,
270
,
290
,
307
,
310
,
316
,
331
,
346
; fort promised to, by South Carolina,
58
; treaty with,
59
; hunters,
74
; attack on Long Cane settlement,
79
; warriors,
76
; defeated,
83
,
265
; boundary line,
191
; chiefs,
217
,
242
,
316
; country of,
64
.
Chickamaugas:
308
; town of,
283
; bloody forage of,
289
-
290
; quelled,
290
.
Chickasaws:
125
,
310
,
340
.
Chilhowee:
307
.
Chillicothe:
204
.
Chiswell's Mine:
112
,
191
.
Choctaws:
45
.
Christian, Col. William: member of company to purchase Cherokee lands,
239
; leads Virginia forces against Cherokees,
266
.
Chronicle, Major William: killed at King's Mountain,
301
.
Clark, George Rogers:
255
,
259
,
277
; prospecting in Kentucky,
205
; opinion of Transylvania title,
248
;
Memoir
of, cited as to Henderson Claim,
255
-
256
; threatens Virginia with revolt in Kentucky,
257
; visited by James Robertson,
281
.
Clark, Jonathan:
248
.
Cleveland, Col. Benjamin:
296
; explores West,
123
; leads pioneers against Indians,
267
; leads Wilkes volunteers at King's Mountain,
293
; addresses troops at King's Mountain,
297
,
301
.
"Cleveland's Bulldogs":
293
,
301
.
Clinch Valley:
203
.
Cocke, William:
231
,
263
,
321
; delegate from Franklin to Continental Congress,
318
; appeals to Benjamin Franklin,
324
.
Coldwater Expedition:
340
.
Columbus, Christopher:
144
,
234
.
Committee of Safety:
259
.
Concord:
236
.
Coghnawagas:
118
.
Connolly, Dr. John:
205
,
208
,
209
,
210
,
239
.
Constitution: rejected by North Carolina,
335
,
336
.
Continent, European:
4
.
Continental Congress:
249
,
250
,
257
,
261
,
276
,
318
,
319
,
324
,
329
.
Cooley, William: explores Kentucky,
149
,
153
.
Cooper, James Fenimore:
85
,
271
.
Corbin, Francis:
169
.
Cornstalk, Shawanoe chief:
204
; leads Indians at the Great Kanawha,
213
-
214
.
Corn Tassel, Indian Chief:
337
.
Cornwallis, Lord Charles:
289
,
291
,
292
,
294
,
295
,
304
.
Cortez, Hernando:
144
.
Counties
: Albemarle,
99
; Anson,
16
,
19
,
32
,
162
,
167
,
185
; Armagh,
22
; Augusta,
55
,
198
; Berks,
34
; Botetourt,
204
; Brunswick,
188
; Bucks,
8
,
22
,
34
; Burke,
293
; Chester,
22
-
23
; Culpeper,
138
; Davidson,
343
; Fincastle,
220
; Floyd,
142
; Frederick,
55
; Granville,
160
,
169
,
170
,
179
,
181
,
218
,
291
; Greene,
312
,
326
; Guilford,
203
; Hampshire,
55
; Hanover,
108
; Jessamine,
157
; Kentucky,
258
; Lincoln,
126
,
234
,
298
; Mecklenburg,
27
,
30
,
171
,
200
,
245
; Miller,
205
; Orange, North Carolina,
19
,
25
-
30
,
169
,
177
,
189
; Orange, Virginia,
113
,
122
; Philadelphia,
34
; Prince William,
226
; Roanoke,
33
; Rowan,
19
,
34
,
56
,
147
,
177
,
232
,
294
,
298
; Rutherford,
293
; Shenandoah,
198
; Sullivan,
291
,
308
,
312
,
328
; Sumner,
124
,
343
; Surry,
40
,
166
,
293
,
298
,
303
; Tennessee,
343
; Washington,
132
,
277
,
293
,
312
,
319
,
336
,
337
; Wayne,
124
; Wilkes,
293
; York, Pennsylvania,
52
,
59
; York, South Carolina,
295
.
Couture, Jean:
44
.
Cowpens:
294
.
Cox, Charles:
119
.
Coytomore, Lieut.: murdered by Indians,
80
.
Craighead, Rev. Alexander:
30
.
Crawford, William: Washington to, on Western lands,
106
,
108
.
Creeks:
308
,
310
,
339
,
340
,
341
,
342
,
346
.
Creeks
: Bean Island,
85
; Bear,
131
; Beaver,
194
; Bledsoe's,
128
; Crooked,
213
; Cross,
218
; Dutchman's,
132
; Elk,
137
; Fish,
205
; Fourth,
57
,
58
; Line,
71
; Linville,
34
; Lulbegrud,
119
,
154
; Otter,
228
,
229
,
236
; Sinking,
328
,
336
; Sugar Tree,
132
; Sugaw,
59
; Swearing,
135
; Station Camp,
124
,
150
; Third,
57
; Walden's,
120
.
Cresap, Col. Thomas:
101
.
Crockett, Robert:
125
.
Croghan, George:
46
,
120
.
Cross Creek (Fayetteville):
218
.
Crozat, Antoine:
43
,
44
.
Culloden:
100
.
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
.
F
Fagot:
343
.
Falls of the Ohio River (Louisville):
255
,
284
.
Fanning, Col. Edmund:
22
,
172
,
173
,
176
,
177
,
180
,
182
.
Fauquier, Gov, Francis:
94
.
Fayetteville:
218
.
Ferguson, Col. Patrick:
291
,
292
,
295
,
296
,
297
,
298
,
299
,
300
; conduct at King's Mountain,
302
; killed,
303
.
Few, William: describes life in backwoods,
25
.
Fields, Jeremiah:
180
,
181
.
Filson, John:
117
,
147
.
Fincastle, Committee of West: drafts protest against Transylvania Company,
257
,
258
.
Findlay, Findley, Finley: Archibald,
22
; Michael,
22
.
Findlay, John: visits Kentucky,
117
-
118
; meets Boone,
144
; visits Boone on the Yadkin,
22
,
101
,
138
,
148
,
149
,
150
,
153
.
Fish, William: murdered by Indians,
84
.
Fleming, Col. William:
208
.
Florida:
138
; East,
122
,
138
; West,
122
.
Floyd, John:
212
,
243
,
254
; appointed Surveyor General of Transylvania,
255
.
Fontaine, John: journal of,
97
.
Fontainebleau:
212
.
Forbes, Gen. John:
73
,
74
,
133
.
Forks of Ohio River:
47
.
Forts
: Bethabara, at,
75
; Boone's,
236
,
270
; chain of,
83
; Carolina,
75
,
84
-
85
; Catawba,
62
,
70
,
71
; Cumberland,
53
; Dobbs,
55
,
57
-
58
,
75
,
80
-
82
,
84
,
87
; Duquesne,
47
,
72
-
73
,
74
; Dutch,
57
,
83
,
86
;—at mouth of Line Creek,
71
; Loudoun,
68
,
76
,
88
-
90
; McDowell's,
265
,
270
; Necessity,
48
; Ninety-Six,
89
; Patrick Henry,
269
,
282
-
283
; Pitt,
121
,
209
; Prince George,
51
-
52
,
79
-
80
,
91
,
93
,
94
; Robinson,
94
; Stalnaker's,
83
,
94
; Stanwix, treaty of,
111
,
112
,
191
,
207
;—on Tellico River,
68
; Transylvania,
215
,
243
,
244
,
245
,
253
,
270
,
272
,
274
,
276
,
282
; Vaux's,
56
,
69
; Virginia,
64
,
67
,
68
,
69
; Watauga,
263
.
Fowey
:
254
.
France:
43
,
78
,
96
,
99
.
Frankland:
318
,
331
,
339
; origin of name,
314
,
321
.
Franklin:
89
.
Franklin, Benjamin:
8
,
107
,
184
,
185
; new state named for,
314
,
324
; to Cocke,
324
; to Sevier,
324
-
325
.
Franklin, State of:
200
,
ch. XIX
,
315
,
317
,
318
,
323
,
325
,
326
,
328
,
339
,
334
,
335
,
336
,
317
,
338
,
344
,
347
,
348
;—leaders of,
326
,
330
;—legislature of,
312
,
313
-
314
,
316
,
318
;—Greater,
323
; origin of name,
314
,
324
.
Freeland's Station:
309
.
French:
45
,
47
,
48
,
49
,
65
,
66
,
70
,
97
,
116
,
274
;
coureurs de bois
,
44
; Huguenot,
198
; voyageurs,
123
,
128
;—Canadian,
274
; immigration of,
5
; settlers,
28
; traders,
44
; explorations,
46
.
French Lick:
281
; treaty of peace at,
269
, See
French Salt Springs, Great French Lick, Great Salt Springs
.
French and Indian War:
52
,
102
,
144
,
145
.
Frohock, John:
172
,
177
.
Frohock, Thomas:
172
,
177
.
Frontier:
ch. VII
.
G
Galaspy, William:
234
.
Galissonière, Roland Michel Barrin, Marquis de la:
47
.
Gammern: storekeeper on Yadkin,
161
.
Gardoqui, Diego de:
327
,
329
,
330
,
331
,
332
,
333
,
334
,
335
,
338
,
339
.
Gee, Joshua:
98
.
George I:
97
.
George III:
93
,
214
.
Georgia:
116
,
122
,
265
,
268
,
291
,
313
;—Assembly of,
344
; tours into,
14
.
German: pioneers,
11
-
18
,
28
;—Palatinate,
11
; immigration,
5
,
11
-
12
,
19
.
Gilbert Town:
292
.
Gillespie, Robert: slain from ambush by Indians,
87
.
Gist, Christopher:
46
,
108
,
114
,
116
,
117
,
137
,
146
; makes exploration for Ohio Company,
101
-
102
.
Gist, Nathaniel:
134
,
137
.
Glen, Governor James:
58
-
59
,
65
; describes South Carolina's condition,
50
-
51
; promises Cherokees a fort,
51
; concludes treaty at Saluda,
51
.
Glumdelick:
154
.
Gnadenhütten:
56
.
Gordon, Capt. Harry:
120
.
Grandfather Mountain:
135
.
Grant, Col. James:
138
; leads expedition against Indians,
93
.
Granville, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord:
15
; lands of,
9
-
10
,
34
,
171
.
Great Bone Licks:
120
.
Great Britain:
48
,
247
.
Great French Lick:
280
; See
Great Salt Springs, French Lick, French Salt Springs
.
Great Grant:
224
.
Greathouse, Daniel:
211
.
Great Meadows:
48
,
53
.
Great Mogul:
201
.
Great Tellico:
65
.
Great Trading Path:
35
,
45
,
96
,
131
.
Great Treaty:
249
.
Great Salt Springs,
44
,
269
,
See French Lick, French Salt Springs, Great French Lick
.
Great Warrior's Path:
118
,
119
.
Green:
62
.
Greeneville:
319
.
Greer, Andrew:
187
.
Grube, Rev. Bernhard Adam: heads settlers into North Carolina,
16
.
Gulf of Mexico:
43
,
44
,
341
.
"Gulliver's Travels":
154
.
Gutry, John:
52
.
H
Hackett:
341
.
Hall, Gen. William:
116
,
128
.
Hall, Rev. James:
267
.
Hambright, Lt. Col. Frederick: at King's Mountain,
296
,
302
.
Hamilton, Gov. Henry:
273
,
274
,
276
.
Hampton, Anthony: leads Rowan rangers,
83
.
Hampton, Col. Andrew: leads Rutherford riflemen,
293
.
Hampton, Gen. Wade:
83
.
Hancock, John:
241
.
Hanks: family,
23
,
34
;—Abraham,
23
,
235
.
Hard Labor: treaty at,
112
,
114
.
Harman, outlaw:
165
.
Harris, Col.:
75
.
Harris: Elizabeth,
144
; John,
145
.
Harris's Ferry:
145
.
Harrisburg:
145
.
Harrison, Richard:
255
.
Harrod, James:
121
,
205
,
212
,
243
,
244
,
253
.
Harrodsburg:
253
; election held at,
257
.
Harrodsburg Remonstrance:
255
.
Hart: David,
187
,
218
;—Nathaniel,
108
,
187
,
217
,
218
,
222
,
227
,
284
;—Thomas,
108
,
187
,
218
,
222
.
Hartman, George:
38
.
Hawkins, Benjamin:
268
.
Hayes:
347
.
Haywood, John:
314
.
Hempinstall, Abraham:
122
.
Henderson, Kentucky:
279
.
Henderson, Col. Samuel: chosen special envoy to Franklin,
315
-
316
; negotiates with John Sevier,
316
-
318
.
Henderson, Nathaniel:
222
,
233
,
255
.
Henderson, Richard: born in Virginia,
104
; removes to North Carolina,
104
; acquainted with Boones,
105
; promotes Western exploration,
110
; in law suits involving Boone,
147
; promotes Western exploration under Boone's leadership,
148
-
149
; sends supplies to Boone,
153
; court broken up by Regulators,
179
-
181
; burned out by Regulators,
182
; secures from English authorities sanction for purchase of Indian lands,
201
-
202
; reorganizes Richard Henderson & Co. into Louisa Company,
217
; visits Otari towns,
217
-
218
; organizes Transylvania Company,
218
-
219
; negotiates Great Treaty with Cherokees,
221
-
225
; despatches Boone to clean Transylvania Trail,
225
-
226
; receives urgent appeal from Boone,
227
-
229
; hastens to Boone's rescue,
229
-
232
; reaches Fort Boone,
236
; draws up plan of government for Transylvania,
243
-
244
; addresses Legislature of Transylvania,
237
,
245
; elected delegate from Transylvania to Continental Congress,
249
; prepares plan of government for Powell's Valley settlement,
252
; attends Virginia Convention,
256
-
257
; purchases corn for Cumberland settlement,
269
; runs North Carolina-Virginia dividing line,
269
,
282
; presents memorial on Transylvania purchase,
278
; plans colonization of Cumberland region,
279
-
280
; despatches Robertson on prospecting tour,
280
-
281
; sends corn to French Lick,
284
-
285
; organizes government on Cumberland,
285
; author of "Cumberland Compact,"
286
-
287
; introduces recall of judges,
286
-
287
; founder of Nashville, personal appearance,
221
-
222
; diary of, quoted,
227
,
229
; mentioned,
158
,
159
,
183
,
187
,
190
,
200
,
203
,
215
,
ch. XIV
passim
,
216
,
220
,
234
,
235
,
238
,
240
,
241
,
242
,
246
,
247
,
248
,
253
,
258
,
272
,
282
,
315
.
Henderson, Richard & Company: organized,
107
; despatch Boone on Western exploration,
109
,
160
,
216
-
217
; granted 200,000 acres by Virginia;
see Land Companies
.
Henderson, Samuel:
104
.
Henderson & Company;
109
; see
Richard Henderson & Company
.
Henley, Chief Justice Peter:
60
.
Henry, Patrick:
209
,
211
,
249
,
293
,
329
; pronounces Camden-Yorke decision valid,
210
; endeavors to purchase lands from Cherokees,
239
-
240
; desires to become partner in Transylvania Company,
240
; considers Transylvania title good,
256
; confiscates Transylvania,
258
; correspondence of, with Joseph Martin,
344
-
345
.
Hewatt, Rev. Alexander:
78
.
Heydt, Jost: settles in Virginia,
12
.
Heygler, King, Catawba chief: petitions for fort,
60
; prevents completion of fort,
71
; see
Oroloswa
.
Hiawassee:
307
.
Hicks, Harry: heroic defence of home against Indian attack,
85
-
86
.
High Shoals:
29
.
Highlanders:
90
.
Hill, William:
138
,
142
,
143
.
Hillsborough:
26
,
103
,
179
,
188
,
217
,
218
,
219
.
Hillsborough, Earl of:
96
.
Hingham:
22
.
Hogg, James:
251
; partner in Transylvania Company,
218
; appointed delegate from Transylvania to Continental Congress,
250
.
Holder, John: rescues sweetheart,
271
.
Holden, Joseph:
149
,
153
.
Hollows, the:
166
.
Holston: region,
99
,
126
; settlement,
281
;—settlers,
262
; valley of,
134
,
187
,
191
-
192
,
306
.
Honeycut:
189
.
Hooper, William:
180
,
182
.
Hopewell:
310
.
Horton, Joshua:
121
.
Houston, Rev. Samuel:
321
,
323
; drafts constitution for Frankland,
319
; features of constitution drafted by,
321
-
322
.
Howard, Cornelius:
165
,
166
.
Howell, Rednap: poet-laureate of the Regulation,
173
,
179
.
Hubbardt, Col. James:
316
.
Hudson Valley:
4
.
Hunter, James:
179
.
Hunter's Trail:
150
.
Husband, Herman: author of "Impartial Relation,"
177
,
178
,
197
; leader in insurrection at Hillsborough,
179
; in correspondence with Benjamin Franklin,
184
.
I
Iberville, Le Moyne d':
42
,
43
.
Illinois Company: see
Land Companies
. Illinois country:
120
,
128
,
281
.
"Impartial Relation":
177
,
197
.
Indian: agent,
281
;—Allies,
72
; chiefs,
211
,
217
,
274
,
337
;—depredations,
56
,
163
,
308
,
340
;—expeditions,
313
; governments,
201
; Grant,
202
; hostages,
80
;—lands,
161
,
308
;—outbreak,
74
,
262
;—princes,
201
;—territories,
200
;—towns,
76
,
89
,
93
,
117
,
290
,
307
,
308
;—trade,
44
-
46
,
145
;—traders,
144
,
145
,
217
,
225
;—trails,
119
,
139
;—tribes,
45
,
201
,
261
;—war,
325
;—warfare,
133
,
295
-
296
,
297
;—affairs, superintendent of,
111
.
Indians:
44
,
46
,
49
,
57
,
58
-
63
,
68
,
69
,
74
,
75
,
85
,
86
,
87
,
88
,
112
,
119
,
122
,
125
,
127
,
140
,
151
,
152
,
156
,
162
,
196
,
197
,
200
,
204
,
205
,
207
,
209
,
211
,
213
,
214
,
215
,
217
,
218
,
221
,
222
,
223
,
227
,
228
,
229
,
240
,
242
,
249
,
252
,
253
,
261
,
262
,
263
,
265
,
267
,
268
,
270
,
273
,
275
,
276
,
283
,
288
,
290
,
297
,
306
,
307
,
308
,
311
,
332
,
339
,
340
,
345
;—Northern,
49
,
111
,
141
,
191
;—Southern,
35
,
191
,
261
.
Indiana:
123
.
Ingles: John,
69
;—Mrs. Mary,
69
;—William,
69
;—Mrs. William,
69
.
Innes, Col. James:
53
.
Ireland,
7
,
22
,
33
; character of inhabitants of North of,
6
-
7
.
Irish: immigration of,
5
;—Pennsylvania,
33
; settlers,
28
.
Iroquois:
117
.
J
Jack, Col. Samuel:
265
.
Jackson, Andrew:
282
.
Jacobite uprising:
7
.
Jamestown:
6
.
Jay, John:
329
-
330
.
Jefferson, Thomas: desires to join Transylvania Company,
240
; favors free government back of Virginia,
250
-
251
; attitude of, toward Transylvania claim,
256
.
Jenkins, Leoline: on character of Scotch-Irish,
6
.
Johnson, Sir William:
112
.
Johnston, Gov. Gabriel: on immigration into North Carolina,
3
.
Johnston, Gov. Samuel:
332
,
336
,
338
,
339
; to Robertson and Bledsoe,
327
.
Johnston, William:
217
.
Jones, John Gabriel:
257
.
Jones, Robert (
Robin
):
169
; characterization of Scotch-Irish by,
24
-
25
.
Jonesborough:
292
,
312
,
313
,
316
,
337
.
Joseph, Miller: describes conditions of North Carolina backwoods,
36
,
38
.
Judge's Friend, Cherokee chief:
242
.
K
Kenedy, William: agent for Virginia gentlemen to purchase Cherokee lands,
240
.
Kenton, Simon: rescues Daniel Boone,
272
.
Kentucky (Cantucky, Cantuckey, Cantuckie, Cantuck):
ch. XV
,
22
,
100
,
101
,
102
,
107
,
111
,
112
,
116
,
119
,
120
,
121
,
122
,
123
,
124
,
129
,
137
,
139
,
140
,
142
,
143
,
145
,
146
,
148
,
149
,
150
,
153
,
155
,
156
,
191
,
196
,
200
,
203
,
204
,
205
,
221
,
223
,
224
,
227
,
229
,
231
,
233
,
234
,
235
,
256
,
259
,
269
,
270
,
273
,
276
,
277
,
279
,
315
,
327
,
335
,
341
,
342
,
348
,
349
; origin of name,
117
;—road,
332
.
Keowee:
51
;—valley of,
89
.
King's Mountain:
295
,
303
.
King's Mountain campaign:
306
,
348
.
Kipling, Rudyard:
137
.
Kirk:
337
.
Kirtleys, the: pioneers,
113
.
Knob Lick:
126
.
L
Lacey, Col. William:
293
,
296
.
Land: policy of selling large tracts of,
113
.
Land Companies: Illinois,
207
-
208
,
239
; Louisa,
217
,
218
; Loyal,
47
,
99
-
100
,
113
; Ohio,
47
; organized,
100
; sends out exploring expedition,
101
-
102
; Richard Henderson & Company, organized,
107
; Transylvania Company,
114
,
218
; Wabash (Ouabache),
209
,
238
-
239
.
Land of Cockayne:
44
.
La Salle, Robert Cavelier de:
42
.
Laurel Mountain:
119
.
"Leatherstocking Tales":
85
,
271
.
Leestown:
248
.
Lewes:
8
.
Lenoir (Le Noir), Gen. William: describes costume of pioneer women,
40
-
41
; marches against Indians; at King's Mountain,
301
-
302
.
Léry, Chaussegros de:
116
.
Lewis, Major Andrew:
66
-
67
,
81
,
191
,
208
; erects Virginia Fort,
64
-
65
; leads Sandy River expedition,
70
; commands at Battle of Great Kanawha,
212
,
214
-
215
.
Lexington:
236
.
Lincoln: family,
34
;—Abraham,
23
,
34
,
235
; John,
34
;—Mordecai,
22
-
23
,
34
; Samuel,
22
;—Sarah,
23
.
Lindsay, Isaac,
121
.
Linville: John,
140
,
142
; Capt. William,
137
,
140
,
142
.
Linville Falls:
136
,
141
.
Lochaber:
192
,
193
.
Locke, John: "Fundamental Constitutions" of,
203
.
Loesch, Brother:
75
.
Logan, Cayuga Mingo chief:
211
.
Logan, Col. Benjamin:
234
,
277
.
Logan, James: on character of squatters,
8
-
9
.
London:
202
.
Loudoun, Lord:
68
.
Long Cane Settlement:
79
.
Long Hunters:
ch. XII
,
ch. VIII
,
126
,
128
,
129
,
157
,
158
,
204
.
Long Island of Holston River:
94
,
194
,
195
,
226
,
266
,
278
,
308
.
Long, John: slain by Indians,
87
.
Long Knives:
213
.
Longueuil, Charles de Moyne, Baron de:
116
.
Lorbrulgrud:
154
.
Louis Quatorze:
43
.
Louisa Company: see
Land Companies
.
Louisiana:
292
,
331
.
Love, Col.:
266
.
Lower Blue Licks:
101
.
Lower Salt Spring:
273
.
Lower Shawnee Town:
101
.
Lowry, James:
118
.
Loyal Company: see
Land Companies
.
Loyalists:
190
,
261
,
291
,
298
,
299
.
Lucas, Robert:
224
.
Luhny, Robert, mill of, on James River,
16
.
Lulbegrud:
154
.
Luttrell, Col. John:
227
; joins Transylvania Company,
217
.
Lyttelton, Gov. William Henry:
65
-
66
,
71
,
77
,
78
,
88
.
M
Madison, Thomas:
263
.
Madrid:
341
,
342
.
Mansfield, Low:
201
.
Mansker, Gasper, pioneer:
123
,
282
; discovers lick,
124
; encounters Boone,
157
-
158
.
Mansker's Lick:
110
,
124
.
Margry, Pierre:
43
.
Martin, Gov. Alexander:
182
,
312
,
315
,
316
,
322
; attorney for Daniel Boone,
148
; appoints Samuel Henderson ambassador to Franklin,
315
; issues manifesto against State of Franklin,
306
,
318
; Sevier to, on Franklin,
317
-
318
; academy named for,
318
.
Martin, Col Joseph:
150
,
227
,
262
,
290
,
306
,
307
,
313
,
322
,
325
; settles in Powell's Valley,
113
; driven out,
114
; appointed agent for Transylvania Company,
202
; Richard Henderson to,
252
-
253
; letter of, to Governor Randolph,
326
; exonerated of treason by North Carolina Assembly,
344
; acts as spy on Spaniards,
344
-
345
.
Martin, Gov. Josiah:
103
,
200
; issues proclamation against Transylvania Company,
238
.
Martin's Station:
226
,
229
; founded,
220
-
221
; Henderson draws up plan of government for,
252
; brave defence of, against Indians,
253
.
Maryland:
5
,
14
,
24
,
101
,
114
; price of lands in,
9
.
Mason, George: opposed to Transylvania claim,
256
.
Maxwell, Col. George:
328
,
332
.
McAden, Rev. Hugh: diary of,
27
-
28
,
49
,
69
.
McAfees:
243
; exploring party,
204
; return home,
235
;—James,
235
;—Robert,
235
; Robert, Jr.,
235
; Samuel,
235
; William,
235
.
McBride, James:
117
.
McCulloch, Major John:
122
.
McCulloh, Henry Eustace:
172
.
McDowell, Col.:
265
.
McDowell, Col. Charles:
291
,
293
,
337
.
McDowell, Col. Joseph:
293
,
296
,
298
,
337
.
McDowell, Thomas:
228
.
McFeters, Jeremiah:
228
.
McGillivray, Alexander:
339
,
342
,
344
,
345
; receives overtures from Cumberland leaders,
341
.
Mendenhall: John,
203
;—Richard,
203
.
Middle Ground:
111
.
Middle Settlements:
93
.
Middleton, Col. Thomas:
93
.
Middle Towns:
89
.
Middle West:
117
.
Millerstown:
198
.
Miró, District of:
343
,
346
.
Miró, Gov. Estevan:
331
,
335
,
338
,
339
,
341
,
342
,
343
,
344
,
345
; reports on separatist movement in West,
342
.
Mississippi Bubble:
43
.
Mohawk Valley:
4
.
Monbreun, Timothé de: hunts on Cumberland,
128
.
Monongahela:
205
.
Montagu, Lord Charles:
168
-
169
.
Montgomerie, Col. Archibald: abortive campaign of, against Indians,
88
-
89
; sails,
92
.
Montreal:
118
.
Mooney, James: explores Kentucky,
149
,
153
.
Moore:
62
.
Moravian: church,
1
,
3
,
88
-
89
,
166
;—community diary,
88
;—brotherhood,
15
-
16
;—town,
56
;
Gemein Haus
,
87
;—store-keeper,
161
.
Moravians:
166
; eleven killed,
56
; warned against Indians,
85
; hospitable to Indians,
86
.
Morgan family:
34
;—Edward,
21
; Sarah,
21
,
34
;—Richard,
34
.
Morganton:
337
,
338
.
Morris, Gov. Samuel:
54
.
Morrison:
337
.
Mount Mitchell:
135
.
Mulberry Fields:
15
,
163
.
Müller, Adam: settles in Virginia,
12
.
Murray, William:
207
,
208
,
238
,
239
.
N
Nantahala Mountains:
267
.
Nash, Gen. Francis:
177
,
288
.
Nashborough:
309
.
Nashville:
282
,
342
,
345
.
Nassau Hall:
27
,
267
.
Natchez:
123
,
125
,
330
.
Neely, Alexander:
153
,
154
.
Neilson, Archibald:
219
.
Nelson, Acting Governor William:
96
,
188
.
Newcastle:
8
.
New England:
4
,
86
.
New Jersey:
5
.
"Newlanders":
11
.
Newman, hunter:
119
.
Newman's Ridge:
119
.
New Orleans:
123
,
343
,
345
.
New River: region,
123
,
126
;—settlement,
69
;—settlers,
70
.
"Nolichucky Jack of the Border":
332
.
Nolichucky: Valley,
224
.
North America:
120
,
202
.
North Carolina:
ch. XV
,
5
,
10
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
43
,
52
,
55
,
59
,
71
,
73
,
84
,
99
,
101
,
107
,
116
,
130
,
134
,
136
,
140
,
160
,
162
,
163
,
167
,
174
,
175
,
176
,
186
,
187
,
188
,
191
,
192
,
193
,
194
,
197
,
200
,
203
,
218
,
219
,
220
,
221
,
222
,
237
,
238
,
245
,
259
,
260
,
261
,
265
,
269
,
277
,
278
,
279
,
280
,
281
,
282
,
288
,
289
,
290
,
291
,
295
,
304
,
305
,
307
,
310
,
311
,
312
,
313
,
317
,
319
,
322
,
323
,
324
,
325
,
326
,
328
,
330
,
332
,
335
,
339
,
343
,
344
,
345
,
346
,
347
; frontier conditions in,
25
-
28
;—border,
76
;—back country,
261
; grants lands in Tennessee to Transylvania Company,
287
; immigration into,
10
,
13
; increase in population of,
3
,
11
;—piedmont,
9
,
26
;—hunters,
141
; pioneers,
95
; governor of,
60
; commissioners of,
310
; troops,
53
,
72
,
77
,
89
,
93
,
94
,
266
,
273
; cedes Western territory to United States,
347
; legislature of, passes second cession act,
347
; lands accepted by Congress,
348
.
North Carolina Assembly:
57
-
58
,
61
,
92
,
93
,
277
,
313
,
314
,
338
,
343
.
North Carolina: Provincial Congress of,
259
,
277
; Provincial Council of,
260
,
265
,
266
.
Northwest:
259
,
261
,
270
,
277
.
Nottaway Indians:
72
.
Nuntewees:
65
.
O
Oconostota, Cherokee chief:
242
; treacherously murders Lieut. Coytomore,
79
-
80
.
Ohio Company: see
Land Companies
.
Ohio Indians:
46
.
Ohio Valley:
102
,
145
.
Old Abraham:
263
.
Old Chillicothe:
212
.
Old Southwest:
104
,
126
,
195
,
198
,
212
,
226
,
260
,
265
,
305
,
309
,
348
; pioneers of,
ch. XV
,
5
,
12
,
14
,
17
,
28
-
31
; pioneer democracy of,
20
-
21
,
103
-
104
;—planter aristocracy of,
20
;—Mimic republics of,
200
;—colonizers of,
20
.
Ormond, Duke of: to Leoline Jenkins,
6
.
Oroloswa, Catawba Chief:
71
, see
King Heygler
.
Osborne, Captain Alexander: leads Rowan militia,
62
.
Otari towns:
217
.
Ouasioto Gap:
118
,
145
,
146
,
150
, see
Cumberland Gap
.
Outassitus, Cherokee chief:
91
.
Overton, Samuel:
239
.
Owen, William:
163
,
164
,
165
.
Oxford:
249
.
P
Pacific Ocean:
144
.
Page, John:
239
.
Paintsville:
100
.
Paris:
43
.
Path Deed:
224
.
Paxtang:
145
.
Pearis, Capt. Richard:
70
.
Peck, John M.:
148
.
Penn, William:
8
,
21
,
22
.
Pennsylvania:
5
,
10
,
13
,
27
,
33
,
45
,
54
,
99
,
118
,
144
,
209
,
277
; population of,
8
; lands,
9
; immigrants into,
12
;—Synod,
13
;—settlers,
146
;—Proprietaries of,
111
;—traders,
146
,
207
.
Pensacola:
138
,
139
.
Perkins, John: defeats Indians by strategy,
83
-
84
.
Phifer, Martin: leads frontier rangers,
83
.
Philadelphia:
8
,
32
,
123
,
185
,
249
,
250
.
Pilot Knob:
102
,
118
,
119
.
Pilot Mountain:
135
.
Piomingo, Chickasaw chief:
125
.
Pioneer: farmer,
ch. IX
; promoter,
ch. XI
.
Pittsburgh:
122
.
"Pocahontas of the West":
262
; see
Nancy Ward
.
Point Pleasant:
213
.
Polk, Thomas:
172
.
Ponce de Leon:
ch. XII
.
Portwood, age:
232
.
Post St. Vincent:
281
.
Pound Gap:
102
.
Powell's Mountain:
224
.
Powell's Valley:
113
,
114
,
149
,
203
,
224
,
252
; lands in, granted to Transylvania Company,
287
-
288
.
Presbyterians: in Ireland,
7
;—Scotch-Irish,
27
.
Preston, Col. William:
208
,
212
,
240
; to Lord Dunmore on Henderson's offers of land,
220
; to George Washington on Transylvania,
237
-
238
,
242
-
243
;—supports Judge Henderson,
254
.
Price, Thomas, Indian trader: guides Henderson at Hart to Otari towns,
217
; testifies regarding Great Treaty,
225
.
Price's Meadow:
124
.
Privy Council:
206
.
"Proposals for the encouragement of settling the lands, etc.": issued by Transylvania Company,
219
,
220
.
Puritan:
86
.
Q
Quaker Meadows:
294
.
Quakers:
20
-
21
.
Quebec:
212
.
Quindre, Dagniaux de: commands at siege of Transylvania Fort,
274
-
276
.
R
Rains, John:
123
.
Randolph, Col. Peter: treaty commissioner,
59
.
Recall of Judges: early example,
286
-
287
.
Red Lick Fork:
150
.
Regulation:
167
,
173
,
174
,
175
,
176
,
182
,
192
.
Regulators:
ch. XI
,
166
,
167
,
168
,
175
,
176
,
177
,
179
,
180
,
181
,
183
,
185
,
190
.
Reid, Capt. Mayne:
282
.
Revere, Paul:
231
.
Richard Henderson & Company:
119
,
129
,
138
; organized,
107
; despatch Boone on exploring expedition,
109
; granted land by Virginia,
279
; see
Land Companies
.
Richter:
166
.
Rivers
: Big Sandy, west fork of,
142
; Broad,
59
,
289
; Catawba,
62
,
70
,
83
,
84
;—South fork of,
298
; Chattahoochee,
266
; Cherokee,
111
,
121
; Clinch,
142
; Cumberland,
44
,
109
,
114
,
119
,
121
,
128
,
157
,
223
,
224
,
269
,
284
,
288
,
308
; Dick's,
126
,
156
; Great Kanawha,
107
,
112
,
191
,
192
,
193
; Green,
151
,
157
,
188
,
279
,
294
; Hiwassee,
332
; Holston,
142
,
192
,
194
,
195
,
224
,
283
; Illinois,
207
; James,
16
,
96
-
97
; Kentucky,
156
,
159
,
212
,
236
,
242
,
248
,
253
,
284
; Licking,
156
; Little Tennessee,
65
,
307
; Louisa,
149
,
193
; Meho,
163
; Miami,
102
; Mississippi,
42
,
102
,
139
,
155
,
259
,
329
,
330
,
343
; Muskingum,
102
; New,
224
; Nonachunheh, Nolichucky,
194
,
197
; Ohio,
42
,
44
,
45
,
100
,
107
,
116
,
117
,
121
,
122
,
142
,
151
,
156
,
191
,
192
,
193
,
207
,
213
,
279
;—falls of the,
255
,
284
;—forks of the,
47
; Opeckon,
12
; Pacolet,
76
; Potomac,
122
; Red,
119
,
153
,
154
; Reedy,
112
,
191
; Roanoke,
69
; Rockcastle,
100
,
155
; Scioto,
102
; Shenandoah,
17
; Stone's,
121
; Swannanoa,
136
; Tellico,
68
; Tennessee,
44
,
58
,
121
,
191
,
283
,
290
; Trinity,
42
; Tugaloo,
266
; Twelve Mile,
89
; Wabash,
123
; Washita,
122
; Watauga,
197
,
219
,
221
,
224
,
293
.
Robertson, Charles:
224
.
Robertson, James:
188
,
189
,
190
,
196
,
197
,
200
,
222
,
260
,
263
,
287
,
309
,
327
,
332
,
339
,
340
,
341
,
342
,
344
,
347
; leads scouting party for Transylvania Company,
280
-
281
; guides party to French Lick,
282
; joined by Donelson and party,
284
; names Miró District,
343
; desires union with Spain,
343
; seeks separation of Cumberland from North Carolina,
345
; to Miró on separatist movement,
346
.
Robinson, John:
69
.
Rochelle:
43
.
Rocky Mountains:
135
.
Rogers, Sergt.:
73
.
Rogersville:
290
.
Roan Mountain:
135
.
Round-O, Cherokee chief:
79
.
Rowan, Matthew:
19
,
76
.
Rowan rangers:
83
; described,
82
-
83
.
Rowan: settlers murdered,
77
,
265
.
Rucker, Capt.:
113
.
Rutherford, Gen. Griffith: leads Rowan rangers,
76
,
83
; leads rescuing force,
265
,
270
; leads army against Cherokees,
267
.
Russell, Capt. William:
203
.
S
Saint Augustine:
138
.
Saint Lusson, Daumont de:
41
-
42
.
Salem:
87
.
Salisbury:
34
,
38
,
59
,
146
,
148
,
162
,
165
,
166
,
168
,
172
,
289
.
Salling, John Peter:
117
.
San Salvador:
144
.
Sandy Creek Association:
175
,
184
,
185
,
190
.
Sandy River expedition:
70
.
Sapona Town:
35
.
Sault Ste. Marie:
41
.
Savannah:
51
.
Savannah Indians:
65
.
Scaggs, Charles:
126
.
Scaggs, Henry:
282
; meets Daniel Boone,
109
; agent for Richard Henderson & Co.,
109
-
110
; explores Cumberland region,
119
; leads Long Hunters into Kentucky,
125
-
126
.
Scaggs' Ridge:
120
.
Schnell, Leonard: pilgrimage of,
14
-
15
.
Scotch Lowlands:
6
.
Scotch-Irish:
7
,
11
,
27
,
33
,
188
; in Pennsylvania,
8
;—immigration of,
5
,
19
; settlers,
28
.
Scotchman:
218
.
Scotland:
217
.
Scovil:
168
.
Searcy: connection,
190
; Reuben,
169
; Valentine,
222
.
Settiquo:
76
,
307
,
316
.
Sevier, James: emissary of Franklin to Miró,
337
-
338
.
Sevier, John:
200
,
222
,
260
,
298
,
313
-
314
,
322
,
325
,
326
,
327
,
330
,
337
,
344
,
347
; early life,
198
; defends Watauga Fort,
263
; rescues Bonny Kate Sherrill,
264
; with Shelly plans King's Mountain campaign,
292
,
296
; defeats Indians,
307
-
308
; disavows revolutionary intent,
315
; elected Governor of Franklin,
317
; writes defiant letter to Caswell,
323
-
324
; appeals to Benjamin Franklin,
324
; besieges Tipton,
330
; attacks Indians,
331
-
332
; writes Gardoqui, offering to "deliver" Franklin to Spain,
333
-
335
; arrested for high treason, imprisoned,
337
; rescued,
338
; restored to office by North Carolina,
338
; elected first governor of Tennessee,
348
.
Shawanoes, Shawnese:
25
,
44
,
69
,
117
,
151
,
203
,
205
,
209
,
271
;—chief of,
204
.
Shelby, Col. Evan: leads force against Chickamaugas,
290
; appointed brigadier-general,
322
.
Shelby, Isaac:
222
,
291
,
298
; at Battle of Great Kanawha,
213
-
214
; initiates King's Mountain campaign,
292
; at King's Mountain,
301
; elected first governor of Kentucky,
348
.
Shelby, Capt. James:
263
.
Shenandoah Valley:
10
,
34
.
Sherrill, Katherine: rescued by John Sevier,
264
.
Silonee, Cherokee chief:
79
; checks Montgomerie,
89
; see
Young Warrior of Estatoe
.
Sims, George: writes
A Serious Address
, etc.,
160
,
169
,
170
.
Simms, William Gilmore:
144
.
Six Nations:
111
,
191
.
Slaughter:
138
.
Slaughter, Col. Thomas:
244
.
Smith, Capt. John:
69
.
Smith, Gen. Daniel:
343
,
344
.
Smith, James:
121
.
Smith, John, Jr.:
69
.
Smith, William Bailey:
222
; carries corn to French Lick,
284
.
Smith's Bridge:
89
.
Smyth, J. F. D.: describes North Carolina backwoodsmen,
39
-
40
.
South Carolina:
ch. XV
,
14
,
27
-
28
,
43
,
45
,
58
,
66
,
68
,
71
,
112
,
121
,
139
,
167
,
192
,
237
,
262
,
265
,
268
,
291
,
294
,
295
,
305
,
313
; rangers,
89
; traders,
71
.
South Fork of Catawba River,
62
,
70
;—Boys,
298
,
301
.
South Sea:
ch. XI
,
42
.
South Sea Islands:
219
.
Southwest: see
Old Southwest
.
Southwest Territory:
348
.
Southern Department:
111
,
331
.
Spach:
166
.
Spain:
ch. XX
,
330
,
331
,
332
,
337
,
338
,
339
,
340
,
344
,
345
,
347
.
Spangenberg, Bishop Augustus Gottlieb: makes exploring tour,
13
,
14
,
131
; preaches at Bethania,
87
.
Spaniards:
292
,
332
,
340
,
345
.
Spanish: authorities,
339
; charged affairs,
329
;—conspiracy in Kentucky,
335
,
339
;—conspiracy in Tennessee,
ch. XX
,
339
;—court,
347
;—domain,
348
;—government,
346
;—minister,
331
;—traders,
340
.
Spotswood, Gov. Alexander:
97
,
98
.
St. Asaph's:
243
.
St. Clair, Sir John:
54
.
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur:
133
.
Stalnaker, Samuel:
83
,
94
.
Stanford:
243
.
Steep Rock:
194
.
Stephen, Col. Adam:
94
,
95
.
Stewart, John:
139
,
148
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
152
,
153
.
Stone, Uriah:
121
,
123
.
Stoner, Michael:
121
,
212
,
232
,
272
.
Stuart, Capt. John:
91
-
92
.
Stuart, John:
111
,
191
,
192
,
194
,
261
.
Stuart, pioneer:
283
.
Superintendent of Indian Affairs:
112
,
331
.
Swan, David L.:
252
.
Switzerland:
134
.
Sycamore Shoals of Watauga River:
219
,
221
,
263
,
293
.
Synge, Archbishop:
7
.
T
Tate, Samuel:
228
.
Taylor: Hancock,
122
;—Richard,
122
; Zachary,
122
.
Tennessee:
ch. XV
,
9
,
112
,
124
,
128
,
129
,
132
,
140
,
190
,
191
,
192
,
196
,
211
,
224
,
269
,
289
,
290
,
315
,
348
,
349
; countries,
332
;—riflemen,
291
;—settlements,
261
,
264
,
314
,
315
;—settlers,
270
,
281
,
330
,
331
.
Terre Haute:
123
.
Thompson:
84
.
Thompson, James:
263
.
Tiftoe, Cherokee Chief:
79
.
Tipton, Col. John:
321
,
322
,
328
,
331
.
Tipton, Jonathan:
322
.
Tonti, Henry de:
45
.
Tories:
289
,
305
.
Town Fork:
163
.
Trabue, Daniel: diary of,
275
.
Tracey, John:
69
.
Trade: British,
46
.
Traders: with Indians,
ch. VII
-
ch. IX
,
44
,
46
,
59
,
113
,
117
,
118
,
136
.
Trading Ford:
35
.
Trading House: British,
47
.
Trans-Alleghany:
21
,
48
,
99
,
102
,
119
,
129
,
140
,
147
,
159
,
185
,
201
,
202
,
204
,
206
,
212
,
215
,
216
,
242
,
277
,
279
,
330
,
340
.
Transylvania:
200
,
235
,
ch. XV
,
243
,
248
,
252
,
258
,
279
,
280
,
287
; colony of,
25
; president of,
246
; proprietors of,
229
,
236
,
244
,
248
,
256
.
Transylvania Company:
114
,
119
,
ch. XII
,
237
,
238
,
240
,
249
,
253
,
254
,
258
,
278
,
287
,
288
; compact of, with Cumberland settlers,
285
-
286
; organized,
218
; permanent contribution of, to colonization of West,
259
.
Transylvania Legislature:
244
,
249
,
255
.
Transylvania Purchase:
220
,
248
,
278
.
Transylvania Trail:
215
,
226
.
Treaty: with Indians,
59
; at Charleston,
94
; at Fort Stanwix,
111
; at Hard Labor,
112
,
114
; at Lochaber,
192
; at Sycamore Shoals,
221
-
225
.
Trent, Capt. William:
47
.
Tryon, Gov. William:
112
,
141
,
176
,
183
,
191
.
Tryon Mountain:
112
,
135
,
191
.
Tryon's Line:
112
.
Tuckasegee:
307
.
Tuscarora Indians:
72
.
U
Ulster:
6
-
7
.
Ulster Scots: characterization of,
23
,
32
.
Unakas:
263
.
Union:
319
,
335
,
336
,
342
,
348
,
349
; see
American Union
.
United States:
277
,
335
,
339
,
344
,
345
,
346
,
347
.
United States Congress:
310
,
311
,
312
,
346
.
Untoola:
316
.
Upper Towns:
66
,
89
.
Utopia:
44
.
V
Valley of Mexico:
144
.
Vandalia:
206
,
208
.
Vasco Nuñez:
144
.
Venango:
47
.
Versailles:
43
.
Villiers, Coulon de:
48
.
Virginia: pioneers of,
95
,
296
;—traders,
96
;—troops,
212
,
266
,
273
;—frontier,
74
;
Gazette
,
110
,
272
;—backwoods,
28
-
29
;—Valley of,
9
,
16
,
26
,
33
,
34
;—Convention,
251
,
257
;—Land Office,
281
;—Assembly,
67
,
278
;—Militia,
209
;—House of Delegates,
278
,
279
;—Governor of,
67
,
198
;—Path,
64
,
76
;—Remonstrance,
207
,
ch. XV
,
10
,
14
,
42
,
45
,
47
,
52
,
53
,
58
,
59
,
64
,
68
,
69
,
70
,
72
,
83
,
96
,
99
,
112
,
113
,
114
,
116
,
118
,
127
,
130
,
131
,
132
,
134
,
138
,
163
,
187
,
188
,
191
,
192
,
193
,
195
,
198
,
200
,
204
,
205
,
206
,
209
,
211
,
214
,
220
,
221
,
222
,
226
,
235
,
237
,
239
,
242
,
243
,
244
,
251
,
256
,
258
,
265
,
269
,
277
,
278
,
279
,
281
,
282
,
287
,
290
,
305
,
323
,
326
.
Virginians:
96
,
205
,
208
,
230
,
231
,
251
,
299
.
W
Wabash (Ouabache) Land Company: see
Land Companies
.
Wachau:
83
,
87
.
Wachovia:
86
;—community diary,
64
.
Wade, Capt. Robert:
74
.
Waddell, Gen. Hugh:
53
,
55
-
56
,
95
,
133
,
134
; appointed Indian commissioner,
59
; begins erection of Catawba Fort,
70
; discontinues work on fort,
71
; in Fort Duquesne campaign,
72
; hastens to Rowan's defence,
76
; marches to aid South Carolina,
77
; report of, on defeat of Indians at Fort Dobbs,
81
-
82
; rescues captives,
86
; leads North Carolina troops,
93
,
94
.
Walden, Elisha:
119
.
Walden's Mountain:
119
-
120
.
Walker, Dr. Thomas:
99
,
102
,
115
,
116
,
117
,
191
; makes exploration for Loyal Land Company,
99
-
100
; sells land to Joseph Martin,
113
.
Walker, Felix:
228
,
245
,
260
; describes Kentucky,
233
-
234
.
Walpole, Thomas,
206
.
Ward, James:
139
.
Ward, Nancy:
262
,
264
.
Washington District:
260
,
277
,
314
,
326
.
Washington, George:
47
,
55
,
72
,
134
,
256
,
291
; opinion of royal proclamation,
106
; purchases Western lands,
106
-
107
; makes charges against Dunmore,
206
-
207
; secures military grants for Western lands,
208
; Preston to, on Henderson purchase and Transylvania Company,
221
,
237
-
238
,
242
-
243
.
Watauga:
ch. XII
,
191
,
194
,
200
,
270
,
281
-
282
;—commonwealth,
199
; valley of,
188
,
195
,
196
,
306
;—country,
187
,
189
; settlers,
195
,
196
,
197
,
200
,
259
;—Articles of Association,
197
;—Association,
224
; settlement,
260
,
281
.
"Watauga Plan": commission form of government,
260
.
Waxhaws:
32
.
Webster:
307
.
Welsh: immigration of,
5
;—settlers,
28
;—stock,
163
.
West:
160
,
187
,
259
,
273
,
277
,
327
,
342
,
348
.
West Virginia:
14
,
206
.
Western: leaders,
292
;—people,
347
;—settlers,
311
,
329
; territory,
347
,
348
;—waters,
314
,
348
.
Wharton: Samuel,
206
;—Thomas,
209
-
211
.
White, Dr. James:
331
,
332
,
338
,
346
; emissary of Franklin,
337
.
Whitehall:
206
.
Wilderness Trail:
230
.
Wilkinson, General James:
335
,
336
.
Williams, Brigadier-General James:
291
,
294
; killed at King's Mountain,
302
.
Williams, Col. John:
105
,
107
,
149
,
187
,
222
,
254
; elected delegate from Transylvania to Continental Congress,
249
.
Williams, John:
141
.
Williams and Henderson, law firm:
105
,
147
.
Williamsborough:
103
.
Williamsburg:
210
.
Williamson, Col. Andrew:
266
.
Williamson, Dr. Hugh:
10
,
312
-
313
.
Wilmington:
169
.
Winchester, Kentucky:
117
.
Winchester, Virginia:
12
.
Winston, Major Joseph: leads North Carolina troops against Cherokees,
266
; leads Surry riflemen at King's Mountain,
293
,
298
,
303
-
304
.
Wolf Hills (Abingdon):
134
.
Wood, Col. Abraham:
42
.
Wormley, Ralph:
239
.
Wytheville:
112
.
Y
Yadkin: country,
117
,
131
,
139
,
143
,
145
,
163
,
164
;—Forks of the,
33
,
34
,
162
,
185
;—valley,
10
,
13
,
15
,
32
.
York, Pennsylvania:
12
.
Yorke, Charles: renders legal opinion,
201
.
Young Warrior of Estatoe, Cherokee chief:
79
; see
Silonee
.
Z
Zinzendorf, Count: 13.