Treaty-making

From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"Still, I thought it more than likely he (George Rogers Clark) was right about Arthur Campbell and Billy Russell.  Besides, both had been hand in glove with Colonel Henderson, along with the Robertson brothers, in the treaty-making."

Treaty Of Sycamore Shoals

Sam Houston

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Sixty years in a school-room....,  By Julia Ann Tevis, John Tevis:

He  [General Sam Houston] was an officer in the same regiment [as the author's brother, who was Quin Hieronymus]--a young man of fine appearance, tall, erect, and well-proportioned, with agreeable manners. I remember him well, because my brother was much attached to him.

Thirty-five years afterwards I met him in Lexington, attending the funeral obsequies of Henry Clay. Time had dealt lightly with him; he had not lost his soldierly bearing, and seemed yet in the vigor of manhood though his hair and beard were frosted by the passing years.

Kentucky County!

 From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"I went on over to Jim's cabin, thinking to have a word with him before heading back to the stockade.  Ad I was glad I did, for he had news.  Billy Bush was through yesterday, he said, from the Holston.  He brought word of Cap'n Clark and Jack."

"Boys, Virginia has claimed title to the new country and has set it up as a new county.  Kentucky County! [news from Billy Bush]  What about the colonel...He's lost clean out.  Oh, he fought to the last ditch, but when they voted, that ruined him.  Well, nobody cared about the colonel now.  The big thing was we'd got shut of him and his company in Kentucky.  What Virginia decided to do about him was their business.  Billy was fumbling with his pouch.  I don't reckon, he said, pulling out some papers, it'll hurt to show you these.  

I got the militia commissions here.  David Robinson was named the county lieutenant...that was the highest militia office in a county.  John Bowman was named colonel; Anthony Bledsoe was the lieutenant colonel; George Rogers Clark, major; John Todd, Benjamin Logan, Daniel Boone and James Harrod, captains.  I felt just a little disappointed.  Not over me not being named.  Lord, no.  But because they'd put Virginians in the highest offices.  We didn't even know David Robinson or John Bowman, and Anthony Bledsoe ran an ordinary over on the Long Island of the Holston.  Those were the appointments made by the Assembly.  But David Robinson didn't accept, and Bledsoe ain't going to.  He's got too good a business where he is to give it up, he says."

The Kentucky Land Grants

The Kentucky Land Grants

 With literally thousands of rugged people pushing their domestic caravans over the Wilderness Trail into Kentucky in search of lands for homesteads or for speculation, the struggle for possession became intense. The richest and best situated land, topographically, was surveyed and entered upon again and again. While squatters, strong of mind and purpose, frequently held some land without title; others like Daniel Boone failed to meet certain legal requirements and though undoubtedly rightfully entitled to the land lost it because of technicalities. 

Up to 1775 land in Kentucky had been surveyed principally for veterans of the French and Indian War in accordance with the laws of Virginia. At this time Henderson began his broad system of surveys in central Kentucky. He was beset at every turn by homesteading pioneers who, without surveys or purchase title, stubbornly held to the land they had settled upon and improved. To meet this distant and difficult situation, the Colony of Virginia issued a resolution in favor of these pioneers. This was enacted into a law shortly thereafter which declared that all who were possessed of land in Kentucky prior to June, 1776, should be allowed 400 acres of homestead.

Squire Boone In Exeter Township

The Penn Germania ...: A Popular Journal of German History and ..., Volumes 3-4
edited by Philip Columbus Croll, Henry Addison Schuler, Howard Wiegner Kriebel

Enroute To Illinois

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, South ..., By Robert W. Andrews:

"...I met Mr Middleton Brooks, who kept the tavern in Statesburg, who offered me three hundred and fifty dollars and expenses to go to Vandalia, in the State of Illinois, for his father. I had then a 'trotting horse,' which I sold and bought one more fitted for the trip. I left my men in charge of my carpentering business, and, on June 5th, 1825, started for Illinois, passing through Camblin and

Salisbury On A North Carolina Map At LOC

Lancaster, South Carolina and Charlottetown and Salsbury, North Carolina, through Brunswick County, across the Blue Ridge mountains, by the Swannana Gap, into Tennesee; passed through that State and Kentucky, to the Ohio river, which I reached at Hudson's Ferry."

Safer After The Point Pleasant Campaign

FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND:

The land that was to be Kentucky and Tennessee grew somewhat safer after the Point Pleasant Campaign of 1774...

...that marked the end of Dunmore’s War and the defeat of the Shawnee.

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was founded in that year. Also came the surveyors, locating boundaries for the land warrants Virginia ...

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...had used to pay her soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some of these, including several hundred acres for George Rogers Clark,...

...were located on the Middle Cumberland in the neighborhood of French Lick, for at this time most thought all the Cumberland was due west of Virginia instead of North Carolina.

Quin Hieronymus In The Military

Sixty years in a school-room....,  By Julia Ann Tevis...:

Of all duties, the hardest is to forget a great sorrow. The very effort to forget teaches us to remember. It was as the friend and companion of this brother [Quin] (who died in Florida on military duty) on one of his short visits home, in 1817, that I first saw General Sam Houston.

Military Park In Pensacola, Florida

Military record of Quin B. Hieronymus (Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line].):

#1217.  Hieronymus, Quin B., 2nd Lt., 4th Inf., appt. Feb. 19/18

Lt. Hieronymus served at Pensacola, Barrancas, Montpelier; June and July 1820, absent having tendered his resignation; died August 17, 1820

Goodloe's Rebel Relics

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Folks Outside

Map Of Philadelphia - Library Of Congress

...to think of folks outside going their ownways, some in comfort and peace and even richness, deciding things in Williamsburg and Fort Pitt and Philadelphia, and even over in London, that would make things harder or easier for us here in the western country. (Source - The Kentuckians)

Three Murderers Discharged

Fort Massac In Illinois

Proofs of the Corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson..., By Daniel Clark:

"The other three [murderers of General James Wilkinson's messenger, Mr. Owens]...".

Somewhat Safer After Point Pleasant

Monument At Point Pleasant, West Virginia

From the FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND by Harriette Simpson Arnow:

"The land that was to be Kentucky and Tennessee grew somewhat safer after the Point Pleasant Campaign of 1774 that marked the end of Dunmore’s War and the defeat of the Shawnee. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was founded in that year. Also came the surveyors, locating boundaries for the land warrants Virginia had used to pay her soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some of these, including several hundred acres for George Rogers Clark, were located on the Middle Cumberland in the neighborhood of French Lick, for at this time most thought all the Cumberland was due west of Virginia instead of North Carolina."

Cabin Near Shelbyville, Kentucky

Legacy From The Estate Of Ambrose Bush

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"Under a power of attorney given by Hyronimus and wife, authorising Jenkins to sell a legacy which the wife was entitled to from the estate of Ambrose Bush, deceased, Jenkins sold the legacy to the defendant in error, Jeremiah Bush.... ."


"Hyronimus" was Pendleton Hieronymus and his wife was Mary (Bush) Hieronymus.  Mary was the daughter of Ambrose Bush and Lucy (Gholson) Bush. 

Kentucky Surveying Mural

The Hieronymus's daughter, Julia, wrote the autobiographical book, Sixty years in a school-room: ..., (excerpted below):

My Grandfather Ambrose, the youngest child [of Philip Bush] save one, married a Gholson a family from whence originated statesmen and orators. My great-uncle, Billy Bush, came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone on his second trip. He was fortunate in securing the fairest portion of the land in Clarke County...from Winchester to Boonesborough. He gave away or sold for a trifle farm after farm to his friends and relatives that they might be induced to settle near him."

Note:  My ex-brother-in-law is the fourth great grandnephew of Ambrose Bush.

Peyton Short And His Tour

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Peyton Short at Wikitree.

Mobile, Alabama, Area (Probably)

The Tour:

Hugh McGary's Encounters With Famous People

Excerpts from THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE The Story of the Natchez Trace, by Nathan Daniels:

1763 Map Of Louisiana, Natchez, And The Missippi River (LOC)

(After they were married, Andrew and Rachel Jackson traveled in a large group from Bayou Pierre in Sept 1791) "Yet only the names of three of its members (of the traveling party) are known: Andrew and Rachel, and a dangerous, swashbuckling, Virginia-born Kentuckian, one Hugh McGary."  "The Jacksons had no reason to fear him."  "McGary's brother [Martin] had married Jackson's cousin [Bettie Crawford]."

"...Marquis James described McGary as a famous 'frontier soldier and Indian fighter." (Jackson's biographer)

Displayed At Harrodstown, Kentucky

"Nine years before he rode up the[Natchez] Trace with the Jacksons, McGary had a similar argument with Daniel Boone about an Indian fight in Kentucky."  Then Kentuckians were pursuing a body of Indians and Canadians who had struck at Bryant's Station.....  (McGary challenged Boone and the reluctant settlers to follow him)  "Many did."  "And in the Battle of Blue Licks, August 19, 1782, one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on the frontier, many died, too..."

Plaque (Partial) At Harrodstown, Kentucky

"Even before that McGary had quarrled with James Harrod over an Indian attack."

The Attack Of Robert Benham And The Aftermath

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Robert Benham was under the command of Major David Rogers and was shot in both hips during an attack on the Ohio River.  He hid from the attacking Native Americans and later encountered a Kentuckian whose arms were broken.  Between the two of them they were able to take care of basic needs.  They were rescued and taken to Louisville.

Proposed Plan Of Action To Colonel Whitley

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"...visited Kentucky and laid the proposed plan of action before Colonel Whitley."

Whitley House In Kentucky

The Most Dangerous Spot Of All

"...the most dangerous spot of all—the Cumberland settlements. [Source]

1795 Map Of Tennessee (LOC)

As long as Monsieur Veiz conducted the trade, the Indians did not molest the Cumberland settlers, but in 1784 or 1785 the business fell into other hands, who encouraged the Indians to make war on the whites, and furnished them with means of doing so. [Source]

The Goodloes And The Alabama Waltz

From The Huntsville Historical Review:

"In her book, Loyalty and Loss — Alabama Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Margaret Storey describes many of the incidents of Alabama unionist espionage...".

"...Franklin County planter John C. Goodloe, considered by Federal commanders 'one of the best posted [men] on the south side of the river,’ crossed the river a few times in 1864 with news of Confederate activities."

"The family of John Calvin Goodloe...insisted, on the contrary, that he was a spy for the Confederacy, but had convinced the Yankees that he was a Union man... . The early evidence comes from [his] nephew...who published a book on his wartime experience, Confederate Echoes, in 1907."

"Happily, the research also afforded lagniappes:..."The sheet music, *Alabama Waltz (1835)...was found in an antique store in Huntsville, Alabama in 1991, and traced to its origin in Lexington, Kentucky, where the young Miss Turner [Mrs. John C. Goodloe] was apparently in attendance at a boarding school."

*See picture of the sheet music where the Alabama Waltz was dedicated to Miss Harriet Turner.

Move The Land Office

Fort Harrod Reconstruction In Kentucky

From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"They have thought to pacify us by promising to move the land office to Harrodstown.  They know in reason we have been anxious to turn settlers our way, as who wouldn't.  It's but natural we'd ruther see ourselves grow as Boonesburg.  But makes no difference where they put their dratted land office!  The colonel give me his word they wouldn't go up on their prices, nor change any of the conditions they first stated.  And now they're doing it.  My men are riled up a heap over it, and ready to pull out."