Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-10-12

5isrh,r.,;ne. ,our rrorises towards US, as We
are determined 10 be very strong in advising
our Young meu to be kind, friendly, and peacea-
bic towards you
Having flushed his mission, Cipt.
Bullitt returned to his party, aud with
them descended the river TO the falls.
On their arrival at the fall, Capt.
Bullilt and his party proceeded 10 e
rect hot or place TO protect himself
and men from the weather, and as
place Of deposit for their stores.
Shortly after his arrival, ne made
some surveys in the neighborhood, and
extended bis researches TO reDarka
bic salt lick on what is now called
Salt River, which was so called on
account of the lick, aud the lick was
called BuIlit's Lick, after Capt. Bul-
lit, who included it in survey made
for himself
In the same year (1773) james
Douglas, Scotchman, with a purity
also descended the Ohio river. They
landed first at the mouth of creek
which they called Landing Creek, near
the mouth of Big Bone Greek, and
went To the Big Bone lick, 50 called
on account of the extraordinary large
bones found there. The rib bones
were so long, that Douglas and his
party used them instead Of poles, over
which they stretched their blankets to
shelter themselves from the weather.
After spending some time at this
lick, Doug las and his party went down
the Ohio river to the falls, from
whence they explored the country
some distance, s. returned TO Virginia.
In the same year James Harrod,
from Monongebely, headed party
whose object it was to improve land
(as they termed it) in Kentucky, un
der an expectation of obtaining 400
acres for every cabin they should build,
and plant corn, or make other improve
ment at such cabin. They built
cabin at what is now HaFrodsburgh,
in l774, by which name it was then
called, after the leader of the party,
and by which it has been known ever
since. This was the first permanent
settlement made in the country, and
served as a rallying point, Or place OF
refuge for all who visited the country
at that period. The first corn ever
planted in Kentucky was in this year,
at a place called Fountain Blue, by
David Williams. John Shesp and Jas.
Sodowsky, near Harrodsburgh.
In the year l774, several Surveyors
arrived IN Kentncky, amongst whom
were Col. John Floyd, Hancock
Taylor. James Douglass, Isaac Hlte,
and Willis Lee: Taylor and Lee
were both killed by the Indians
Early in the summer of this year
0774) the Indians fell on the survey
ors and their assistants, killed several,
and the remainder made their escape,
some through the wilderness, and
some down the Mississippi, and thence
round to the Eastern States.
The dcfeot OF the combined forces
Of The Northern tribes of Indians at
Point Pleasant, by Gen. Lewis, in
the following October, and the subse
qucnt treaty made with Lord Dun.
more, the then governor of Virginia,
induced many of the Surveyors to re-
turn to Kentucky early 10 the spring
of ITS.
In the month OF March, 1875, Col
Richard Henderson, Of North Caro-
Ina, formed a company, and entered
into a treaty with the Cherokee Indians
at Wataga. by which they obtained a
grant for all the lands laying South of
Kentucky river and within the present
limits of the State, and although ii was
contrary to the established laws, for
private individuals to purchaseand hold
lands of the Indians IN their own right,
yet the company pursued their original
intention of establishing a colony of
their own, and actually took posses.
sion of The land, surveyed and made
deeds 10 part of it However, in the
year 1878, the nature Of HendersOn's
claim was inquired into by the Legs
lature of Virginia; and notwithstsnd.
ing it could not be maintained, the
party having acted in contempt of the
authority of the State, and the country
having been previously purchased from
the Cherokees on behalf of the State of
Virginia al the treaty Of Long Island
by Col. Donaldson; yet the Legisla