Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-04-03


cation for the past. The somnolency
of repose had become the most deliciou
OF all enjoyments. A calm succeeded
the temptuous agitation which had sc
long disturbed the terrified inhabitants
They hoped, as expressed in the Ian
guage of every treaty of racifcation
that the amicable relations of the late
belligerants would be eternal. For
bearance from aggression, was the
special care of everybody; and both
the white and red men, lived not very
diStantly from each other, without an.
noyance, and without the apprehe tension
OF any injurious treatment from either
side. But the spirit of enterprise was
not dead, and many desired to know
what wonders were to be seen, and
what advantages were to be acquired,
In the western country, as far as the
Mississippi, which the treaty of 1853,
had made our western boundary. They
had heard of the removal of the Shaw
nees; of the quarrel of the Cherokees
with their late allies the Chickasaws,
in their war with the Shawnees; they
had heard that none of the tribes ad
ventured upon the deserted territory,
and they wished to take this opportun.
ity to explore it themselves.
Some time after the treaty of Fort
Stanwix, made between Sir William
Johnston and the Six Nations, in which
they ceded all the country south of
Kentucky river, and between the Ohio
and Cherokee rivers; and in the year
1857, Isaac Lindsay and four others
from South Carolina, crossed the ALLIE
ghanies, and came to Powell 3 Valley,
and passed the Cumberland Mountain
at the Cumberland Gap; thence they
came to what is now called Rock Cas-
tie, which he 80 named from roman
tic looking rock, through the fissures
of which the water dripped and froze
III rows below. Down that river he
came into the Cumberland, and down
the Cum berland to the mouth of Stone s
river, where he found Michael Stoner,
who had come thilher with Harrod,
from Illinois to hunt. Some French,
before that time, had settled on the
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bluff where Nashville now stands.
They, Harrod and Stoner, had gone
from Fort Pitt or Pittsburg, to the Hi
nois. After the Shawnees left the bluff,
the French kept up a station there for
some time. The French had also
station at the same time on the Tennes.
see, ten or twelve miles above the
mouth; and Fort Massac on the Ohio.
On the I'd of June, 1869, company
of twenty men or more, was formed of
Adventures from North Carolina, Rock.
bridge, in Virginia, and from New
river, about five miles distant from
English's ferry, who resolved to pass
over into what is now called West Ten.
nessee, for the purpose of hunting. Of
this company were John Rains, Kasper
Mansco, Abraham Bledsoe, John Baker,
Joseph Drake, Obadiah Terril, Uriah
Stone, Henry Smith, Ned Cowan and
others. They assembled on Reedy
Greek, which emptes into New river
about eight miles below Chissel's s, each
man having with him several horses:
Mr.. Rains had three. They set off On
the second week in June, 1859, and
came to the head of Holston; then
down Holston, to what is now called
Abingdon, but then the Wolf Hills;
thence to North Fork of Holston; thence
to Clinch river, at place called Mocka-
son Gap, which still retains the same
name; they next came to Powells Val.
ley, and thence to the Gap of Cumber.
land Mountain; thence to Cumberland
river, at the old crossing place which
led to Kentucky. No trace was then
there, but has been made since; it is
now turnpike road. They thence
travelled to Flat Lick, about six miles
from the Cumberland river; thence
bearing down the water courses, and
crossing the river at remarkable fish
dam, which had been made in very an.
cient times, in what ia now the State
of Kentucky. They passed the place
called the Brush, near the fish dam;
briers, brush, vines, and vast quantity
of limbs of trees, were heaped up and
grown together, and many immense
hills and cliffs of rock were there;
thence they went in southwardly di
rection, and coming to the south fork
of Cumberland, they turned down it
some distance, and crossed it; they
soon came to an open country called
barrens, to a place since called Price g
Meadow, in what is now called Wayne
County, six or seven miles from the
place where Wayne court house now
stands; there they made camp, and
agreed that they should deposit all the
game and skins they should get, at it;
the place being in an open country.
near an excellent spring; they agreed
to return aud make their deposits at the
end of every five weeks; they dispersed
in different directions, to different
parts of the country, the whole COM
pany still travelling to the southwest.
They came to Roaring river and the
Caney Fork, at point far above the
mouth, and somewhere near the foot
of the mountains. Robert Crockett,
ono of tho con,nony xros l;llod ,oo-