Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-04-17

gree OI latitude. ana the seventeen,
and is decisive in favor of the chronol-
ogy which fixes the arrival of these
emigrants at the Bluff, in 1880. At
Cumberland river, snow had first fallen
upon the ice; the water dried up, and
it continued to freeze for many weeks.
Mr.. Rains stock, the only one in all
the companies, consisted of nineteen
cows, two steers and seventeen horses,
all crossed the river upon the ice, and
came to the bluff where Nashville now
stands; they were all upon the ice to,
gether, and it sounded as if cracked,
when the cattle were about the middle
of the river; and from the report, the
cracked seemed to extend four or five
miles up and down the river; it settled
upon the layer Of ice next below it, as
those who were crossing at the moment
now suppose. When they came to the
Cumberland river, all the companies
amounted, it is supposed, to two or
three hundred men, many of them
young men, without families; some of
them settled on the north side of the
river, at Eaton 3 Station, where Page
now lives. Amongst these was old
Frederick Stump. Amos Eaton, Hayden
Wells, Isaac Rounsever, William Log
gins, Winters and others settled there,
cleared ground, planted corn, built
cabins with stockades from one to the
other, and port holes and bastions.
Some of them crossed the river, and
settled at Freeland's Station, where
David McGavock, Esq, now lives, and
built block houses and stockades. The
greater part came to the bluff where
Nashville now stands; they built block
houses in lines, and stockaded the in.
tervals; two lines were parallel to each
other, and 80 were other two lines, the
whole forming square within. Rains
went the same day and settled the lands
since called Deaderick's plantation.
Whilst the above mentioned emigrants
were on their way to umberland, they
were overtaken and passed by others
from South Carolina; John Buchannon,
and his brother Alexander, Daniel Will
liams, James Mulherrin, John Mulher-
rim, Sampson Williams, Thos. Thomp-
son and others; these persons came to
point on the north side of the river, op-
posite the mouth of the French Lick,
AM found the river shut up by the ice.
After some time they crossed on the
ice, at the place where McGavock's
ferry is, and built cabins on the bluff
where Nashville now stands. At the
same time boats were descending the
Tennessee with emigrants and the prop
erty, destined for the bluff on Cumber-
land and its vicinity One of the boats
called the Adventure, commenced her
voyage on the 22d of December, ITO,
at port Patrick Henry, on the Holston
river, which port was at a place known
by the name of Long Island of Holston,
about five or six miles above the North
Fork of Holston, She had on board
John Donaldson, Esq, the elder, his
family and others. The boat and crew
departed and fell down the river to the
mouth of Reedy Creek, where they were
detained by the falling of the water,
and excessive hard frost. After much
delay, and many difficulties, they ar.
rived at the mouth of Clouds Creek,
on the Sunday evening, the Goth of
February, 1880. There they remained
till Sunday the 9th, when they set off
in company with sundry other vessels,
all destined for Salt Spring on Cumber.
land river. The Adventure, on that
day, struck on Poor Valley Shoal, to-
gether with Mr.. Boyd and Mr.. Rouu-
sever, where they all lay in much dis
tress until the succeeding night of Mon
day, the 2Sth of February, 1880. On
the morning of the Goth, the water ris.
ing, the boat got off the shoal, after
landing thirty persons to Tighten the
boat of Col. Donaldson, and in attempt.
ing to land on an island, his boat re-
ceived some damage, and sundry arti-
cles were lost; the encamped on the
south shore, where they joined several
other vessels bound down the river.
On the Goth of February, 1880, they pro-
ceeded down the river, and encamped
on the north shore, the weather being
rainy that afternoon and the next day.
On Wednesday they continued the voy.
age; on Thursday the I'd of March, they
passed the mouth of French Broad
river; and about 10 o'clock, Hugh
Henry's boat being driven on the point
of an island, by the force of the cur
rent, was sunk; the lives of the crew
were greatly endangered, and the wi hole
fleet put to shore. and the crews went
10 their assistance. With much diff.
Guilty they bailed out the water, and
the sunken boat was raised so as to
take in her cargo again. On this day,
Reuben Harrison went out to hunt, and
did not return in the evening, though
many guns were fired to bring him to
the boats if within hearing. On Friday,
the 3D. of March, 1880, early in the
morning. they fred four FOUNDER for
Harrison, and sent out several persons
to search the woods for him, firing
many guns in the course of that day,
and till the succeeding night. All at
tempts to find find proved fruitless, to
the great grief of his parents and fellow
travellers. On Saturday, the 4th of