The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04

sSal shlll, with complete success n
oo:z TIE most authentic title CON
1Slsaple, under the strictest form ~
- law, to the lands in question
49, .ne suggestion Of Daniel Boone
49,. uS'eu agent, Henderson accom-
tn-S os Nathanlel Hart, in the au-
.uhih OF IlI4, j~ourneyed 10 the Otari
Owns TO open negotiations With The
o~herokees for q grant of suitable ter
~ Inc indian chiefs expressed a
"liliiisneSs to treat with Henderson
% precautionary measure suggested
y! henderson, Attakullakulla on the
nlttle carpenter, described by Felix
amer IN ms autobiography as "the
liost celebrated and influential Indian
among all the tribes then known" To-
setner with a young Indian man and
aH iiiulan woman, accompanied Hen
oerson and Hart or their return home
III November, in order to examine and
!uuse OF the value Of the goods offered
as the consideration. They expressed
themselves as entirely satisfied. This
was very gratifying to Henderson, for
ne treated the Indians throughout with
the utmost fairness, insisted upOn hay-
ING the unanimous approval Of the en-
IRE Irlbe 10 the purchases, and was
satisfied with nothing short of an in
dlsputable Indian title to the law.
1t is characteristic Of Mr.. Bruce's
diJ'9A VI udice against henderson
ina he should say that the c~onsidera-
ton paid for the lands has been
'variously stated to have been two
thousand pounds in lawful money OF
Great Britain, ten thousand pounds
worth OF merchandise, and but ten
wagons loaded with cheap goods,
some firearms. and spirituous
Ilquors. Had he made examination
It the documents at Madison, Wis
%corFin, in the library Of Colonel! r. y.
Durrett, in Louisville, KY, or in the
1rginia State Library, he might have
resolved d doubt which has no reason
Tor existence, Ten thousand pounds
sterling was paid for goods at Cross
Creek, near Fayetteville, n. c., on
December 6, 1774, and these goods
were soon after transported in wagons
20 the Sycamore Shoals, on the Wa
tauga. There in air and open treaty,
lasting from the 14th to the 18th Of
March, 1875. Richard Henderson and
Company purchased from the Chero-
kee Indians some twenty million acres
OF land, more or less, comprising por-
tons Of the present States OF Virginia
and Tennessee, and the greater por-
ton Ct the present State Of Kentucky.
The most detailed and circumstantial
Governmental Investigations Of the
transactions at the treaty of Watauga,
presented in the Jefferson manuscripts,
fifth series, Vol. VIII, a demon
strated to the satisfaction of his
torianS, that the treaty was open, fair
and just IL every way Richard Hen
derson conducted the treaty of Wa
tauga, as Mr.. Archer b. Huber
states in his Pilots of the Repablic.
with an honesty unparalleled in that
day in such matters.
To Richard Henderson and his COM
pany. according to all historians, is due
the lasting gratitude of future genera
tons for ordering the construction OF
| the great Wilderness Road For this
was the historic pathway to the vast
"hinterland.' POLITICALLY phrased by
the Indians at the treaty Of W2tauga
| as the dark and bloody ground NO
| sooner was it built than men n Wom-
en- in increasing numbers began to
pass oVer it. Soon thousands of SET
tiers were hur1 ying along this laurel
lined pathway, to homes in the bosom
of Kentucky. Well might they have
besitated before taking that definltlVe
step which meant war to the death
with the painted savage. fof
the time was at hand when
| the white man had to fght
to defend his home like the baronS OIL
ancient times.
Once Richard Henderson had Sc
cured formal possession Of the a
sylyania lands, he Immediately TOOK
active steps toward securing actaaI
possession. As a preliminary step
and ever while the negotiations were
still in progress, he oH1nlsSloIso
po,,e RI mark out a road from the
established settlement westward to the
800 possessions. The company OF
road builders, some thirty in lumber
u,hou Boone secured, placed them
selves under the Management anu
control of Colonel Boone, who was TO
be our pilot and conductor through
the wilderness to the promised lana.
(Felix Walkers
Having collected, to employ ~
nordc Of Boone himself in his auto
biography, "a number Of e~nterprislns
,aoD we'll armed, we proceeded with
ali possible expedition until We came
within ten miles Of where boohes-
horough now stands, and there we
rara fred upon by a party of lndlans
that killed two. n two OF
orr number. yet, although surprised
and taken at a DISADVANTAGES, we stood
$3.50 H~bi~ was the twentieth