Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-21
EXPEDITION OF,1763.

| -, EXPEDITION oF>1763. o..
The same company of hunter
in the Fall Of 1853 again passed
thru Cumberland Gap and spen
the season in hunting on the Cum
berlaud river. The next year
l764, was made on Rockcastlt
river, not far from the Crab Or
chard. The town of Crab Orch
ard took its name from the innu
merable thickets or orchards o
crab apple trees. which
when in bloom the perfumeIthere
from could be smelled miles away.
These hunters visited these part.
a number Of times thereafter.
In June 1866 party of five per
sons passt thru Cumberland Gap
These men were Capt. James
Smith afterwards until his death
about 1914, prominent citizen Of
Bourbon county. Kentucky } Josh
ia Horton, Urlah Stone, VIM. Ba.
ker and a mulatto slave about rs
years old. They found no YES
tage of any white man." The
South branch of the Cumberland
river which empties into it eight
or ten miles above Nashville, they
named Stone river, after one of
their number.
PARTY FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
In 1867, party from South
Carolina. Isaac Lindsey and four
others, came thru Cumberland
Sap, to what Lindsey called
Rockcastle river, from a romantic
looking rock thru the assures OF
which the water dript and froze in
rows below. They went down
the river as far as the mouth of
Stone river, where they found
Michael Stone, who had come
7hither with James Harrod, from
Illinois 10 hunt. Later, 1874,
Harrod founded Harrodstown or
iarrodsburg. Stone settled in
bourbon county and Stone creek
took its name from him.
JOHN FINpLAY 1867
, In I767 Ionh Findlay made an
expedition into Kentucky for the
purpose of hunting and trading
with the Indians. From Cumber-
land Gap the warriors path lead
ing from the Cumberland ford,
along the broken country on the
eastern branch of the Kentucky
river, and so across the Licking
river, toward the mouth of the
Scioto.' Two wears later 1869,
Nndlay conducted Daniel Boone,
John Stewart and three others.
from their homes on the Yadkin
river in North Carolina to spot
ION Red river, the northermost
branch of the Kentucky river,
where John Findlay had formerly
been trading with the Indians
where on June 9TH, 1869, from the
top of an eminence they saw with
pleasure the beautiful level of
Kentucky" This point is located
about 80 miles East of Richmond
BOONE CAPTURED By INDIANS
While out limiting, one day,
Boone and Stewart were made
prisoners. After several days
they made their escape and upon
returning to their camp found it
plundered and their comrads
dispersed or gone home" Find
lay made his way back 10 the set.
Elements. Stewart was shortly
afterward killed by Indians; but
not until Squire Boone and anoth.
or adventurer had found their
way from North Carolina to his
brothers. camp in the cane land.
The tragic death of Stewart
frightened the new conner, and he
returned home by himself. ;"
The brothers were thus left alone
in the wilderness. On the first of
May 1870 Squire Boone returned
home for a new recruit of horses
and ammunition. leaving Daniel
alone without bread, salt or sugar,
Or even a horse or dog. While
thus alone, in May RIO he wand
cred to the hills that skirted the
OHIO river, and for the first time
IN life looked down upon that; ma
iestic stream. squire returned
July e7th with horses and amuni.
lion; aud the brothers, "monarchs
Of all they surveyed" hunted thru
md explored the country until