29.  See Appendix.

30.  An English engineer made a rude survey or table of distances of the Ohio in 1766.

31.  Collins states that in 1770 and 1772 Washington surveyed small tracts in what is now northeastern Kentucky; but this is more than doubtful.

32.  All of this is taken from the McAfee MSS., in Colonel Durrett’s library.

33.  McAfee MSS.  A similar adventure befell my brother Elliott and my cousin John Roosevelt while they were hunting buffalo on the staked plains of Texas in 1877.

34.  They evidently wore breech-clouts and leggings, not trowsers.

35.  McAfee MSS.

36.  Filson’s “Boon.”

37.  October 10, 1773, Filson’s “Boon.”  The McAfee MSS. speak of meeting Boon in Powell’s Valley and getting home in September; if so, it must have been the very end of the month.

38.  The account of this journey of Floyd and his companions is taken from a very interesting MS. journal, kept by one of the party—­Thomas Hanson.  It was furnished me, together with other valuable papers, through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Trigg, of Abingdon, Va., and of Dr. George Ben.  Johnston, of Richmond, to whom I take this opportunity of returning my warm thanks.

39.  From the house of Col.  William Preston, “at one o’clock, in high spirits.”  They took the canoe at the mouth of Elk River, on the 16th.  Most of the diary is, of course, taken up with notes on the character and fertility of the lands, and memoranda of the surveys made.  Especial comment is made on a burning spring by the Kanawha, which is dubbed “one of the wonders of the world.”

40.  They received this news on April 17th, and confirmation thereof on the 19th.  The dates should be kept in mind, as they show that the Shawnees had begun hostilities from a fortnight to a month before Cresap’s attack and the murder of Logan’s family, which will be described hereafter.

41.  Which they reached on the 20th.

42.  On the 22d.

43.  On May 13th.

44.  There were quarrels among the surveyors.  The entry for May 13th runs:  “Our company divided, eleven men went up to Harrad’s company one hundred miles up the Cantucky or Louisa river (n.b. one Capt.  Harrad has been there many months building a kind of Town &c) in order to make improvements.  This day a quarrel arose between Mr. Lee and Mr. Hyte; Lee cut a Stick and gave Hyte a Whiping with it, upon which Mr. Floyd demanded the King’s Peace which stopt it sooner that it would have ended if he had not been there.”

45.  They said that in a skirmish the whites had killed thirteen Shawnees, two Mingos, and one Delaware (this may or may not mean the massacres by Cresap and Greathouse; see, post, chapter on Lord Dunmore’s War).

46.  Where the journal says the land “is like a paradise, it is so good and beautiful.”

47.  The journal for July 8th says:  “The Land is so good that I cannot give it its due Praise.  The undergrowth is Clover, Pea-vine, Cane & Nettles; intermingled with Rich Weed.  It’s timber is Honey Locust, Black Walnut, Sugar Tree, Hickory, Iron-Wood, Hoop Wood, Mulberry, Ash and Elm and some Oak.”  And later it dwells on the high limestone cliffs facing the river on both sides.