made the county seat;
    toll mill built in, II;
  Harrodstown, fort built at, I;
    a baptist preacher’s account of;
    convention at;
    delegates chosen to go to Williamsburg;
    arrival of Clark.  See Harrodsburg. 
  Hart, Colonel, letter of Jesse Benton to, II, Appendix;
  Hart, Nathaniel, a partner of Henderson, I;
  Hay, Major, bluffed by Helm, II;
  Helm, Captain Leonard, commands at Vincennes, II;
    surrenders to Hamilton;
    intercepts a convoy;
  Henderson, Richard, a land speculator, I;
    his colonizing scheme;
    confidence in Boon;
    negotiates the treaty of the Sycamore Shoals;
    obtains a grant of the lands between the Kentucky and the Cumberland
           rivers;
    names his new colony Transylvania;
    sends Boon to Kentucky;
    follows Boon;
    leaves his wagons in Powell’s Valley;
    met by Boon’s runner;
    reaches Boonsborough;
    opens a land office;
    organizes a government;
    addresses the delegates;
    advises game laws;
    collapse of the Transylvania colony;
    denounced by Lord Dunmore;
    drifts out of history;
  Henry, Patrick, adopts Clark’s plans, II;
    letter of instructions to Clark;
  History, peculiarity of English, I;
  Hockhocking, the stockade built at the mouth of, I;
  Holland, naval warfare with Spain and England, I;
  Holston, Great Island, garrisoned by troops by Christian’s army, I;
    treaties of peace made at;
  Holston Men, the, help Kentucky, II;
    join Clark at the Falls of the Ohio;
    desert at night;
    their sufferings;
    respond to McDowell’s appeal;
    advance to meet Ferguson;
    begin their march;
    at the battle of King’s Mountain;
    after the victory;
  Holston River, a feeder of the Tennessee River, I;
  Holston Settlements, the, organization of, II;
    first known as the Watauga settlements;
    start a new community;
    christened “Washington District,”;
    the laws upheld;
    tories and horse thieves;
    land laws;
    Indian troubles;
    character and life of the settlers;
    arrival of clergymen;
    Calvinism their prominent faith;
    the leading families;
    jealousies of the leaders;
    war with the Chickamaugas, the Creeks, and Cherokees;
    inrush of settlers;
    war with Indians;
    end of the war with the British and Tories;
    quarrels over the land;
    system of surveying;
    further Indian troubles;
    peace concluded with the Chickasaws;
    growth of;
    frontier towns;
    frontier characters
  Huger slain at Monk’s Corners, II
  Hunters, the, perils of, I;
    unsuccessful in killing buffalo with small-bore rifles;
    a party relieved by Clark;
  Hurons, the.  See Wyandots;
  Illinois, the, location of the scattered