tremely distressing and more than commonly vexatious. On the point, in the morning, of persuading his superiors and others to a course of proceeding which, if it had been adopted, would in all human probability have averted the fate of the day; or might have turned its disasters on the enemy, in the evening, he is exhausted with fatigue and anxiety, lamenting the death of a favorite son-looking on his country humbled by defeat, and knowing not the extent of its consequences. He was convinced the enemy was numerous-he apprehended they had taken no prisoners, and if so there was reason to expect they would return upon the settlements, in some quarter-and he knew they were crafty as enterprising and brave as they were savage. Great indeed was the consternation on the north side of the Kentucky River.

In the midst of these disastrous events and gloomy reflections, there was yet one consolation: the party with Colonel Logan was considerable— in full march—and unbroken as undismayed. The van of Logan's command had passed Bryant Station on its way to the Blue Licks, when it was met by the fugitives from the field of recent battle, it then returned to Bryant-where the colonel halted on receipt of the intelligence, until the rear came up which was one day-and then late in the evening resumed his march which was continued the greater part of the night and again, at sunrise next morning, for the Licks-to engage the enemy if there and if not, to bury the dead. About noon, the battle ground was approached and the dead bodies seen strewed along the field. Some were mangled by savages-some by vultures-some by wild beasts; they were swollen and rendered quite yellow by the scorching rays of the sun, upon their naked skins. Each man who had lost a particular friend or relative sought for him, that if found he might receive the solemn rites of burial; if not found, that the hope of his being a prisoner and that he would return at some future day, might be indulged, to cheer the melancholy impression of the scene. But even this imperfect consolation was denied, for none knew the remains of his friend when found-so much were the visages of the dead disfigured. No Indian carcass was seen, nor was it known how the enemy had disposed of their killed-for no grave appeared nor many trails of blood.

The party with Logan, having performed the last solemn duties of the field and no fresh sign of the Indians being seen, it was marched back to Bryant and dismissed to the number of 450 men. A force which it is believed under the direction of Logan had it come up before the battle or been waited for by Colonel Todd and his party would have certainly been successful.

Such on the one hand is the effect of inconsiderate rashness, such on the other the ascendency of prudence, over the affairs of men. In nothing is this observation so often in substance made more frequently illustrated than in war and battle. What indeed is fate but the work of men's own hands hanging on means of their own choosing? 15

15 Marshall, History of Kentucky, Vol. I, pp. 134-143.

CHAPTER XIV

STATIONS AND EARLY SETTLEMENTS IN KENTUCKY

ADAMS' (Geo.) STATION, in Garrard County.

ARMSTRONG'S STATION, on the Indiana shore, in Clark County, Indiana, at the mouth of Bull Creek, opposite Grassy Flats, and 18-mile Island bar, in the Ohio River, 18 miles above Louisville. A blockhouse was built here by Col. John Armstrong, in 1795 or 1796, to prevent the Indians from crossing the river here, where it was fordable, to steal horses from Kentucky.1

ARNOLD'S (John) STATION, on Little Benson Creek, 7 miles above Frankfort; 1783.

ARLINGTON'S STATION, in Southern Kentucky; 1788.

ASHTON'S STATION; mentioned in Boone's Autobiography, May, 1782; same as Estill's.

A 'STURGUS' STATION (1783), on Harrod's trace, in Jefferson County. BAILEY'S STATION, in Mason County, 21⁄2 miles south of Maysville, and I mile from Washington; settled in 1791.

BALLARD'S (Bland) STATION, in Shelby County; usually called Tyler's. BARDSTOWN, in Nelson County, established 1788; called Bairdstown. BARNETT'S STATION, 2 miles from Hartford, Ohio County; settled by Col. Joseph Barnett, before 1790.

BELL'S STATION, in Madison County. (See p. 521, Vol. II, Collins.) BLACK'S STATION, before December, 1794; in Fayette County, on waters of Clear Creek.

BLOCKHOUSE ON Big Sandy River, in Johnson County, at mouth of John's Creek. This was Harman's Station.

BLUE LICKS, Lower. (See Lower Blue Licks.)

BLUE LICKS, Upper. In Nicholas County, on the Licking River. The Upper Lick is on the south side of the river and the Lower Lick on the north bank, or the east bank, as the river there flows north for some distance. In a direct line it is some eight miles from one lick to the other, and by the course of the river some fifteen miles or more. They were discovered in July, 1773, by Major John Finley, and others from the Monongahela, in Pennsylvania. The land on which is the Upper Lick was surveyed July 26, 1773. The Lower Lick was discovered some days later by some surveyors of the party, when the terms "upper" and "lower" were applied to distinguish them.

These licks were not fortified. Stations were not established there. But the pioneers went to these springs to make salt. Daniel Boone went with a party of thirty men to the Lower Blue Lick to make salt, January 1, 1778. On February 7, while out hunting he was captured by the Indians. He induced all but three of his party to surrender-the three having been sent home with salt.

On the 19th of August, 1782, the battle of the Lower Blue Lick was fought. The Kentuckians sustained their most severe defeat in that battle.

BOILING SPRING, in Mercer County, near or in Harrodsburg; in 1775; one of the four "settlements" which were represented in the Transylvania legislative body at Boonesboro.

1 Dillon's History of Indiana says this was a small settlement made in 1795. History of Indiana by Goodrich and Tuttle says the settlement was made in 1796. Collins had the date between 1785 and 1790. These dates were changed to "1795 or 1796" to conform to the facts.

BOONE'S CAVE. On Shawnee Creek, in Mercer County. Daniel Boone spent the winter of 1769-70 in this cave. In 1876 an elm tree standing near this cave still bore his name.

BOONE'S (George) STATION, 21⁄2 miles northwest of Richmond. (See p. 521, Vol. II, Collins.)

BOONE'S STATION; same as Boonesboro.

BOONE'S STATION, on Boone's Creek, in Fayette County, about 10 miles southeast of Lexington and 5 miles northwest from Boonesboro; settled by and named after Daniel Boone about 1783 or '84. Boone lived there until he removed to Maysville, before February 3, 1786. BOONE'S (Squire) STATION; called Squire Boone's Station, which see. BOONESBOROUGH. 1775. Was in what is now Madison County. Its site is on the south bank of the Kentucky River, which there flows between Madison and Clark counties. It is some two miles from the Town of Ford, in Clark County, and a mile and a quarter below the mouth of Otter Creek, which runs north through Madison County. It is twelve miles from Richmond, and nine miles from Winchester.

BLOCK HOUSE OF BRYANT'S STATION

Drawn by Miss Jean H. McHenry from a ground plan found among the papors of Gen. George Rogers Clark and now owned by R. I. Durrett

It is about twenty miles from Lexington. It was an extensive fort, and was erected by Col. Richard Henderson, of North Carolina. He began its construction April 22, 1775, and completed it about the middle of June. Daniel Boone had erected a small fort near-by, having commenced it April 1, but it never was completed. Colonel Henderson named his fort Boonesborough for Daniel Boone, then in his service, and who had opened a road through Cumberland Gap and by Cumberland Ford to the site of Boonesborough, the seat of the government of Transylvania, set up by Henderson and his associates. It did not become a permanent settlement.

BOSLEY'S STATION, 34 of a mile above the main fork of Wells' Creek near Washington, Mason County; before 1793.

BOWMAN'S STATION, 6 miles east of Harrodsburg; settled in 1779 by 30 families under Col. Abram Bowman. Colonel Bowman soon after removed to Fayette County.

BRASHEARS' STATION, at mouth of Floyd's Fork, in Bullitt County, 1779. BRYANT STATION, in Fayette County, about 5 miles northeast of Lexington, on the southern bank of the north fork of Elkhorn; settled by the Bryans in 1779, but a cabin had been built by Joseph Bryan, a son-in-law of Col. Daniel Boone, in 1776.

BUCHANAN'S STATION, I mile west of Germantown, Bracken County, where Geo. Humlong recently lived (1874).

BULLITT'S LICK, on north side Salt River, 3 miles from Salt River and same distance from Shepherdsville, in Bullitt County; discovered by Capt. Thos. Bullitt in 1773; the only place where salt was made about the Falls in 1780-1, according to Bland Ballard's deposition. BURNT STATION, on or near Simpson's Creek, in Nelson County. BUSH'S (Wm.) STATION or Settlement, in Clark County, near Boonesborough.

BYNE'S STATION, settled by Edmund Byne, on North Fork, in Mason County.

CAMP KNOX, in east part of Green County, where, in June, 1770, Col. Jas. Knox, with 22 men (called the "Long Hunters") with 4 packhorses, encamped.

CAMPBELL'S STATION, on the Dry Ridge, in now Grant County, 3 miles north of Williamstown, and 33 miles from the mouth of Licking; settled some time before 1792.

CANE RUN, a Presbyterian meeting-house in 1784, in (then) Lincoln County.

CARPENTER'S STATION, in the knobs of Green River, about 2 miles west of Hustonville in Lincoln County; about 1780.

CARTWRIGHT'S STATION; settled in 1779.

CASEY'S (Col. Wm.) STATION, in Lincoln County, 3 miles west of Stanford, and 7 miles east of Danville, on Hanging Fork of Dick's River. CASSIDY'S STATION, in Mason County; settled by Michael Cassidy. CLARK'S STATION, on Clark's Run, a branch of Dick's River; settled by Geo. Clark before November, 1779.

CLARK'S STATION, in Mason County; settled in 1785.

CLARKSVILLE, in Indiana, opposite Louisville, laid out by Gen. Geo. Rogers Clark.

CLEAR'S STATION, in Bullitt County.

COLLINS' STATION, on Rockcastle River.

COOPER'S STATION, on Cooper's Run, in Bourbon County, 2 miles from Kiser's.

CORN ISLAND, in Ohio River, opposite Louisville-where Gen. Geo. Rogers Clark built a fort in June, 1778, and raised several crops of corn; had several acres of rich land; now (1874) all washed away. Cox's STATION, in Nelson County, near Kincheloe's Station.

CRAB ORCHARD, in Lincoln County, 12 miles from Lancaster, and 10 miles from Stanford, on the old pioneer road to Cumberland Gap. CRAIG'S STATION, on Gilbert's Creek, a few miles east of Lancaster, Garrard County; settled by Rev. Lewis Craig, in 1780.

CRAIG'S STATION (another) in Lincoln County, 2 miles east of Danville. CREW'S (David) STATION, in Madison County, 1781. (See p. 521, Vol. II, Collins.)

CROW'S STATION, in then Lincoln County, near Danville; settled by John Crow, before May, 1782.

CURTIS' STATION, in Mason County. (See p. 555, Vol. II, Collins.) DANVILLE, in Boyle County; laid off as a town by Walker Daniel, 1781. DAVIESS' (James) STATION, about 5 miles west of Whitley's.

DAVIS' STATION, in southern Kentucky, probably in Logan or Warren County.

DOUGHERTY'S STATION, in Boyle County, on Clark's Run, 11⁄2 miles below Danville.

DOVER STATION, in Garrard County, on waters of Dick's River.

DOWDALL'S STATION, on Salt River; before 1784.

DOWNING'S STATION, east of and near Dick's River, not far from Danville.

DRENNON'S LICK, in Henry County, near Kentucky River.

DUTCH STATION, in Jefferson County, on Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek; 1779 or 1780.

ELK FORK OF RED RIVER, in Logan County; several settlements on, 1785. ELIJAH CRAIG'S STATION, 5 miles from Versailles; 1783.

ELLIS' STATION, at Ellisville, Nicholas County.

ENGLISH'S STATION, on south bank of Dick's River, in Lincoln County, 3 miles east of Crab Orchard.

ESTILL'S STATION, on Muddy Creek, 3 miles south of Richmond, in Madison County; settled by Capt. James Estill, before 1781. ESTILL'S NEW STATION, 5 miles southeast of Richmond.

Vol. II, Collins.)

(See p. 521,

FALLS OF THE OHIO. The first fort was built on Corn Island, opposite Louisville, in June, 1778; in the fall of 1778, or spring of 1779, a rude stockade was raised near a ravine where, in 1838, Twelfth Street in Louisville terminated at the Ohio River.

FEAGANS' STATIONS, in Mason County, 12 or 2 miles east of Germantown.

FIELDS' (Wm.) STATION, 13 miles west of Danville.

FINN'S STATION, in Jefferson or Spencer County; settled before 1780.
FINNEY, Fort-original name of Fort where lower end of Jeffersonville,
Indiana, now stands, at the Falls of the Ohio.

FISHER'S (Stephen) GARRISON, not far from Danville.
FLEMING'S (Col. John) STATION, in Fleming County; 1790.

FLORER'S STATION, on the "middle trace" from Maysville to Lexington, 1792.

FLOYD'S STATION, first at the mouth of Beargrass, in Louisville, corner Third Street and Murrell Court, near Ohio River, 1779.

FLOYD'S STATION, on the Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek, 6 miles from the Falls of the Ohio; settled by Col. John Floyd, in 1779.

FLOYD'S FORK STATION, in Oldham County, near Pewee Valley, 18 miles east of Louisville.

FORKS OF DICK'S RIVER, a Presbyterian preaching place in 1784, in now Lincoln County.

FORKS OF ELKHORN SETTLEMENT, in Scott County.

FONTAINBLEAU, about 3 miles below Harrodsburg, on the bank of Salt River; a mill was built here at a very early day.

Fox's (Arthuer) STATION; same as Washington.

GARRARD'S STATION, in Hamilton County, Ohio, on Little Miami; April,