ce
of general rendezvous. Some united themselves to Boone's colony, and
remained permanently at his Station: others clustered abound Harrod's
Old Cabin, and the Fort which had by this time been erected by Logan,
and made "improvements" in the vicinity of each; but most of them
returned to their several homes after having made such locations and
surveys as they thought proper. Among those by whom Boone was visited
in the course of this year, were several men who have subsequently
rendered very important services in the settlement of the West, and
attained great and deserved celebrity: such were Simon Kenton, John
Floyd, the four brothers McAfee, and others. A tolerably good road,
sufficient for the passage of pack-horses in single file, had been
opened from the settlements on the Holston to Boonesborough, by the
party which Boone led out early in the following spring; and this
now became the thoroughfare for other adventurers, a number of whom
removed their families from North Carolina to Kentucky, and settled
at Boonesborough, during the fall and winter of this year. Colonel
Richard Callaway was one of these; and there were others of equal
respectability.

[Footnote 24: History of Kentucky.]

CHAPTER X.

Disturbed state of the country in 1775--Breaking out of
the Revolutionary war--Exposed situation of the Kentucky
settlements--Hostility of the Indians excited by the British--First
political convention in the West--Capture of Boone's daughter and
the daughters of Colonel Callaway by the Indians--Their rescue by a
party led by Boone and Callaway--Increased caution of the colonists
at Boonesborough--Alarm and desertion of the Colonies in the West
by land speculators and other adventurers--A reinforcement of
forty-five men from North Carolina arrive at Boonesborough--Indian
attack on Boonesborough in April--Another attack in July--Attack
on Logan's Fort, and siege--Attack on Harrodsburg.

The reader will not fail to remark that the period at which Daniel Boone
commenced the settlement of Kentucky, was the most eventful one in the
history of our country. In the year 1775 hostilities between Great
Britain and her American Colonies commenced at Lexington and Concord,
and the whole country was mustering in arms at the time when Boone and
the other western emigrants were forming settlements four hundred miles
beyond the frontiers of Virginia and the Carolinas.