it not far above Nashville, was
named by them in this expedition.

After his acquittal from the charge of having murdered
Johnson, he was elected and served as one of the board of
commissioners, for regulating taxes and laying the county
levy, in the county of Bedford. [88] He was for several years
a delegate from the county of Westmoreland, to the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania; and in the war of the revolution was
an officer of merit and distinction. In 1781 he removed to
Kentucky and settled in Bourbon county not far from Paris;
was a member of the convention which set at Danville, to
confer about a separation from the state of Virginia, in 1788,
from which time until 1799, with the exception of two years, he
was either a delegate of the convention or of the General
Assembly of Kentucky.

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_Comment by L. C. D._--It would seem from Col. Smith's own
statement, that his removal to, and settlement in, Bourbon
county, Ky., was in 1788.

[89] CHAPTER V.

The comparative security and quiet, which succeeded the treaty of
1765, contributed to advance the prosperity of the Virginia frontiers.
The necessity of congregating in forts and blockhouses, no longer
existing, each family enjoyed the felicities of its own fireside,
undisturbed by fearful apprehensions of danger from the prowling
savage, and free from the bustle and confusion consequent on being
crowded together. No longer forced to cultivate their little fields in
common, and by the united exertions of a whole neighborhood, with
tomahawks suspended from their belts and rifles attached to their plow
beams, their original spirit of enterprise was revived: and while a
certainty of reaping in unmolested safety, the harvest for which they
had toiled, gave to industry, a stimulus which increased their
prosperity, it also excited others to come and reside among them--a
considerable addition to their population, and a rapid extension of
settlements, were the necessary consequence.

It was during the continuation of this exemption from Indian aggression,
that several establishments were made on the Monongahela and its
branches, and on the Ohio river. These were nearly cotemporaneous; the
first however, in order of time, was that made on the Buchannon--a fork
of the Tygart's valley river, and was induced by a flattering account
o