the Shawanoes made no claim to Kentucky; and at the
treaty of Camp Charlotte, in October, 1774, they tacitly
confirmed their old sale of that country in 1752, by agreeing
not even to hunt south of the Ohio. Thus, then, we see that the
Iroquois had twice ceded their right to Kentucky as low as the
Tennessee River, and twice received their pay; the Shawanoes
had disposed of their claim, such as it was, and received
for it a valuable consideration; and the Cherokees, finding
it profitable to lay claim to some valuable unoccupied
region, sold their newly assumed right to the country south
and east of Kentucky River. Their claim, if indeed it rises to
the dignity of a claim, south and west of the Kentucky, was
fairly purchased by Henderson and Company, and thus with the
subsequent purchase by treaty, of the Chickasaws, of the
strip between the Tennessee and Mississippi, the Indian
title to the whole Kentucky country was fully and fairly
extinguished."--R. G. T.

[5] The first attack occurred the morning of March 25, when
the party were encamped near the head of Taylor's Fork of
Silver Creek. Capt. Twitty and Felix Walker were severely
wounded, and a negro servant killed; Twitty subsequently died
from his wound. The other attack was on an outlying company,
probably on Tate's Creek; this occurred the 27th, and "Thomas
McDowell and Jeremiah McFeeters were," Boone wrote to
Henderson, "killed and sculped."--R. G. T.

[6] The purchase of Henderson and company, was subsequently
declared by the legislature of Virginia, to be null and void,
so far as the purchasers were concerned; but effectual as to
the extinguishment of the Indian title, to the territory thus
bought of them. To indemnify the purchasers for any advancement
of money or other things which they had made to the Indians,
the assembly granted to them 200,000 acres of land, lying at
the mouth of Green river, and known generally as Henderson's
grant.

[7] Boone set out from Boonesborough, June 13, 1775. He left
the settlement in a state approaching anarchy; there were
several good men in the district, but the majority were
shiftless wanderers who would brook no exercise of authority.
The buffalo were fast moving westwar