d, and all game was now
getting scarce--"hunt or starve" was the motto of the hour. A
diarist (Capt. Floyd) estimated that there were then a total of
300 people in all the Kentucky settlements--not reckoning "a
great many land-jobbers from towards Pittsburg, who go about on
the north side of Kentucky, in companies, and build forty or
fifty cabins a piece on lands where no surveying has yet been
done." Among the best of the numerous arrivals, were George
Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, Benjamin Logan, and Whitley, who
came to be very prominent characters in Kentucky history.
Boone, with his wife and daughters, and twenty-one men, arrived
at Boonesborough September 6 or 7. "My wife and daughters,"
writes Boone, "were the first women that ever stood on the
banks of Kentucky river." Mrs. McGary, Mrs. Hogan, and Mrs.
Denton arrived at Harrodsburg the 8th of September, and were
the first white women in that settlement. With the arrival of
these families, and fresh fighting men, the Kentucky colony
began to take on a permanent air, and thenceforward there was
better order.--R. G. T.

[8] In the winter of 1776-77, McClelland's Station and
Logan's Station, (indifferently styled Fort or Station) were
abandoned because of Indian attacks, and the settlers huddled
into Boonesborough and Harrodsburg--although possibly Price's
settlement, on the Cumberland, maintained a separate existence
throughout the winter. There were at this time not to exceed a
hundred and fifty white men in the country, available for
active militia duty. As during January and February, 1777, the
Indians were quiet, confidence was restored in some degree, and
during the latter month, Logan, with his own and some half
dozen other families, left Harrodsburg and re-occupied Logan's
Station. Thus far, each settlement had chosen its own military
leader, and discipline was practically unknown. March 5, under
order and commissions from Virginia, the militia of Kentucky
county were assembled and organized at Boonesborough,
Harrodsburg, and Logan's Station, with George Rogers Clark as
major, and Daniel Boone, James Harrod, John Todd, and Benjamin
Logan as captains.--R. G. T.

[9] This foray took place March 6--not the 14th, as