The Kentucky Land Grants, p.157
Grantee: Carrington, Clement
Acres: 1,333
Book: 10
Page: 242
Date Survey: 6-27-1797
County: Military
Watercourse: Cumberland R
The Kentucky Land Grants, p.xi
An Early Kentucky Land Grantÿ4
The Kentucky Land Grants, p.xi
A Big Sandy Survey by Judge John Grahamÿ6
The Kentucky Land Grants, p.xi
A Blue Grass Survey of 1780ÿ8
The Kentucky Land Grants, p.xi
The Barker Map of Kentucky, 1795ÿ10 [p.1]
CHAPTER I
THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
The Kentucky Land Grants, p.1
The earliest traditions to reach the Atlantic seaboard
concerning Kentucky had
to do with the land. The occasional Indian, and later
the returning hunters,
brought in stories of the wonderful country beyond the
mountains, rich meadows
deep in wild cane and broad and forested limestone
uplands, now widely
recognized as the Blue Grass region. In the heart of
this wilderness, trackless
save for the traces of the bison, scouts and surveyors
were the first explorers.
They blazed the trail for the thousands and the tens of
thousands of pioneers and
homesteaders who were to follow shortly in the greatest
and most significant
single migration America has ever known.
SKETCH OF LAND EXPLORATION
The Kentucky Land Grants, p.1
Gabriel Arthur, Virginian,1 the first white man of
record to see Kentucky,
crossed the eastern part of this State in 1674.2 Twenty
years later, in 1693,
Arnold Viele in company with the French voyagers and
Indians came south to
the Ohio River and enjoyed perhaps a brief period of
residence here.3 French
traders relying upon the friendship of some strong
Indian tribes then completely
navigated the Ohio and explored the adjacent land in
Kentucky. Big Bone Lick
was discovered prior to 1729. In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker
began his
explorations, coming in through the Cumberland Gap, a
route which though not
frequently traversed had nevertheless become well known.
Christopher Gist, in
the employ of the Ohio Land Company, entered the State
from the north the
following year in search of rich agricultural lands.
From 1761 to 1767 John
Swift, an English trader and counterfeiter, was
traversing eastern Kentucky from
the mouth of the Big Sandy to the Cumberland Gap.
The Kentucky Land Grants, p.1
As news of the wonderful new lands in this region
spread, many others,
individually and in groups like the "Long Hunters,"
found their perilous way
down the rivers or through the mountain passes into the
western lands of the
Colony of Virginia. Following in the footsteps of
Findlay and Skaggs, Stone,
Mansker and Raines, Daniel Boone, who had two years
previously wintered on
the head of the Big Sandy, passed in 1769 through
Cumberland Gap to hunt
and to prospect lands for homestead. Two years later he
returned to the
settlements on the Yadkin, the first English scout to
explore completely the
interior of Kentucky. [p.2]
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