The Pioneers of Nashville, and of Tennessee: What They Were; Where They Came From; How They Got There; What They Achieved; One Hundred Years Ago; A Historical Novel of Narrative, about the First Settlers of This Commonwealth in 1780, to Which Is Add
The Pioneers of Nashville, and of Tennessee: What They Were; Where They Came From; How They Got There; What They Achieved; One Hundred Years Ago; A Historical Novel of Narrative, about the First Settlers of This Commonwealth in 1780, to Which Is Add
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... trace through the wilderness of Kentucky, others of their countrymen were undergoing greater hardships, enduring greater sufferings, and experiencing greater privations upon another route, not less circuitous and far more perilous in aiming at the same destination. Soon after the former had left the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... trace through the wilderness of Kentucky, others of their countrymen were undergoing greater hardships, enduring greater sufferings, and experiencing greater privations upon another route, not less circuitous and far more perilous in aiming at the same destination. Soon after the former had left the Holston settlements, on their march by land, several boats loaded with emigrants and their property left Fort Patrick Henry, . near Long Island, on a voyage down the Holston and Tennessee, and up the Ohio and Cumberland. The Journal of one of them, "The Adventure," has b een preserved. It was kept by Col. John Donaldson, the projector of the enterprise. The original is still in possession of the descendants of his family. The details of so new and remarkable an adventure by water are full of interest, and the journal is, therefore, given entire: "journal Of A Voyage, intended by God's permission, in the good boat Adventure, from Fort Patrick Henry on Holston River, to the French Salt Springs on Cumberland River, kept by John Donaldson. December 22, 1779.--Took our departure from the fort and fell down the river to the mouth of Reedy Creek, where we were stopped by the fall of water, and most excessive hard frost; and after much delay and difficulties we arrived at the mouth of Cloud's Creek, on Sunday evening, the 20th February, 1780, where we lay by until Sunday, 28th, when we took our departure with sundry other vessels bound for the same voyage, and on the same day struck the Poor Valley Shoal, together with Mr. Boyd and Mr. Rounsifer, on which shoal we lay that afternoon and succeeding night in much distress. Monday, February 28th, 1780.--In the morning the water rising, we got off the shoal, after landing thirty persons to lighten our...
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