Here is another tidbit for you Running from North Carolina to Kentucky was a Cherokee warpath, that the was overlain on an animal trail, as were all migration paths. Judge Richard Henderson had bright idea, Came up with a scheme. America was then a British colony, and the colonists were forbidden to settle beyond 100 miles of the Atlanti…
Running from North Carolina to Kentucky was a Cherokee warpath, that the was overlain on an animal trail, as were all migration paths.
Judge Richard Henderson had bright idea, Came up with a scheme. America was then a British colony, and the colonists were forbidden to settle beyond 100 miles of the Atlantic coast, as the Crown feared a war with the French and Indians, which eventually came thanks to the bungling of George Washington.
His scheme was the charade of the Cherokee selling him land, So he sruck a deal with a Cherokee chief, in which he would trade muskets and axes for land. Land that they didn’t own, and he knew they didn’t own. That Land was Kentucky. The event is recorded as the Treaty of Wauataga.
He then hired a ne’er do well, that had been in his court. This excuse for a man, abandoned his wife and younger children to go off on his great adventurers.
He didn’t break trail, but followed the Cherokee war path, he lost two sons, and eventually was evicted from the settlement that bore his name, Boonesboro, because he didn’t know how to survey and all of his surveys were invalidated with people losing their homes.
The point is that his explorations were along a Cherokee war path, a war path the Cherokee used to raid the Fox, Shawnee and other nations, and this is before the white man moved west beyond the Appalachians, save for the few hearty that had settled on
Here is another tidbit for you
Running from North Carolina to Kentucky was a Cherokee warpath, that the was overlain on an animal trail, as were all migration paths.
Judge Richard Henderson had bright idea, Came up with a scheme. America was then a British colony, and the colonists were forbidden to settle beyond 100 miles of the Atlantic coast, as the Crown feared a war with the French and Indians, which eventually came thanks to the bungling of George Washington.
His scheme was the charade of the Cherokee selling him land, So he sruck a deal with a Cherokee chief, in which he would trade muskets and axes for land. Land that they didn’t own, and he knew they didn’t own. That Land was Kentucky. The event is recorded as the Treaty of Wauataga.
He then hired a ne’er do well, that had been in his court. This excuse for a man, abandoned his wife and younger children to go off on his great adventurers.
He didn’t break trail, but followed the Cherokee war path, he lost two sons, and eventually was evicted from the settlement that bore his name, Boonesboro, because he didn’t know how to survey and all of his surveys were invalidated with people losing their homes.
The point is that his explorations were along a Cherokee war path, a war path the Cherokee used to raid the Fox, Shawnee and other nations, and this is before the white man moved west beyond the Appalachians, save for the few hearty that had settled on
The Wautaga River in 1772. These men subsequently defeated the Loyalist militia of Maj Ferguson on King’s Mountain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watauga_Association