The Story of Bryan's Station: As Told in the Historical Address Delivered at Bryan's Station, Fayette County, Kentucky, August 18th, 1896 |
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abandoned acres arrived artillery August authority battle Blue Grass Region Blue Licks Boone's Station Boonesborough Bradford Bradford's Notes British Bryan's Station buffalo trace Byrd cabins Caldwell camp Capt Cave Johnson Chillicothe corn creek David's Fork early Elijah Craig enemy escaped expedition Fayette county records Filson Filson's Boone Fincastle county fire footmen force gallant garrison gate Girty's Grant's Station guns Haldimand MSS hemp heroic horse Hoy's Station hunters incident inmates James James Hogan James McBride John Joseph Rogers Kentucky river killed known land leader Levi Todd Lewis Craig Lexington Chapter Madison county Marshall Martin's McClung Moluntha morning Nicholas Tomlinson night North Elkhorn party quickly retreat rifle shots Ruddle's Station savages says scalped scouts settled settlement settlers Shawanese siege Simon Girty stockade Story of Bryan's tion tomahawk Tory Traveling Church trees Virginia warriors White Indian wild William Bryan William Ellis women of Bryan's wounded writer
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Page 9 - Bryant's, it is by no means clear as to how they could have rested secure in the belief that they were the owners of the...
Page 2 - They all endured almost incredible deprivations and sufferings, all of them were wounded by the Indians and three out of the five met death at their hands. In 1779 that remarkable and mischievous land law of Virginia was enacted which turned such a tide of immigration into Kentucky, and permanent settlements were made for the first time within the present limits of Fayette County. One of these was Bryan's Station. It was founded by four Bryan brothers from North...
Page 4 - They all came by way of Boonesborough, where they stopped to replenish their supply of corn, and from that fort, after a laborious march, they came to the North Elkhorn creek, where they made a final halt at a spot about five miles northeast of the little stockaded settlement of Lexington. Here in the very heart of the neutral ground of the Northern and Southern Indians, in the...
Page 3 - William was the leading spirit, and with them was William Grant, who, like the leader, had married a sister of Daniel Boone. All five were elderly, but stalwart woodsmen, and as each was blessed with a great family of children, in accordance with a striking feature of the day, and as the children themselves were nearly all grown, they felt prepared for straggling Indians at least, as the dogs and flint-lock rifles, pack horses and cows they sot out from the valley of the Yadkin.
Page 4 - The new station was quickly built. It was a rude and solitary habitation, but as strong as it was rude. It consisted at first of twelve or fourteen cabins of logs with the bark on, with roofs of roughest clapboards and provided with chimneys of sticks and...
Page 5 - The station was more noticeable at this timefor its situation than for its size. It stood on an elevated point* that had been cleared of trees big enough to screen an enemy and which tapered steeply down to the southern bank of the heavily wooded creek. At the foot of the hill which hid it from the station, and facing the creek, was a spring of almost ice-cold water that issued from a ledge of rocks that...
Page 2 - Elkhorn. yea;s, for war had broken out between the outraged Ohio Indians and the colony of Virginia, and it had barely ended when the great struggle for American independence commenced. The experiences of the adventurous spirits we have named strikingly illustrate the perils of the Kentucky wilderlies?
Page 8 - St.ito price a thousand acres or less adjoining his settlement, provided the settlement had been made before January 1, 1778 ; on unappropriated land, to which no other had a legal right...
Page 1 - Bryan's Station," came here in 1774 and 1775, and in-- eluded John Floyd, James Donghis and Hancock Taylor, thiee deputy surveyors of Fincastle county Va., of which Kentucky was then a part; William Bryan, a hunter from that section of North Carolina now known as Rowan county, and John Ellis, a Virginia veteran of the French and Indian...
Page 8 - Bryan's Station was unusually animated in December, 1779, and January, 1780, in spite of the bitterly cold weather, as the Commissioners appointed by Virginia to settle land claims held their court within its snow covered walls and the pioneers gathered...