History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . s. Passing Pow-ells Valley, he gave the name of Cumberland to the lofty range ofmountains on the west. Tracingthis range in a southwestern direc-tion, he came to a remarkable depres-sion in the chain ; through this hepassed, calling it Cumberland the western side of the range hefound a beautiful mountain stream,which he named CumberlandRiver, all in honor of the Duke ofCumberland, then Prime Minister ofEngland. In 1760, a Virginiacompany of hunters, composed ofWallace, Scags, Blevins, Cox, andfifteen others, spent eighteen months i
History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . s. Passing Pow-ells Valley, he gave the name of Cumberland to the lofty range ofmountains on the west. Tracingthis range in a southwestern direc-tion, he came to a remarkable depres-sion in the chain ; through this hepassed, calling it Cumberland the western side of the range hefound a beautiful mountain stream,which he named CumberlandRiver, all in honor of the Duke ofCumberland, then Prime Minister ofEngland. In 1760, a Virginiacompany of hunters, composed ofWallace, Scags, Blevins, Cox, andfifteen others, spent eighteen months in a hunting excursion alongClinch and Powell rivers. 62, Daniel Boone.—In 1760 the famous Daniel Boone visitedTennessee at the head of a party of hunters. It is conjectured byDr. Ramsey that this was not Boones first visit to Tennessee, althoughit is the first that has come to the knowledge of historians. In testi-mony of this visit. Dr. Ramsey gives in his history an inscription cutby Daniel Boone on a beech tree, standing, in sight and east of the. Daniel Boones Tree. 48 History of Tennessee. present stage road leading from Jonesboro to Blountville, and in thevalley of Boones Creek, a tributary of Watauga. This tree andinscription is shown in the annexed picture, engraved from a photo-graph in the Tennessee Historical Society. There is no doubt of thegenuineness of the inscription, but doubts have been expressed as towhether it was carved by Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone visited Ten-nessee again in 1771, and remained until 1774.^ Many other huntingparties prepared the way for the advent of the pioneers of permanentsettlement. 63. The First Negro.—In 1768^ an expedition of hunters trav-ersed the country from the banks of the Holston, in East Tennessee,to the Ohio River at the mouth of the Tennessee River, passing alongthe banks of the Cumberland River, and giving the name to StonesRiver. The party consisted of Colonel James Smith, William Baker,Uriah Stone, for whom Stones Ri
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