The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ee who resided on this side of Powells mountain. Lee County wasorganized in 1792. The road orders of the old Lee County Court, might, therefore,furnish some data on the Kentucky Path. It is my purpose to search these recordssome time in the future, but I do not know when. I am of the opinion, however, thatwhatever data the Lee Court records may hold, will tend only to confirm, not tochange, the location whicli you have assigned to tlie road from Moccasin Gap Letter of Prof. R. M. Addington, Dec. ^O. 1!)20 Conifjare al
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ee who resided on this side of Powells mountain. Lee County wasorganized in 1792. The road orders of the old Lee County Court, might, therefore,furnish some data on the Kentucky Path. It is my purpose to search these recordssome time in the future, but I do not know when. I am of the opinion, however, thatwhatever data the Lee Court records may hold, will tend only to confirm, not tochange, the location whicli you have assigned to tlie road from Moccasin Gap Letter of Prof. R. M. Addington, Dec. ^O. 1!)20 Conifjare also J. IL Duffs early map of Boones route to Kentucky throughthis region. Draper Mss. fiC89. The Detailed Loeation of the Eoad [111] Joseph IVIartin, who was Virginia Agent for Indian Affairs, and themost influential person both with the Indians and with the scatteredsettlers in Powell Valley. Martin was living at this station whenBoone and Henderson made their journeys in 1775, and the stationis also recorded by Brown and by Filson in 178*^2 and by Speed in. Stone House of 1784, six or seven miles northeast of Cumberland Gap. Probable site of Big Spring 1790, although about 178*2 Captain Martin transferred his head-quarters to Long Island in the South Fork of the Holston. Thelocation of Martin at this point, almost half way between the Ken-tucky and Holston settlements, and within twenty miles of Cimi-berland Gap, was a very important matter for the early find Henderson utilizing Martin as his agent on the road, andhe was a sort of relay station between the eastern and westernsettlements. Beyond Martins Station the road passed into the valley ofIndian Creek and followed down this vallev almost to Cumberland [u->] The IJ^ildcrncss Boad to Kcnfucki/ Gap. Near one of the crossings of Indian Creek, about Vl milesfrom Cumherland Gap, is said to have occurred the IncHan attackupon Boones party, of October 1778 when his son James Boone andsix otlier meml)ers of the par
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