Indiana Historical Society publications . r of official record, enable us to locate definitelythe old trace for a distance of nearly forty-four Thesurvey of the old Vincennes trail, or Buffalo trace was be-gun July 11, 1805, by Surveyor William Rector. It began atthe Parker Improvements on the west line of Clarks Grant,and about one and one-half miles from the Ohio river. Itcrossed the east fork of Buck creek about three and one-halfmiles from Parkers Improvement. Nine miles from ClarksGrant there was a cabin near the spring. The trace crossed Indian creek. At each mile along thetrace
Indiana Historical Society publications . r of official record, enable us to locate definitelythe old trace for a distance of nearly forty-four Thesurvey of the old Vincennes trail, or Buffalo trace was be-gun July 11, 1805, by Surveyor William Rector. It began atthe Parker Improvements on the west line of Clarks Grant,and about one and one-half miles from the Ohio river. Itcrossed the east fork of Buck creek about three and one-halfmiles from Parkers Improvement. Nine miles from ClarksGrant there was a cabin near the spring. The trace crossed Indian creek. At each mile along thetrace Surveyor Rector marked trees thus: To C. G. 26 mi.,etc., as the distance might be. It meant To Clarks Grant, —miles. On July 15, 1895, he camped at Sullivans Spring, 42 American State Papers, Class 2, Indian Affairs, pp. 689 and 690;Senate Documents, Vol. 39, pp. 70, 71 and 72. 43 Centennial History and Handbook of Indiana, p. 31; Smiths Indi-ana, Vol. 1, pp. 163, 165, 230, 232, 235-239; Dillons Indiana, p. 419. 366 Trails and Surveys. Trails and Surveys 367 about thirty-one and one-eighth miles from Clarks Grant. Therecord shows that Samuel Hay lived on the west bank of Lit-tle Blue river, about thirty-four and one-fourth miles fromClarks Grant, and where the trace crossed the river. Therewas a whet stone cave on the trace forty-three miles andseven chains from Clarks Grant. This was near where thetrace entered the Vincennes tract, and not far from FrenchLick Through the Vincennes tract, covering a distance of aboutsixty miles, the location of the trace may be officially deter-mined, at sixty points, or more. The surveyors who sub-divided the tract into sections made a record showing how farthe trace was from a nearby section corner, thus the entiretrace through Indiana may be determined. After entering the Vincennes tract south of Paoli, the tracepractically follows Buckinghams base line through Columbia,Harbison and Boone townships, in Dubois county, and west i
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