History of the great Kanawha Valley, with family history and biographical sketches A statement of its natural resources, industrial growth and commercial advantages . HISTORY OF THE GREAT KANAWHA VALLEY. 49. CHAPTER II. BY JOHN P. HALE. FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT IN THE NEW RIVER-KANAWHA VALLEY,AND THE FIRST THAT CROSSED THE ALLEGHENIES WESTWARD. PARTY of adventurous gentlemen, composed ofDoctor Thomas Walker, Colonel James Patton,Colonel John Buchanan, Colonel James Wood andMajor Charles Campbell, accompanied by some hunt-ers, of whom John Findley, who afterward, in 1767,penetrated into Kentucky,
History of the great Kanawha Valley, with family history and biographical sketches A statement of its natural resources, industrial growth and commercial advantages . HISTORY OF THE GREAT KANAWHA VALLEY. 49. CHAPTER II. BY JOHN P. HALE. FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT IN THE NEW RIVER-KANAWHA VALLEY,AND THE FIRST THAT CROSSED THE ALLEGHENIES WESTWARD. PARTY of adventurous gentlemen, composed ofDoctor Thomas Walker, Colonel James Patton,Colonel John Buchanan, Colonel James Wood andMajor Charles Campbell, accompanied by some hunt-ers, of whom John Findley, who afterward, in 1767,penetrated into Kentucky, and, in 1769, accompaniedDaniel Boone from North Carolina to Kentucky, wasone, made an excursion through southwest Virginia in1748, and were the first white persons from this direction topenetrate the then unknown region of Kentucky. Dr. Walker,the leader of the expedition, discovered the pass in the moun-tains, and gave the name of Cumberland to the mountainrange and gap hitherto called by the Indians Wasioto ; Cum-berland river to the stream hitherto called Shawanee, or Pelisipi; and Louisa to the river called by them Che-no-ee,now Kentucky river. Major Jed Hotchkiss, who, has seen theMS. diary of
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