as 1760, he never "settled" there.

A further notice of Stephen Holston, or Holstein, seems fitting
in this connection. He was of an adventurous turn, and prior to
1748 had, during a hunt, discovered the river named after him.
It was after this discovery that he settled on the Little
Saluda, near Saluda Old Town, in South Carolina, where, in the
summer of 1753, a party of Cherokees returning from a visit to
Gov. Glen, at Charleston, behaved so rudely to Mrs. Holston, in
her husband's absence, as to frighten her and her domestics
away, fleeing several miles to the nearest settlement, when the
house was robbed of utensils and corn, and two valuable horses
were also taken. Holston and some of his neighbors settled on
Holston's River, in what subsequently became Botetourt county:
soon after this, they constructed canoes, and passed down the
Holston into the Tennessee River, through the Muscle Shoals,
and down the Ohio and Mississippi as far as Natchez. Returning
from this notable adventure, his name became fixed to the noble
stream which he discovered, and upon which he made the
primitive settlement. His location on Holston was at the head
spring of the Middle Fork; his log cabin was on the hill side
some thirty rods from the spring. In 1774, one Davis occupied
the place, and related that Holston had left several years
before that date. On the breaking out of the Indian war in
1754, he seems to have retired with his family to Culpeper
county, which was then not exempt from Indian forays; and
Holston, about 1757, was captured by the Indians. But in due
time he returned to the Holston country, served in the battle
of Point Pleasant in 1774, on Christian's campaign against the
Cherokees in 1776, and was reported in service in 1776 or 1777.
As we hear no more of him, he probably did not long survive
after this period.--L. C. D.

[18] The first name of Walden was not Thomas--Elisha
Walden was his proper name. He was a son-in-law of William
Blevins, and both Walden and Blevins lived, in 1774, at the
"Round-About" on Smith's River, two miles east of what is
now Martinsville, Henry county, Virginia. He was then about
forty years of age, nearly six feet in height, a rough
frontiers