of the
Revolution he held the same office in the Southern Department
of the United States, but resigned in 1776 because not
promoted; he died in Fauquier county, in 1778. The project of
Franklin, Walpole, and others to found the Colony of
Pittsylvania, with its seat at the mouth of the Great Kanawha,
greatly stimulated Western land speculation, and there was a
rush of those holding military land warrants to locate claims.
Lord Dunmore's agent at Fort Pitt, Dr. John Connolly--with whom
his lordship was doubtless in partnership--had large interests
of this character, and Bullitt went to the Falls of the Ohio
(1773) to survey lands for him. Bullitt had a surveyor's
commission from Williams and Mary College, but Col. William
Preston, county surveyor for Fincastle county--in which
Kentucky was then included--declined to recognize any but his
own deputies. Preston carried his point, and the lands were
re-surveyed the following year (1774) by his deputies. Bullitt
had laid off a town on this Connolly survey; but the Revolution
soon broke out, Bullitt was otherwise engaged, Dunmore was
deposed, Connolly was imprisoned, and the scheme fell through.
In 1778, George Rogers Clark camped at the Falls on his way to
the Illinois, and the garrison he established there grew into
the town of Louisville. With Bullitt's surveying party in 1773,
were James Douglas, James Harrod, James Sodousky, Isaac Hite,
Abraham Haptonstall, Ebenezer Severns, John Fitzpatrick, John
Cowan,--prominent names in later Kentucky history,--and
possibly others. George Rogers Clark was probably with the
party during a part of its canoe voyage down the Ohio, but
seems to have gone no farther than Big Bone Creek.--R. G. T.

[9] This was done by a party of men from the Monongahela,
under the guidance of James Harrod; by whom was built the first
cabin for human habitancy ever erected in Kentucky. This was on
the present site of Harrodsburg.

[10] These are the Pipe Creek and Baker's Bottom affairs,
respectively mentioned on pp. 134, 149, _notes_. Yellow Creek,
opposite Baker's Bottom, empties into the Ohio 51 miles below
Pittsburg; Wheeling is 91 miles below Pittsburg, and Pipe Creek
104.--R. G. T.

[11] There is som