large family on an exposed frontier, at the opening of the
French and Indian War. In November, 1755, a raid was made on
the Big Cove settlement, by the Delaware chief Shingiss (p. 45,
_note_), but the Harrods were among the few families who
escaped unharmed to Fort Littleton. When James was sixteen
years of age he served with his brother William on Forbes's
campaign, and very likely saw further service during that war.
In 1772, when he had attained wide celebrity on the border as
an adept in woodcraft, he helped William settle on Ten Mile
Creek, a tributary of the Monongahela; and in 1773 he and
several other explored Kentucky, returning home by way of
Greenbrier River. We have seen (p. 152, _note_) that he was
surveying the site of Harrodsburg in 1774, when warned by Boone
and Stoner. Retiring with his men to the Holston, he and they
joined Col. Christian's regiment, but arrived at Point Pleasant
a few hours after the battle of October 10. Returning to his
abandoned Kentucky settlement March 18, 1775, a fortnight
before Boonesborough was founded, he was chosen a delegate to
the Transylvania convention, and became a man of great
prominence in the Kentucky colony. In 1779 he commanded a
company on Bowman's campaign, and the year following was a
captain on Clark's Indian campaign; declining a majorship, he
served as a private on Clark's campaign of 1782. He was a
member of the Kentucky convention (at Danville) of December,
1784, and at one time represented Kentucky in the Virginia
legislature. In February, 1792, having made his will, he set
out from Washington, Ky., with two men, in search of a silver
mine reported to be at the Three Forks of the Kentucky. No more
was heard of him or his companions, and it is still the belief
of the family that the latter murdered him. He was survived by
his wife and a daughter, and left a large landed estate.
Harrod, although unlettered, was a man of fine presence and
many sterling qualities, and made a strong impress on his
generation. He is still remembered in Kentucky as one of the
worthiest pioneers of that state.--R. G. T.

[3] The company--successively called The Louisa Company,
Henderson & Co., and The Transylvania Company--was c