the most southerly
branch of the Cumberland; thence down that stream, including
all its waters, to the Ohio, and thence up the Ohio to the
mouth of the Kentucky. The Indians were conscious that they had
sold what did not belong to them; and Dragging Canoe and other
chiefs were outspoken in their opinion that the whites would
have difficulty in settling the tract. The Indians were much
dissatisfied with the division of the goods. These "filled a
house" and cost L10,000 sterling, yet when distributed among so
many greedy savages each had but a small share. One warrior,
who received but a shirt for his portion, said he "could have
shot more game in one day on the land ceded, than would pay for
so slight a garment."

Governors Martin, of North Carolina, and Dunmore, of Virginia,
issued proclamations against the purchase, as contrary to the
royal proclamation of 1763. But those who were present at the
treaty--among them such prominent borderers as Daniel Boone,
James Robertson, John Sevier, Isaac Shelby, Felix Walker, the
Bledsoes, Richard Callaway, William Twitty, William Cocke, and
Nathaniel Henderson--were heedless of such proclamations, and
eager to become settlers under the company's liberal offer made
to them on the spot: for each man who assisted in the first
settlement, and went out and raised a crop of corn that year, a
grant of 500 acres for L5 sterling, clear of all charges.

Boone, as the company's agent, started out at once (March 10)
with twenty men, soon reinforced to thirty; with their hatchets
they blazed a bridle path over Cumberland Gap, and across
Cumberland, Laurel, and Rockcastle rivers, to the banks of the
Kentucky, where, after a running fight with the Indians, they
arrived April 1, and founded Boonesborough. Henderson, at the
head of thirty men conveying the wagons and supplies, arrived
at Boonesborough April 20; with him were Luttsell and Nathaniel
Hart. May 23, there met at Boonesborough the Legislature of
Transylvania, in which sat eighteen delegates from the little
group of four frontier forts, all established at about this
time--Harrodsburg, Boiling Springs, and St. Asaph's (or Logan's
Station), lying some thirty or more miles southwest of