[18] Id., no. 38, May 17, 1788.

[19] Id., vol. ii, no. 10, November 1, 1788.

[20] Id., vol. ii, no. 14, November 29, 1788.

[20*] See Historic Highways of America, vol. ii, note 32.

[21] Allen: The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, pp. 251-252.

[22] Speed: The Wilderness Road, p. 30; cf. pp. 42, 43; cf. Roosevelt: The Winning of the West (1899), vol. i, p. 316.

[23] Draper Collection: Kentucky MSS., vol. 23, cc. pp. 19-24.

[24] Speed: The Wilderness Road, p. 30. Cf. American Pioneer, vol. ii, pp. 219-220; St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 246; Life of Nathaniel Massie, p. 121; Collins’s History of Kentucky, vol. ii, p. 327.

[25] Draper’s Notes, vol. II, Trip 1860, iii, p. 56.

[26] Cf. Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. 1, p. 145.