[34] The importance of the historic entrepôt Limestone Mason County, Kentucky (later named Maysville from one of its first inhabitants) has been suggested in Volume IX of this series (pp. 70, 89, 128). It was the most important entrance point into Kentucky on its northeastern river shore-line. What it was in earliest days, because of the buffalo trail into the interior, it remained down through the earlier and later pioneer era to the time of the building of the trunk railway lines.
[35] United States Statutes at Large, Private Laws 1789-1845, inclusive, p. 27.
[36] American Pioneer, vol. i, p. 158.
[37] An exaggerated statement, yet much in accord with the truth, as we have previously observed.
[38] County seat of Adams County, Ohio.
[39] Evans and Stivers, History of Adams County, Ohio, p. 125.
[40] Wilcoxon’s clearing, Sinking Spring, Highland County, Ohio.—Id., p. 125.
[41] Id., p. 88.
[42] Society and Solitude, essay on “Civilization,” pp. 25-26.
[43] See Graham’s History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio, pp. 133-134.