- David Purviance, Simon Lucky, Matthew Houston, Wm. Trabue, Shadrac Landrum, Thomas Hinkson, members of Cane Ridge Church.
- Richard McNemar, tried by synod for heresy.
- General Wilkinson, Judge Innes, Judge Murray, Judge Sebastian, supposed Spanish intriguants.
- Graham, detective in employ of Federal Government.
- Henry Clay and Joseph Hamilton Daviess, opposing counsel in the Burr trial.
- Polly Hinkson and Molly Trabue, rustic belles.
- Richard Dudley, of Virginia, foster-father of Abner Dudley (Logan.)
- John Calvin, Martin Luther, Silas, Philip, Matthew, sons of Major and Mrs. Gilcrest.
- Henry, Susan, Lucindy, Lucy, Tommy, Barton, the six children of Mason and Cynthia Ann Rogers.
- Uncle Tony, Rube, Tom, Rache, Aunt Dink, slaves belonging to the Rogerses.
CRESTLANDS
A Story of Early Kentucky
MARY ADDAMS BAYNE
CHAPTER I.
THE COMING OF THE SCHOOLMASTER
The spirit of Indian Summer, enveloped in a delicate bluish haze, pervaded the Kentucky forest. Through the treetops sounded a sighing minor melody as now and then a leaf bade adieu to the companions of its summer revels, and sought its winter's rest on the ground beneath. On a fallen log a redbird sang with jubilant note. What cared he for the lament of the leaves? True, he must soon depart from this summer home; but only to wing his way to brighter skies, and then return when mating-time should come again. Near a group of hickory-trees a colony of squirrels gathered their winter store of nuts; and a flock of wild turkeys led by a pompous, bearded gobbler picked through the underbrush. At a wayside puddle a deer bent his head to slake his thirst, but scarcely had his lips touched the water when his head was reared again. For an instant he listened, limbs quivering, nostrils dilating, a startled light in his soft eyes; then with a bound he was away into the depths of the forest. The turkeys, heeding the tocsin of alarm from their leader, sought the shelter of the deeper undergrowth; the squirrels dropped their nuts and found refuge in the topmost branches of the tree which they had just pilfered; but the redbird, undisturbed, went on with his caroling, too confident in his own beauty and the charm of his song to fear any intruder.