Photo from National Portrait Gallery
On July 8, 1774, Captain
William Russell, per instructions of Colonel William Preston, sent Daniel Boone
and Michael Stoner to notify James Harrod and the other white settlers of the
increasing Native American hostilities. Scouts were also sent out because of
fears the Cherokee would combine with the northern Native Americans. Russell
wrote:
“I
am in hopes, that in two or three weeks from this time Mr. Boone will produce
the gentlemen surveyors here, as I can’t believe they are all killed. Boone has
instructions to take different routes till he comes to the Falls of the Ohio
and if no discovery there, to return home through the Cumberland Gap … if they
are alive, it is indisputable but Boone must find them.”
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