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Updated: June 16, 2025
It was all very mysterious to me, and I lay awake many a night with curiosity, trying to solve a puzzle that was none of my business. And one day, to cap the matter, two woodsmen arrived at Harrodstown with clothes frayed and bodies lean from a long journey.
Wrenn, the schoolmaster at Harrodstown, had writ at Polly Ann's bidding. I have the letters yet. For Mr. Wrenn was plainly an artist, and had set down on the paper the words just as they had flowed from her heart. Ay, and there was news in the letters, though not surprising news among those pioneer families whom God blessed so abundantly.
A line of horses stood kicking and switching their tails in front of the log tavern, rough carts and wagons had been left here and there with their poles on the ground, and between these, piles of skins were heaped up and bags of corn and grain. The log meeting-house was deserted, but the court-house was the centre of such a swirling crowd as I had often seen at Harrodstown.
It wouldn't take me but a little time to run into Harrodstown or Boone's Station from here, and fetch a party to follow ye." Two days went by, two days of strain in sunlight, and of watching and fitful sleep in darkness. But the Wilderness Trail was deserted.
And that night we supped upon dried buffalo meat and boiled nettle-tops, for of such was the fare in Harrodstown that summer. "Tom McChesney kept his faith." One other man was to keep his faith with the little community George Rogers Clark. And I soon learned that trustworthiness is held in greater esteem in a border community than anywhere else.
He was writing from memory, however, and was probably mistaken; thus he says there were at that time settlers at the Falls, an evident mistake, as there were none there till the following year. Collins, following Marshall, says there were at the end of the year only one hundred and two men in Kentucky, sixty-five at Harrodstown, twenty-two at Boonsborough, fifteen at Logan's.
He came out alone and on foot, and by his sudden appearance surprised the settlers not a little. The first to meet him was a young lad, who had gone a few miles out of Harrodstown to turn some horses on the range.
Within the hour the news had spread to the farms, and men rode in to Harrodstown to tell the Colonel of many who were leaving the plough in the furrow and the axe in the wood, and starting off across the mountains in anger and fear. The Colonel turned to me as he sat writing down the names of the volunteers. "Davy," said he, "when you are grown you shall not stay at home, I promise you.
Arrival of George Rogers Clark in Kentucky Anecdote of his conversation with Ray Clark and Jones chosen as delegates for the Colonies to the Virginia Legislature Clark's important services in obtaining a political organization for Kentucky, and an abundant supply of gunpowder from the government of Virginia Great labor and difficulty in bringing the powder to Harrodstown Clark's expedition against Kaskaskias Surprise and capture of their fort Perilous and difficult march to Vincennes Surprise and capture of that place Extension of the Virginian settlements Erection of Fort Jefferson.
"'Tis Davy will save us, Tom," said Polly Ann, "with the l'arnin' he's got while the corn was grindin'." I had, indeed, been reading at the mill while the hopper emptied itself, such odd books as drifted into Harrodstown. One of these was called "Bacon's Abridgment"; it dealt with law and it puzzled me sorely.
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