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Several of them, chiefly from Virginia, hearing of the abundance of game with which the woods were stocked, and allured by the prospects of gain, which might be drawn from this source, formed themselves into a company, composed of Wallen, Scaggs, Blevins, Cox, and fifteen others, and came into the valley since known as Carter's Valley, in Hawkins County, Tennessee.
With Walden went Henry Scaggs, afterward explorer for the Henderson Land Company, William Elevens and Charles Cox, the famous Virginia hunters, one Newman, and some fifteen other stout pioneers. Their itinerary may be traced from the names given to natural objects in honor of members of the party Walden's Mountain and Walden's Creek, Scaggs' Ridge and Newman's Ridge.
The elaborate and detailed information brought back by Henry Scaggs exerted an appreciable influence, no doubt, in accelerating the plans of Richard Henderson and Company for the acquisition and colonization of the trans-Alleghany. But while the "Long Hunters" were in Tennessee and Kentucky the same region was being more extensively and systematically explored by Daniel Boone.
Indian hostilities resumed Expedition of Davis, Caffre and McClure Murder of Elliot Marshall's river adventure Attack on Captain Ward's boat Affair near Scaggs' Creek Growth of Kentucky Population Trade General Logan calls a meeting at Danville Danger of the country from Indian hostilities, and necessity of defense considered Convention called Separation from Virginia proposed Other conventions-Virginia consents Kentucky admitted as an independent State of the Union Indian hostilities Expedition and death of Colonel Christian Attack on Higgins' Fort Expedition of General Clark Its utter failure Expedition of General Logan Surprises and destroys a Shawanese town Success of Captain Hardin Defeat of Hargrove Affairs in Bourbon County Exploits of Simon Kenton Affairs at the Elkhorn settlements Treaty Harman's expedition Final pacification of the Indians after Wayne's victory.
After perfecting arrangements with Clark for securing "cabin rights" should the land prove to lie in Virginia, Robertson returned to Watauga to take command of the migration. Toward the end of the year two parties set out, one by land, the other by water, for the wonderful new country on the Cumberland of which Boone and Scaggs and Mansker had brought back such glowing descriptions.
Just why Henderson and his associates did not act sooner upon the reports brought back by the hunters Boone and Scaggs and Callaway, who accompanied Boone in 1764 in the interest of the land company "is not known; but in all probability the fragmentary nature of these reports, however glowing and enthusiastic, was sufficient cause for the delay of five years before the land company, through the agency of Boone and Findlay, succeeded in having a thorough exploration inside of the Kentucky region.
The acquaintance which Boone on this occasion formed with a member of the party, Henry Scaggs, the skilled hunter and explorer, was soon to bear fruit; for shortly afterward Scaggs was employed as prospector by the same land company.
And for that portion of said county which lies east of the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, at Goodhope Tavern. Judges: Selby B. Scaggs, Fenwick Young, and Dr. Wellford Manning.
The most notable expedition of this period, projected under the auspices of two bold leaders extraordinarily skilled in woodcraft, Joseph Drake and Henry Scaggs, was organized in the early autumn of 1770. From the duration of their absence from home, they received the name of the Long Hunters the romantic appellation by which they are known in the pioneer history of the Old Southwest.
Many natural objects were named by this party in particular Dick's River, after the noted Cherokee hunter, Captain Dick, who, pleased to be recognized by Charles Scaggs, told the Long Hunters that on HIS river, pointing it out, they would find meat plenty adding with laconic signifigance: "Kill it and go home."
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