Bryant's Station and the Memorial Proceedings

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FlLSON CLUBj'UBLICATIONS NO. 'I

12.

I

BRYANT'S STATION AND

THE MEMORIAL PROCEEDINGS HELD ON

ITS

SITE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LEXINGTON

CHAPTER, D. A.

R.,

IN

AUGUST THE I&TH, 1896

HONOR OF

ITS

HEROIC MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY

REUBEN T. DURRETT, LL. D. PRESIDENT OF THE FILSON CLUB

LOUISVILLE,

JOHN

P.

KENTUCKY

MORTON AND COMPANY to

.

21, 241

Number

of Indians

33

Cook, Mrs. Jesse

57

Cook, Mrs. Hosea

57

Cooper, Benjamin Corn,

Evan

23

1

230

Index. Council of Council of

War War

at Bryant's

137

on the Licking

166

G

46

Benjamin

47

Craig, Albert

Craig,

263

47,5

Craig, Betsy

Craig, Mrs. Elizabeth Craig,

Johnson

48, 50

Frankey

48, 50

Craig, Captain Elijah Craig,

46

Reverend Elijah

46

Craig, Elijah

47, 48

Craig,

Frank

47

Craig,

Hawkins

48

Craig, Jerry

23

Craig, Lewis

47, 125

Craig, Reverend Lewis

124

Craig, Nathaniel

48

Craig, Philip

Craig, Mrs. Craig,

1

47

Lucy Hawkins

Nancy

48, 50 47, 48, 50

Craig, Mrs. Polly

Hawkins

48, 50

Craig, Sally

47, 48, 50

Craig, Polly

47, 48, 50

Craig, Mrs. Sarah Page Craig,

John

Craig,

John

48, 50

H

47

48

Craig, Captain Jeremiah Craig, Captain

46, 48

John

46, 47

Craig, Toliver, junior

48

Craig, Toliver, senior

48

Craig, Whitfield

48, 23

Craig, William

48

Cunningham, Hugh

Damage Done by

1

Indians at Bryant's

230 1

10,

158

264

Index.

Dancing a Favorite Amusement

in Bryant's Station

27

Darnall, Miss Bessie

i

Date of the Attack on Bryant's

117, 134

34,

Davis, Mrs. Samuel

56

Day's March by Kentuckians

161

Day's March by Indians

162

Dead

Blue Licks

of the Battle of the

Dead Members

of

The

all

Buried

in

a

Common

Grave.

.

.

Filson Club

Deceit of Assailants Turned to Their

DeHaven, Judge Samuel DeLong, Mrs. Ida C

240

Own

Deception

41

E

241 12

Detection of Ruse in Attack on

100

Bryant's

Des Cognets, Mrs. Anna Russell Desecration of Dead on the Battle-field

12 of the

Blue Licks

188

Different Opinions as to Date of Attack on Bryant's

Disorganized March Toward

Indians at the

34

Blue Licks

171 71

Douglas, James

Dress

Dual

of

Militia

Kentucky

Name

of the

157 note

Elkhorn Station

Dudley, Ambrose

Thomas P

Durrett,

Reuben

T

Durrett,

Reuben

T., First Act in the Siege of Bryant's

Durrett,

Reuben T. The Filson Club

Durrett,

Reuben

125 Preface

T

15

i,

Eads, William

Judge George B

Echols, General John

15,

233

note

25

9,

70 241 241

Edwards, Mrs. Lutie Kail

Matthew

8,

230

Earliest Explorers of Site of Bryan's Station

Elkhorn, Origin of the

i

233

,

Dutch Station on Beargrass

Elliott,

72 125

Dudley,

Eastin,

196

Name

12

70 153

Index. Ellis,

John

Ellis,

Captain William

265

71 76, 103,

106, 194,

Emmal, Mrs. Annie Prewitt Estill,

12

Miss Martha Rodes

12

Evergreens on Blue Licks Battle-field

Examples

Double

of

230

Name

196

of Bryant's Station

note

Extracts from Letters Showing Military Dissatisfaction in Kentucky

.

.

22

205

Families of those Slain in the Battle of the Blue Licks

132

Fayette County Officers, Letter to Governor Harrison

198

Ferguson, Charles

230 around Bryan's

Fertility of the Soil

note 18, note 127

Thomas

Ficklin,

48 48

Ficklin, Joseph

Mary Herndon

Ficklin, Mrs.

Ficklin, Philadelphia Field,

William

Membership

Fighting

Men

John

Filson,

John

of

The

Filson Club Enlarged

in Different Counties in

in

Kentucky

in

230

134 note

1782

28 134

21, 35

His History and

:

Map

of

Kentucky

Filsou Club

233 233, 234, 235, 238, 242

Filson Club, List of First History

and

its

Map

Publications of

235

Kentucky

233

First Act in the Siege of Bryant's Station

15

First Sight of Indians at Blue Licks

First Shots

1

338

1782

Amusement

Fighting a Pioneer

Men

50

48,

Field of

Filson,

50

48,

48, 23

Field, Ezekial

Fighting

48,

from the Enemy

165

at Blue Licks

171

101

Firing of Cabins at Bryant's

Fleming, William

21,

Floyd, Colonel John

44

71, 134

note

Floyd's Station 34

25

266

Index.

Folley,

Food

John

230

of the Indians at Ruddle's

151

Food Prepared at Bryant's for the Campaign Footmen Fail to Enter Bryant's

162 108

Forts in Fayette County in 1782

134

Fort Nelson, at Louisville

Founders

of

The

note

Filson Club

Frank, Stephen

76,

Fry, John

Gallagher, William D., His Prophetic

Through the Woods

188

Poem

59

Gallagher, William D., His Death Gait, Doctor William

Who Went Simon

Girty,

James

241

H

Gano, Doctor Stephen

Girty,

78

230

Fugitives from Blue Licks Battle Escape

Girls

25

234

241

F

45

to the Spring for

Water

50

30, 31, 100, 112, 113, 116, 150, 154

109

Givins, Lieutenant William

229

K

Goodloe, John

241

Gordon, Captain John

229

C

Graham, Doctor

C.

Graham, James

(little)

note

47

230

Graham, James Grant, Squire

48, 23

1

23

1

Grant, John

76

Grant, William

72

Graves, Mrs. Adeline

12

Greggs, Daniel

230

Greene, Miss Nanci Lewis

12

Green, Jervis Guthrie, Mrs.

230

Mary Thomas

13

Haldimand, Sir Frederick Hamilton, Mrs.

Emma Van

note 144

Meter

13

Index.

267

Hammond, John

48

Hammond, Martin Hammond,

48

Mrs. Sarah Clement

50

48,

Harrodsburg Advised of the Siege of Bryant's

Harrodsburg Station

136 note

25

Hard Winter of 1779-80

78

Hart, Mrs. Nathaniel

55

Hart, Nicholas

150

Harlan, Silas

141, 229

Harget, Peter

231

Harbison, Mrs. Cecelia McClarty Harvie, Colonel Lewis

13

E

241

Harris, William

230

Hanson, Miss Jennie

M

13

Hawkins, Mrs. Laura Russell

2,

Hayden, Benjamin

Heavy

Firing on Bryant's Station

Help Sent

103

for to Neighboring Stations

136

Henson, Lieutenant Heroines

Who Went

13

231

229 to the Spring for

Water

50

Herndon, Thomas

48

Herndon, Samuel

48

Herndon, Edward

48

Herndon, Zachariah

48

History of Lexington Chapter D. A.

R

i

Historic Importance of Siege of Bryant's

Hixon, William

D

131 note

Hogan, James

Honorary Members

47

76 of

The

Filson Club Not Yet Elected

240

Horrors of the Retreat from Blue Licks

178

Horses of Kentuckians Mounted by Indians Hudelson, Jennie

Humphrey, Reverend Edward P

179 note

47

240

Index.

268

Humphreys, Mrs. Mary Taylor Impression

Made by

Girty's

13

114

Speech

Indians Alarmed by Gunboat on Ohio Indians Surround the Spring

at

29 38

Bryant's note

Indians Killed in the Siege Indians and Spring of 1780

Come Together

Indians Think Themselves Undiscovered

at

78

95

Bryant's

Indian Killed in Sycamore at Bryant's

104

Road They Went

Indian Signs Along the

160 162

Indians did not Avoid Pursuit

Indian Spies had

43

Watched Advancing Kentuckians

164

Indians Protected by Trees at Blue Licks

173

when Siege Began

44

Inhabitants of Bryant's

Inmates of Fort Move

to

Inscription on the Spring

123

Open Country Monument

130

Invasion Necessary to Conquer Indians

225

Monument

129

Invocation for Endurance of Jealousies of

Early Kentuckians

148 40, 42, 47, 50, 104

Johnson, Betsy Johnson, Captain Robert

123

Johnson, Captain Samuel Johnson, Cave

230

Johnson, Colonel Robert

Johnson, James Johnson, Jemima Suggett Johnson, Richard

M

21, 45,

73

40,

45

42,

47

40, 43, 47,

50

42,

47

Johnson, Sally

47

Johnson, William

47

Johnstone, Mrs. Hermine Gary Gratz

13

Johnston, Honorable

45

J.

Stoddard

Jones, David

76

Kentucky Historians Agreed as to Date of Siege

34

Kentucky Historians on

Name

of Station

vi

Index. Kentucky Historians on Date

269

of Siege

vi

Kentuckiaus Reach Licking Bottom

164

Kentuckians Defeated at the Blue Licks

173

Kentuckians Killed at Ford of Licking

180

Kennedy,

St.

John

229

Kenton, Simon Kerr, Miss Elizabeth

77

H

13

Killed in the Battle of the Blue Licks Killed in the Retreat

219

from Blue Licks

174

Kincheloe's Station Destroyed

226

Kincaid, James

231

229

Kincaid, Captain Joseph

King David's Three Mighty

Men

51

Kinkead, Miss Elizabeth Shelby

i,

13

Kinkead, Miss Eleanor Talbott

i,

13

Kinkead, Mrs. Barton Shelby

2,

13

Kinkead, Mrs. Laura Stone Kinkead, Miss James Pindell Kirby, Professor Maurice

Land Commissioners

at Bryan's

Lea, Mrs. Fanny Sanders

2 13

241

77 48, 50

Lea, Wainright

48

Lee, Huttery

76

LeCompt, Miss Margaret Jane

13

Ledgerwood, William Ledgerwood, James Letter of Daniel Boone

48 49, 230

205, 214

Letter of Colonel Arthur Campbell

220

Letter of Captain Caldwell

207

Letter of General Clark

200

Letter of Colonel S. Clark

201

Letter of Fayette County Officers

198

Letter of Colonel Benjamin Logan

222

Index.

270 McKee

Letter of Alexander

Letters of Colonel Levi

Andrew

Letters of

210

Todd

209, 218

Steele

Lexington Chapter D. A.

205, 227

R

i,

Lexington Chapter D. A. R. First to

Honor

Women

2,

n,

4,

12, 53,

of Bryant's

Lighted Arrows on Cabin Roofs at Bryant's

194 note

Linn's Station List of Filson Club Publications List of Inhabitants at Bryant's

when Siege Began

47

229

Members Lexington Chapter D. A. R Members of The Filson Club

12

242

List of Survivors of the Battle of the Blue Licks

Women

Livingston,

25

235

List of Killed in the Battle of the Blue Licks

List of

25 105

Lincoln Volunteers Greatest Sufferers

List of

vii

note

Lexington Station

List of

128

....

and Girls who went

230

to the Spring

50

James

4

119, 134, 189, 190, 195, 196, 222

Logan, Colonel Benjamin

Loss of the Besieged and Besiegers at Bryant's

note 119

Logan's Arrival at Bryant's

Logan

189

Starts for Battle-field

189

Logan Meets Returning Fugitives

190

Logan's Second Start for Battle-field

195

Logan's Return to Bryant's

196

Logan, Colonel Benjamin, His Letter to Governor Harrison

222

Logan, Colonel Benjamin, His Account of the Battle of the Blue Licks Lyle, Miss Lizzie Agnes Lyle, Mrs. Maria

Manner

C

2,

Humphrey

13 13

25

230

Martin's and Ruddle's Stations of the Kentuckians

1 1,

35

Marshall, Gilbert

March

222 i,

of Living in Bryant's

Marshall,

.

from Bryant's

note 114

157

Index.

271

Massie, Mrs. Lillie Higgins

13

May, William

2^1

McBride, Francis

230

McBride, James

,o

McBride, Captain William McClellan, Miss

Humor

McClung's

229

Mary

1,13

Wrong

in

Place

note

52

McConnell, Andrew

230

McCracken, Isaac

230

McCullough, James

231

McDowell, Miss Madeline

j

m,

McGary, Major Hugh

168, 170, 216, 230

McGuire, Lieutenant

229

McHenry, Honorable John

H

24

McKee, Alexander

note 30,

McKee, Alexander, His Account of the

3

of Siege of

n

i,

1

135, 150, 152, 210

Bryant's and

Blue Licks

the Battle

210

McMurtry, Ensign John

23

R

1

Members

of the Lexington Chapter D. A.

Members

of

The

Filson Club

242

Members

of

The

Filson Club in Every County

240

Meetings

of

The

Filson Club

Men, Women, and Children Menefee, Richard Merrell, Mrs.

John

Mitchum, John Mitchum, David

47 1

at

Boone's

103 13 3

Henry

Mitchum, James

Siege Began

56

Maud

Milligan, Mrs. Ellen

When

24

Mexican Veterans Miller,

239 Bryant's

J

Messengers Overtake Help Metcalf, Miss

in

12

230

M

13

49 49 note 43, 48

Index.

272

Dudley

Mitchell,

v

48

Mitchell, Richard

48

Mitchell, William

48

Mitchell and Adkinson Killed

104

Moluntha, the Shawnese Chief

in

note and

Mounted Men Enter the Fort Morton, Mrs.

j

06

R

J.

4

Morton, Mrs. Mary Gratz

Morgan, Mrs. Lavinia Herndon

2,

13

2,

13

note 49, 231

Morgan, James Morgan, Mrs. John

4

Mothers and Daughters who went for Water

Mulligan, Honorable

James

Mulligan, Mrs. Genevieve

Name

of Station

Names

50

A

Murray, Honorable John

24

H

Morgan

viii,

According to Author of Article

Bryant's when Siege Began Names of the Women and Girls who went to the Spring Name of The Filson Club of

Those

to

47 for

Water.

Nelson, John Nelson,

48

Morgan

48, 50

Netherland, Benjamin of

52

230

Edward

Nelson, Mrs. Harriet

News

50

334 note

Spring

13 vi

in

Narrow Path from Fort

1

viii

183, 186, 231

n8

Departure of Indians

Noggin Described

No Order Given

g6 to Retreat, but

Number

of Killed in

Number

of Indians

Number

of the

Number

in Bryant's

Number

of

all

Retreated by Intuition

Kentucky from 1775

to

1782

133

who Attacked Bryant's

Enemy

Women

177

when Siege Began and Girls who went

Nuchols, Mrs. Martha

33 note and 146

Thomas

to the

note

41

Spring for Water. ...

51 13

Index.

273

Object of Meeting at Bryant's Officers of Lexington

15

Chapter D. A.

R

1

1,

Officers Killed in the Blue Licks Battle Officers of

Officers

The

173

Filsou Club Affairs of

Manage

12

242

The

Filson Club

239

O'Neal, John

230

Original Historic Matter Brought of

The

Out

at Bryant's Station

viii

Filson Club

Original

Membership

Original

Poem by Major Henry

238

T. Stanton

62

Original Sources of the History of Bryan's

70

Origin of Lexington Chapter D. A.

Order of

Command

R

i

Battle of the Blue Licks

in the

172

Overton, Captain Clough

229

Papers Necessary to Understand the Battle of the Blue Licks

.

.

.note 102

Parker, Mrs. Virginia

13

Patterson, Robert

73, 182,

230

Pepper, Miss Belle

13

Pepper, Miss Dixie

13

Percentage of Killed at the Blue Licks

178

Percentage of Officers at the Blue Licks and Bryant's

137

Pericles on Illustrious Athenians Peter, Mrs.

16

Mary McCauley

13

".

Peter, Doctor Robert

241

Piggin Described

Pioneer

Women

96 should be Honored with a

Monument

17

Plan of Defense by the Inmates of Bryant's

36

Poem by Major Henry

62

Policy,

T. Stanton

23

Drurey

Prayer of Doctor

Lyman

Beecher Todd

Preston, Colonel William

20,

Preston, General William

President of Price,

The

Who

77 240

Filson Club

13 T

230

John

Prisoners

6

.

Returned from the Blue Licks 35

note 188

Index.

274

Prisoners taken in 1780 by Captain Bird

Proportion of Fighting

Men

Proceedings at Bryant's

a

fill

226

Slain at the Blue Licks in

Gap

132

Kentucky History

Public Spirit in Lexington Chapter D. A.

58

R

2

Purpose of The Filson Club Pusey, Doctor H.

234

K

241

Quinquennial List of Members of

The

Filson Club

242

Waiting for Logan

Question of

Ranck, Professor George

146

W

10,

Ranck, Professor George W., Story of Bryan's Station

69

69

Ranck, Miss Mary Carty Railley, Mrs.

i

Ada Pepper

Rash Insubordination

of

13

McGary

170

Reese, Mrs. Florence Sullivan

13

Religious Services in Bryant's

124

Reported Deaths in the Battle of the Blue Licks

191

Repulse of the Indians at Bryant's

41, 101

Retreat or Death at the Blue Licks

177

Retreat of Kentuckians at the Blue Licks

Return of

Women

to Bryant's with

174

Water

98

Reynolds, Aaron

48, 52, 115, 181, 231

Rivers, Reverend Richard

Road from Bryant's

to

H

241

Blue Licks

159

Robertson, William

230 note 18, 48, 77, 124, 126

Rogers, Joseph Rogers, Barnett

48, 229

Rogers, Doctor Coleman Roll of

Females who went

note to the

Spring for Water

47 50

Rose, James

23

Rose, Lewis

231

Rose, Matthias

230

Ross, Mrs.

Mary Ranck

Ruddle's and Martin's Stations

Ruse

of the Attack

on Bryant's

1

13

note 25 and 114, 150

99

Index.

275

Saunders, Betsy

48, 50

Saunders, John

48

Saunders, Lydia Saunders, Mrs. Jane Craig

Saunders, Nathaniel

50

48,

50

48

.

Saunders, Polly Sayre, Mrs.

48,

48,

Mary Lovell

i,

2,

Salt of the Blue Licks

50 14

165

Unsuccessful Expedition for

78

Saved from Burning by an East Wind

102

Salt,

Saturday Night's Council at Bryant's

146

Scott, Mrs. Elizabeth Slaughter Bassett:

The Lexington Chapter D.

Scott, Mrs. Elizabeth Slaughter Bassett

A. R. i,

1 1,

Scott, Mrs. Elizabeth Skillman

Scovell, Mrs.

i

14

14

Nancy D

14

Sharp, John

109

Shanklin, Mrs. Martha Bryan

14

Shanklin, Miss

14

Mary Elizabeth

Shelby, Mrs. Wallace

4

Shelby, Miss Alice McDowell

14

Shelby, Mrs. Margaret Bryan

14

Shelby, Miss Lucy Goodloe Sherley, Mrs. John Short, Mrs.

14

C

45

Mary Dudley

14

Siege of Bryant's Followed by the Battle of the Blue Licks Siege of

Bryant's

Andrew

and

the

Battle

of

the Blue

131

Licks described by

Steele

Skinner, Mrs. Julia

227 Leuvir

14

Smith, James

230

Smith, John

231

Smith, William

230

Speech

of

Simon Girty

Speed, Captain

Spring Station

at Chillicothe

31

Thomas

51

note

25

Index.

276

24, 38, 74, 96, 128

Spring at Bryant's

when Bryant's was Besieged

Stations in Kentucky

Stanford Station Stanton, Major

Stanton, Major

Henry T. Henry

the

,

Women

of

note

25

note

25

9,

62

62

Bryant's

T

230

Stapleton, John Steele,

Andrew

35,

194, 205, 227, 231

Stewart, William

230

Stephens, William

230

Stern, Val

230

Stevenson, Mrs. Fannie Story of Bryan's,

Van de

Grift

14

by George W. Ranck

69

Strong, Mrs. Isabel Osbourne

14

note 19, 48, 104

Stucker, Jacob St.

Asaph's Advised of the Siege of Bryant's

136

Suggett, William

48

Suggett, Mrs. Mildred Davis

48,

50 48

Suggett, John

note

Sullivan's Station

25

Swigert, Mrs. Annette Broadhead

14

Sweeney, Mrs. Margaret Prewitt

14

Scyamore at Bryant's Taylor, Hancock

in

which an Indian was Killed

104 .*....

Taylor, Honorable Harrison

D

71

241

Threlkeld, Mrs. Frances Bassett

14

Three Vessels of Water Carried by Each

Woman

49

Things Necessary to Understand the Battle of the Blue Licks

132

Tiptou, Honorable French

note

47

Todd, Colonel Levi

102,

Todd, Colonel John

134, 136, 138, 139, 147, 172, 229

Todd's and Boone's

Words

note 168

in Council

Todd, Doctor

Lyman Beecher

Todd, Doctor

Lyman

Todd, Miss Fannie

135, 136, 141, 209, 218, 230

Beecher, Invocatory Prayer

6,

note

47 9

4

Index.

277

Todd, Miss Fannie Swift

14

Tomlinson, Nicholas

notes 41, 43, 48, 52, 76, 78, 104

Tomlinson, William

21, 48,

Trigg, Colonel Stephen

Truth

of the Tradition of the

Women

Going

for

Water

note

Twyman, Stephen Tyler,

73

I3 8, 140, 147, 229

97 231

Mayor Henry S

241

Unveiling of Memorial Wall and Tablets at Bryant's

4

Van Meter, Mrs. Eveline Swope Virginia Calendar

:

14

Effect on Early Kentucky History

vi.

Washington's Farewell Address

Wall around Spring chosen

for

4

Memorial

4

Ward, Miss Nora

14

Water Wanted

37

in the Station

Water Gotten Slowly by Dipping Water, Want

note

of in the Fort

95

Watterson, Honorable Harvey

M

241

Wilcoxen, Daniel Williams, Mrs.

48,

Mary Sayre

76 14

Williams, Ellison Willis,

52

48

Honorable Albert S

241

Wilson, Israel

230

Wilson, John

230

Wilson, Henry

231

Women and Girls of Bryant's Station Women Become Members of The Filson

16,

17, 39,

50, 62, 95,

Club

239

Wood, Miss Mary Wood,

Thomas, Present

Wounded on Wyandot

55

Owner

the Battle-field

of Bryant's Station

note

Tomahawked and Scalped

Indians

18

188 29, 144, 175

48

Yocum, Jesse

>

Young, Colonel Bennett H., the Battle of the Blue Licks Young, Colonel Bennett

129

H

Young, Reverend William

l

131 :

D

23

ix,

13

1

241