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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 46: (search)
way, no tradition preserves the names. Others, following the natural highways of the West, descended from Pittsburg, and from Red Stone Creek to Fort Natchez. The pilot, who conducted the party of which Samuel Wells and John MacIntire were the Chiefs, was so attracted by the lands round the Fort, that he promised to remove there in the spring with his wife and family, and believed a hundred families from North Carolina Letter dated Fort Natchez, 19 July, 1770. Compare Hillsborough to Chester, 3 Oct. 1770; Gage to Hillsborough, 24 April, 1770. would follow. The zeal of hunters and emigrants outran the concessions extorted from the Board of Trade. This year James Robertson, from the home of the Regula- Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Nov. tors in North Carolina, a poor and unlettered forester, of humble birth, but of inborn nobleness of soul, cultivated maize on the Watauga. The frame of the heroic planter was robust; his constitution hardy; he trod the soil as if he were its rightful