MISCELLANEOUS: Shane Interview, HINES, Mrs., Bourbon County, Kentucky From: Bob Francis Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000, 16:40 Fellow researchers, Since a lot of folks got a kick out of the Robert Jones interview, I thought I'd send out a couple of more like it. This series comes from John B. Shane's interviews with some early Bourbon County pioneers. Enjoy! Bob ------------------ Source: The Filson Club History Quarterly, July 1930, Vol. 10, No. 3 Interview with Mrs. Hines of Bourbon County INTERVIEW WITH MRS. HINDS OF BOURBON COUNTY [Page 5.] No. 3. Mrs. Hinds. (A Mrs. James Mills [or Hill?] before.) Met with at Mr. Thomas L. Cunningham's, near Clintonville [met at home of her granddaughter's husband]. James Mills: My husband, James Mills (or Hill?) was out in 1781, under Clark, who had raised a company in the back parts of Virginia (Pennsylvania?). He was out also in Crawford's campaign. Was also in Harmer's and St. Clair's campaigns in the North West, after he moved out here. Coming Out: We came down the [Ohio] River the winter preceding Harmer's campaign (or the winter before that time, one year) (1788-9). We came down in a merchant's boat that tried to got down that winter. When we got to the Alleghany, we found it full of ice. Dunlap: The merchant was ________Dunlap, who had a store in Danville, and had been down before. Lemmons: There were also along two Lemmons, traveling merchants, one living here by Georgetown now. On our way down we passed an island. At the head of it my husband wanted to get into the canoe and go ashore. Mr. Dunlap wouldn't let him. About the middle of the island, we passed some Indians, or saw them (standing around a fire?). They did not attempt to interrupt us. We came up to Bourbon. Only staid there two weeks. We then went up to Lexington and spent the winter there. Perry's Station-Saundersville: We then removed two miles out to Perry's Station, now Saundersville. Perry died the week (or a week) before we went there. Colonel [Robert] Patterson & Co. starting to North Bend: The next summer after we came here, four men started from Lexington to go to the North Bend, to purchase land; Col. Patterson, Wm. Brown, and two brothers of the name of Ellison. Brown-the Ellisons: Brown had come the spring succeeding the the fall or winter of our coming. We would have come together but he couldn't get ready. Just beyond Georgetown Brown was killed and one of the Ellisons. Brown had a wife and four or five children. The oldest children were twins. One married a James Laughhead. Brown's brother: Brown had a brother that was out a year or two before, taken prisoner on the Ohio, and carried on to Detroit. From there he made his escape. Georgetown: Not far from Georgetown the Indians stole horses and, I think, either killed or got a negro. It was warm weather, the first night the men had camped out and hitched up their horses. They came into Lexington to get help to pursue the Indians; but before they [the help] got there, the Indians had ransacked all their houses, or plunder, and gone. Memorandum: [Appended is a memorandum of conversation with Thomas L. Cunningham relative to Mrs. Hinds, his wife's grandmother.] Thomas L. Cunningham, Mrs. Hinds' last husband, went off and left her without any reason whatever assigned: On this account she would far rather go by her first husband's name. She is the grandmother of my [Cunningham's] wife. McConnel Captured: McConnel was taken, I have understood, right in the fork where Town Fork and Wolf Creek come together; there by Isaac Cummingham, right where the mill dam now is. [This reference is to Alexander McConnel who in 1780 was captured by Indians near Lexington and shortly thereafter escaped by killing three of his captors.] Boon and Callaway Girls: The Boon and Callaway girls were recaptured [July, 1776] up a little creek that puts into Licking just above Parker's Ferry. [The capture of these three girls, their rescue and their marriage to three of the pursuers is a well known romance of the pioneer days.] Boon's youngest son: The youngest son of Daniel Boon [Nathan Boone, Born 1781, Died, 1856], from Missouri, passed through Clintonville last summer (1843). He stopped an hour. I [Cunniingham] didn't see him. Was said to have been a rough, slovenly, indifferent looking man. ***************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *****************************************************************