KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 9 April 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 150 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:18:07 -0400 From: Bob Francis Subject: MISC: Shane Interview with Patrick Scott, part one, Bourbon Co Source: The Filson Club History Quarterly, July 1930, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 169-177 INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK SCOTT OF BOURBON COUNTY No. 4. Patrick Scott. [He lives] about a mile, on the Paris road, from North Middletown, on Scott's Branch. Patrick Scott’s first wife was a Campbell, daughter of William Campbell, Elder at Point Pleasant. He lived in that neighborhood. His second wife was a Robinson, (or Poston?) an Ironside-Baptist. [Page 6.] Simon Girty. My father knew Simon Girty in Pennsylvania. He was a keen, shrewd man. He was affronted at not being promoted and on that account left the Americans. Abraham Corn and brother: Abraham Corn, mentioned in Morehead, lived in Clark. [James T. Morehead's Boonesborough address, 1840.] He was sent to the Penitentiery for burning a Negro to death. He was pardoned by the Governor. His brother [Ebenezer] had his teeth knocked in at the Blue Licks Battle; the buillitt went out at the side of his mouth (?). Colonel [Stephen] Trigg: Colonel Trigg, that was killed at the Blue Lick Battle, lived one-half mile from the fort where I lived. Aaron Burr, [Gov. John] Adair, [Gov. Joseph] Desha: Aaron Burr was taken at Hubbard Taylor's, in Clark [County]. General John Adair and Governor Desha were confederates of Burr. [Hubbard Taylor was one of the best known public spirited men of Central Kentucky.] Boon's house on Yadkin: [I] was at Boon's house, on the Yadkin, thirty-five years ago. Coming out: My father came down the spring [of] 1778, with Clark's company and stopped at the Falls of the Ohio. Patton and Swan: Patton and one Swan were of the party. They planted corn on Corn Island [at Falls of the Ohio]. [Colonel R. T. Durrett's list of names of the first settlers of Louisville includes James Patton, but not Swan or Scott, nor does it include the "two Spaniards" later referred to.] Corn [on] Corn Island: Have heard my father say, as he used to sit of nights in his cornfield, that he thought he could hear the corn go tick, tick, it grew so fast. The Fort. A man killed: Built a fort above Corn Island, on the main land. I remember there was one man killed, out to ward the swamps, after the fort was built. [This may have been Fort-on-Shore, built in 1779 opposite Corn Island, at the foot of 11th St; or Floyd's (first) Station built in 1779, at the mouth of Beargrass Creek, at the foot of 3rd St; or Fort Nelson built in 1782, at the foot of 7th St.] The two Spaniards. There were two Spaniards staying at the Fort, while we were there, that had come up from Natchez. We left them there when we left the Fort. They were named Blackfish: an old man and a young one, loiterers. The old one was a sulky old dog; savage looking, they were. I have seen him chase the young one (not a son) with his tomahawk in hand to kill him, for hours at a time. Clark's Campaign: It was the 24th of June [1778] when Clark started from there to go on his campaign. Captain Isaac Hite-McAfee's Station: Captain Isaac Elite was at McAfee's Station when the Indians attacked the station. He came to Harrodsburg in a remarkably short time. I do not recollect how many seconds, but he was quick. He lived at Harrodsburg when we did. Bowman's Station: While we were at Harrodsburg [Abram] Bowman lived at Bowman's Station on Dick's River. Riddles: Old man Riddle [Isaa& Ruddle] was a great rogue, and George Riddle, his son, as great a rogue. Lexington: I recollect seeing that first company, that went to Lexington, start. I was at Harrodsburgh then. Sam McMullen and James McBride of it. Both lived with my father. Harrodsburgh in 1779: I could go to the spot where Harrodsburgh fort was, now. A stone wall came down to the spring (arched over with flat stones ?), so that they could go down to the spring in safety. There was an Indian, that had been killed and burried [near] by Harrodsburgh, whose skull we boys got and were used to plaguing each other, throwing it at one another. I could point out my father's house, now, in the fort at Harrodsburgh, the place it was. Had the spring fenced in, and the passway to it covered over with large stones. Hammond: One Hammond also lived in Harrodsburgh. Negro with Indians at Harrodsburgh: Gun, called cannon, shot at a Negro with Indians who was in a tall sycamore that grew in the bottom there by Harrodsburgh. [Some one wrote on this manuscript suggesting that the place of this incident might be Boonesboro.) Items: [mnemonic notes intended for future elaboration]: Sconce's Trace. Templeton Poston, a son of Elijah Poston. Cow and calf, Main Street, Lexington, living on Boon's Creek. My father's escape on Benson. Logan's Campaign: Three years after we came over here, they wanted to press a horse for Logan's campaign. I ran him into the cane (to hide him]. Removals (to the West, Harrodsburgh and S(cott]'s Creek): [We] settled at this place, about [the] fall [ofl 1789. My father came to Kentucky with Clark's troops that were going against the O'Post [Vincennes], 1778. The next season [we] went up to Harrodsburg. Boonesboro, Harrodsburg, and Whitley Station were then the only settlements. Coming Out: Thirteen families came down [the Ohio]. We got to Louisville [The Falls), on 24 June, 1778. (Error plainly, perhaps first of June.) That day the sun was eclipsed totally. William Scott: My father was named William Scott. He came to Kentucky when I was but four years old. I was born in 1774. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:18:56 -0400 From: Bob Francis Subject: MISC: Patrick Scott, part two, Bourbon Co Clark's Campaign: Clark started from Louisville the 24th of June; Governor Hamilton had taken O'Post, and Clark came down with a company to go and retake Post Vincent. We came down the River with that company, spring, 1778. Clark mounted a black-jack [Page 7.] log on a pair of truck wheels, that is when he got into the bend below Post St. Vincent, and then sent in word to Governor Hamilton to surrender or he would blow him to hell. and burn him up soul and body. Corn Island: Clark settled these thirteen families on Corn Island. Of the thirteen families,* one was this [James] Patton's who died in Louisville some years ago. Another was this Lynn's. (Which Lynn's?) [William Lynn] Main Shore: When we came down there was no one living on the main land. There was nothing there until after Clark came back from the O'Post. [Old Post or possibly Ouabache Post, i. e. Wabash Post, i. e. Vincennes.] He then built a fort on the bank. Raised an onehalf acre of corn on that island. It was a warm, sandy soil. and my father used to say that of nights he could hear the corn grow. Clark: The last time I met with Clark was out on Triplett [Creek], at one Henderson's, while I used yet to go to Sandy Salt-works [near present day Morehead]. Clark's troops, on their return from the O'Post Expedition, going back to Virginia, went by Harrodsburgh and along through on the Wilderness Road. My father removed up to Harrodsburgh in [Clark's] company, as they went up. Wabash Indians: The tribe of Wabash Indians went up with us. (Clark had the Indians with him.) The king [Really, Baltise, Kaskaskia chief, I think. L. C. Draper's inserted note.] and queen of the tribe were along. I remember her (the queen's) looks very well. She was an ugly old creature. Removed to Harrodsburg: Went up to Harrodsburg the fall of the hard winter, 1779-80. We didn't remain at Harrodsburgh over winter. We staid there two or three weeks and then went to Corn's Station on Cane Run. George Corn's Station: George Corn had a bullet shot into his mouth, which knocked in his foreteeth. He swallowed a bullet and gulped it up again, not until two or three days after. Old George Corn, that owned the Station, had a son, Ebenezer, that lived in Clark [County] and who was sent to the penitentiary for killing a negro. Corn Station was about six miles from Harrodsburgh, on a branch of Cane Run (that came in from ?) towards Danville. Colonel Stephen Trigg: Old Colonel Stephen Trigg lived at what was called the Vineygrove, neax Corn's Station. He was killed at the Battle of Blue Licks [August 16, 1782]. His son was a cashier in the bank at Paris. Was a physician. Stepped aside with a young woman. Hugh McGary: McGary was a creature without consideration. Was by nature a savage. He married a Yoc~m. She had a bastard child, as well as he, when they married. He went to drive her bastard child off; she said, to drive off both; and they did. Daniel McGary, a son of old Hugh, lived in Montgomery County, was a trifling, gambling sort of fellow. Lexington: I was at Harrodsburgh when the first man that came to Lexington started from there. Corn's Station and Riddle: I was at Corn's Station when Riddle (that was taken at Riddle's [Isaac Ruddle's Station)) got back [from British captivity]. McCune's. One McCune, who was at Bowman's Station when Riddle got there, went out and got a hoop-pole, of which he had a parcel, and wore it out on Riddle. McCune had been a fellow prisoner with Riddle, and had been planning to run away, when Riddle went and told the British on him, who put McCune in irons. "Now," says McCune, "Tell on me again!" Swan: Swan was one of the men that lived in Harrodsburgh when we were there. (The same Swan who was at Corn Island?] Colonel Thomas Hinkston: Colonel Thomas Hinkston was also about Harrodsburg. [John Hinkston escaped at the capture of Martin's Station and gave the alarm, but we do not know whether or not Colonel Thomas Hinkston was kin to him. Ruddel's and Maxtin's stations were captured by an army of British and Indians under Colonel Byrd who brought the first British cannon into Kentucky, on June 22, 1780.] Joseph Jackson: [Addenda, page 17.] Old Jackson, at Lee's Lick, in the lower end of this county [Bourbon County] was on the British side in the Blue Lick Battle. (Joe Jackson showed me the place, at the Lower Blue Licks where he was caught by the Indians. He was with them twenty or thirty years, till after the war. He married, late in life, a young woman. They did not always agree; and this spring of 1844 Jackson went and hung himself.) [Michael] Stoner: [Page 7, resumed.] Stoner came to a tree, a good deal scratched with a bear. He climbed the tree, got on a limb, and hallooed "The house." The bear came out and Stoner, having no arms, had to fall off the limb. End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #150 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and 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.