KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 9 April 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 151 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:19:49 -0400 From: Bob Francis Subject:MISC: Patrick Scott interview, part three, Bourbon Co Colonel Bill Lynn: Colonel Bill Lynn was a very mischievous fellow. He always carried an old British musket. Would make snakes crawl into it and then shoot them out against a tree. [Kentucky's first snake story, and an evidence of the kind of whisky made in those days!] He was out hunting on Salt River. Five Indians took after him, three in the rear and two on the flanks. He killed the last of the five just at the brush fence that was around the fort. He was asked, when he got in, if he ran booty. He declared he didn't. Lynn was a [Page 8.] very swift runner. A great many bets were made on him, but they were always lost; he didn't want to encourage gambling. A number of men from Harrodsburgh were out on Hardin Creek, buffalo hunting. One day they turned out on a hunt and at night, when they came in, Lynn was wanting, missing, and it was No Lynn! No Lynn! On the next day they turned out and found him tomahawked and three of his fingers cut off . [This was Ben Linn at this place, a brother of Colonel William Linn--L. C. Draper's inserted note. But B. Linn was not tomahawked; lived to good old age-anon. note.] [sic.] [William Lynn--or Linn--and George Gibson in 1766-77 made a trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans to procure powder; this they conveyed up the Mississippi and Ohio to Wheeling. Lynn Station, on Beargrass, near Louisville, was established in 1779 by William Lynn who was an outstanding pioneer.] John Luckey and Colonel James Smith: John Luckey, old Joseph Luckey's father, and Colonel James Smith were going around to see if they could make up a church; and for that, examining the people. They came to my father who was of the old secedar--Adam Rankin--order. After talking with him some, Colonel Smith observed to Luckey, "Well, Brother John, what do you think of him." Luckey replied, "Well, I reckon if we canna get hewn stone, we must tak donics." [Colonel James Smith is the author of "An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Colonel James Smith during his Captivity with the Indians, 1755-59, to which is added A Brief Account of some Very Uncommon Occurrences which transpired after his return from Captivity." It is a book of 88 pages, first published by John Bradford, Lexington, in 1799.) Cane Ridge Church: My father helped to build Cane Ridge Church. The Cane Ridge people were great emancipators, in those times. Peter Houston: Peter Houston, brother of old James Houston that lives there now, saw Negroes flying through the air [witches). He moved to Indiana a few years ago, and is still living. John Johnston: Old Johnny Johnston and his wife (a sister of old John Luckey), both from Cane Ridge, joined the Shakers. Peter Bonta: Old Peter Bonta, that left the Shakers after being made their treasurer, and getting rather a better farm than the one he had let them have, said, next morning, he believed he would move down. Benj. Mills: Benj. Mills went to school at Cane Ridge. He lived down by Jack's Town. Caleb Letton married a sister of his. [Benj. Mills was one of the justices of the "old" Appellate Court which decided, in 1823, that the debt-relief laws were unconstitutional.] John Scott, Pleasant Point: My brother, John Scott, was an elder in Joseph Howe's congregation, that is, at Pleasant Point. When the Newlights [Alexander Campbell's Reformation] came about he joined them. When the Shakers came about, I reported it on him that he had joined them. He came to my house, having found it out on me, and enquired, sitting on his horse. I told him to light and eat his breakfast, that I could show it was extremely probable he would, if he hadn't. He had quit fiddling and dancing and joined the Presbyterians. It was extremely probable, if he could quit the Presbyterians to join the Newlights, he could quit the Newlights to join the Shakers. The change was not more wonderful. Mrs. [William] Logan, Pleasant Point: Mrs. Logan, widow of William Logan, both members at Pleasant Point. I told John, my brother, how I had seen her filch in a store while sitting on a barrel. He told me not to tell him anything about it, as he would be bound to report it. Mr. Logan was sort of hand at mending and fixing clocks. Lived by Pleasant Point. James Rice, Stephen Biles, Robert Sconce: Colonel James Rice married a daughter of Old Stephen Biles [Boyle]. Sconce's house was a hewed log-house. Sconce's son, William, left his wife and took up with a black woman he had bought. Irish Station: The Irish Station, now called Scott's Station (where Mrs. Allen's sister Scott lives) eight or nine miles below Millersburg, to the left of the Maysville Pike, nearly on the dividing ridge between Hinkston and Licking. Scott's Creek, Wolf Run: This Scott's Creek used to be called Wolf Run. The Hug's and Swinneytown: Paul Huff-we used to call him the Old Apostle (Paul). John, his son, we used to call the Young Apostle. Paul Huff's son-in-law, Swinney, settled Middletown; hence first called Swinneytown. Sconce's Trace: Sconce's Trace went along by where an old buffalo road crossed Stoner just at the mouth of Scott's Creek, lead on through Jack Thomas' farm, and on by Hornback's mill. Salt Lick: I went to the salt lick, nearly up to opposite the mouth of the Scioto, in early times after salt [in Lewis County]. Mann's Lick: My father went from this country to Mann's Lick after salt (near Louisville]. My Father's Adventure: On his way [from Mann's Lick], as he laid on a prong of Benson [in Franklin County], just below now Hardinsville; and in the morning, just before day, as he lay he heard somebody stepping in the creek. When the foot was raised out of the water, he could hear the water dripping off again into the creek. He rose, caught up his two horses, saddled his, and just as he got on his, he raised the shout (hollow). They saw where the mocassin tracks had followed in pursuit of him all that day. The Indians got a great many salt packers in early times. Another Adventure: At another time my father was going out in Bath [County] to survey a piece of land. Passing Gassy Lick, he was again chased. He crossed over and lay that night near or at Bramlette's Lick, upon Stoner Creek, bi Judy's Store. Next morning he got up before day, raised the hollow, and put off home. The moccasin tracks were seen where they had followed him that day. [Page 9.] Hinkston Creek: Licking (River] was named [for the] Blue Licks; Hinkston for one Hinkston. He lived at Harrodsburgh when I first knew him. Minary's Station: Minaxy's Station was by Sconce's, at the place where one Caleb Hall lived. Hall died and one Campbell, I think it was, married his widow. Robert Sconce: Old Sconce was an Irishman; came from Greenbriar out here. He had a house full of girls. I was then just grown and quite fond of going there. One son living there now. The son, William Sconce, lived at the mouth of Strode's Creek. The old man, "Bauld Robin Sconce," lived on the headwaters of Little Flat Creek towards Towles. He was here before I came. Blue Jacket: They caught an Indian there, one time, and kept him all night, but he got away (1788). [See this story as told in "John D. Shane's Interview with Pioneer William Clinkenbeard" in THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, April, 1928, No. 3 of Vol. 2, and "A Sketch of the Early Adventures of William Sudduth in Kentucky," in the same magazine, January, 1928, No. 2 of Vol. 2.] Aaron Burr: [Addenda, page 18.] Aaron Burr was taken by the marshall of Virginia at Hubbard Taylor's, in Clark. They went to Winchester where he dined with him at Joe Calloway's. Adair, Desha, and Taylor, Burr men. Joe Jackson: Joe Jackson was making salt at the Blue Licks, and taken by the Indians, when they came to attack Bryant's Station. William Scott: My father married neax Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Moved up and up until he moved and lived neax to a place called the Standing Stone. My father was pack-horse master in Braddock's army. Got another pack-horseman's horse, one night, blacked over the ball of his face, with a camp kettle, and so drove him two or three days before he was detected. My father moved thirteen times in one yeax-the year before he moved down here from the Red Stone Country. My mother carried me on her lap. My father took a bed, opened a place at the two ends, put one child in one end and the other child in the opposite, while the third, the stoutest, rode the horse [saddlebag style]. End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #151 ************************************************************************ 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.