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and of course they were ready and eager to attack 

 any white man who might settle down along their 

 course. 



In 1769, the year that Boone first went to Ken- 

 tucky, the first permanent settlers came to the banks 

 of the Watauga, 6 the settlement being merely an 

 enlargement of the Virginia settlement, which had 

 for a short time existed on the head-waters of the 

 Holston, especially near Wolf Hills. 7 At first the 

 settlers thought they Were still in the domain of Vir- 

 ginia, for at that time the line marking her south- 

 ern boundary had not been run so far west. 8 In- 

 deed, had they not considered the land as belonging 

 to Virginia, they would probably not at the moment 

 have dared to intrude farther on territory claimed 

 by the Indians. But while the treaty between the 

 crown and the Iroquois at Fort Stanwix 9 had re- 

 sulted in the cession of whatever right the Six Na- 

 tions had to the southwestern territory, another 

 treaty was concluded about the same time 10 with 



6 For this settlement see especially "Civil and Political His- 

 tory of the State of Tennessee," John Haywood (Knoxville, 

 1823), p. 37; also "Annals of Tennessee," J. G. M. Ramsey 

 (Charleston, 1853), P- 92; "History of Middle Tennessee," A. 

 W. Putnam (Nashville, 1859), p. 21; the "Address" of the 

 Hon. John Allison to the Tennessee Press Association (Nash- 

 ville, 1887) ; and the "History of Tennessee," by James Phelan 

 (Boston, 1888). 



7 Now Abingdon. 



8 It only went to Steep Rock. 



9 November 5, 1768. 



10 October 14, 1768, at Hard Labor, S. C., confirmed by the 

 treaty of October 18, 1770, at Lockabar, S. C. Both of these 



