In the Current of the Revolution 17 



the Governor of Virginia had commissioned as jus- 

 tices of the peace; they were empowered to meet 

 monthly to transact necessary business, and had a 

 sheriff and clerk. 25 These took care of the internal 

 concerns of the settlers. To provide for their de- 

 fence a county lieutenant was created, with the rank 

 of colonel, 26 who forthwith organized a militia regi- 

 ment, placing all the citizens, whether permanent 

 residents or not, into companies and battalions. Fi- 

 nally, two burgesses were chosen to represent the 

 county in the General Assembly of Virginia. 27 In 

 later years Daniel Boone himself served as a Ken- 

 tucky burgess in the Virginia Legislature; 28 a very 

 different body from the little Transylvanian Parlia- 

 ment in which he began his career as a law-maker. 

 The old backwoods hero led a strange life : varying 

 his long wanderings and explorations, his endless 

 campaigns against savage men and savage beasts, 

 by serving as road-maker, town-builder, and com- 

 monwealth-founder, sometimes organizing the fron- 

 tiersmen for foreign war, and again doing his share 



25 Among their number were John Todd (likewise chosen 

 burgess in these early days a man of mark often filled sev- 

 eral distinct positions at the same time), Benj. Logan, Rich- 

 ard Calloway, John Bowman, and John Floyd ; the latter was 

 an educated Virginian, who was slain by the Indians before 

 his fine natural qualities had time to give him the place he 

 would otherwise assuredly have reached. 



26 The first Colonel was John Bowman. 



27 John Dodd and Richard Calloway. See Diary of Geo, 

 Rogers Clark, in 1776. Given by Morehead, p. 161. 



28 Butler, 166. 



