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up in the wilderness. He summoned a meeting of 

 delegates from the various stations, to be held at 

 Nashborough ; 13 Henderson being foremost in ad 

 vocating the adoption of the plan. 



In fact, Henderson,' the treaty-maker and land- 

 speculator, whose purchase first gave the whites 

 clear color of title to the valleys of the Kentucky 

 and Cumberland, played somewhat the same part, 

 though on a smaller scale, in the settlement made by 

 Robertson as in that made by Boone. He and the 

 Virginian commissioner, Walker, had surveyed the 

 boundary line and found that the Cumberland set 

 tlements were well to the south of it. He then 

 claimed the soil as his under the Cherokee deed; 

 and disposed of it to the settlers who contracted to 

 pay ten dollars a thousand acres. This was but a 

 fraction of the State price, so the settlers were all 

 eager to hold under Henderson's deed; one of the 

 causes of their coming out had been the chance of 

 getting land so cheap. But Henderson's claim was 

 annulled by the legislature, and the satisfaction-piece 

 of 200,000 acres allotted him was laid off elsewhere ; 

 so his contracts with the settlers came to nothing, 

 and they eventually got title in the usual way from 

 North Carolina. They suffered no loss in the mat 

 ter, for they had merely given Henderson promises 

 to pay when his title was made good. 



13 It is to Putnam that we owe the publication of the com 

 pact of government, and the full details of the methods and 

 proceedings by which it was organized and carried on. See 

 "History of Middle Tennessee," pp. 84-103. 



