I thought it was interesting in looking in my book William Preston and the Allegheny Patriots for the names mentioned by Carolyn. By Patricia Givens Johnson. Perhelps this data will also be helpful. Daniel Boone: And not only Virginians were clamouring for land. North Carolina Daniel Boone was spending the winter in Clinch Valley after an aborted attempt to settle in Ky for Henderson's Company. Pleas came from the Pendleton District and Watauga. Preston replied immediately promising aid. He wrote everywhere for powder and Daniel Boone carried up 200 pounds from Williamsburg. John Floyd was chasing Indain marauders in Ky in 1775. he sent Preston word that Indians had captured the Calloway sisters and Jemina, daughter of Daniel Boone. Floyd had accompanied the rescue party, killed one Indian and described the incident in detail to Preston who was well acquainted with Boone, the ubiquitous messenger to Smithfield who arrived with everything from newspapers to gun powder. Preston was relieved to learn that the young girls were saved. No mention of a Col. John Bowman. No mention of Capt. James M. Buchanan. Thomas Callaway: Colonel Thomas Callaway's militia from Fort Hickey in Bedford were ordered to the pursuit. This was pertaining to the Fort Vause attack. The state of Virginia had taken over operation of the lead mines, first under Col. Callaway and now under Charles Lynch who had been making powder in Bedford, but was coming to Fincastle where he expected to make fifty pounds per day, most welcome news to Preston. No Cowan mentioned. Col. John Floyd: To much to write. Christopher Gist: The 1752 Treaty Of Logstown showing signatures of Indains and English frontiersmen including William Preston and the explorer, Christopher Gist. (Has picture). Archibald Cary was alarmed at the Cherokee attacks and railed against Nathaniel Gist, son of Christopher Gist. Nathaniel had married Cary's daughter but had now gone to stir up the Cherokees and take an Indain wife. Nathaniel Gist, father of Sequoyah, who gave his Cherokee people their alphabet. No Harrison. No Archibald Henderson. No Isaac Hite. Gabriel Jones: Col. James Patton surveyed land for Gabriel Jones, the Valley Lawyer, he reported to Patton and recorded High Spirits 17 July 1754, Springhill. The Augusta election riot trial of Lapsley and the others was held in May. The rioters were taken under escort to Williamsburg, pled their innocence but were found guilty. Preston had lost his chance to become burgess and Gabriel Jones, The Valley Lawyer was chosen by the House to represent Augusta in James Patton's place. (Col. James Patton was killed by Indains in 1755. On page 91 is a picture of Gabriel Jones. He was born the son of a Williamsburg weaver who died when he was young. His Mother sent him to London to be educated at Christ's Hospital School. After serving an apprenticeship to an English lawyer he was back in Virginia by 1743 practicing at Fredericktown (Winchester). Jones had purchased in London books for Preston's library also for Andrew and Thomas Lewis, John Madison and William Fleming. No John Kennedy. No Linn. No John Maxwell. No McAfee. No McClelland. No Moore. No Stoner. At Greenfield, Prestons plantation he had a sick slave named Nell left by the Reverend John Todd who had come from Louisa to preach at DeNean congregation. Preston was still looking for a minister for the DeNean congregation though by 1770 Presbyterian congregations were flourishing at Fincastle Town, Craig's Creek, New Antrim at Peter's Creek on the Roanoke, New Derry near present Elliot, New Dublin, Boiling Spring at Fort Chiswell and Unity on Reed Creek. Rev. John Brown wrote about prospective ministers, one being John Todd who had earlier up loaded the slave Nell on the Prestons. Since this affair Preston had been sour toward Todd, an ancestor of Mary Todd Lincoln. The Bishop Todd speaks of getting some chunk of a girl to bring out here next spring. Floyd and Todd were feeling no pain as they drank a pretty hearty jorum of North Carolina spirits but were sure Col. Preston would excuse all. Dr. Thomas Walker: Preston seeked employment abroad and wrote in March to Dr. Thomas Walker, who answered ''as to any employment worth your acceptance I do not know of any at present- if any should offer, shall acquaint you. Andrew Lewis wanted a surveyor's position and asked Preston and Dr. Thomas Walker to go to the Masters in his behalf. Preston was far out on the frontier surveying for Dr. Thomas Walker, the round-shouldered, slight, black-haired doctor turned land speculator who was keeping the Loyal Company land registry office at William Ingles on the New River. As a young man Walker had gone through Cumberland Gap to discover Kentucky and now had Preston working, as David Robinson said somewhere between Culbertson's and Big Island on the Holston. As a comentary on Preston's meanderings Robinson addressed him to be found sometime at Greenfield. A sketch of Dr. Thomas Walker on page 98. Dr. Thomas Walker told Preston to begin surveys for the Loyal Company within the limits of their grant. Edmund Pendleton said that the grants were being issued on lapsed certificates and chaos was being created by the government in regard to western lands. While Andrew Lewis's army were marching to the Ohio the rest of Virginia was engrossed in the activities of the Virginia Convention and in sending delegates to the first Continental Congress at Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson wrote Dr. Thomas Walker telling of the activities of the convention and Walker sent the letter on to Preston. He also encourged Preston to finish his fort and guard against surprise which Walker believed due to Preston understanding and care will never happen. Gay Nix