The following is from "Western North Carolina: A History from 1730 - 1913" by John Preston Arthur. "Among the Kentucky pioneers was Col. Richard CALLOWAY. Two of his daughters, Betsy and Fanny, were captured with Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's second daughter, in a boat at Boonesborough, Ky. on the 17th of July, 1776. They were recovered unharmed soon afterwards and in the following August Betsy was married to Samuel Henderson, one of the rescuing party. Jemima Boone afterwards married Flanders CALLOWAY, a son of Col. Calloway. Related to this Col. Calloway was Elijah Calloway, son of Thomas Calloway of Virginia, who did much for the good of society and was a soldier at Norfolk, Va. in the War of 1812. John Calloway represented Ashe county in the House in 1800 and in the Senate 1808-1809. Elijah Calloway was in the House from 1813 to 1817 and in the Senate 1818-1819." Question: was the name CALLOWAY originally GALLOWAY or vice-versa, or are we dealing with 2 separate surnames? "Daniel Boone was a wagoner in Braddock's campaign of 1755, when Boone was 21 years old and in the following years he made the acquaintance of Col. Richard Henderson, who, struck with Boone's intelligence, and the opportunity for fortune offered by the new lands south of the Ohio, organized a company and employed Boone in 1763 to spy out lands south of the Ohio, now in Kentucky. On March 17, 1776, the Overhill Cherokees assembled at the Sycamore Shoals of the Watuga, pursuant to an order of the chief, Oconostata, where a treaty was made and signed by him and two other chiefs, Savanookoo and Little Carpenter, by which, in consideration of 12,000 pounds in goods, the Cherokees granted the lands between the Kenturcky and Cumberland rivers, embracing one-half of what is now Kentucky and a part of Tennessee. But, the Cherokkes had no title to convey, as this land was a battle-ground where the hostile tribes met and fought out their differences. Besides, this conveyance of land by Indians was unlawful under both the British and colonial laws. Henderson called this grant Transylvania." (book goes on to say how Henderson was denounced as a "famous invader" and a "land Pirate") "At Oxford, NC on September 25, 1775, the proprietors of the Transylvania Co. drew up a memorial to the Continental Congress for the recogition of the Transylvania Co. as the 14th American Colony. , but this was refused until it had 'been properly acknowledged by Virginia'. Application was then made to the Virginia convention at Williamsburg for recognition, but the effort of Henderson, assisted by Thomas Burke, was defeated chiefly through the opposition fo George Rogers Clark, who represented the rival settlement of Harrodsburg in Kentucky, and Patrick Henry, who sought to extend in all directions the power and extend of the 'Ancient Dominion of Virginia'. Virginia finally acknowledged the validity of the Transylvanians' claims against the Indians, but boldly confiscated the purchase, and made Transylvania a county of Virginia. Instead of the 20,000,000 acres obtained by the treaty of Sycamore Shoals, Virginia granted the company 200,000 acres between the Ohio and Green rivers, and North Carolina later granted to the company a like amounty on Powell and Clinch rivers in Tennessee. In 1783, North Carolina, following Virginia's lead, expropriated the lands of the Transylvania company, granting them compensation of a tract of 200,00 acres in Powell's Valley". Question: Anyone know where Powell's Valley was or is? Unfortunately the book does not mention any of the names of people inhabiting the Transylvania Colony. Several of my surnames can be traced as to taking the Pa.-Maryland-Va.-NC route. Interesting to note that Samuel Henderson and Elizabeth Calloway's daughter Francis married James S. Gillespie. So here we had Henderson, Calloway (Galloway?) and Gillespie, all common surnames in Transylvania & Jackson Co.s. My ggggmother's father, Archibald Henderson, is from the Samuel Richard Henderson line, and they intermarried (a lot) with the Owen, McCall, Gillespies, etc. Gordon - re: John Owen's Rev. War land grant, I remember reading somewhere that no land grants were given in what is now western NC, since those lands were then all held legally by the Cherokees (we hadn't kicked them out yet). Linda: book didn't mention any origin for the Transylvania Co. name. Shawna Shawna's Genealogy Page, http://www.concentric.net/~Shahall Related to Linda Hoxit Raxter, so I figure I must be related to the entire county twice ;-)