Hello to everyone. I recently finished transcribing the follow Draper Manuscript: 11CC 279-283, No. 15. John D. Shane interview with ?. John Shane never wrote in the name. Interesting reading and mentions several Jessamine and Woodford Co. people. I finally got an original microfilm copy that I needed to prove Patriotic Service for the DAR for my ancestor Dudley Mitchum. Thought the list might find it interesting. Please let me know if I have misspelled any names as his writing to hard to read. The blanks are words that I could not make out. If anyone wants a copy of the microfilm, just email me and I'll mail a copy. Susan Draper Manuscript: 11CC 279-283 No. 15 p. 279 [Shane, John D.] Interview with ____________ Father came from lower edge of Orange Co. next to Spotsylvania Co. in the fall of 1781. Came Wilderness Road. Landed in Ky.. In Oct. I was twelve yrs of age in that ___ Nov. Father came out in the spring as far as Reid's creek. Made _____ there that summer. ____ Staid at Mrs. _____ Bell's on Reid's creek that summer. He came out the next year. My father was _____ ______. _____ ______ _____ where my 1st recollections. From there went to Spotsylvania. p. 280 Historical Collection. Spotsylvania. Lewis Craig had been out here before, but not his family. He had been back. His brs.-in-law, old Lewis Faulkner, had been out here when and before we came. Lived where Lewis Craig fixed his station on Gilbert's Creek. There living on one side of the creek and Lewis Craig fixed his station on the other side. _____ Joc, Elijah, ____, John, Ben;, & Tolliver Craig - their father - these bros:. Had a son of that name, Toliver Craig, but he didn't come out that year. John, Nat: (probably.), Bob, and Rose Sanders - (Rosa sister.) Frances Winright Lay, John Patty, Mr, ___ , John Hayden. All from Spotsylvania. Some might have been from Orange. These came on in the fall and we joined them. Some strangers. Bakers, got in company about the edge of the wilderness; not far from the Block-house. Drove a gang of hogs with bells on them, what makes one ______ ________. On the wilderness road, John Hayden went out a hunting. Didn't get back that night. Lost the trace. Next morning the co: turned out and hunted half a day for him & couldn't find him & started on. His wife looked like she would go distracted. That night he came to them. Had set some trees on fire to keep the wolves off the night before. The Block-house was the last place we left. The first improvement we saw was English's station. There was a Valley station but we did not come by that. Staid at Craig's station that winter. Went near to Downing's station, (about a mile from it) next winter of 1781 - 2. Summer of 1782, people had scattered out, and got scared, and all went into Downing's station except George Lester, & my father. My father went to live with him. He had 7 sons. They use to guard the women milking cows, and to & from the springs, etc. That winter or spring, moved back to Craig's station on Gilbert's creek and went to teaching school. Walter DeWitt and Sarah Douglas, who had moved to The Downing's station neighborhood - also went into the fort. (( It was)) Craig's land principally. Station had no pickets. John Craig & Lay went out immedy: to Bryant's station (staid there a year) then they went and established John's Craig's station, down on Clear Cr:. Lay's son got killed at Bryant's station spring of 1782. Went out to hold his horse to get grass and the indians shot him. Hugh Lay - Huky they called him. That summer they had the battle at Bryant's S, Blue lick defeat ____. Summer of 1782 near Downing's station, _______'s son Robin, had like to have been caught by the indians. Was out after roasting ears _____ the indians nabbed him. He was better too night and ________. Nobody ______ him but the boy. (Robin was a ______ ________ _________. Downing's station ________ _______ me from Lewis's Craig's on the direction _____________________________________________________________. p. 281 Woodford Summer of 1783, on Sunday, at Craig's station while Lewis Craig was preaching, got word, in the middle of his sermon, that the indians had made an attack somewhere in the neighborhood. That broke up his preaching and the men went in pursuit. (the _____________ Woods affair.) John Craig's Station was picketed before my father moved there in the fall of 1783. (Lewis' Craig's was never picketed.) They went there the winter before. John Craig gave the married men who went there to settle hundred acres a piece, and the single men 50. Gave John Arnold 100. Jimmy A. 50. Dudley Mitchum 100. Col. Dick Young 100. Francis W. Lay 100. One Johnson lived there too. Not our Frankfort Arnolds. These came from Orange Co:. John died in Woodford on this very land. Jimmy moved to Mo:. John Craig was mostly broken up speculating in lands and moved to down on the Ohio. Lewis Craig got broke up too before he died; came to the __________. Jas Craig, son of Joe Craig, living over in Woodford came out when I did. Lived at Lewis Craig's station. Lives on the road from Versailles to Lexington. Lewis Arnold, son of John Arnold, on Clear Creek, in Woodford Co. was in the station. Lewis Faulkner lived on the east side. All in sight, so they could one another. Joe and Ben Craig lived up the creek. Lewis Craig on the same side, opposite Faulkner's. John Hyatt, same side with Faulkner, lower down, near where my father taught school. Sandwich lived perhaps near Lewis Craig's. Sandwich gals wove the nets, and we use to venture down on Dicks river to drag it. Lewis Craig's wife was a Sandwich. A man to go along with the girls to the spring, having his gun - and also stood by them with his gun, where they milked the cow at, Festers - summer of 1782. Moccasin tracks alarmed them. John Craig's nearest inhabitants, Lexington and Bryant's station. Father got drowned returning from going after six cattle, on Gilbert's creek that fall. That spring, some had moved out of the fort. That fall, 1784, his widowed mother, and the children, moved to where Alexander McClure lived. That fall, too, (1784 Scott and his handy came and settled on the Ky: river. Didn't move out his family, probably, till the next year 1785. After they scattered indians committed depradations upon the Ky;. Col. Dick Young had moved out, and a man named Holeman lived not far from the station. Before father got drowned, planted corn about ______ from station; put no fence around till it was knee high, when my mother got some of the men to go out and put a fence around it and we kept the nettles down. We went down there when the corn was waist high, brother and I, and thought we heard the indians; and ran off to the fort. In the fall, Lewis Craig and I went down to kill the _______bears = roasting - ear time, eating up all our corn. Had to gather it green to keep them from eating it up. I heard a tree fall, as I thought it might have been a gun, and got scared, and went back to the fort. Bartley Scearcy, Busey Scearcy's uncle, in 1785 or 86 on Gilbert's creek killed. A man by the name of Valentine. They were in a canoe fishing. Scott's son was dragged out of the canoe and brought to the shore and scalped. Valentine was never found. Supposed he sank and was drowned. About dusk they came down and spoke to young Scott. Heard the guns at the house. Were afraid to cross over (to where he was) for fear of an ambuscade of the indians. Valentine was a hand who had come to this country with Scott probably spring of 1789. (This was) The next day they pursued but did not overtake the indians. Went out under Capt. Merritt Scott, in the year 1790 to Harmer's defeat. _____ Scott, son of General Scott, got killed. Also, a mess mate, named Wm Hazard. Vincennes' was then called Alpost.(Outpost?) McLean, one of my neighbors, and two _____ came back. McLean brought back some apples, striped red. People, they said, fenced up their woods and put in their cattle, and let their crops? (land) lay open. Clark's Campaign - 1786. J. H. Holiman, Frankfort 1823, Taylor's History. We lived between him and the towns, but didn't move there. John Long lived about a mile, between us and the Fort. Nettles, used also for greens, were gathered and threshed and wove. Major Morrison made black people's clothes. Relied about it, and Buffalo wool all together. The piece that I have, had been made into a shirt, and worn pretty well, when this man went to school in 1790, and took it to cover the back of a cyphering book. He was interrupted in his campaign, (school by the "sought it out.") and James Oldham. J.O. who was a teacher at that time near his mother's, 4 miles from Craig's station. No families lived at Cincinnati, in 1790; ___ we returned from Harmar's campaign, saw some women that did washing at the fort (lived in the fort,) go down to the river to do some washing. First woman I had seen in a long time, and I went along, looking at her, and fell over a stump and skinned by shin. Dick Fox taught in the fort in the summer 1784. He afterwards got to be county surveyor of Woodford. Arthur Fox was surveyor. Married Dick Young's daughter. James Oldham had been to school to an Irish man, who perhaps had been sold. Never let them know of his learning till he got through; - then set up a school. Ground up the corn-stalks, and extracted the juice for molasses. At John Craig's station, they brought in their trays of corn, and took their turns, just as they do at Grist mills. The hand mill was turned by the right and fed by the left hand. A negro boy at Craig's turned it nearly half the time, the family was so large. John Dupuy, had the first bolting cloth that I ever saw in this country. Was made of flannel and called the shake-bag. It was fixed so that it would shake, and the flour fell below. 1st. water mill I saw was on Dick's river, tother side of Lewis Craig's station. Another by Grants in 1783. When we had gone back from Downings to Craig's station. Went down there and staid till in the night. Grant a hatter. My father a hatter. One side called indian shore - and the other Va. shore. Forks of St. Mary's and St. Joseph's - that made the Maumer. Was not in Harmar's defeat. Major Fountain was our major. Col. Hall was our Col:. Fountain was mortally wounded. Jacob Sips (Lips?) rode my horse out, and when the horse returned, two men were on him galloping, neither of these him. He said they left the (my) blanket wrapped around Fountain. Laid him in some hazel bushes partly alive and partly dead. That was the last we heard of him. We lay on the bank of the Ohio, on this side, below the mouth of Licking, 10 days, waiting for a new draft. Hadn't men enough. I was going to school when I was drafted. Had set in for a year - to educated myself. Use to go over there (to Ft. Washington,) everyday, to see the regulars muster. Harmer was there. There was a place cleared above the mouth of Licking. A cabin, or house, and some 3 or 4 acres clearing. Had been a settlement there, but was none there. There was not a stick amiss below. The fort opposite was log cabins in a square, with piles of cannon ball, and a soldier constantly passing back and forth. Old Jimmy Robinson, ½ mile from McCall, was pack-horse driver to Wayne's army. Use to stop at Michael Hockersmith's. Had a brother killed in the army. Came to this country a year after I did. Got a little place opened, near Downing's station, and a turnip patch made, in the fall of 1782. When he sold the place to Wm Robinson, and moved to Craig's to teach school.