Bob, Although my Herrell lines did not go to Kentucky early, I have followed several of those who were on the forefront of the frontier in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and find it quite interesting! I've watched as John, James, Richard, Gilbert, Walter, George and other Harrells, Harrolls etc. worked their way from indentured servants in Northumberland Co. Va to land owners and participating in the local government. Moving to new lands west of the Blue Ridge Mountain, enduring the Indian raids during the French and Indian War and later generations moving further west. It seems the lands of Kentucky drew them with a magnetic force they could not resist. There was James Harroll who settled on Little Walker Mountain, near Abingdon, Va. in 1769 where his young son, Robert, fought with Evan Shelby at Point Pleasant in 1774. Robert was Horsemaster during the building of the wagon road into Kentucky and later settled in Warren County, Ky. William Herrell, who was assigned along with Ephraim Drake, Edward Sharpe and Richard Stanton to scout along the Warrior Path to ascertain whether Indians were gathering for raids on the settlements of SW Va. Captain William Russell also ordered them to locate the river which separated the lands in Kentucky from the Cherokee lands in NC (TN). The Scouts traveled 21 days and reported back to Russell. These men were former long hunters who knew Kentucky well and, as Capt. Russell wrote, were men of "great veracity". Surveyors were in Ky at the time and locating the treaty line was of great importance to those claiming land in the area. I tend to get carried away with pioneer stories! G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.