This group seems to have such a broad knowledge base, i. e. rivers and taxes and etc., that I'm going to take a stab in the dark and ask if anyone knows anything of the DRAKE family who were cohorts of Boone. They seem to have come out of Montgomery Co VA, maybe at various times, and at least one of them may have spent some time in North Carolina before heading back north through the Cumberland and into Kentucky and Tennessee. Others may have gone directly from Virginia to Kentucky and Tennessee. Hard to tell. Joseph and Ephraim Drake were among Boone's "long hunters" and variously spent time as Indian scouts and in and out of trouble. Joseph was killed by Indians, in sight of Boonesborough KY, after he had married Margaret Mongtomery and sired a couple of kids. Ephraim married Anne Montgomery (Margaret's sister), then married a second wife and died in Davidson Co TN, left a will. We believe there were also a Samuel, John and James Drake, perhaps Jonathan, in this family and that some of them probably lived at or near Boonesborough KY. Found tax lists and some Jessamine Co KY land records. Found where some of these Drake men were paid for furnishing and hauling supplies for George Rogers Clark when he was getting ready for his "Illinois Expedition". Have yet to discover where was "The Long Hands" that they drove wagons to. The problem with these folks is that they were so "out there" that there is precious little to be found in the way of records. Anyone have any ideas, ties or connections, solutions? Thanks! Myrna Madigan