Linda and All: Concerning money for land purchases: Although I cannot prove it, I have read that when Virginia voided the land purchase from the Cherokees by Judge Henderson a lot of people lost the money they had paid for their farms because the land had not been surveyed properly..Daniel Boone took over $30,000 and went to Williamsburg to buy Virginia land Warrants..he stopped at an inn and set the satchell of money at the foot of the bed and when he awoke the next morning it was gone..he didn't come back to Kentucky for over a year....so they lost their money again...It has also been said that Boone never got clear title to any of his land claims in Ky..He ended up in Missouri where he died from eating too many sweet potatoes.. G. Lee Hearl...