I enjoyed the article on the Wilderness Road; I have photocopy of an eyewitness account by Felix Walker who in Feb 1775 accompanied Capt William Twitty (my grx3 grandfather), Samuel Coburn, James Bridges, Thomas Johnson, John Hart, Wm Hicks, and James Peeke, who, under the direction of Daniel Booone, had been hired to cut a trace into Kentucky. During their journey, on March 25 1775 the party was fired upon by Indians while they were asleep. William Twitty was shot in both knees and died the third day afterwards. According to Mr. Walker's account, the body servant of Wm Twitty, a black man, was killed during the attack. Mr. Walker mentions Col. Richard Henderson several times: "We proceeded to the Watawgo River, a tributary stream of Holsteen, to the residence of Col. Charles Robertson, now in the State of Tennessee, where a treaty was held by Col. Richard Henderson and his associates, with the Cherokee tribe of indians, for the purchase of that section of country we were going to visit, then called the Bloody Ground, so named from the continual wars and quarrels of the hunting parties of indians of different tribes who all claimed the ground as their own, and the privilege of hunting game, who murdered and plundered each other as opportunity afforded." Later on he says "Col. Richard Henderson. being the chief proprietor in the purchase of the bloody ground (indeed so to us) acted as Governor, called an assembly in May 1775, consisting of 18 members, exclusive of the speaker, passed several laws for the regulaton of our little community, well adapted to the policy of an infant government. This assembly was held under two shade trees in the plains of Boonsborough. This was the first feature of civilization ever attempted in what is now called the Western Country." Felix Walker's article is entitled "Narrative of His Trip with Boone from Long Island to Boonesborough in March 1775." Can anyone tell me where Long Island was? He says they "put off from Long Island, marked out our track with hatchets, crossed Clince and Powell's River, over Cumberland mountain and crossed Cumberland River...." Even with all these clues, I still haven't been able to find it on a map! thanks! Sue