so soon, and so rapidly, to spring up; and then came the surveyor, to
mark the boundaries of individual possessions and give civil shape and
strength to the unformed mass, the speculator to impart a new activity
and keenness to the minds of men, and the chivalrous and educated
gentleman, to infuse into the crude materials here collected together,
the feelings and sentiments of refined existence, and to mold them into
forms of conventional beauty and social excellence. Kentucky now began
to have a _society_, in which were the sinews of war, the power of
production, and the genius of improvement; and from this time, though
still harassed, as she had been from the beginning, by the inroads of
a brave and determined enemy on her north, her advancement was regular
and rapid."

[Footnote 20: W.D. Gallagher, "Hesperian," Vol. II., p 89.]




CHAPTER VII.

Daniel Boone sets out for Kentucky with his family and his brother
Squire Boone--Is joined by five families and forty men at Powell's
Valley--The party is attacked by Indians and Daniel Boone's oldest
son is killed--The party return to the settlements on Clinch
River--Boone, at the request of Governor Dunmore, goes to the West
and conducts a party of surveyors to Virginia--Boone receives the
command of three garrisons and the commission of Captain--He takes
a part in the Dunmore war--Battle of Point Pleasant and termination
of the war.