This was sent to me from Evelyn Wallace through another rootsweb gen list.  Thought this might come in handy for some of you.  The Filson Club/Historical Society was very helpful to me when doing my research for my Buford Families in America book.  Very nice people there - They have a ton of Kentucky and Virginia history.  http://www.filsonhistorical.org/  
Best wishes,  fern - www.bufordfamilies.com
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For those interested in some of the adventures of Col.Richard Henderson and 
company in early Kentucky, this is to advise
that Google.books has digitized the Filson Club publication called 
Boonesborough, compiled by George Washington Ranck some years ago.

Of course, Henderson was active in early Granville Co. NC.  Henderson Co. KY is 
part of the land which Virginia agreed to grant to Henderson and Co. after the 
American Revolution.  Many of the early deeds in that county are indexed with 
this description:  Henderson & Co.

Excerpts of Col. Henderson's journal are in the appendix.  On p[age 172, I seem 
to recall, he mentions my ancestor Michael Stoner.
Stoner died in later years in Wayne Co., KY.  See the Table of Contents for 
parts of this book which may interest you, but do not overlook the Appendices..

You might enjoy reading of the EARLY days of the settlement which today is found 
in northern Madison Co. KY.

If you enjoy a fictionalized version of early Kentucky days, I highly recommend 
Allen Eckert's book The Frontiersmen.  He drew heavily
on the Lyman Draper Manuscripts, particularly the part called Kentucky Papers.  
The book is heavily footnoted, for which genealogists are thankful.

Those footnotes in Eckert's book guided me in trying to read the microfilm of 
parts of the Kentucky Papers.  The handwriting is so difficult to read that I 
found it hardly worthwhile to try to photocopy them.  This was long before the 
coming of the digital camera, iPads, etc.  I sat at the microfilm reader and 
transcribed in my very rusty shorthand.  (Anybody remember that way of 
notetaking?)

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