York, Pennsylvania: 12.
Yorke, Charles: renders legal opinion, 201.
Young Warrior of Estatoe, Cherokee chief: 79; see Silonee.
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Transcriber's Notes
Introduction:
We have retained the original punctuation and spelling in the book, but not in the index. Obvious errors were corrected--and all of these changes can be found in the Detailed Notes Section of these notes. The Detailed Notes Section also includes issues that have come up during transcription. One common issue is that words are sometimes split into two lines for spacing purposes. These words are hyphenated in the physical book, but there is a question sometimes as to whether the hyphen should be retained in transcription. The reasons behind some of these decisions are itemized.
There were numerous errors in the index. Places like the Ouasioto Gap and the Green River, which were spelled consistently and correctly throughout the text, ended up as "Onasioto" and "Guen" in the index. Such errors detract from the index. Therefore, corrections were made to the index and listed in the Detailed Notes Section.
Detailed Notes Section:
Introduction
• Page viii:
In his letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Dunmore wrote the clause
"Should for ever immagine the Lands further off..." This is a direct
quote; the spelling is correct.
Preface
• Page xvii:
Home-builder is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing purposes,
giving us two choices on how to transcribe the word. The word was not
used again in the book. However, "home-makers" was used on Page 17, and the
word included a hyphen and was in the middle of the line. We believe that
the author's use of home-makers signals the author's intent to keep the
hyphen in "home-builder." So we kept the hyphen.
Chapter III
• Page 39:
Powder-horn is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing purposes,
giving us two choices on how to transcribe the word. On Page 213,
powder-horns with the hyphen appears in the middle of a line. That was the
only other occurrence of the word in the book. Therefore, we kept the hyphen.
Chapter VI
• Page 68:
The author used the original spelling of the fort on page 68 in the clause
"To this fort, named Fort Loudoun in honor of Lord Loudoun," but changed
the spelling to modern usage (Fort Loudon) on pages 76, 88, and 90. We
made no modifications and retained the spelling from the text.
Chapter VII
• Page 98:
Céloron de Bienville is spelled with a grave accent despite the
correct spelling (according to Wikipedia) of Céloron on
Page 46. The spelling in the book was retained.
Chapter VIII
• Page 127:
Half-breed is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing purposes,
giving us two choices on how to transcribe the word. On Page 141,
half-breed with the hyphen appears in the middle of a line. That was the
only other occurrence of the word in the book. Therefore, we kept the hyphen.
Chapter IX
• Page 133:
Life-time is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing purposes,
giving us two choices on how to transcribe the word. There was no other
occurrence of life-time or lifetime in the book. We kept the hyphen.
Chapter XII
• Page 181:
Court-room is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing
in the clause "the Regulators took possession of the court-room."
On page 180, court-room is spelled with a hyphen in the middle of
a sentence, so we retained the hyphen here.
• Page 194:
There is a printer's mistake on page 194: the first line of page 194 is
actually the last line of page 194. The line "ston River, south and east
of Long Island;" which is on the top line of page 194 in the printed book,
should be on the bottom line, below "however, to the settlement north of
the Hol-." We have transcribed the book making this adjustment to the text.
• Page 195:
We have removed (See map for settlement and treaty lines.) because our
transcription does not have images scanned.
Chapter XIV
• Page 224:
(Compare map.) after "including the Nolichucky Valley." was removed
because maps and images have not been scanned and included in our
transcription of the book.
Chapter XVI
• Page 266:
Rendez-voused was hyphenated for spacing and split between two lines
in the clause "Colonel William Christian rendez-voused." Rendezvous is
written without the hyphen on pages 59, 203, 226, and 292. Therefore,
the hyphen was omitted in transcribing rendezvoused.
Chapter XVII
• Page 270:
Far-flung is hyphenated for spacing and split between two lines in the
clause "along the farflung frontier of Kentucky." There are no other
occurrences of the word. Far-away, far-visioned, and far-reaching were
used in the book. Far west, far north, and far faint were used in the
book, but replacing the hyphen with a space is not an option in
transcribing hyphenated words. There weren't any options with far being
part of a conjoined word. The hyphen was retained in far-flung.
• Page 283:
Flat-boats is hyphenated for spacing and split between two lines in
the clause: "about thirty flatboats, dugouts." On Page 285, flatboats
is not hyphenated, so the hyphen was not kept in transcribing the same
word on page 283.
• Page 286:
Co-partners is hyphenated for spacing and split between two lines in
the clause: "contract between the copartners." There were no other
occurrences of the word. We did not use the hyphen here.
• Page 287:
Entry-taker is hyphenated for spacing and split between two lines in
the clause: "the entry-taker being appointed by Judge Henderson."
On Page 220, "entry-Taker" was used in a quote from Joseph Martin.
There were no other occurrences of the word. We retained the hyphen.
Chapter XVII
• Page 293:
Over-mountain men is hyphenated for spacing and split between two lines in
the clause: "the over-mountain men gathered on September 25th." This word was
used other times in the book, on pages 295, 306, and 316. Each time it was
spelled with a hyphen, so we have kept the hyphen here, too.
• Page 303:
Battle-field is hyphenated for spacing and split between two lines in
the clause: "His frenzied efforts on the battle-field ..." This word was
used three other times, on pages 54, 214, and 306. Each time it was spelled
with a hyphen, so we have kept the hyphen here, too.
Chapter XIX
• Page 315:
In Sevier's quote, "we shall pursue no furtheir measures as to a new State,"
the spelling of furtheir matches that of Henderson's book. Because this
is a quote, no change was made, although Sevier meant further.
Index
• Page 393:
In the book, the clause "begins erection of Catawba" is embedded between "see
Land Companies" in the Index entry for Wabash Land Companies.
That clause belongs before "Fort, 70;" in the entry under Hugh Waddell.
We have made the correction.
Spelling Errors in the Index
As described in the Introduction to the Transcriber Notes, the book has numerous spelling errors in the index. Here is a list of changes made only to the Index, and only because a new, incorrect variation of the word was introduced in the index.
- Changed "Bieville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de: 42." to Bienville.
- Changed "Bathama" to Bethania in preaches index under Bishop Spangenberg.
- Changed "corn sent from to French Lick" to corn sent to, from French Lick, in index entry under Boonesborough.
- Changed "Black Fish, Schawano chief" to Shawanoe.
- Changed "Celoron de Blainville" to Céloron.
- Changed "Charleville; Charles" to Charleville, Charles.
- Changed "Conewagoes" to Coghnawagas.
- Changed "Cullodan" to Culloden.
- Changed "Onasioto" to Ouasioto in entry under Cumberland Gap.
- Changed "Laudown" to Loudon in entry under Captain Demere.
- Changed "Dugger, Julius Caesar" to Dugger, Julius Cæsar.
- Changed "Es-Kippa-Ki-Thi-Ki" to Es-kip-pa-ki-thi-ki.
- Changed "Etchowee" to Et-chow-ee.
- Changed "Gnadenhutten" to Gnadenhütten.
- Changed "Greathouse, Darmel" to Daniel.
- Changed "Howell, Rednup" to Howell, Rednap.
- Changed "Onabache" to Ouabache in the entry for Land Companies, under the subtopic Wabash.
- Changed "Lockaber" to Lochaber.
- Changed "Lorbulgrud" to Lorbrulgrud. Also added index entry for Lulbegrud. Lulbegrud is the name of the creek in Kentucky; Lorbrulgrud is the capital metropolis of Brobdingnag in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- Changed "Miro, District of:" to Miró.
- Changed "Monbrenn" to Monbreun under Timothé de Montbreun.
- Changed "Paxtong" to Paxtang.
- Changed "Guen" under Rivers to Green.
- Changed "Nonachunbreh" and "Nolichuetry" under Rivers to Nonachunheh and Nolichucky.
- Changed "Trabum, Damie" to Trabue, Daniel.
- Changed "Tascarora Indians" to Tuscarora Indians. Moved index entry from the top of the T's to the bottom to reflect the proper alphabetical order with the changed spelling.
- Changed "Vasco Nunez" to Vasco Nuñez.
- Moved "begins erection of Catawba," misplaced under index entry Wabash Land Company to Waddell, Gen. Hugh. The sub-entry is "begins erection of Catawba Fort, 70;" which is after "Indian commissioner, 59."
- Changed "Wachan" to Wachau.
- Changed "Wachonia" to Wachovia.
- Changed "Young Warrior of Estaloe" to Estatoe.