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From: "Polly A. Menendez" <>
Subject: Bryant's Station, KY
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 07:08:36 -0800


Many months back, someone had asked a question about Bryant's Station. I
hope they found their answer before this time. Anyway, I found mention of
its beginning and have excerpted the piece.

Here is an excerpt from "Reminiscences from the life of Col. Cave Johnson",
from the Ky Register, May 1922, Vol 20 No. 59

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On the first day of April, 1779, my Brother Robert, myself and one other
man (Wm. Tomlinson) set out from Orange county, Va. for a visit to
Kentucky. There was then about two hundred miles of the road from the back
settlements on Holston waters to Kentucky that was considered to be quite
dangerous, traveling with so small a company as ours (only three); but we
pushed on, and at the Cumberland River we overtook a company of several
families of Bryants, from North Carolina, on their way to Kentucky, to
settle the place since called Bryant's Station, on North Elkhorn. We
joined the company and arrived first at Booneborough where we obtained some
little Indian corn, and then went on to North Elkhorn, where we arrived
about the last of April. We, that is, Tomlinson and myself, assisted the
Bryants in putting up some cabins. Robert Johnson left us and went to
Lexington, which had just been settled from about Alleghaney and
Monongahela. After viewing and exploring the country some weeks, he return
to Virginia. Tomlinson and myself planted about four acres of corn, and
after we had finished working it, in July we left for home.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Polly A. Menendez

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