An Oration Delivered on the Occasion of the Centennial Commemoration of the Battle of the Blue Licks, 19 Aug. 1882 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... NOTES. Note A. The name "Lulbegrud" was given to the creek referred to, in 1770, byAlexander Neely, a companion of Boone, and it appears on the earliest, maps as a well-known water-course. Boone and his comrades had with them a copy of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," and the name was taken from that of the capital city of Brobdingnag. Well established tradition confirmed me in this opinion; but, since this address was delivered, my friend Judge Wu. M. Beckner, of Winchester, has furnished me the following documentary proof, which is conclusive. It is copied verbatim et literatim from the original, as recorded in Deposition Book No. I, page 156, Clark county court, Kentucky: "The deposition of Daniel Boone, being of lawful age, taken before "us, the subscribing commissioners, this 15th day of September, 1796, "being first duly sworn, deposeth and sayeth that in the year 1770 I "encamped on Red river with five other men, and we had with us for our "amusement the History of Samuel Gulliver's Travels, wherein he gave "an account of his young master, Glumdelick, careing him on a market "day" for a show to a town called Lulbegrud. "A young nian of our company called Alexander Neely came to -' camp to camp one night & told us he had been that day to Lulbegrud, & "had killed two Brobdignags in their capital, and further "sayeth not. Daniel Boone." The Shawnees were settled on the Lulbegrud certainly as late as 1750, . as is well established. They occupied Kentucky before the French war. The noted chief Blackhoof (catahecassa) was born on the banks of the Lulbegrud. He participated in the battle of Braddock's defeat, and in 1816 revisited Kentucky, and identified the localities formerly occupied by his people, and amid which he had spent his earlier years. He ...