Picture of Boonesborough ferry (not included in the transcribed record, established by Act of Virginia Legislature in Oct, 1779. On the shore at the ferry was where the Boone and Callaway girls were captured by the Indians July 14, 1776. At the site of teh ferry was the fort at Boonesborough.
Treaty fo Boonesborough
Under the gret elm in 1778, signed by Black Fish, who declares it must be confirmed accordin gto Indian custom - a naddshake all around, two braves to each white brother. This was the signal for treachery. The young indians in apparently high good humor, seized the hands of Daniel Boone and the other pioneers, but in the very act they betrayed their purpose by too ligh a grasp, and by a sudden movement toward the underbrush. With the quickness of desperation, the hunters freed themselves almost as soon as touched, and in the same thrilling moment, as they sprang aside and waved their hats, came the crack of rifles from the blockhouse and the unarmed savages vanished in the surrounding thickets.
Baptists
In the colonial days in America, the Regular and Separate were in Virginia. In the early settlement of Kentucky, we find the Regular and Separate Baptists, each contending for supremacy. In 1801, during the great revival of religion, another effort was made to agree upon terms of union. The Regular Baptists, or South Elkhorn Association, appointed David Barrow, Ambrose Dudley, John Price, Wm. Payne and Joseph Redding to confer with Robert Elkin, Daniel Ramey, Thomas J. Chilton, Moses Bledsoe and Samuel Johnson of the Separate Baptists or South Kentucky Association.
On Aug 22, 1801, terms of a union were agreed upon. A convention ws called to be composed of 2 members from each church in the two associations held in the Stone Meeting House (Providence) on Lower Howard's Creek, Clark Co., KY on the 2nd Saturday in Oct 1802. Terms of union were agreed upon and the names of Regualr and Separate were dropped forever, and they became known as United Baptists.
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