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 & Robin had found the mair & was gone out a hunting & did Not come in for — Days and kild only one Deer.

tueday 2d I went out in the morning & kild a turkey and come in & got some on for my breakfat and then went & Sot in to clearing for Corn."

The personal statement of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas is of interest in this connection. She was one of Col. Calloway's company that followed Henderson in September 1775. This statement is preserved in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and reads:

"I was born in Virginia on the 4undefined day of Sept 1764 In Rockbridge county near the Natural Bridge my father moved on the North Fork of Holston within 4 or 5 miles of Abbingdon & remained there two or three years and in March 1775 we moved down Holstien near the Big Island, [Long Island] where we remained until Sept 1775 when Col Calloway and his company came along going to Kentucky, when my father William Pogue packed up and came with