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                 CHAPTER I.

 'Squire Henry Gray-His Birth, Travels, and Settlement in Boone
                      County, Ky.

  ON the memorable day of the 20th January, in the year
of our Lord, 1799, was ushered into existence the hero of
our tale. So very particular was the family record kept,
that not only the day and year were strictly noticed, but
the very hour was to be preserved for the perusal and
gratification of all future ages; hence, it seems, the very
identical hour was at five o'clock in the morning, that the
lungs of our hero were first inflated by this terrene atmo-
sphere, and his eyes opened upon time.  le was a lovely
chlild, as all the old women present have testified, and came
forth smiling upon this land of sin and woe. The snow,
this eventful morning, in soft flakes descended quietly to
the ground, while the north wind sang mournfully around
the humble dwelling; these were the scenes outside of the
chamber in which our Henry Gray was born, the day,
year and hour named.
  The habitation of the family stood on an elevated spot of
ground,command ing an extensive view of the meanders of
a turbulent little creek, familiarly known as Crooked Run.
It was the dividing line between the counties of Culpepper
and MadisonVirginia. The people of the Old Dominion
have a dialect peculiar to themselves. Runs were the
common names for creeks in that State, and this happen-
ing to be vastly crooked, was named, very appropriately,
"Crooked Run."   In the western horizon the Blue Ridge
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