COLONEL FLEMING'S JOURNAL, 1779-1780



9th I was much disturbed in my Sleep I Thought Mrs
was plunged into a deep river by her horse which over-
whelmed them both. I rode in after them and got her out
dead and stiff on my taking her to the bank, water run out
from her mouth and she showed symptoms of life etc.
  Dec. ii. It rained hard in the night, the 12th showery
all day in the evening lightened and thundered in the night
a violent storm of wind rain, and snow the 13th windy and
cold i4th Cold and Cloudy with some snow the night exces-
sive cold hard Frost. i5th Cloudy but fair. i6th left St
Asaphs for Boonesborough crossed Dicks river I at Coburns
place, went up Gilberts Creek'2 and down a small creek that
emptied into Paint Lick Creek 3 lay one mile short of the
creek and was greatly favoured [by] the weather though it was
cloudy and threatened a fall yet it held up till the morning,
we had no tent with us, it rained in the morning and froze
as it fell our journey [took us] about 20 miles through large
quantities of Good Land. 17th crossed Paint Lick Creek and
Silver Creek,4 came up Tates Creek,5 the road verry bad, the
Cane laped over with the snow and rain and made it almost
impassible, there is good land on the head of Tates Creek, got
to Boonesburg in the evening 20 miles from our encamp-
ment the weather very severe it snowed a little in the
Night, i8th the weather severely cold and cloudy did a little
buisness.
  Dec i9th. Clear frosty and very cold -  th went on with
business the Frost continues severe we were informed of one
of Davis' Family being lost in Rockcastle the[y] encamped
in a fork of a Creek the water rising and surrounding
' The West Fork of the Kentucky.
2 An east branch of Dick's River; its mouth is E. by N. of the
site of Logan's Fort.
3 The headwaters of Paint Lick Creek, a south branch of the
Kentucky, are separated only by a water parting from Gilbert
Creek.
4 Silver Creek is the first branch of the Kentucky above Paint
Lick Creek.
' The mouth of Tate's Creek is about midway between the
mouth of Silver Creek and Boonesborough.