Would like to hear from other descendants of Mary Bailey and Elijah Mills.

Not sure what some of the notations below mean, just transcribed it as it
reads.

Adina Dyer
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Kentucky Papers, Roll 13CC, Draper Manuscripts

No. 14.  Capt. Nathn. Kelly at Deerfield, Warren Co., Ohio

Landed at Columbia, Mar. 15, 1790.  People had made a settlement there the year before.  Went back in June; about middle.   The spring I came down, Covalt's Station, now Milford, was settled.   1791 came down again.  HUBBARD TAYLOR, bro. To Genl. Taylor of Newport, now of Bourbon, if living, was agent for his father in Virginia, and laid off a town at Newport this summer.  There were one or two plank shanties; but I built the 1st house that was built there this spring.  It was pretty early.   Lived at Newport till 1797, March.  I then moved up within a mile of Deerfield.
GANO.
MAJOR STITES.
ELIJAH MILLS was one of the 1st settlers there.

Naval Biography, consisting of memoirs of the most distinguished officers of the American Navy: to which is annexed the life of Genl. Parker late pubsh by Morgan, Williams, & co. June 1815."  Pp. 296?

Worcester's Bible News, late 1826
Refutation of the doctrine of total hereditary depravity By Aylette Rains,
V.D.M." Dayton, 1833.
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Kentucky Papers, Roll 13CC, Draper Manuscripts

No. 20, Benj. Stites - 1842

JOHN B. STITES formerly lived at the Scotch plains, near Elizabeth Town, New Jersey.  From which he removed into Va. Where I was born, now 70 years ago, in Berkeley Co., near Middletown, and live there some 4 or 5 years.  I was 3 years old when they left there.  The he removed to the Redstone country, on 10 miles, in Fayette County, on the waters of the Monongahalia (mouth 10 miles above Brownsville. Brownsville named after Judge IGNATIUS BROWN's father.)  That would be 67 - 1842 = 1775.  We used to call it 20 miles to Washington, the county seat of Fayette.  Called Catfish for sometime.  Old King Catfish had a great Indian camp there.  Not laid out for sometime after we came, but then called Washington.

Old uncle JOHN STITES.   Mayor of Elizabethtown, a man of wealth and influence, recommended him to JUDGE SYMMES.  In the Red-Stone country he was captain of a company of militia, rangers, and occupied Jackson's old fort (right by where Waynesville now is), 3 months at a time.  In 1786, he brought down a load of castings and iron and flour to Limestone.  While there he went with a volunteer party in pursuit of some Indians that had been about Washington, stealing horses.  He went so far, they crossed a creek in which the men had to join hands to get over.  The water came up to their necks, and they had to hold up their guns over their head. While thus out he heard of the Miami country.

JUDGE SYMMES, then a judge in the supreme court in New Jersey. My father did not wish purchase with SYMMES, but for his information, and becoming associate, he was to have as much as he could pay for without assuming any of the responsibilties, as the same that SYMMES gave for it, which was 5 shillings per acre, in liquidated certificates, which was agreed to ___?___

The latter part of August we landed at Limestone.  When we started, old JUDGE SYMMES stood on the bank.  He had advised my father not to go till he got ready.  Thought we were too weak.

My father sent on from a good ways up, 4 men in a canoe, to see if there would be no Indians there, waiting there for him & he kept out on the Kentucky side, till he should see them standing on the point.  They got there perhaps an hour before we did, and found the bottom clear of Indians.

Arrived in 1788, 18th Nov., Sunday; we landed, cleared away paw-paw bushes, stood sentries, sung a hymn, went to prayer, and then to work.  My father and myself had _ ?_ out clap-boards at which he was a first rate hand, beside a steep hill, with a very narrow strip of bottom land, just about a mile below Maysville, and had our little flat just by, where we put them in.  We rived the old side, and put in the hearts for chinking, was to have all things ready when we got there.  We put in a log for a sled, and made it (to draw logs) as we went down.

BENJ. STITES, professor
ELIJAH STITES, brother
GROOMBRIGHT BAILEY, professor &
ABEL COOK, his son-in-law, were the first 4 families.
THOS. C. WADE, prof.
JOHN S. GANO, prof.
JOHN S. GANO was one of my father's surveyor.  Left his family
JONATHAN STITES, brother to NEHEMIAH, in Indiana.  His father, HENRY STITES, died in Redstone.  The boys came on with us (and wife went back to New York).

REASON BAILEY, 2d son, bro. of JAS. FRANCIS BAILEY.  I saw his capp where it was tore as the Indians caught him when he jumped.

JAS. FRANCIS BAILEY was out under HARMER.  Went out painted as an Indian, to try to take prisoners. He and 4 others.  I was at Covalt's Station when he came along, while HARMER was laying at Fort Washington, before his campaign. (Bailey's Company: LEWIS WHITSELL, CAPT. JNO. VANCE, MATTHEW FOWLER, JACOB FOWLER, and BAILEY their leader).  I had raised 4 men to go to protect Covalt's Station, the Indians had killed so many there.  Old MR. COVALT, and one HINKLE, right in sight of the Fort.  LIEUT. McPHERSON was stationed there, but was his business to guard the fort.  He wouldn't go out to guard the men while they planted, so we came.  BAILEY's father & mother were at Covalt's Station, and he came after night to see and spend the night there, and hallooed first.  Next morning went out and waylaid their path, but returned at night, after perhaps a week without any prisoners.  He died of the wound he got in the campaign under HARMAR, as one of BENHAM's pack horsemen.  Was taken while under CAPT. BENHAM, who was packhorse master General.

I bought a capp of Blackfish, that I had to freeze to get the lice out.
Broadcloth.
While I was on to Ct. , and after REASON BAILEY's escape, the Indians came along, and stole all JOHN SMITH's ed-clothes, which were left out at night to dry.  CAPT. KIRBY and CAPT. HALL from Garrard's Station, pursued as far as Muddy Creek, or Turtle Creek.  They thus parted and all went over the other side of the Miami.  KIBBY went on down till he fell on to HARMER's t(racs?).  On this they heard a gun, and knowing it to be Indians, they took the indian plan and waylaid the tracs.  Presently 2 Indians, great big fellows, came along, loaded as heavy as they could carry.  9 took aim.  All fired.  And all hit, though one of the Indians saw some distance.  When KIBBY came up to him, he said brother!  But KIBBY soon sunk a tomahawk into his head.  They had killed a raccoon for something to eat.

(Who told me?) Where JOHN SMITH's bed clothes got back, they put them up to sell.  He was not one of the party.  They however got some other plunder, which they got something for, and he got his things for little or nothing, &c.

The small pox was prevailing, and they had had it at SMITH's; and had washed out all their bed clothes, and hung them out.  They were boiling sugar, and had left a kettle of sugar water over the fire.  The Indians came along, and threw a couple of frogs into the water & then came round by our house, but finding nothing, went on up by SMITH's, and took off the bed clothes.  CAPT. KIBBY pursued.

REASON BAILEY was to drive pack horses, and was going down to (WAYNE's army) late, when he was intersepted at the forked elm by 2 Indians.  BAILEY could have managed this but they threatened if he didn't give up, they would stick their knife in him.  They tied his arms behind at the elbow, and carried him on top of the hills, back from the river, but being afraid of meeting whites, they cleared away the leaves clear from a place, and staid the remainder of the day.  When night drew on, they told him he must strip, and loosened his arm & run a belt round his waist to hold him while he did so.  BAILEY suddenly thrust out his hand from his bosom, as if in the act of giving something to the Indians, who deceived by the abruptness of the movement, let go of one end of the belt & BAILEY sprang and run.  It being dark, he had only to stop, and throw himself flat at the distance of about 100 yards, till the Indians passed & returned unable to find him.  Towards midnight, when all appeared security he returned, and came to our cabins - Came to where there was a dead cow -  He & I went down next morning to where he had the tustle at the Elm.  Didn't go to SMITH's, came right to our house.  Hallooed at the door, & after we talked awhile, we got up & let him in.  He was go? down all alone, early in the morning.  Going to start out that day from town with the pack horses.  Father was poor & they had to stir about to make a living.  =  BAILEY tussle with them Indians ½ an hour up that hollow.  Said the place was all worried round, as if horses had trodden there.  I knew all the BAILEY's and STITE's in the Redstone country, before I came here.

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Early one morning REASON BAILEY started to go to late, when he got to the elm. Indians started out and took him, and carried him back on the hills. He was there tied till night.  The Indians: these wanted to secure him better for the night, and untied him, when BAILEY put his hand into his bosom, and stretched it out quickly towards the Indians, who supposed as it was intended he should, that he was going to hand or give him something.  He let him go, and BAILEY jumped away.  It being then dark, he could soon get out of the way.  The other Indian caught him by the capp, and tore off a great slit.  Between HARMER's and ST. CLAIR's Campaigns, I think.  Only 2 Indians.  3 hollows in the tree.  Perhaps a dozen could hide in it.  Off the side half.  They then thought of their guns, and he run.  As he passed along, he came to a log, and threw himself into the fork of it.  His capp being of the same color, he heard the Indians run along and back without seeing him.  Made of grey cloth.  I saw the capp, and where it was torn and sewed up.  Know nothing of his being stripped made him to gag over some carcass.