On this day 250 years ago in Kentucky, Lawrence Darnell and six men of his advanced survey party were making their way on foot to meet the main survey party led by John Floyd that was heading down the Ohio River to survey lands for settlement in Kentucky. Darnell and his team had been robbed and captured by Shawnee warriors while canoeing down the Ohio but were released after three days of captivity with the threat that they would be killed if they came down the river again. The capture of the Darnell survey party added to the tension on the frontier that would soon erupt in warfare between the Shawnee and Virginia.

Source: Williams, Glenn F., Dunmore’s War at p. 59

On a personal note —

On this day in 1964 and 1966 my brother and his wife were born. Happy Birthday Roger and Patti Vincent!