BOOK
NAVIGATION
Introduction
Earliest Settlement
The
Mansions of Elk Garden
The Great
Awakening
The Stuart Family
Lead, Salt,
& Cattle
Wealth
Leads to Politics
Addendae
Bibliography
Genealogies
Index
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Constitutional Convention, and later it’s
first U. S. Senator.
He became Secretary of all the land South of the Ohio
River.
Daniel Smith had a lot of interesting human contacts and
family members.
Among his closest friends were Daniel Boone and George Rogers
Clark. His
daughter, Mary, first married Samuel Donelson, who was the son
of John Donelson.
John was the surveyor of Donelson’s Indian Line, and the man who
was commissioned by Judge Richard Henderson to lead the flotilla
of flat boats that disembarked from Kingsport, sailed down the
Tennessee River, and up the Cumberland and founded Nashville in
1779. John was also
the father of Rachel, the wife of President Andrew Jackson.
After Sam’s death, Mary married into the well placed
Sanders family of Tennessee and Georgia.
Daniel’s brother, Enoch, was among the first settlers of
Montgomery Co. KY.
Henry Smith III (known as “Harry”), the son of Col.
Smith, founded Smithfield, the estate to the north of the
intersection of State 80 coming from Elk Garden, and US 19.
One of these Henrys was designated a Justice of the Peace
at the first court of Russell Co. in 1786.
In 1782 he commanded Fort Blackmore, and when Daniel left
Elk Garden Henry took command of that fort.
Due to the ages of the two Henry Smiths, one would
suspect that this was the son of the Colonel.
The site of settlement in Elk Garden was just downstream
from the fort. On June 26, 1786 Thomas Hendricks got a grant (LO
3-35) for 400 acres just to the west of his wife Sarah’s
brother, Samuel Vanhook’s land (LO 13-493) which was granted in
1787, and which adjoined the Shelton grant.
Vanhook fought both at Point Pleasant and at King’s
Mountain.
The Hendricks came from Berkeley County
(now W. Va.), which was a community of FFV.
He obviously came to Elk Garden already a well to do man.
In 1769 he built a house that still stands to the south
of Cedar Creek, and for that time and place, could only be
described as palatial.
Even the adjacent house for his household servants was a
far better structure than most of the homes of the other
frontiersmen. His son Aaron built a brick grist mill on the
property between 1823 and 1840.
The mill dam still stands.
Thomas built a grander mansion here about 1806.
Political and legal turmoil surrounded the issue of land grants
in Virginia almost from the beginning. The common practice in
those days was for the land company to sell off “warrants”,
which were certificates which would qualify the owner to be able
to later buy a designated quantity of land after he had
specified its location and survey description. These warrants
could be turned into the colonial land office, and after payment
of a specified fee, a land grant would be issued to the
purchaser. A more common practice was for the holder of a
warrant to sell them to other individuals on the secondary
market. Such an individual was Jacob Crabtree of New Garden,
which basically is the countryside surrounding Honaker. Jacob
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