No land near sulphur springs or showing evidences of metals was to be granted to settlers.
Moreover, at the Company's store the prices charged for lead were said to be too high--lead being necessary for hunting, and hunting being the only means of procuring food--while the wages of labor, as fixed by the Company, were too low.

These terms bore too heavily on poor men who were risking their lives in the colony.
Hence newcomers passed by Boonesborough, as the Transylvania settlement was presently called, and went elsewhere.

They settled on Henderson's land but refused his terms.

They joined in their sympathies with James Harrod, who, having established Harrodsburg in the previous year at the invitation of Virginia, was not in the humor to acknowledge Henderson's claim or to pay him tribute.

All were willing to combine with the Transylvania Company for defense, and to enforce law they would unite in bonds of brotherhood in Kentucky, even as they had been one with each other on the earlier frontier now left behind them.