They determined to remedy this; and after due proclamation, gathered together at Harrodstown early in June, 1776.

During five days an election was held, and two delegates were chosen to go to Williamsburg, then the seat of government.
This was done at the suggestion of Clark, who, having spent the winter in Virginia had returned to Kentucky in the spring.

He came out alone and on foot, and by his sudden appearance surprised the settlers not a little.

The first to meet him was a young lad,[22] who had gone a few miles out of Harrodstown to turn some horses on the range.

The boy had killed a teal duck that was feeding in a spring, and was roasting it nicely at a small fire, when he was startled by the approach of a fine soldierly man, who hailed him: "How do you do my little fellow?
What is your name?
Ar'n't you afraid of being in the woods by yourself ?" The stranger was evidently hungry, for on being invited to eat he speedily finished the entire duck; and when the boy asked his name he answered that it was Clark, and that he had come out to see what the brave fellows in Kentucky were doing, and to help them if there was need.