Those who went down the Ohio, merely landing on the Kentucky shore, do not deserve mention; the French had done as much for a century.

Whites who had been captured by the Indians, were sometimes taken through Tennessee or Kentucky, as John Salling in 1730 and Mrs.Mary Inglis in 1756 (see "Trans-Alleghany Pioneers," Collis, etc.).

In 1654 a certain Colonel Wood was in Kentucky.

The next real explorer was nearly a century later, though Doherty in 1690, and Adair in 1730, traded with the Cherokees in what is now Tennessee.

Walker struck the head-water of the Kentucky in 1750; he had been to the Cumberland in 1748.