Stoner, Harrod, and Lindsay, and a party from South Carolina were near the present site of Nashville in 1767, in the same year John Finley and others were in Kentucky, and it was Finley who first told Boon about it and led him thither.
5.

The attempt to find out the names of the men who first saw the different portions of the western country is not very profitable.

The first visitors were hunters, simply wandering in search of game, not with any settled purpose of exploration.

Who the individual first-comers were, has generally been forgotten.

At the most it is only possible to find out the name of some one of several who went to a given locality.
The hunters were wandering everywhere.