However, as it turned out, he might have spared himself the journey, for the settlement proved to be well within the Carolina boundary.
Many Settlers Join Him.
In the fall very many men came out to the new settlement, guided thither by Robertson and Mansker; the former persuading a number who were bound to Kentucky to come to the Cumberland instead.

Among them were two or three of the Long Hunters, whose wanderings had done so much to make the country known.

Robertson's especial partner was a man named John Donelson.

The latter went by water and took a large party of immigrants, including all the women and children, down the Tennessee, and thence up the Ohio and Cumberland to the Bluff or French Lick.

[Footnote: The plan was that Robertson should meet this party at the Muscle Shoals, and that they should go from thence overland; but owing to the severity of the winter, Robertson could not get to the shoals.] Among them were Robertson's entire family, and Donelson's daughter Rachel, the future wife of Andrew Jackson, who missed by so narrow a margin being mistress of the White House.