How this may be I cant say, but I am affraid the steps taken by the Government have been too late.

Before the Purchase was made had the Governor interfered it is believed the Indians would not have sold." Meanwhile Judge Henderson, with strenuous energy, had begun to erect a large stockaded fort according to plans of his own.
Captain James Harrod with forty-two men was stationed at the settlement he had made the preceding year, having arrived there before the McAfees started back to Virginia; and there were small groups of settlers at Boiling Spring, six miles southeast of Harrods settlement, and at St.Asaph's, a mile west of the present Stanford.

A representative government for Transylvania was then planned.

When the frank and gallant Floyd arrived at the Transylvania Fort on May 3d, he "expressed great satisfaction," says Judge Henderson, "on being informed of the plan we proposed for Legislation & sayd he must most heartily concur in that & every other measure we should adopt for the well Govern'g or good of the Community in Gen'l." In reference to a conversation with Captain James Harrod and Colonel Thomas Slaughter of Virginia, Henderson notes in his diary (May 8th): "Our plan of Legislation, the evils pointed out--the remedies to be applyed &c &c &c were Acceeded to without Hesitation.

The plann was plain & Simple--'twas nothing novel in its essence a thousand years ago it was in use, and found by every year's experience since to be unexceptionable.