Fleming

        
Capt. Geo Stockton. Sheriff, for a long time, of the Co. – since decd. Did not get to see him at home, & got this statement in haste, in a store in Flemingsburgh. (Drug Store.)
His father came & located land here as early as 1776, but did not remove till January 1787. Might have been here & built, in 1786, in the Spring. I was 10 yrs. Old when my f. came. He 1st moved from now Berkley Co. (then Frederick Co.) to Frederick Co. VA. (Uniontown,). From there he removed to Morgantown. (Pa?) Nobody lived this side of Washington, (in Mason,) when we came to Ky to live.
Major Gn. Stockton, John Fleming, (his ½ bro.) and Wm. MCleary, a bro. in law, with Saml, Strode a boy, came down the Ohio from Pa., in a pirogue in 1776; hunted a sycamore at the mouth of Cabin Creek, where they hid their ammunition, intending to go on to Strode’s Station, but happened into these parts, & built cabin in 1776, & planted corn, intending to make a settlement (in this neighborhood) McCleary was a lawyer, & never moved out here. Fleming remained here, If he went back at all, it was only on a visit. Stocton had a family, returned, & came out repeatedly to make surveys, & cover entries. I was born while he was out here, in 1776.

from the Draper Papers, 12CC231

Lyman C. Draper (1815-1891) collected information on America’s first frontier and its notable figures and events, such as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clarke, and The Battle of King’s Mountain. Draper’s papers include a treasure trove of information on the frontier settlers of the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania.

The original papers are held at the Wisconsin Historical Society. They include thousands of handwritten letters of correspondence comprising nearly 500 volumes of information not available anywhere else about the pioneer settlers of the trans-Allegheny West.