1 April 1779  For the third time, Elizabeth Finney gave birth to a child.  And, once again, James entered his bedroom and saw a small, wiggling infant lying in his wife’s arms.  As he approached, his wife informed him he had a new daughter.  James prayed for his baby to be healthy, and to thrive, and to live.  The baby would be named Nancy Finney.  There are no known family members from neither James nor Elizabeth’s families who were named Nancy.[i]

15 October 1779  Virginia, with Governor Thomas Jefferson’s interest and approval, officially began to sell treasury warrants for land in the western frontier, now known as Kentucky County, Virginia.  They used this money to help support the high costs of the war against the British.  James Finney heard talk among Virginians about the beautiful and rich farmland to the west in this new county. This area was made even more appealing by the low cost and availability of the land there.  Colonel Richard Callaway of Boonesborough had escorted British hostages to Williamsburg from Kentucky and arrived in the spring of 1779.  Crowds gathered, eager to hear of Callaway’s stories and ask questions about Kentucky.  He told all that “Kentucky’s soil was dark and rich, loose as a bank of willow ashes.  Why, one could claim land and plow it on the same day.”  Many men, after hearing Calloway’s stories immediately sought and bought Virginia land warrants intending to claim land in Kentucky. 

Stories about Kentucky spread quickly by word of mouth

“The land of promise flowing with milk and honey where you shall eat bread without scarceness and not lack anything” was among the many descriptions published in newspapers about Kentucky at this time.  Another visitor to Kentucky reported that “...heaven is a Kentucky of a place.” It was common to see herds of buffalo in the thousands and more than 100 turkeys in the same flock.  Kentucky appealed to many Americans because of the great opportunity, yet along with the prosperity of the land was a great danger.  The Indians, known to colonists as reds, savages, or yellow boys, were not about to give their ancient land up without a fight. 

1779 John Finney was once again in Culpeper County, Virginia.  During his time home, John witnessed a deed between Joseph and Jane Early and Adam Garr.  Joseph Early bought 122 and one-half acres from Adam Garr, part of an original grant to Michael Holt.  This land was located to the north of the Finney farm and was a part of the Germanna settlement; Garr and Holt both descendants of early German settlers.

20 December 1779  James Finney was at the Virginia Land Office in Williamsburg and bought a 505-acre treasury warrant for land in Kentucky County (Appendix 26).  He paid 202 pounds for the land.  It is hard to tell exactly who else was buying treasury warrants with him yet two were surely Joseph Early and William Kirtley.[ii]  Joseph Early lived in Culpeper County near the Finneys and was a Captain in the Culpeper County militia.  William Kirtley was another Finney neighbor to the west, the same who had recently obtained permission from Elizabeth Finney, the youthful wife of James Finney, to sell Finney land back in 1775.

Who was Joseph Early?
This was likely Joseph, born in 1738 to Jeremiah Early and Elizabeth Buford. Jeremiah was a large landholder and planter in Culpeper County from an early date, kinsman of the Bufords, and served in the French and Indian War.  He raised his children about four miles north of the Finney plantation.  His son Joseph fought in the Revolution and was a Lieutenant in the 5th Virginia Regiment.  Early was acquainted with George Washington who at one time visited the Early home in Culpeper County where Washington presented one of his children with a watch.


It is unknown if James Finney traveled to Williamsburg from his home in Culpeper County to buy this warrant, if he was with a war unit passing through, a unit stationed here, or on the way home from service.  There is no evidence of James Finney serving in an official capacity during this time.  However, a stint with a militia company could never be ruled out.  Need for militia musters were determined by the Continental Congress and the state.  If the state of Virginia determined that there was indeed a need for self-protection, or if Virginia was called upon to serve the confederation, a call for militia was issued.  

The only Culpeper County militia company known to be active during December 1779 was led by Captain William Stanton (see Appendix 25 for Culpeper County officers). Back in November, militia volunteers from Culpeper County met at Hobbs Forge near Fredericksburg and were commanded by Captain Stanton.  The men who served in this company served a tour of three months.  Since this company apparently moved north and east, Finney was likely not with Stanton.  As Joseph Early was in Williamsburg with Finney in December, it seems likely that, if he had been in militia service, he was likely in a Culpeper County militia company led by Captain Joseph Early.

With the purchase of a Virginia treasury warrant, James Finney surely planned on being in Kentucky County in the near future.  Owners of these Treasury Warrants had to present them at the Surveyor’s Office in Kentucky County at Wilson’s Station.  The Surveyor’s Office would be open to accept Treasury Warrants on 1 May 1780 and the earlier one arrived, the better land they would obtain.

There was negative news about Kentucky County.  Stories from men and articles written in newspapers told of Indians harassing and brutally murdering settlers.  Men, women and children were cruelly killed or captured, and never seen again.  Many times entire families were ambushed, scalped and killed.  Indian encounters ranged from chance meetings with small hunting parties to organized Indian armies of nearly 700.  Such news seemed unlikely to inspire many people to transplant entire lives hundreds of miles from familiar surroundings.  Nevertheless, cheap and plentiful land seemed to make these dangers far less significant and worth the risk.  Other men journeyed to Kentucky for profit, collect through hunting, skinning, and selling animal skins.  These men were known as backwoods Kentucky hunters, or just long hunters.  Long hunters lived strictly for the hunt and were known to be of the laziest sorts that existed.  They were often known as bandits and a common stereotype of the time period commonly linked banditry and hunting.  The Finneys were not considered long hunters; they were interested in Kentucky for the land.  Kentucky was a young man’s country and hence, Kentucky fit for James and John Finney, both young men. 

17 January 1780  Greenbrier County, now the western portion of Botetourt County, commissioners certified that John Finney was entitled to a pre-emption warrant for 400 acres of land by right of settlement before the first day of January 1778 in Greenbrier County at the mouth of Sewell’s Creek.   Pre-emption warrants were made available by the state of Virginia for those who had improved land before in or before 1777.  Two days before, George Blackburn’s (now John Finney’s brother’s wife’s cousin) 400 acre settlement made in Greenbrier Country in the year 1774 was certified by the same commissioners.  Also, six days before, Julius Christy (Finney’s wife’s uncle) received the same from the commissioners for 400 acres bordering the settlements of Patrick Lockhart and John Williams. These men were entitled to purchase the land at the rate of ten shillings or equivalent payment per 100 acres.[iii]

16 February 1780  James Finney bought another treasury warrant in Williamsburg.  This warrant was for 300 acres on which he paid 120 pounds (Appendix 27).  Other men James Finney arrived in Williamsburg with and who also bought treasury warrants included: Merry Walker, Thomas Quinn, James Quinn, Julius Gibbs, John Rice, John Childs, and William Childs.[iv]  Whether they were in service or came to Williamsburg from Culpeper County is a mystery.  All of these men were neighbors of the Finneys at their home in Culpeper County.

During the previous month, Captain Elijah Kirtley had raised a company to serve in lower Virginia for three months under Culpeper Lieutenant Colonel of Militia James Barbour (see Appendix 25 for Culpeper Officers). It appears that this company was called into action to pursue American army deserters.  During the company’s service, the deserters were reportedly captured and returned to Richmond, Virginia.  The company was discharged early at Johnson’s Springs, about 25 miles from Richmond and after only about a two-month service. 

Merry Walker, a neighbor of the Finneys in Culpeper County, served as Captain Kirtley’s lieutenant in this company.[v]  Walker also was at Williamsburg with James Finney on February 16 to buy treasury warrants.  Therefore, it seems highly probable that James Finney was in Captain Elijah Kirtley’s company which was mustered in during January.  Future militia assignments also find James Finney named as an officer in companies led by Elijah Kirtley. 

Early 1780  John Finney was assigned a 600-acre preemption warrant by James Kinkade, who had himself received the warrant on 24 January 1780 after permission was given by representatives of the District of Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier.  The land was described as located in Greenbrier County on the Great Kanawha River at the Burning Springs, which is in present-day West Virginia.  Shortly after receiving the warrant, John Finney transferred it on to William Morris, who then submitted the warrant to the state of Virginia on 14 July 1780 which entitled him to claim the 600 acres.  This would be the first of many Greenbrier County land transactions that were associated with John and James Finney.   (see Appendix 28 for more on this Greenbrier County land)


18 March 1780  John Finney was in Williamsburg, Virginia.  He bought a 500-acre Treasury Warrant, numbered 4035, for 200 pounds.  (see Appendix 29)  He purchased this warrant under the name of John Finney or, as the name appears on the warrant log, John Tinney.  Strangely, the very next Treasury Warrant issued, number 4036, was sold to John Finney, yet this time recorded as “John Finnie.”  This was an 800-acre warrant bought for 320 pounds.[vi]  John was certainly in Williamsburg with James Huston from Greenbrier County, and John Williams, along with George Rowe and Joseph Wood who were each from Culpeper County.  Rowe was known to have been a private in Captain Thomas Young's Company of the Western Battalion commanded by Colonel Joseph Crockett in the Virginia State Service during the Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1782.

With John Finney’s land sale that took place in early 1780, it seems possible that he used the money he collected to pay for the Virginia treasury warrants in March 1780.  Since there was little information about the Kincade-Finney-Morris land transaction, the date of the actual transactions and the amount of money he made are impossible details to determine.  From the date of the original assignment of the Kincade warrant, the transaction would have been made in late January or February, followed by his journey east to Williamsburg to purchase the Virginia treasury warrants.

March 1780  James and John Finney left Virginia for Kentucky to present their Treasury Warrants for the new Kentucky County land in late March.  James may have been to Kentucky previously, maybe even during some military or militia service.  His brother, John, had also likely traveled there.  There were others James and John traveled with, such as Thomas Quinn, James Quinn, Julius Gibbs, John Rice and Nicholas Ware.  Most men traveled in large groups, called companies, for safety from Indian attacks.  The Quinn’s were brothers.  They and Nicholas Ware were neighbors of the Finneys from Culpeper County.  Another brother of the Quinn’s, Benjamin, had been to Kentucky several months before to present his Treasury Warrant.  Julius Gibbs was James Finney’s brother-in-law, his wife’s brother.  John Rice was also James Finney’s brother-in-law, his sister’s husband.

Who were the Quinn’s?
Thomas, James and Benjamin were the sons of Richard Quinn and were born (all around 1750) and raised about three miles south of the Finney plantation on the Rapidan River.  They all were participants in the Revolution and fought alongside one or both of the Finney boys.  Though they all bought land in Kentucky, only Benjamin settled and lived there.  He also abandoned his Lincoln County land and raised his family in Scott County, Kentucky, just north of the future settlement of James and John Finney.  He died there in 1823.

The men traveling together certainly took the route over land as opposed to traveling down the Ohio River.  It would be too cumbersome to travel all the way up to Fort Pitt and then pay for or build a raft to float down the Ohio River toward Kentucky.  From Williamsburg, they traveled, by land, over 700 miles to reach central Kentucky, normally taking about four to five weeks.   First, they journeyed on a trail westward over the Blue Ridge Mountains to the town of Staunton.  From there, they traveled on a larger road southwest through the Great Valley and on to the Great Road in the Holston Valley.  Once they passed through the Cumberland Gap, it was northwest up the Wilderness Road to Harrodsburg in Kentucky County. 

Word spread in March that Benjamin Logan was going to be starting back west to Kentucky.  Logan was a well-known inhabitant in Kentucky and served the people there as a great leader.  Many of those Kentucky-bound sought his aid as an excellent woodsman and guide for their trip.   A large company of ninety-eight met him at the North Fork of the Holston River in late March.  The company operated with great discipline on their trip to avoid confrontation with Indians.  Two brothers, reportedly named Finley, decided to move on at a faster pace.  They returned the same day, badly frightened because they had heard screaming and firing guns near Raccoon Springs ahead.  The next day, the company found five men killed by Indians there.  They continued on and arrived at Logan’s Fort on April 21.  Here, the company was disbanded and the members continued to their various destinations.  It is certainly possible that the two brothers’ names, mentioned in the reported reminiscence as Finley, were likely mispronounced, misspelled, or even unknown to the reporter and that the brothers had actually been named Finney.[vii]

1 April 1780 When James Finney’s only child Nancy turned one year old, James Finney was trudging through the wild backwoods of Kentucky.  Since each of his first two children passed away well before the age of one, James Finney likely considered his child making her first birthday a major milestone.  Certainly James thought of his daughter Nancy on April 1, the day she would have turned one.  James would have no way to know that she had indeed made it safely to age one: he was too far removed from Culpeper County to have any contact with his family and he would definitely not know anything about his family until he returned.  Actually, it was his little daughter Nancy that should be worried about her father in the dangerous Kentucky wilderness.

18 April 1780  The Finneys and their associates were in Harrodsburg by late April and soon were at the surveyor’s office at Wilson’s Station.  Wilson’s Station was on a branch of the Salt River about two miles from Harrodsburg.  In addition to the treasury warrants, a few members of the Finney group purchased military warrants.  Abraham Wilson and Henry Walker sold five 50-acre military warrants to James Finney, John Finney, and James Quinn either in Virginia or when they arrived in Kentucky (Appendix 30).  Wilson and Walker had obtained these warrants from French and Indian War veterans, who had received them for service in that war.




The Treasury Warrants James Finney and his company held could not be entered at the surveyor’s office until May 1.  However, military warrants could be entered at any time. Settlement and preemption claims for settlers who had occupied and improved land previously could not be officially entered until April 26.  Most men with treasury warrants, settlement claims, or preemption claims came to Kentucky before these dates with the intention to explore the country to enable themselves to locate their choice of land and ready their land entry description when the surveyor’s office opened its doors.  Also, some came early to linger about, intending to purchase and/or make an entry on a military warrant.

“On April 26 when citizens with preemption warrants were able to make entries, a vast crowd arrived at Wilson’s Station.  Before the doors closed that night, 88 men had made entries on preemptions amounting to 75,500 acres and another 19 men had entered an additional 8,950 acres on military warrants.  During the next three days, men continued to arrive at the land office with preemption warrants and by the afternoon of Saturday April 29 an additional 513 entries had been made.  By then a large number of men had collected at Wilson’s Station, some to enter warrants while others lingered with the intention of purchasing claims.”

28 April 1780  James Finney submitted his first entry for Kentucky land.  The entry was for 50 acres and was made with a military warrant (Appendix 30).  James Finney’s brother John, James Quinn, and Isaac Ware also made entries, respectively, at the same time.  These were all on military warrants for 50 acres.  An entry was an important but very vague description of the land the holder of a warrant desired.  The entry was merely a claim for the land and would need to be surveyed before receiving the official grant for the land.  On the next day, April 29, James Finney made another entry on a military warrant for 50 acres.

The Finneys and their group must have spent a little time here at Wilson’s Station and Harrodsburg, waiting in the long line to make entries.  They were among the first to make their entries on April 28, but James made his second entry on April 29 later in the day.  These men probably had never actually seen the land they entered at this time because they did not use their treasury warrants.  The treasury warrants, for larger amounts of land, were saved until they would have seen and inspected the land they would claim and make entry upon.

“Perhaps because of these large crowds and the need for better organization by the land clerks, the office was closed on Monday May 1 and remained closed until Tuesday May 9.  When the office again opened, the land seekers were back en masse, since it was then legal to enter land on treasury warrants.  On Tuesday May 9, 67 men entered 118 claims for over 100,000 acres.  From then on the land office remained open on most working days with numerous claims being entered on all types of warrants.  John Floyd stated in a letter, ‘I stayed at the Surveyor’s office ‘till hunger drove me home before I could make an entry.’  Others probably had the same experience.”

James Finney, John Finney, and the rest of their party make
entries at the surveyor’s office in Wilson’s Station

May 1780  The company made their way to Tates Creek and Silver Creek, waterways that ran from south into the Kentucky River, just after 29 April 1780.  As the land office closed on May 1, they were traveling with many others who had the same idea.  Their intention: to find land near where Benjamin Quinn had claimed his tract a few months before.  Once there, they viewed land that was on the creeks between the south fork of Tates Creek and Silver Creek.  The area was, at the time, called the Treading Ground.  These lands bordered the preempted lands of Christopher Irvine and William Hancock.  On the trail to the treading ground, the company passed through Fort Harrodsburg, probably went northeast on the path to Lexington and then back southeast to Fort Boonesborough which was about three miles below the mouth of Tates Creek.  From Boonesborough, they traveled to Irvine’s Station, near the bottom of Tates Creek.  Settlers traveled existing trails and traces and always in large groups to avoid Indian ambush.  Attacks during the daytime were very common and settlers had to be constantly alert.  While in the treading ground area, the Finneys and their cohort lived at Irvine’s Station and Fort Boonesborough.  Records show that Julius Gibbs, Thomas Quinn, James Quinn, and John Rice all resided in the fort at some time.  The Finney’s names may have been omitted or their last name misspelled, as happened so often.

20 May 1780  James Finney and his company returned to Wilson’s Station with their treasury warrants, ready to make entries.  Several had treasury warrants which they used to enter land once again on Tates Creek.  John Rice, James Finney, John Finney, James Quinn, Thomas Quinn and Julius Gibbs were those who made entry for land on 20 May (Appendix 31).  Obviously, these men had planned to settle this area.  But at this point, there may have been more on their minds. 

During the summer, relations between the western settlers and the Indians had become increasingly aggressive.  The Indians, wanting to violently rid their country of the settlers, peacefully worked with the British.  And the British, now in the midst of their own war with their renegade colonists, did everything they could to fuel the Indians anger.  A ragged man had arrived in Harrodsburg in early May 1780 after having escaped capture from an Indian tribe.  He had learned that the northern tribes of Indians and the British under Colonel Byrd of Detroit were planning a march to break up the settlements in Kentucky, hereby bringing the whole country under control.  The entire Indian force was to be used and given small arms as well as artillery.  Information was quickly sent to every station on how to defend against the invasion.  It was estimated that they would arrive near the end of July or first of August and attack Louisville on the Ohio River.

The Finneys, as most did in 1780, spent time at Fort Harrodsburg

June 1780  Colonel Byrd gathered his army of British troops and Indians and began his march earlier than the Kentuckians had expected.  They were seen on the Kentucky River on June 1.  Due to the wet summer of 1780, they reorganized their invasion and decided to ascend the Licking River.  They attacked Ruddle’s Station on June 22 with the force of 1,000 men.  At Ruddle’s Station, Colonel Bryd sent a flag into the fort and the men agreed to surrender as long as the station inhabitants would become prisoners of the British and not to suffer as prisoners of the Indians.  Colonel Byrd agreed and the gates were opened.  Immediately the Indians rushed in and claimed the first person they got hold of as their own prisoner.  Members of every family were separated.  Men and women were killed, scalped and mutilated.  The piercing screams of children torn from their mothers were later said to be indescribable.  Byrd was left helpless to the Indian behavior, being outnumbered and scared of them himself.  The Indians wanted to march and take nearby Martin’s Station the same way but Colonel Byrd would only agree if the prisoners were to be his.  Martin’s Station was taken but the army turned back because of insufficient food rations.  The Indians eventually separated from the British and kept the prisoners from Ruddle’s Station.  Indians would take prisoners and adopt them into families to make them part of their tribe.  Men became prisoners, many became brothers, women were taken as brides, and children were raised by Indian families as one of their own.

General George Rogers Clark was just arriving at Harrodsburg from farther west when the news of these attacks was heard.  A great panic spread throughout Kentucky causing the settlers to look to General Clark as their only hope.  He called upon all men in the country, inhabitants and strangers alike, to bear arms in order to avenge the savage attacks the British and Indians had incurred.  James and John Finney were certainly here when word first spread of the oncoming march by the British and Indian army.  A levy was made for four-fifths of all men to meet at the mouth of the Licking River on the July 20.  Were James and John Finney levied into Clark’s army?  Or, did they return to Virginia?  These questions could be answered by activities that transpired in the next few months.


August 1780  General Clarke led his 970 men into the Indian nation August 2, 1780, in the formation of two divisions.  In four days, they arrived in Chillicothe, on the Little Miami River.  The Indians had been warned of the army advancement and the town was deserted, the houses having been burnt.  The troops raided the Indian corn fields, camped the night, and left the next day for the Piqua towns, 12 miles to the north.  Just before the Piqua towns, the Indians were encountered waiting in a prairie of high weeds and fired upon the American army.  General Clarke decided on attacking the town from a front position, with a left wing and right wing attack. The Indians engaged their fight to the west where most of the twenty white men killed occurred.  To the east of town, it was reported that this division never saw an Indian. The army destroyed the entire Indian cornfield and every species of vegetable that was grown in the Indian farms. They burnt the villages, stole all of the horses and provisions and destroyed everything of value to the Indians. With the lack of adequate food to support their families, the Indian warriors were obliged to spend most of their time hunting and Kentucky was quiet for a considerable time.

This campaign lasted about 25 days.  The men had almost no provisions except what was cut from the Indian fields, yet not a complaint was heard.  They believed that if the army failed in their attack, few would escape a painful death or agonizing capture, and the Indians would then fall on their defenseless women and children in Kentucky.  They were all prepared to either conquer or die.

If the Finneys had marched with General Clarke, they would have returned to Kentucky by the end of August. At the earliest, they would have arrived back in Culpeper County in October 1780.  Events transpired in August 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia that may dispute the Finneys participation in General Clarks march to Indian country north of Kentucky.

August 1780  With a large British force remaining in the South Carolina colony after Charleston had been taken, militia in Virginia were encouraged to form and march south.  Elijah Kirtley led a company of militia men from Culpeper County to the highlands of North and South Carolina.  Other companies joined the march south from Culpeper, two of which were led by Henry Towles and James Finney (Pension said one company led by Captain Finney or Finnell, Joseph Dickens pension).  From this information James Finney had returned within the previous month from his escapades in Kentucky.  See Appendix 25 for Culpeper County militia officers.

The militia companies spent about two months attempting to quell Tory movements.  By the end of their tour, they had seen no altercations as Tories fled whenever their militia forces approached.  A battle had been fought at Camden, South Carolina but it seems these militia companies had been busy marching through the Carolina country.  By late October 1780, the companies were back in Culpeper County.

James Finney and his company frightened South Carolina Tories

September 1780  After the defeat of General Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina in mid-August, a general fear spread through Virginia and militia companies were called to defend against a British army that may present a threat to Virginia southern borders.  At least four companies were assembled and led by Richard Yancey, William Stanton, Benjamin Lillard, and Edmund Terrill, who formed under Culpeper County Lieutenant Colonel James Barbour and Major Benjamin Porter.  The companies met a Culpeper Courthouse and marched with great haste to Hillsboro, North Carolina where they joined General Edward Stevens’ brigade.  After a short time there, the army marched to Salisbury and then to Charlotte to join the main army of continental regulars and North Carolina militia under Major General Nathaniel Greene.  A part of the army had a brief skirmish in the Haw River here.  The army left Charlotte and encamped at Cheraw Hills on the Peedee River where they made their winter quarters.  They left Cheraw Hills after Morgan defeated Tarleton at Cowpens and under pressure by an advancing Cornwallis.  At the Yadkin River, the rebel army was attacked by Cornwallis and forced to swim from bank to bank to escape.  Six soldiers were killed and 40 wounded.  About this time, the Virginia militia men’s tour was completed.  Some stayed and would fight in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse while others were marching prisoners from Cowpens north back to Virginia and only heard the cannon from the battle.  By November, the entire Virginia militia volunteering in the Southern District would be back in Virginia.

October/November 1780 A British naval fleet was expected to land near Richmond in Virginia.  The Virginia colony issued a call for militia for protection.  In Culpeper County, several companies were raised and met at Culpeper Courthouse.  Companies formed under James Browning, Henry Towles, John Waugh, Graves, and possibly others.  These companies were marched to Richmond, led by County Lieutenant James Barbour and Major Roebuck.  The threat was never realized as the British troops were only discharged briefly before returning to their vessels and setting sail for unknown destinations.  Many militia companies were countermanded by General Weeden and returned home while others completed their tours through December 1780.





[i] During my research, I have often wondered about the name Nancy.  I assumed the use of this name would become apparent at some point and yet, it has not yet.  Oddly, James’ brother John named one of his first daughters Nancy.  Also, some researchers of the Spencer Breeding-Elizabeth Finney family place Nancy Breeding as one of their first children.
[ii] These men were listed as buying land at the same time as James Finney.  There may have been other but the previous page has not been seen.  Joseph Earley was a Lieutenant in the Culpeper County militia and can be found on the January 1781 Culpeper County class75.  William Kirtley was also from Culpeper County and could be found in the January 1781 Culpeper County class 82
[iii] Greenbrier County, VA Land Entry Book page 23
[iv] These men were found buying land at the same time as James Finney.  The association could be found mainly from their connection to Culpeper County through the Culpeper County class list of January 1781.  Merry Walker was a lieutenant in class 84, Thomas and James Quinn were found in class 105, Julius Gibbs in class 93, and William Childs in class 20.  There may have been more there but have not seen previous page of the treasury warrant log.
[v] Pension application record
[vi] The warrant number of John Finney’s 500 acre grant in Lincoln County, Kentucky matches the number on the list, number 4035.  Warrant number 4036, bought by a “John Finnie”, may have been purchased by the same man, just a different spelling.  John Finney was known to have owned land in Greenbrier County and the notes on this warrant for 800 acres show that a John Eager, William Rennick, and James Hanna received parts of this land, 412 acres in all, and settled in Greenbrier County, Virginia (record No 47 page 237 and No 48 pages 523-526) Does this mean that John Finney may have owned the other 388 acres?  There was a 387 acre tract at Cherry Tree Bottom, could this have been part of the warrant?
[vii] This scenario is not likely because the Finney’s made their first land entry on April 18.  They most likely were with a smaller company traveling very fast because they would have left Virginia just a month before after March 18 when John was in Williamsburg.