tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">CHAPTER XXIV.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS.

• Abner Dudley (Logan,) a young schoolmaster from Virginia.
• Major Gilcrest, ex-Revolutionary soldier and prominent churchman.
• Mason Rogers, pioneer settler and warm advocate of Barton Stone.
• Barton Warren Stone, preacher at Cane Ridge meeting-house.
• James Anson Drane, young lawyer and land agent.
• Betsy Gilcrest, only daughter of Major and Mrs. Gilcrest.
• Abby Patterson, niece of Major Gilcrest.
• Sarah Jane Gilcrest, wife of Major Gilcrest.
• Cynthia Ann Rogers, bustling wife of Mason Rogers.
• Aunt Dilsey, negro nurse and under-house keeper at Oaklands.

MINOR CHARACTERS.

• David Purviance, Simon Lucky, Matthew Houston, Wm. Trabue, Shadrac Landrum, Thomas Hinkson, members of Cane Ridge Church.
• Richard McNemar, tried by synod for heresy.
• General Wilkinson, Judge Innes, Judge Murray, Judge Sebastian, supposed Spanish intriguants.
• Graham, detective in employ of Federal Government.
• Henry Clay and Joseph Hamilton Daviess, opposing counsel in the Burr trial.
• Polly Hinkson and Molly Trabue, rustic belles.
• Richard Dudley, of Virginia, foster-father of Abner Dudley (Logan.)
• John Calvin, Martin Luther, Silas, Philip, Matthew, sons of Major and Mrs. Gilcrest.
• Henry, Susan, Lucindy, Lucy, Tommy, Barton, the six children of Mason and Cynthia Ann Rogers.
• Uncle Tony, Rube, Tom, Rache, Aunt Dink, slaves belonging to the Rogerses.

CRESTLANDS

A Story of Early Kentucky

MARY ADDAMS BAYNE

CHAPTER I.

THE COMING OF THE SCHOOLMASTER

The spirit of Indian Summer, enveloped in a delicate bluish haze, pervaded the Kentucky forest. Through the treetops sounded a sighing minor melody as now and then a leaf bade adieu to the companions of its summer revels, and sought its winter's rest on the ground beneath. On a fallen log a redbird sang with jubilant note. What cared he for the lament of the leaves? True, he must