"Recollections: Yesterday, Today For Tomorrow" mentions Captain Buckner returning to Ky from VA in 1796 by way of the Midland Trail, crossing the Big Sandy River, with 40 families, 70 people.
"Twenty (20) of these families, the number of people unknown came into what was to be Bracken, with Captain Buckner, and they are:
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FAMILY:
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SETTLED:
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| W. H. Ambrose | between Brooksville and Powersville; |
| Frederick Fishback | at Willow, |
| Julius Daniel Coleman | at Western; |
| John Boude | at Augusta; later, Brooksville; |
| Emmanuel Black | at Berlin; |
| Nicholas Taliferro | at Chatham; |
| John Byar | at Chatham; |
| Dickenson Morris | at Brooksville; |
| Jimmy Young | at Pleasant Ridge; |
| Joseph Pollock | at Germantown; |
| Richard Thomas | at Lenoxburg; |
| Cliff (Clift) | at North Fork; |
| Marsh | at Augusta; then Milford; |
| Pepper | at Locust Creek; |
| John Hamilton | at Brooksville; |
| Vachel Weldon | at Brooksville; later to Augusta; |
| Edward Poe | at Brooksville; |
| Michael Hook | at Bracken Creek; |
| Samuel Harmon | at Germantown; |
| Hugh Marshall | at Augusta |
Other settlers who came almost immediately from Nicholas County, were: Fee, Asbury, Morford, Hanson, Pearl, Blanchard, Patty, Wells, Craig, Day, Woodward, Davis, Hughey, Hedges and Todd, having been at Lexington. They were a part of the "The Traveling Church'. "