Eskippakithiki, The Last Indian Town in Kentucky - The Filson ...

Voh 6] The Filson Club History Quarterly 377
in the Year 1770 I Incamped on Red River with five other men
and we had for our amusement the History of Samuel Gulivers
Travels wherein he gives an account of his young Mistress Glumdeclik
earriing him on a Market Day for a show to a town called
Lulbergrud a young man of our Company Called Alexander Neely
came to Camp one Night and told us he had been that Day to
Lulbergrud and had killed two Brobdernags in their Capital.
there was no place in this County went by that name of the log
Lick until the year 1795 when William and Major Beezley Cut a
number of Trees Down in and about this Lick we are now at in
order to ketch Buffalows and from that time some people called
this the Log Lick," etc.
From this it is seen that Lulbegrud is a corruption of Lorbrulgrud,
the capital of Brobdinag, the land of giants, which, according
to Dean Swift, Gulliver discovered on the northwest coast of
America. The present Oil Springs was the "capital" and the
buffalos lingering around them, the "Brobdernags."l,
WHAT THE SETTLERS FOUND AT INDIAN OLD FIELDS: A large
part of the Indian Old Fields was patented by a company from
Berkeley County, Virginia, composed of General Marquis Calmes,
and son, Marquis, Jr., Edward Berry, and Ben and Cuthbert
Combs. The two Combs were brothers, and their mother was a
sister of Colonel Thomas Bullitt, the pioneer of Louisville. William
Risk, an intelligent settler, some sixty years later, gave Rev.
John D. Shane the following description:
"I heard one of the partners, Gen. Calmes, say the Old Fields
were all covered with bluegrass when he first saw it [in 1775]. And
when I first saw it, it was very high with grass, as high, some, as a
horse's back, and with a head to it.... There were sprouts of
white hiccory, and cherry tree, and black locust, and black walnut,
all through the Old Field . . . There were stumps, some off
as high as a chair back, and around these stumps were trees, some
of them would make five rail cuts.... Suppose some of the
trees had been cut down to put up a white oak pole cabin that
was . . . there and looked old when the partners were taking up
the land.... It was known as the cabin on the white oak point.
It is now on Leonard Beall's land, joining to Mrs. Goff's down on
Howard's creek. The cabin was hardly one-half mile from the
gate posts.... Ben Combs said he did not know who made it.
• . . The posts were two, of black walnut, about as far apart as a