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Soldier at Point Pleasant and in the Revolution, justice of the peace, 1794, farmer and stockraiser in Greenbrier Co. "George Poage was on of the party that accompanied Col. James Harrod to Kentucky in the year 1774, at which time Col. Harrod built the first house that ever stood in the interior of Kentucky, At Harrodsburg; Daniel Boone had previously built a cabin upon the borders of the state. Co. Harrod's was a pioneer party and there were no women in the company; Mrs. Boone and her daughters were the first white women in that section, in the year 1775, while a party of Harrod's men were out surveying, they encamped at Fountain Blue, about three miles from Harrodsburg - early in the morning, some of the party being engaged in making preparation for the day, George Poage still asleep had a remarkable dream, and was observed by the men to bekicking about; he was dreaming that the guns were all pointed at him, and the campfire burning near the breeches it seemed that they would catch fire and burn until the guns would discharge at him; he awoke and while relating his dream, they were fired upon by Indians. The surveyor, who was drying his papers by the fire, was killed and one other man. Mr. Poage snatched his gun and ran, the Indians followed him closely; he threw his gun over a creek, and the Indians quarreling about it he gained upon them and made his way safely to the fort. Soon after several of Harrod's party having by various accidents lost their rifles, about thirty, among whom was Poage, returned to Virginia, and immediately he with the others joined the command of Col. Lewis and were at the battle of Point Pleasant, the far-famed Indian battle, in the fall of 1774. George Poage afterwards served in the army of the Revolution, and was at the siege of Yorktown. ...One other circumstance in connection with George Poage's first summer in Kentucky, in 1774. He with others were out hunting, and in a long ramble of 75 or 80 miles they chanced to come upon the Blue Licks, which no white man had ever before visited unless it was Boone. These famous licks, it will be recollected, are near Licking River, some 25 or 30 miles SSW from Maysville. They came upona ridge which overlooks the basin in which are the Licks, and ther, perhaps, was one of the greatest sites [sic] ever seen; the thousand or more, buffaloes were there, it maybe, ten thousand other animals of every species kown in the western wilds, bears, wolves, panthers, foxes, wild cats, deer, elks, &c -- 2,000 wild animals, all moving about in one vast throng and rubbing against each other, the stronger frequently praying [sic] upon the weaker. The ground about for miles was a perfect barren waste, worn out and torn up by the stamping and pawing of these wild myriads. What a site [sic]