(1) Name: George GRAY
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Misc. Notes
From Maud Lafferty’s article on the taking of Ruddell’s and Martin’s Forts:
Captain Hinkson's company was composed of:

Captain John Hinkson
John Martin
Pat Callihan
George Gray
Silas Train
John Townsend
William Hoskins
John Woods
John Cooper
Dan Callihan
William Shields
John Haggin
Matthew Fenton
Thomas Shores
Samuel Wilson

Hinkson's Company came down the Ohio and up the Licking River in canoes as far as the forks where Falmouth is now. There they tarried a few days, then proceeded up the Licking to the Blue Licks and came over the Buffalo Trace to the point they selected for their future homes, one of the most beautiful spots in all Kentucky.

They immediately took for themselves land anti built fifteen cabins, named for members of their company. John Townsend on Townsend Creek, and John Cooper on Cooper's Run, raised corn in 1775 in sufficient quantities to furnish seed for the 1776 harvest.

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Hinkson’s Company
First Visitors and Improvers.-From a comparison of numerous depositions of the visitors themselves, taken between the years 1793 and 1821, in several large land-suits in Mason, Nicholas, Bourbon, Harrison, Pendleton, Fayette, and other counties, it appears that a company of fifteen men (in after years frequently called "Hinkson's Company ")-John Hinkson, John Haggin, John Martin, John Townsend, James Cooper, Daniel Callahan, Patrick Callahan, Matthew Fenton, George Gray, Wm. Hoskins, Wm. Shields, Thomas Shores, Silas Train, Samuel Wilson, (only 15 or 16 years old,) and John Woods-in March and April, 1775, came down the Ohio and up the Licking river, in canoes, in search of lands to improve. They landed at the mouth of Willow creek, on the east side of Main Licking, four miles above the forks (where Falmouth now is); and on account of high water and rainy weather remained two nights and a day. "The hackberry tree out of which Sam. Wilson cut a johnny-cake board, in the point at the mouth of the creek, was still standing in 1806, 31 years after." [Seven of them, on their way home in the ensuing fall, stopped at the same place and "barbaqued enough meat to carry them home."] They proceeded on up the Licking to near the Lower Blue Licks, "where Bedinger's mill was in 1805," thence took the buffalo trace to the neighborhood between Paris and Cynthiana-where they "improved"' lands, made small clearings, built a cabin for each member of the company, named after some of the company Hinkston and Townsend creeks, and Cooper's run, and afterwards settled Hinkston and Martin's stations. John Townsend, on Townsend creek, and John Cooper, on the waters of Hinkston, raised corn in 1775, from which the latter furnished seed to a number of improvers in the same region in 1776. (Collin’s “History of Kentucky”)

JOHN HINKSTON'S COMPANY from Westmoreland and adjoining counties in Pennsylvania was the first company to improve on Hinkson's fork of Licking. In March, 1775, these men came down the Ohio and up Licking in canoes. Hinkston (Hinkson) and Townsend Creeks, Cooper's Run, also Martin's and Hinkston's Stations were named for members of this party. John Townsend and John Cooper raised corn in 1775 and supplied seed to a number of improvers in the same region in 1776. John Hinkston built Hinkston's Station on the north side of Licking about one mile below the mouth of Townsend. He remained for fifteen months and a small community was growing up around his encampment, but because of Indian atrocities it was abandoned in 1776 when Hinkston and a company of settlers left for Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh), Pa. In April, 1779, Isaac Ruddell rebuilt the old station and fortified it, and it was thereafter known as Ruddle's Station.
Members of Hinkson’s Company: John Hinkston, Wm. Hoskins, John Haggin, Wm. Shields, John Martin, Thos. Shores, John Townsend, Silas Train, Daniel Callahan, Samuel Wilson, Patrick Callahan, James Cooper, Matthew Fenton (killed by Indians), George Gray, John Cooper.
References: Depositions filed in Harrison County suits; True Kentuckian Oct. 24, 1874.
(Pamphlet “Paris Sesquintennial: A Record of the 150th Anniversery of the Founding of Bourbon’s County Seat” by Mrs. Julia Breckenridge Ardery, p. 11)