Excerpt from Richard Henderson: The Authorship of the Cumberland Compact and the Founding of Nashville Unpublished letter from Col. Arthur Campbell to Gov. Richard Caswell of North Carolina. In this letter, dated Richmond, November 8, 1782, in speaking of his preemption of acres on the waters of Cumberland River, Campbell remarks: There is a man in that country by the name of Mansker who now claims the land by right of settlement, but my location was made several years before he moved to that country, and I believe he would never have troubled me by interfering with my claim had he not been instigated by Tom and Sam Bryan, with whom he was intimate Cf. Albright's Early History of Middle Tennessee, 28-30. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.