Book Purge - The Land that is Pulaski County, Virginia - Part I

Smith, Conway. The Land that is Pulaski County, 2nd edition, Pulaski, VA: Pulaski County Library Board, 1981.

p. 1 1738-1769 - Pulaski County Area a Part of Augusta County:

Augusta County was taken from Orange County in 1738; but due to the unsettled state of the territory the first county court did not convene until 9 December 1745. When the first settlers came into the New River Valley, the territory was a part of the County of Augusta. The boundaries of this huge county were ill defined. Based on the original British claim to the western empire, then being challenged by the French, Augusta County might have been considered as extending from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Pacific. The county seat of this vast area was Stuanton - and Staunton remains the county seat of present-day Augusta.

1770-1772 - Pulaski County Area a Part of Botetourt County: 

The Botetour County Court was organized 13 February 1770. Botetourt, carved out of Augusta County, was also a sizeable county. The western border of the county was the Mississippi River.

Book Purge - History of Scott County, Virginia

Locataion of Scott County

Addington, Robert. History of Scott County, Virginia, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002. 

Originally published in 1932.

p. 1 Some Important Dates in Scott County History

• 1749-50 - Dr. Thomas Walker and companions visit Cumberland Gap and adjacent regions.
• 1763 - Treaty in which France gave up to England all claim to the mainland east of the Mississippi River. 
• 1769 - Danile Boone passes through Big Moccasin Gap on his way to Kentucky.
• Uriah Stone, Casper Mansker, John Rains, and Abraham & Isaac Bledsoe pass through Big Moccasin Gap to Kentucky. 
• Thomas McCulloch made the first settlement within the territory of Scott County near Fort Houston, on Big Moccasin Creek.
• 1770 - The Long Hunters pass through Big Moccasin Gap on hunting expeditions.
• Peter Livingston settled on the North Fork of the Holston at the mouth of Livingston Creek.
• 1771 - Silas Enyart settled on Little Moccasin Creek.
• 1772 - James Green settled near the mouth of Stony Creek.
• Patrick Porter settled on the west side of Fall Creek, near Osborne's Ford.