Patterns of Wolfpen Harlan H. Hatcher Maps of the area where the Patterns (Leslies) lived. by Fred T. May - 2005

1795 Barker Map of the Big Sandy Valley Paint Lick is at present-day Paintsville and Balclutha is at present-day Louisa, Kentucky. Harmon's Station and the Leslie Settlement have been added to show their locations in the region. Some of the early holding of the Leslie family in the area that came to be known as the Leslie Settlement. Today Route 194 follows the course of Johns Creek through the property. The original settlers, William Robert Leslie and his son Robert, lived near the present post office of Gulnare and owned land there and up Sycamore Creek. Later Robert's son Martin continued to live in this section of the settlement and his sons Phramer and Allen lived a few miles farther up the creek. This is where Thomas Patton May and his wife Elizabeth Margery Leslie, Allen's daughter, lived most of their married lives. Afterward the property of Allen Leslie, near the mouth of Caney Fork, was owned by Pikeville College and became locally known as the College Farm. Lower Wolfpen Hollow on Sycamore Creek near the present-day Gulnare post office and less than a mile from Johns Creek.