 One of the early settlers in what is now Boyd County was Charles ("One-handed Charley") Smith, from Virginia.A veteran of the French and Indian War who had served under Col. George Washington in 1754, Smith received for that service roughly around Chadwicks Creek, where he built a cabin in 1774.Smith died in 1776 and in 1797 this land passed to Alexander Catlett for whom the town of Catlettsburg is named.