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They were among the earliest group of settlers on the Kentucky frontier. [1] The Westervelts were one of the founding families of the Low Dutch Station settlement. [1] However, by the summer of 1780, the Westervelt family made preparations to move to Harrod's Town, Kentucky; the region was becoming increasingly dangerous with Indian raids.
Transylvania land claims had been invalidated after Virginia created Kentucky County, so settlers needed to file new land claims with Virginia. In 1780, Boone collected about $20,000 in cash (equivalent to $340,000 in 2024 [77]) from various settlers and traveled to Williamsburg to purchase their land warrants. While he was sleeping in a tavern ...
Richard Callaway (June 14, 1717 – November 8, 1780) was an American frontiersman, military officer, politician, and hunter who was one of the first white settlers in modern-day Kentucky. Born in Essex County , Virginia , Callaway joined Daniel Boone in 1775 in marking the Wilderness Road into central Kentucky, becoming one of the founders of ...
Rating: R Actors: Diane Lane, John Malkovich and Margo Martindale Synopsis: The movie details the story of Triple Crown winner Secretariat, The Courier Journal previously reported. Kentucky ...
In 1780, hundreds of Kentucky settlers were killed or captured in a British-Native expedition into Kentucky. [13] George Rogers Clark of Virginia responded in August 1780 by leading an expedition that destroyed two Shawnee towns along the Mad River, but did little damage to the Native war effort. [14]
In 1779–80, he headed another group of settlers into the Cumberland Valley in Tennessee and founded the settlement Fort Nashborough (present-day Nashville) in the French Lick area. In 1779, Judge Henderson was appointed one of six commissioners to run the line between Virginia and North Carolina into Powell's valley.
Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck) [1] [2] [3] (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), called "king of the keelboaters", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
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