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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.
Bird's invasion of Kentucky: 20+ Kingdom of Great Britain & Shawnee vs Kentucky settlers Long Run Massacre: September 13–14, 1781 near modern Eastwood, Kentucky: American Revolutionary War Western theater 60+ [conjectural] Kentucky settlers vs American Indians & Kingdom of Great Britain Battle of Little Mountain: March 22, 1782
From Fort Detroit, Captain Henry Bird of the 8th Regiment of Foot led an Indian force of 1,000 men, accompanied by a 150 soldiers and militiamen (Regulars of the 8th and 47th Regiments, Detroit Militia and bombardiers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery), against the settlers of Kentucky in June 1780. When they reached the confluence of the ...
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 ...
Kentucky has been the stage for many Hollywood films, from romance to horror. Kentucky's sceneries are not new to the big screen as movies including “Coal Miner's Daughter," "How the West Was ...
Settlers and land speculators in Britain and America objected to this restriction, however, and so British officials negotiated two treaties with American Indians in 1768—the Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Treaty of Hard Labour—which opened up land for settlement south of the Ohio River. Thereafter, tensions between British officials and ...
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.
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 $330,000 in 2023 [77]) from various settlers and traveled to Williamsburg to purchase their land warrants. While he was sleeping in a tavern ...