The humble petition of Junes 1776 (see previous eight posts!) was acted upon fairly quickly by those folks in Virginia. The Bill that created Kentucky Co. [also Washington and Montgomery Co.s] was introduced into the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia by a fellow named Thomas Jefferson. The date was October 26, 1776, and it would have been only four months after the folks from Harrodsburg had put their pen to the petition. The Bill was approved on December 7, and was signed into law by the then governor of Virginia, Patrick Henry. [Another fellow not very well known!]
The Bill was to become effective on December 31, 1776. Fincastle County was no longer after this date. [Fincastle Co. was in existence from December 1, 1772 until December 31, 1776.] For the genealogist, this is the earliest records of what was to become the State of Kentucky...this new county of Virginia called "Kentucky County".
Showing posts with label Fincastle County VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fincastle County VA. Show all posts
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
A Humble Petition 1776 (Part 6)
The petition of 1776 continues from (part 5)...
"And therefore willing to acquit our conscience and not entail Slavery upon our posterity by submitting to the pretensions and impositions of the pretended proprietors, We the Inhabitants of the North and South Sides of Kentucke River having assembled togather after preparatory notice on the Eight day of June 1776 and continued to poll till the 15th of said Instantin....[illegible] a majority has chosen Captain John Gabriel Jones and Captain George Rodgers Clark, and hope ye Honorable the Convention will receive them as our Delegates from this the Western parts of Fincastle County."
In June 1776 these folks were faced with the issue of slavery. As a group, they would "not entail Slavery". They identified themselves as "inhabitants" of the "North and South Sides of Kentucke River", being the western part of Fincastle County, Virginia.
"And therefore willing to acquit our conscience and not entail Slavery upon our posterity by submitting to the pretensions and impositions of the pretended proprietors, We the Inhabitants of the North and South Sides of Kentucke River having assembled togather after preparatory notice on the Eight day of June 1776 and continued to poll till the 15th of said Instantin....[illegible] a majority has chosen Captain John Gabriel Jones and Captain George Rodgers Clark, and hope ye Honorable the Convention will receive them as our Delegates from this the Western parts of Fincastle County."
In June 1776 these folks were faced with the issue of slavery. As a group, they would "not entail Slavery". They identified themselves as "inhabitants" of the "North and South Sides of Kentucke River", being the western part of Fincastle County, Virginia.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Point Pleasant 1774
The summer of 1774 greeted a number of folks wandering about the wilderness of what was to become the town lands of Danville. Those who made the surveys nearest the spot that contain the "town spring" have been presented in the previous posts titled 1774. Little did these folks anticipate that only several months later the frontier would face the most decisive conflict that was to set the stage for this little area of the world.
The Ohio and the Great Kanawha Rivers joined on the southeastern shore at a place called "Point Pleasant". For several Indian groups and a frontier militia, it became a defining point that was anything but pleasant. On October 9th the battle took place that pitched the Shawnee and a Fincastle militia that did not contain British regulars among the forces. Those involved, and survived, were to become leading citizens of this new settlement area.
The figure above shows the location of Point Pleasant and its relationship to the waters that brought many folks to the area that was to become Danville. It was the treaty of Camp Charlotte which contained the clause that the Shawnee acknowledged the white man's right to Kentucky. These first settlers were now able to consider themselves the most western settlement of Virginia's Fincastle County.
A good discussion of this pivotal event can be found in: Forth to the Wilderness, The First American Frontier 1754 - 1774, by Dale Van Every. [William Morrow and Co., NY, 1961.]
The Ohio and the Great Kanawha Rivers joined on the southeastern shore at a place called "Point Pleasant". For several Indian groups and a frontier militia, it became a defining point that was anything but pleasant. On October 9th the battle took place that pitched the Shawnee and a Fincastle militia that did not contain British regulars among the forces. Those involved, and survived, were to become leading citizens of this new settlement area.
The figure above shows the location of Point Pleasant and its relationship to the waters that brought many folks to the area that was to become Danville. It was the treaty of Camp Charlotte which contained the clause that the Shawnee acknowledged the white man's right to Kentucky. These first settlers were now able to consider themselves the most western settlement of Virginia's Fincastle County.
A good discussion of this pivotal event can be found in: Forth to the Wilderness, The First American Frontier 1754 - 1774, by Dale Van Every. [William Morrow and Co., NY, 1961.]
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