The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Squire Boone Stone, inscritied witli hisname and the date 1770. Now in Rich-mond Court House Yard. Found nearBig Hill, Madison County, Ky. and land-lookers went into Kentucky and brought l)ack to the Col-onies glowing reports of the country. By 1775, accordingly, the Virginia and North Carolina frontiers-men were eager for the Kentucky country. In 1774 James Harrodand a party of 35, had already attempted to estahlisli a settlementat Ilarrodsburg, but had left it on receipt of the news from Booneof the danger of Indian hostilities. I
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Squire Boone Stone, inscritied witli hisname and the date 1770. Now in Rich-mond Court House Yard. Found nearBig Hill, Madison County, Ky. and land-lookers went into Kentucky and brought l)ack to the Col-onies glowing reports of the country. By 1775, accordingly, the Virginia and North Carolina frontiers-men were eager for the Kentucky country. In 1774 James Harrodand a party of 35, had already attempted to estahlisli a settlementat Ilarrodsburg, but had left it on receipt of the news from Booneof the danger of Indian hostilities. In 1775 Harrod and his party. Boones Gap. Where his trail to Booiiesborough passed over the watershed between the Cumberland and the Kentucky Rivers The Importance of the Settlement of Kentucky [13] were back at Harrodsburg a month before Boone reached Boones-borough. It is a fact, therefore, that the settlement of Kentuckywould have begun in the spring of 1775 without any artificial stimula-tion. Just at this moment, however, the settlement of the statereceived an impetus from the daring scheme of Colonel RichardHenderson and his famous Transylvania Company. Henderson hadconceived the idea of a great proprietary colony in Kentucky, likeLord Baltimores colony in Maryland, and Penns colony on theDelaware. It was a visionary scheme and the company was dissolvedin December, 1776, a year and a half after the foundation of Boones-borough, but it nevertheless performed a useful service in placing someorganized strength behind the infant settlements of 1775. In February, 1775, Henderson and his party met the CherokeeIndi
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