The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . to that region and to take up lands purchasedfrom the Cherokees by Colonel Richard company set up courts, gave laws, organized a mili-tia—in short, erected the proprietary government of thecolony of Transylvania. The commander of the mili-tia was George Rogers Clark, a bold and adventuroussurveyor of twenty-two, who was born in AlbemarleCounty, Virginia, two years before Braddocks defeat,and who had seen military service with the Dunmoreexpedition. The Kentuckians had outgrown the ideaof quit-rents; the lands they cleared, cultivated,
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . to that region and to take up lands purchasedfrom the Cherokees by Colonel Richard company set up courts, gave laws, organized a mili-tia—in short, erected the proprietary government of thecolony of Transylvania. The commander of the mili-tia was George Rogers Clark, a bold and adventuroussurveyor of twenty-two, who was born in AlbemarleCounty, Virginia, two years before Braddocks defeat,and who had seen military service with the Dunmoreexpedition. The Kentuckians had outgrown the ideaof quit-rents; the lands they cleared, cultivated, anddefended were their lands in fee-simple; and when thecompany showed its power by attempting to raise rent-als, the people elected Clark and Gabriel John Jonesmembers of the Assembly of Virginia. That bodyhad adjourned before the new representatives com-pleted their hazardous journey through the moun-tains ; but Clark had a message for the new governor, 1 Haldimand to Hamilton, August 6,1778.* By the treaty of Watauga, March, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK(Photographed by L. Bergman. Louisville, Kentucky) THE QUEBEC ACT AND THE REVOLUTION a certain Patrick Henry, of Hanover County, asLord Dunmore contemptuously styled his one thing, at least, the two men agreed ; both thelast governor of the king and the first governor of thepeople were bent on extending the authority of Vir-ginia throughout the lands included within her ancientboundaries. Henry being ill at his home, thither Clark bent hissteps. Picture the scene : the ardent youth, with tall,well-knit frame and flashing eye, pacing up and downthe sick-chamber of the no less ardent governor, andpouring forth a torrent of ambition, hope, and pathos—of ambition that his native commonwealth should winthe glory and the gain of conquering the Northwest forVirginia; of hope that the Virginians of the tide-waterwould not leave their brothers beyond the mountainsto be cut off by prowling savages led by renegadewhit
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