Record #:

22058

Author(s):

Clark, Walter

Abstract:

This article describes a 1775 scheme to acquire, settle, and hold a large piece of land, called \"Transylvania County,\" lying between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, in what is now Tennessee and Kentucky. Details include Boonesborough's establishment by a group of men led by North Carolina Judge Richard Henderson and frontiersman Daniel Boone. A reprint of Henderson's journal documenting his journey into this territory is included.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 3 Issue 9, Jan 1904, p5-39 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820