2597 examples of kentucky in sentences

It was likewise the most important in its results, for had he been defeated we would not only have lost the Illinois, but in all probability Kentucky also.

] CHAPTER IV. CONTINUANCE OF THE STRUGGLE IN KENTUCKY AND THE NORTHWEST, 1779-1781.

Thus it came about that with the fall of 1779 a strong stream of emigration set towards Kentucky, from the backwoods districts of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina.

occurs the statement that in 1779 and 1780 nearly 20,000 people came to Kentucky.

Thus there were ever two tidesthe larger setting towards Kentucky, the lesser towards the old States; so that the two streams passed each other on the Wilderness roadfor the people who came down the Ohio could not return against the current.

In April, before this great rush of immigration began, but when it was clearly foreseen that it would immediately take place, the county court of Kentucky issued a proclamation to the new settlers, recommending them to keep as united and compact as possible, settling in "stations" or forted towns; and likewise advising each settlement to choose three or more trustees to take charge of their public affairs.

He visited Kentucky in 1784.]

The rapid growth of Kentucky especially excited his apprehension,

Many hundreds and even thousand of settlers from the backwoods districts of various States, had come to Kentucky, and some even to Illinois, and a number of them were greatly discontented with the Virginian rule.

Accordingly, they petitioned the Continental Congress that Kentucky and Illinois combined might be made into a separate State; [Footnote: State Department MSS.

As containing an account of the first, and hitherto entirely unnoticed, separatist movement in Kentucky, I give the petition entire.]

The McAfees brought their wives and children to Kentucky in the fall of '79, and built a little stockaded hamlet on the banks of Salt River, six or seven miles from Harrodsburg.

A Great War Band Threatens Kentucky Throughout the summer of 1781 the settlers were scourged by an unbroken series of raids of this kind.

However, a couple of hundred Hurons and Miamis, under Brant and McKee, were kept together, and moved southwards between the Kentucky and Salt rivers, intending "to attack some of the small forts and infest the roads."

At its close there were in Kentucky seven hundred and sixty able-bodied militia, fit for an offensive campaign.

[Footnote: Col. James Smith, then of Kentucky, in 1799 calls it "an act of barbarity equal to any thing I ever knew to be committed by the savages themselves, except the burning of prisoners.

Throughout their history the Kentucky pioneers had the right on their side in their dealings with the Indians.

Todd also left about the same time, having been elected a Kentucky delegate to the Virginia Legislature.

Fayette lay between the Kentucky and the Ohio rivers, and was then the least populous and most exposed of the three counties into which the growing young commonwealth was divided.

Among the children within its walls during the siege there was one, the youngest, a Kentucky-born baby, named Richard Johnson; over thirty years later he led the Kentucky mounted riflemen at the victory of the Thames, when they killed not only the great Indian chief Tecumseh, but also, it is said, the implacable renegade Simon Girty himself, then in extreme old age.

Kentucky Gazette.

Vermont, affairs similar to those in Kentucky.

Wallace, Judge Caleb, position in Kentucky.

The commander of the Kentucky militia, Colonel Oldham, was killed early in the action, while trying to rally his men and damning them for cowards.

The mounted riflemen of Kentucky, who had been sent home at the beginning of winter, again joined him.

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