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Subject: continuation of time line starting with 1777
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 03:15:36 -0400 (EDT)

1777-March 7: First siege of Harrodsburg, by 47 Indiana, under their
chief, Blackfish. April 15: First attack on Boonesborough. May 29:
Logan's Station attacked.
1778- Feb.7: BOONE taken prisoner near the Blue Licks. Oct: Capt James
PATTON, Ricahard CHENOWETH, John TUEL, Wm. FAITH, John McMANUS, and
others, build a fort and lay the permanent foundation of the city of
Louisville.
1779: BRYAN'S Station, five miles north-eastward of Lexington, RUDDLE'S
and MARTIN'S Stations on the south fork of Licking river, settled.
1780-Nov 1: The county of Kentucky is subdivided into three counties;
Jefferson, with John FLOYD, Colonel, Wm POPE, lieutenant-colonel, and George
MAY surveoyr; Lincoln, with Benj LOGAN Colonel, Stephen TRIGG
lieutenant-colonel, and Jas THOMPSON surveyor, and Fayette, with John TODD
colonel, Daniel BOONE, lieutenant colonel, and Col Thomas MARSHALL (father
of the great chief Justice of the US, surveyor.
1782: Fort Nelson built in Louisville, on a spot now north of Main, and
between the 6th and 8th streets.
1783: Second store in Kentucky opened by col. Daniel BRODHEAD, at
Louisville. Col John FLOYD killed by Indians.
1784: Col James WILKINSON opens the third store in KY, at Lexington.
Nelson Co formed out of Jefferson
1785:- April: The Mississippi river swells to the height of 30 feet above
the high-water mark previously known; the town of Kaskaskia is completely
unindated, and the whole "America Bottom", overflown. This was formany
years known as the year of the great waters. Bourbon, Mercer and Madison
Counties formed; and the towns of Harrodsburg and Shippingport
established.
1786, Jan: Towns of Frankfort, Stanford and Washington established.
April: Col William CHRISTIAN killed by Indians.
1787-Aug 18: John and Fielding BRADFORD establish, at Lexington, the
Kentucke Gazette - the first newspaper in the district and first in the
West. Towns of Bealsborough, Charlestown(below Limestone), Maysville,
Danville, and Warwick (on KY river, near Harrod's landing) established.
1788: Counties of Mason and Woodford formed by Virginia. Bardstown
established. Nov. Maj Benjamin STITES, with a party of 18 or 20 - among
them Col SPENCER, Maj GANO, Judge William GOFORTH, Francis Dunlevy, Maj.
KIBBEY, Rev John SMITH, Judge FOSTER, Colonel BROWN, Mr HUBBELL< Capt
FLINN< Jacob WHITE, and John RILEY, lands at the mouth of the Little Miami
River, constructs a log fort, and lays out the town of Columbia.
1789: Mr KAYE erects the first brick house in Louisville.
1790: Population of Kentucky: white, 61,133; free colored 144; slaves,
12,430; total 73,677.
1791: Gen. Isaac SHELBY is elected first governor of Kentucky. June 1:
Kentucky is admitted as a state. May 22: Col John HARDIN and Major TRUMAN
start on a peace mission to the Indians in the North-west Ohio, and are
murdered. Aug: First paper mill in KY, or in the west, established by
CRAIG, PARKERS & Co., in Georgetown, at the Royal Spring - burned down in
1836.

final page on this time line coming.

Pat

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