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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 03:15:40 -0400 (EDT)

1793: April1: Morgan's Station, on Slate creek, seven miles east of Mt.
Sterling, captured, and 19 women and children taken prisoners. Nov 16:
First line of "Ohio Pacet Boats" (flat or keel boats) established at
Cincinnati, to make trips to Pittsburg and return, monthly; with separate
cabin for ladies; persons may work their passage; offices for insuring
goods, at the terminal, and at Limestone (Maysville). The towns of
Cynthiana, Falmouth, Shepherdsville, Springfield, Winchester and
Wilmington (in Scott Co) are established. Aug 20: First successful
steamboat in the west, at Lexington, Ky. Towns of Greensburg, Port William
(Carroltown), and Newtown (Jeferson county), established.
1794: Kentucky Academy established, under Presbyterian auspicies. May: Gen
James GARRARD elected second governor, beating Gen Benj LOGAN. Lexington
Library established, with 400 volumes - up to 12,000 volumes by 1872.
1797: The "Kentucky Mirror" newspaper established at Washington, by Wm
HUNTER and BEAUMONT, who afterward remove it to Frankfort.
1798: Translvania University established by the union of Transylvania
Seminary and Kentucky Academy. The highwayman Big HARPE, is killed, and
Little HARPE flees from the state.
1800: July - First cmap-meeting at Gaspar river Church. The "Great
Revival" of religion begins in the Green River country and extends over
Kentucky, and over parts of Tennessee and Ohio. Aug: James GARRARD
re-elected governor and Alex. Scott BULLITT first lieutenant-governor. KY
now has 22 counties and the population is 220,955. 179,873 white, 739 free
colored, 40,343 slaves.
1801: Aug 6-13- General camp meeting at Cane Ridge in Bourbon Co KY.
seven miles from Paris, attended by 20,000 people in 1,143 vehicles and on
horseback, 500 candles plus lamps used to illuminate the camp at night;3,000
people, mostly men, computed to have fallen and experienced
remarkable bodily exercises. Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky formed with
three Presbyteries and 37 ministers.
1803: First piano brought into Ky by Maj Val PEERS. Sept 10 - The New
Light schism from the Presbyterian church organized. Also this year - an
extraodinary shower, of a reddish hue, which many believe to be blood,
falls in the vicinity of Turtle creek meeting house.
1804: Six Baptist ministers of some note, and others less prominent, with
many of their members, declare for the abolition of slavery, calling
themselves "Freinds of humanity", and taking extreme ground. The Baptist
Associations generally declare it improper for ministers, churches, or
associations to meddle with the emancipation of slavery, or any other
political subject, and advise them to have nothing to do with it in their
religious capacity." This action gives great offense, and the
"Emancipators", withdraw and organize "The Baptist Licking-Locust
Association, Friends of Humanity" -which soon dies out. Aug: Christopher
GREENUP elected governor for 4 years, John CALDWELL, lieutenant-governor
amd John ROWAN, secretary of state.
1806: Great eclipse of the sun. First female acadmy in the West, if not
in the US, established at Paris, KY by the Rev John LYLE with from 150-300
pupils. An act to purchase the first fire engine for Frankfort, Ky.

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