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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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s, and, travelling 160 miles in ten days, reaches Boonesboro......June 20, 1778 Duquesne, with eleven French and 400 Indians, besieges Boonesboro for thirteen days, till by treaty siege is raised......Sept. 7, 1778 Col. George Rogers Clarke, moving against British posts on the Wabash and Mississippi, leaves several families at the falls of the Ohio, who settle Louisville......October, 1778 Col. Robert Patterson begins a fort where Lexington now stands, and lays out the town......April 17, 1779 Legislature of Virginia passes land law for Kentucky, each possessor of a warrant locating it at his will and surveying it. Many surveys overlapped: lawsuits followed, with confusion of titles, and many settlers lost their land......1779 Governor of Virginia appoints William Fleming, Edmund Lyne, James Barbour, and Stephen Trigg commissioners for Kentucky. At their first court at St. Asaph's, the first claim considered was that of Isaac Shelby's to settlement and pre-emption for