Part 2 of KY's 1700s. 1764-1794. 40 Years of Pax Kentuckiana

Kentucky 1700s Timeline. Part 2. 1764-1794. 40 Years of Pax Kentuckiana.

1764. All three (3) Girty brothers were brought back from the woods when the French had been expelled from virtually all of the Americas, North and South (except Guadeloupe, Haiti, and a few other little islands), and English domination had become assured. Simon Girty returned from life among the Senecas in 1764, at which time he was fluent in eleven (11) native American languages.

1767. Frontiersman Daniel Boone, John Findley traveled into Kentucky across Cumberland Gap.

1769. Virginia longhunter and explorer Joseph Martin made the first of several forays into the region. Acting as an agent for Dr. Thomas Walker, to whom Martin was connected through family relationships, Martin began an expedition to Powell's Valley in early 1769 in return for a promised 21,000-acre (8,500 ha) land grant from Walker and the Loyal Land Company. Martin and his men built the earliest westernmost frontier fort at present-day Rose Hill, Virginia, a fort dubbed Martin's Station. Later that year Indians chased off Martin and his men, who returned to Albemarle County. Martin returned six years later to rebuild the fort, and a few months later became an agent for Richard Henderson's Transylvania Company.

1770. 650 Kispoko and Piqua Shawnee left Ohio and headed to settle in Spanish Missouri; Michael Cresap and a group of vigilantes attacked a Shawnee trading party near Wheeling, killing a Chief.

1773. October 10. James Boone, Daniel Boone's son, is tortured, and murdered by Kentucky Indians. Clinch Mountains, VA. during Daniel's first attempt to reach Kentucky (near Cumberland Gap). Daniel Boone's first attempt. The rest of the families returned North Carolina. The historical marker is located off highway 58E, RR Exit 684, Lee County, Virginia. The marker reads as follows: “This marks the burial place of a party of white settlers who were surprised in camp and slain by Indians at day break on October 10, 1773. Those killed were James Boone, son of Daniel Boone, Henry Russell, son of Captain William Russell, Robert and Richard Mendenhale . . . brothers . . . and another unnamed white man. Two [members of the party] escaped. Isaac Crabtree, a white man, and Adam, a Negro, slave of Russell. Boone and Russell buried their sons and the others at the scene of the tragedy and gave up temporarily the first effort to settle Kentucky.” Daniel Boone was leading a party of settlers, including his own family, into Kentucky. They were scheduled to meet up with another group of settlers, the Captain William Russell party, at a specified location. Daniel Boone (of course) decided they needed more supplies so he sent James back to meet the Russell party, verify their location, and collect more supplies. Two Mendenhall boys went with him. James Boone made it back to Captain Russell and planned to ride along with them to meet with his family and th e rest of their group. But it appears that Captain Russell sent James Boone and his group along with his own son, Henry Russell, on ahead to tell Daniel Boone that they were coming. Somehow the boys must have gotten lost because they ended up camping for th e night on Wallen's Ridge in Va. As it turned out, they were only about 3 miles from where Daniel Boone's main party was camped. During the night they were attacked by a Shawnee group which was led by “Big Jim,” an Indian familiar to Daniel Boone and to his children, his having visited at their home in N. Carolina. James Boone and the others were horribly tortured and later killed, all except for one young black slave who hid in a canebrake at the edge of a nearby creek, and a boy by the name of Isaac Crabtree who had joined them on the trail. When word arrived at Boone's camp that his beloved son and his companions had been murdered, Daniel Boone packed to go to the site of the massacre and to attempt to track the persons who had performed the awful deed. He tracked them for some distance bu t they escaped him. Before Daniel Boone left the camp, Rebecca gave him two of her handmade linen sheets to wrap the two boys in for burial. The boys were buried in the same grave on the area of Powell's Valley where they were slain.

1774. April 30. The Yellow Creek Massacre happens, creating Johnny Logan, the Mingo Mohawk Warrior Chieftain. The Yellow Creek Masscre was a brutal killing of several Mingo Indians by Virginia frontiersmen on April 30, 1774. The atrocity occurred across from the mouth of the Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the Ohio Country, near the current site of the Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort. It was the single most important incident contributing to the outbreak of Lord Dunmore's War (May-October 1774). It was carried out by a group led by Jacob Greathouse and Daniel Greathouse. The perpetrators were never brought to justice. Johnny Logan, Talgahyeetah, the Mingo Mohawk warrior Chieftain, loved the whites, and was made fun of by the other Mohawks' for his uncle tom foolery. Who mourns for Logan? Nobody.

1774. June 16. Harrod's Town, the first white establishment west of the Appalachian mountains, is established. Named after James Harrod, who led a team of area surveyors, Harrodstown is established as the first permanent settlement in the Kentucky region. Native Americans force the settlers to withdraw, but they return the following year.

1774. October 10. The Battle of Point Pleasant, part of Lord Dunmore's War, also the “first battle of the American Revolution”. Daniel Boone was commissioned a British Captain in charge of 3 forts in SW Virginia. Cornstalk was the war chief, and was at the peace negotiations after he lost. Simon Girty helped Lord Dunmore in Lord Dunmore's War as a scout and interpreter.

1775. March 17 AD. Richard Henderson, a North Carolina judge representing the Transylvania Company, meets with three Cherokee Chiefs to purchase all the land lying between the Ohio, Kentucky, and Cumberland Rivers—about 17 to 20 million acres. It becomes known as the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals or The Henderson Purchase. The purchase is later declared invalid, but the land acquisition is not reversed.

1775. Boonesborough established.

1775. Joseph Martin returned six years later (from 1769) to rebuild Martin's Station, and a few months later became an agent for Richard Henderson's Transylvania Company.

1775. Simon Girty, the frontiersman, the white savage, helped General James Wood in 1775 in negotiations with the Shawnee natives, the Seneca natives, the Delaware natives, and the Wyandot natives.

1776. John Hinkston was forced to abandon his northerly exposed fort on the banks of the Licking River near present-day Cynthiana. The American Revolutionary War for Independence breaks out. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, Simon Girty sided with the imperialist revolutionaries (the Americans). Shawnee and Cherokee war parties roamed through Kentucky killing settlers; Shawnee/Cherokee war party captured Daniel Boone's daughter and two friends, rescued after three days, reprisals followed.

1776. December 25-29. Chief Plucky, of Plucky's Town (modern day Delaware, Ohio), assassinated. Meanwhile, George Washington the terrorist is crossing the Delaware River. In December 1776, Pluggy led a band of thirty warriors up the Ohio and Licking Rivers attacking Harrod's Town on Christmas morning and, later that day, ambushed a 10-man party under John Todd and John Gabriel Jones. The men had been marching down the valley towards the Ohio River, where Jones and George Rogers Clark had stored 500 pounds of gunpowder, when they were attacked killing Jones and another man in the fusillade and capturing another four men in the final charge. The remaining four were able to escape, the story later being told by one of the survivors, pioneer and hunter David Cooper, in the 1987 book The Kentuckians by Janice Holt Giles. Several days later, Chief Plucky arrived at McClelland's Station, a settlement of thirty families located in present-day downtown Georgetown and defended by twenty settlers including frontiersman Robert Todd, Robert Ford, Robert Patterson, Edward Worthington, Charles White and founder John B. McClelland. On 29 December, Chief Plucky led between forty and fifty warriors against the fort and retreated after several hours of fighting leaving a number of men dead including Charles White and John McClelland. During the retreat, Chief Plucky himself was shot and killed by four of the fort's defenders in retribution for the death of McClelland. He was later buried by members of his tribe on a bluff overhanging the nearby spring, and, for a number of years afterwards, a popular legend claimed that the echo heard in the area was the death cry of Chief Plucky.

1777. Daniel Boone was wounded in an Indian raid on Fort Boone, and was carried to safety by Simon Kenton.

1777. September. Simon Girty is charged with treason by the Americans. Simon Girty did not like the structure of military life and frequently clashed with his superiors. In September 1777, Girty was arrested, and charged with treason for supposedly helping plan the seizure of Fort Pitt. The conspirators reportedly hoped to massacre the fort's residents and then turn it over to the British. U.S. authorities eventually acquitted Girty, but his desire to help the U.S. had evaporated.

1777. November 10. Cornstalk, the Commander-in-Chief of the Shawnee, is assassinated by Virginians under Patrick Henry's authority. “When I was a young man and went to war, I thought that might be the last time, and I would return no more. Now I am here among you; you may kill me if you please; I can die but once; and it is all one to me, now or another time.” This declaration concluded every sentence of his speech. Cornstalk was assassinated one hour after our council. Even though Chief Cornstalk went to Fort Randolf (Point Pleasant) to warn that the Shawnee were going over to the British but ungrateful soldiers murdered Cornstalk; Cornstalk replaced by the more militant Blackfish; Ft. Henry (Wheeling) attacked by 400 Shawnee who burned the settlement; Simon Girty deserts the Continental Army after the “squaw” campaign, and fought with the Shawnee; Blackfish and Half King, and 300 Shawnee attacked Fort Randolf.

1778. Daniel Boone was captured by the Shawnee Indians along with other men who were making salt. He was adopted into the tribe as the son of the War Chief Black Fish. He escaped after nearly 5 months in captivity.

1778. February 7. After Boone had killed a buffalo, he saw several Shawnee warriors closing in on him. The warriors were part of a larger war party led by Chief Blackfish.Their objective was to avenge the death of Chief Cornstalk who had been a moderate in his dealings with the encroaching Americans. Inconceivable to the Shawnee, Cornstalk—of all people—had been killed by the Americans. The Shawnee had been camped at Hinkston Creek. The four warriors were scouting the area and were on their way back to the camp. They had found Daniel Boone's salt makers at the Blue Salt Licks. Their plan was to kill the salt makers - until they found, and captured, Daniel Boone. Later, Daniel Boone said he was unable to flee the warriors because he was in his mid-40s, and could not run away fast enough. As Boone told the story at his trial, he devised a “stratagem” to save his men and the fort. He told Chief Blackfish he would convince his men to surrender as prisoners of war. More importantly, he told Blackfish he would negotiate the surrender of the fort in the spring. Daniel Boone did indeed talk his men into surrendering. No shots were fired. One of Boone's men - Ansel Goodman - later said: We were ordered by Colonel Boone to stack our guns and surrender, and we did so. (Quoted in The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence, pg. 281). When the hunting party failed to return to the fort, scouts found tracks in the snow that told the story. All the men had been captured by the Shawnee - without a fight. It was this evidence - the lack of any resistance - that ultimately made the inhabitants of Boonesborough suspicious. Why - Boone's fellow officers wondered - had the men failed to resist capture? To Captain Richard Callaway and others, the lack of a struggle indicated some kind of treachery. Amidst all the questions that were raised by the fort leaders, Rebecca Boone left Boonesborough. She returned to her family in Carolina.The Shawnee took the Americans to their camp at Chillicothe. The captives were forced to run the gauntlet. They were extremely upset with the terrible conditions that existed in the camp. They were hungry. They became bitter. They believed they could have defended themselves against the Shawnee.The captives were well aware that Boone had loyalist relatives. Everyone knew that Rebecca's family had been the most prominent of all the Tory (loyalists) families to migrate to Kentucky. Everyone knew that in 1774 Daniel himself had accepted a captain's commission from the British-appointed governor. The captives began to wonder: Whose side was Daniel Boone really on? To make matters worse, once the Shawnee brought their captives to the British settlement Fort Detroit, captives heard Boone talk to the British Lt. Governor. Daniel Boone was overheard hinting to Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton that the Americans inside Boonesborough were in bad shape, and were ready to abandon the American cause. One of the captives, Andy Johnson, escaped. When he returned to Boonesborough, he confirmed the worst suspicions of the fort's leaders. Andy Johnson reported that Daniel Boone was a Tory, and had surrendered his men to the British. Johnson also reported something else: Daniel Boone had taken an oath of allegiance to the British while Boone and his men were at Detroit. Daniel Boone, who had become very fond of Chief Blackfish, was adopted by Blackfish. Because Boone wore a heavy pack and walked slowly, the Shawnee thought he resembled a Turtle. Boone was given the Shawnee name “Sheltowee” which means “Big Turtle”. Knowing that the British and the Shawnee were preparing to attack Boonesborough, Daniel escaped and returned to the fort. There he told the men about the upcoming attack.

1778. Shawnee Indians attacked Fort Boonesborough, seige lasted 13 days.

1778. Simon Girty participates in General Hand's “squaw campaign” of 1778, and is disgusted with fighting for the Americans afterwards. Simon Girty saw while in the squaw campaign, Americans were murdering innocent natives, willy-nilly.

1778. March 28. AD. Simon Girty leaves Fort Pitt, and offers his services to the British military in Detroit. James Girty, brother of Simon, was then with the Shawnees on the Scioto, having been sent from Fort Pitt by the American authorities on a futile peace embassy. He had been raised among the Shawnees, was a natural savage, and at once joined his brother and the other tories. For 16 years Captain Andrew McKee, Mathew Elliott, and the Girtys, were the merciless scourges of the border. They were the instigators and leaders of many Indian raids, continuing their hostility until long after the close of the “Revolutionary War”.

1778. September. In September of 1778, the Shawnee appeared outside the fort. Chief Blackfish called for “Sheltowee,” his son. Daniel Boone's actions immediately thereafter convinced some of his fellow officers that he was guilty of treason. Also in 1778, September, Richard Calloway brought Daniel Boone up on charges of treason, for being a British agent.

1779. The familiar Siege of Boonesborough was history, and the Battle of Blue Licks still three years in the future. That fall, Isaac Ruddle, Simon Kenton, John Hinkston, ex-soldiers and other frontiersmen rebuilt John Hinkston's fort which became known as Ruddle’s Station. Ruddles was also known as “Fort Liberty”. Five miles to the South East was the site of John Martin’s smaller Station on Stoner Creek.

1779. 300 mounted Kentucky Volunteers crossed into Ohio, and burned Old Chilicothe and killed Bal; Kispoko and Piqua had returned to Ohio, but soon left for Spanish Louisiana; Large groups of Shawnee had left Ohio in, and settled in southeast Missouri.

1779. October 1. Simon Girty and Alexander McKee, another Scots-Irish Loyalist, with the aid of a large force of Native Americans, attacked and killed American forces in present-day Kentucky, who were returning from an expedition to New Orleans. The ambush occurred near Dayton, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio. Only a handful of the Americans survived, among them Colonel John Campbell and Captain Robert Benham.

1780. George Rogers Clark attacks Shawnee villages on Mad River taking only seven prisoners. George Rogers Clark burned Chillicothe, a Shawnee town, down, again; crops, homes, and all. Most inhabitants of “Old” Chillicothe (Shawnee) could speak 3 or 4 languages. Daniel Boone was with George Rogers Clark in a scorched earth terroristic campaign against the Shawnee Indians north of the Ohio River. Probably this one.

1780. Frankfort was named after a Jewish frontiersman settler martyr, Stephen Frank, who was killed by an 1780 Ameri-Indian raid when he was boating on the Kentucky River (Harrison 103).

1780. June 21. Martin's and Ruddle's Station captured by Simon Girty, Blue Jacket, and others. Working its way without opposition along the Licking River, the vanguard of Bird's force reached Ruddle's Station, surrounding it on the night of June 21. Bird himself arrived the next day with the main body of his force, and cannon fire quickly breached the wooden walls of the station. Isaac Ruddle insisted on having the people under his protection treated as British captives, under the protection of the small British contingent. The Indians ignored this, and rushed into the fort to plunder and pillage. According to Bird "they rushed in, tore the poor children from their mothers' breasts, killed and wounded many." After the Indians had divided the prisoners and loot to their satisfaction, they wanted to continue on to the next station. Bird successfully got them to agree that prisoners taken in the future would be turned over to them at British discretion. Martin's Station, not far from Ruddle's was similarly surprised, and surrendered. The Indians honored the bargain with Bird, and the prisoners were given over to the British soldiers. While the Indians next wanted to attack Lexington, the largest settlement in the area, Bird ordered the expedition to end, citing depletion of provisions and reduced waterflow on the Licking River for the transport of the field cannons. Ruddle's and Martin's Forts. Coming in the summer of 1780 with an army of more than a thousand British regulars, Canadian volunteers, Indians and Tories, and bringing the first cannon ever used against the log forts of the wilderness, he captured 470 men, women and children, loaded them down with the plunder from their own cabin homes, and drove them on foot from Central Kentucky to Detroit, a distance of 600 miles.

1780, October 6. AD. Neddy Boone killed by Kentucky Redskin Injun Indian natives. Daniel and Neddy Boone were returning from a trip to the Blue Licks to make salt and to do a little hunting. They stopped along a stream in Bourbon County to rest and let their horses drink. Edward (“Neddy”) sat down by the stream near an old Buckeye tree and was cracking nuts, while Daniel went off into the woods in pursuit of game. Indians lurking nearby shot and killed Edward, but Daniel managed to escape. He ran all the way on foot to Boone Station where they were all living at the time with about fifteen other families near present-day Athens. The next morning Daniel and a party of men in the area went in search of Edward’s killers. They did not find the Indians, but found and buried Edward near that old Buckeye tree. Ned’s daughter Sarah in a letter to Draper said her father had been horribly cut by the Indian’s knives. Today in that very spot stands an old Buckeye tree. The creek was afterward named Boone Creek in honor of Edward’s death there … Killed by Indians in Bourbon Co, KY, while with brother Daniel, near present-day community of Little Rock. Edward was buried beneath an old Buckeye Tree where he was shot. The address of the grave today is 870 See Road, ½ mile north of the junction of KY Hwy. 537 & See Road.

1781. September. AD. John Floyd's Defeat. 1781 making him responsible for the defense of the settlers in the county.The area was regularly being raided by Indians and dozens of settlers had been killed. John Floyd wrote two letters to Thomas Jefferson pleading for support. During a rescue attempt for survivors of a raid in today's present day Shelby County, Kentucky, John Floyd led 27 men there, and was ambushed by Indians. Several of his men were killed, but Floyd managed to escape barely with a couple of his men, and this became known as John Floyd's Defeat. In September 1781, John Floyd led a party of 27 men to rescue survivors from a raid on Squire Boone’s Station in modern Shelby County. His men walked into an ambush and over half of them were killed. John Floyd’s horse was shot out from under him, but he jumped on another mount and got away. “John Floyd’s Defeat,” as the fight came to be known, was a major setback for the Beargrass settlements. John Floyd was killed in an Indian ambush in 1783 in what is now southern Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville). His remains probably lie in the Breckinridge Cemetery in St. Matthews. It is so named, for shortly after his death, his widow, Jane Buchanan Floyd, married Alexander Breckinridge.

1782. “William Irvine got his dick shot off”. That's a lie. The truth is Colonel William Irvine, while at Captain James Estill's Defeat, aka Battle of Little Mountain, took “a bullet and two buck shot entering his body a little above the left groin.” (Collins, pg. 531).

1782. March 8. The Gnadenhutten massacre. Also known as the Moravian massacre, as the wholesale slaughter of 96 Christian Lenape (Delaware) natives by colonial American militia from Pennsylvania on March 8, 1782 at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio.

1782. March 19—March 22. AD. Estill's Defeat, and William Irvine's groin shot. On March 19, 1782, an event occurred that was to cost Captain James Estill his life, and would forever immortalize his name. An empty Indian raft, a sure sign that the Indians were in the area, was seen floating down the Kentucky River past Boonesborough. The alarm was sent to all of the surrounding stations including Captain James Estill’s Station. Captain James Estill immediately rounded up twenty-five men from the nearby stations, and set out to find the Indians. Nearly all of the available men accompanied the search party, and hardly any were left to defend the station. The following morning twenty-five (25) marauding warriors suddenly appeared at Captain James Estill’s Station. A young girl and a slave named Monk were captured during the surprise attack. To the horror of the helpless women in the station, the Indians immediately killed and scalped the girl. Monk, in an effort to save the nearly defenseless women and children, told the braves that there was a strong force of men inside the station. Evidently the ruse worked and the Indians beat a hasty retreat. Two young boys were dispatched to find the search party and inform them of the raid. Captain James Estill’s party had gone to the Kentucky River in what is now Captain James Estill County to look for Indian tracks on the sandy banks of the river. The boys finally caught up with the group on the twenty-first near the mouth of Drowning Creek and gave them the bad news.The trackers soon uncovered the trail left by the Wyandots and the pursuit began. The Indians were fleeing in the direction of what is now Montgomery County. Captain James Estill’s group caught up with them on March 22, 1782, at the Little Round Mountain near present day Mt. Sterling.

1782. March 22. The Battle of Little Mountain, also known as Captain James Estill's Defeat, was fought on March 22, 1782, near Mount Sterling in what is now Montgomery County, Kentucky. One of the bloodiest engagements of the Kentucky frontier, the battle has long been the subject of controversy resulting from the actions of one of Captain James Estill's officers, William Miller, who ordered a retreat leaving the rest of Captain James Estill's command to be overwhelmed by the attacking Wyandots. They came upon three Indians that had stopped on Hinkston Creek to skin a buffalo. The surprised buffalo skinners bolted to the other side of the creek to join the main body of Indians. Heavy gunfire commenced immediately as both sides sought cover behind trees. At the onset of the fight each of the warring groups had about twenty-five members. However, a Lieutenant named Miller, under the pretense of flanking the Indians from the rear, fled the scene with six men leaving the Americans at a disadvantage in the fight. The thickly wooded terrain also favored the Indian mode of warfare.The battle probably was a short one and covered an area of only a few acres. After Miller and his group fled, the Wyandots could detect from the slack firing that their opponents were undermanned. To take advantage of the weakness they rushed across the creek and engaged Captain James Estill’s force in hand-to- hand combat with knives and tomahawks. At least seven and perhaps nine of Captain James Estill’s men were killed in the charge. Captain Captain James Estill, who was recuperating from a broken arm from a previous battle, was again wounded during the charge. Captain James Estill became engaged in a knife fight with an Indian much larger than himself. When his weak arm gave way, his adversary was able to plunge a knife into Captain James Estill’s chest rendering a mortal wound to his heart. Joseph Proctor was watching the unequal struggle but was unable to get a clear shot at the Indian until after Captain James Estill fell. Proctor immediately killed the Wyandot but never publicly acknowledged it because of his religious beliefs that prohibited killing. Proctor would only say that he never heard of that big Indian doing any more mischief.William Irvine, for whom our county seat is named, also was wounded in the battle. Irvine was shot in the groin and a Wyandot warrior, seeing his weakened condition, moved in for the kill. Irvine repeatedly bluffed the Indian with an unloaded rifle. Joseph Proctor, who could not reach his fallen comrade, advised him to mount the horse belonging to the slain James, and ride to safety. After several attempts the badly wounded Irvine was able to get on the horse and ride to a designated spot where Proctor could help him. At great risk to his own personal safety, Joseph Proctor found Irvine and escorted him to Bryan’s Station some twenty miles distant. Irvine eventually recovered and lived nearly forty more years.A group of fifty men returned to the battle site to bury the dead and were overcome with the carnage they witnessed. Only a handful of Captain James Estill’s men survived the battle with the Wyandots. The Indians won the skirmish but, according to Wyandot legend, none survived to return to their village.

1782. June 11. Butcher William Crawford burned at the Stake. Girty was present, was jolly, and laughing, merrily, during the ritual torture, and execution of William Crawford by the Lenape (Delaware) war chief Captain Pipe, http://www.thefullwiki.org/Captain_Pipe in retaliation against the Gnadenhutten massacre. William Irvine was the man who convinced Crawford to come out of retirement, for “one last savage barbaric hoorah”, which turned into the failed Sandusky River campaign that ended his life.

1782. August 19. Israel Boone dies. Simon Girty was shooting at Daniel Boone and the “revolutionary” Kentuckians, at the Battle of Blue Licks, the last battle of the White American War for Independence, a white man's Civil War, over Shawnee-Cherokee-Iroquois land, where 1/3 of Kentucky's militia was slaughtered in under fifteen minutes (Harrison), including Israel Boone, Daniel Boone's son.

1782. September 1. Burnt Station Massacre. Attack on Kincheloe Station. A large Negro male slave lived with the whites at Kincheloe Station called “Burnt Station” because the fort burned. 13 died. 30 were taken prisoner by native Kentuckians.

1786. August 18. Abraham Linkhorn was assassinated by native Kentuckian tribe, the Shawnee, in Louisville, Kentucky. Abraham is Abraham Lincoln's grandfather. Tom Lincoln, Honest Abe's father, just watched his father get shot by the Shawnee, and shit his pants, while this brother ran into the house, and got his father's gun, and saved Tom, and himself, and others, and the day. Linkhorn was a settler on other people's lands. Later on, Tom, the boy who shit his pants when his father was murdered, would use Honest Abe as a slave to his neighbor, to pay off his debts.

1786. August 29. AD. Shay's Rebellion, in central and western Massachusetts, against George Washington's new American government, begins.

1786. October. Moluntha, the Commander-in-Chief, is assassinated by Hugh McGary, one of Benjamin Logan's soldiers. Benjamin Logan raises Moluntha's son as his own. Before being butchered by the English-speaking White-Anglo-Saxon- Protestant-Kentuckian-Americans, Moluntha had an American flag raised over his house.

1788. October 1. John Filson, Kentucky's first historian, is murdered by the Shawnee. While on a surveying expedition near the Great Miami River, he disappeared, October 1, 1788, when the party was attacked by hostile Shawnees, and his body was never found.

1790-1794. Simon Girty fought, and was a major instigator, in the 1790-1794 General Native American Revolutionary War.

1792. James Harrod, the namesake of Harrod's Town, the first successful white western English-speaking “colony” in America, walks out into Kentucky's woods, and never returns.

1792. June 1. Kentucky becomes a state. Isaac Shelby is elected The First Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

1793. Baron de Carondelet, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, gave the Missouri Shawnee a 25 mile square land grant near Cape Girardeau. Shawnee unwilling to accept the Greenville treaty joined them.

1793. January 21. King Louis 16^th is beheaded by guillotine at Revolution Square in Paris, France.

1793. March 21. AD. In Laurel County, Thomas Ross was killed by Indians near the Laurel River, just seven months after the first post-office was established in Danville, Kentucky. On that morning the post, as the carrier was called then, loaded his gun and started out saying he intended to kill an Indian that day. It seems a Mr. Graham was traveling through the wilderness on that fateful morning, and he came upon the mail-carrier's horse in a stream. He grabbed hold of the horse's bridle and when he looked up, he saw that Thomas Ross was cut into many pieces, and stuck on the bushes all around. He took the mail back to Danville. Mrs. Sarah Graham told this story to Rev. John Dabney Shane in 1844.

1793. October 16. 37-year old Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine at Revolution Square in Paris, France, by the French Revolutionaries, ending the Prehistory Era, and ushering in the Modern Era, devoid of Kings, Queens, incestual monarchies, and replaced it, instead, with plenty of democracy, individual rights and freedoms, and constitutional republics.

1794. Kentucky's first Capitol Building for running the daily affairs of the Commonwealth State is built. The cost to build this capitol was $3,500.00; it was 86 feet-by-54 feet. The architectural style was federal, with Georgian details.