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Notes on the Political Club of Danville and Its Members
THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY VOL. 35 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, OCTOBER• 1961 No. 4 NOTES ON THE POLITICAL CLUB OF DANVILLE AND ITS MEMBERS BY ANN PRICE (MRS. SYDNEY S.) COMBS Lexington, Kentucky A paper read before The Filson Club, June 6, 1960 Twelve years after the founding of Harrod's Station, the first per- manent English settlement in Kentucky, on the night of December 27, 1786, a small group of distinguished gentlemen met at the Dan- ville, Kentucky home of Samuel McDowell. He and Harry Innes, John Brown, Thomas Todd, Robert Craddock, Chris. Greenup, and John Belli "Resolved, that the persons now present do form them- selves into a society to be hereafter distinguished and known by the style and title of 'The Political Club,' to be governed by such laws and regulations as shall be hereafter agreed on" and to be "insti- tuted for the purpose of acquiring political knowledge."1 Such was the modest beginning of an unusually intriguing and ex- traordinary society! A political club composed of 25 to 30 men, meeting once a week to debate specified subjects. What is so unusual or fascinating about that? Schools, colleges, life in the great wide world, are full of myriad just such groups--investment clubs, debating clubs, clubs with a politi- cal connotation--we, today, are constantly hearing about them, going to them, reading about them. What sets this particular club apart, makes it worth investigating, and gives it an aura all its own? First of all, there is the work this club did. The importance of The Political Club of Danville lay in the training of its members for the role they played in the creation of the state of Kentucky. -
Kentucky Ancestors Genealogical Quarterly of The
Vol. 43, No. 1 Autumn 2007 Kentucky Ancestors genealogical quarterly of the Sleettown: The Birth Oral History and of a Community Genealogy: Yes, There is Something For You! Revolutionary War Rev. John “Raccoon” Warrants Database Smith Marriages Vol. 43, No. 1 Autumn 2007 Kentucky Ancestors genealogical quarterly of the Don Rightmyer, Editor Dan Bundy, Graphic Design kentucky ancestors Betty Fugate, Membership Coordinator Governor Steven L. Beshear, Chancellor Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, President Robert E. Rich, 1st Vice President Bill Black, Jr., 2nd Vice President khs officers Sheila M. Burton, 3rd Vice President Walter A. Baker Richard Frymire Yvonne Baldwin Ed Hamilton William F. Brashear II John Kleber Terry Birdwhistell Ruth A. Korzenborn J. McCauley Brown Karen McDaniel Bennett Clark Ann Pennington William Engle Richard Taylor Charles English J. Harold Utley executive comittee Martha R. Francis Kent Whitworth, Executive Director Marilyn Zoidis, Assistant Director director’s office James E. Wallace, KHS Foundation Director Warren W. Rosenthal, President Dupree, Jo M. Ferguson, Ann Rosen- John R. Hall, 1st Vice President stein Giles, Frank Hamilton, Jamie Henry C. T. Richmond III, Hargrove, Raymond R. Hornback, 2nd Vice President Elizabeth L. Jones, James C. Klotter, Kent Whitworth, Secretary Crit Luallen, James H. “Mike” Mol- James Shepherd, Treasurer loy, Maggy Patterson, Erwin Roberts, Martin F. Schmidt, Gerald L. Smith, Ralph G. Anderson, Hilary J. Alice Sparks, Charles Stewart, John Boone, Lucy A. Breathitt, Bruce P. Stewart, William Sturgill, JoEtta Y. Cotton, James T. Crain Jr., Dennis Wickliffe, Buck Woodford foundation board Dorton, Clara Dupree, Thomas research and interpretation Nelson L. Dawson, Director Kentucky Ancestors (ISSN-0023-0103) is published quarterly by the Kentucky Historical Society and is distributed free to Society members. -
Henderson County Formed in 1799
- - · - :~ .. - ,. • -- I .I (j) ' ·u '· \ HibTORICAL &KETCH 01" HENlJERSON,KENTUCKY. Inc0rporated in 1810.Now a city of the thi- d class. Henderson County formed in 1799. .. - " .. .. Henderson, Kentucky Historical Sketch • • (Revised from pa~ers by Susan Starling Towles) Henderson, Kentucky, the seat of government of Henderson County, owes its eXistence to that unusual land company, known as . the Transylvania Company, but using the legal signature of "The Richard Henderson & Co." Organized in North Carolina by nine Virginians and Scotch men, it bought from the Over Hill Cherokees twenty-million acres of present Kentucky and Tennessee at the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River. This scene is beautifully portrayed in the Gilbert White lunette in the capitol at Frankfort and in the great I .. · . bronze Transylvanian tablets on the Henderso~House by George Honig, the gift of Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham. Though their lands had been taken from them by Virginia and North Carolina each of these states gave them two hundred thou sand acres of land in Kentucky and Tennessee, respectively. The Virginia grant "on the waters of the Ohio and Green Rivers", was made, as stated in the conveyance, because "they had been at great trouble and expense in making a purchase from the Cherokee Indians." "As Virginia is likely to receive great advantage therefrom by in creasing its inhabitants and establishing a barrier against the Indians", it is, therefore, just and reasonable that the said Richard Henderson & Co. be made compensation for their trouble and expense." This grant from Virginia of 200,000 acres still con stitutes the greater part of Henderson County, organized in !,-822 /777 and, like t~e town, named for Colonel Richard Henderson. -
Records and Memorials of the Speed Family
RECORDS AND MEMORIALS OF THE SPEED FAMILY COLLECTED AND PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY THOMAS SPEED, AND PUBLISHED BY THE LOUISVILLEAND MEMPHIS FAMILIES, FOR DISTRIBUTION AMONG ALLTHE BRANCHES. • LOUISVILLE,KY.: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1892. m C i i 4 *»SII 'bit" 1 V A On PREFACE. The records and memorials in this volume were collected by me during the past twenty years. Iwas moved to begin the work by the interest Ifeltin the family. While a young man there were a number of households in which Iwas always welcome and at home. That of my father, of course, and his brother, Dr. John J- Speed ; those of the four brothers in Louisville, James, Joshua, Philip and Smith Speed ; also those of their sisters, Mrs. Breckinridge, Mrs. Peay, Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Adams. In all these homes Ifound that kindness which wins affection, and that high degree of intelligence which wins admiration. It was but natural to desire to have some published memorial of these most excellent families, and also of their immedi ate ancestors, Major Thomas Speed and Judge John Speed. Then appeared the striking fact that the father of these two, Captain James Speed, was one of a family of six brothers worthy of all praise, four of whom certainly, and perhaps all,having served their country in the Revolutionary war. They were sons of an honored father who was born inVir ginia and died, then an did man, 1785, he being the son of James Speed, who came to this country from England. To gather all that could be discovered about these became a work of real interest. -
George Nicholas and the Founding of the Commonwealth. Benjamin Michael Gies University of Louisville
University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 5-2016 Kentucky's first statesman : George Nicholas and the founding of the commonwealth. Benjamin Michael Gies University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Gies, Benjamin Michael, "Kentucky's first statesman : George Nicholas and the founding of the commonwealth." (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2448. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/2448 This Master's Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The nivU ersity of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The nivU ersity of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. KENTUCKY’S FIRST STATESMAN: GEORGE NICHOLAS AND THE FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH By Benjamin Michael Gies B.A. Bellarmine University, 2014 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences Of the University of Louisville In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts in History Department of History University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky May 2016 Copyright 2016 by Benjamin Michael Gies All rights reserved KENTUCKY’S FIRST STATESMAN: GEORGE NICHOLAS AND THE FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH By Benjamin Michael Gies B.A., Bellarmine University, 2014 A Thesis Approved on April 22, 2016 By the following Thesis Committee: ____________________________________________ Thesis Advisor Dr.