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From: "Nena Smothers" <>
Subject: 1790-where are they?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:14:24 -0700


HI, wondering if prehaps ya'll could help me figure this out or know exactly
what this document is talking about. I am curious where the petitioners were
located during this time, Oct 1790, was it in what is now KY or still VA? I
guess I don't understand if they were Inhabitants of KY ? why they were
writing to GA of VA? My 4x grandfather's name is on here as well as his
brother, also another fellow we are interested in because we find all 3 of
them in land deeds from 1790-95 in Tenn Co NC, so again wondering back then
are they in Tenn Co NC really or what. I know Tenn Co NC became TN in
1798.......so if they were in Kentucky Co VA, would they have been close to
Tenn Co NC then? Were these just settlers or officers and soldiers? There
are 5 columns of names.
Where was Lincoln Court House in 1790 they are referring too? thanks
kindly, Nena

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Petition of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky to the General Assumbly of
Virginia 1769-1792 by James Rood Robertson, M.A.Ph.D. which reads as
follows:
Number 74, page 141-142 (21 Oct 1790)

To the Honourable the General Assembly of the State of Virginia
The Petition of the Inhabitants of Lincoln County residing on the reserved
Lands for the officers and Soldiers of the State aforesaid on the Waters of
Cumberland River and Parts adjacent doth Respectfully shew.---That your
Petitioners find themselves sensibly aggrieved by their distance from Courts
of Justice, it being near two hundred miles from this Settlement to Lincoln
Court House, by which, when Business renders our attendance indispensably
necessary, we are frequently exposed to much Danger in Travelling, through
an uninhabited Country; being subjected to Fines, and other Incoveniances,
when from High Waters, Enemies near our Frontiers; or other Causes it is
Impossible to attend.---We therefore most humbly Pray the General Assembly,
to grant a County to be laid off including these Settlements in the reserved
Land for the Officers and Soldiers, on the south of Green River, and to the
Coloney Line, thence to the Ohio, and your Petitioners as in Duty bound will
ever Pray &c.--- [Names]
Endorsement on back of petition: 21st. Oct. 1790.---Refd. to
Props.---Reasonable---(repd.)


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