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Subject: [KYBELL] Lewis Collins' History of KY excerpt
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:53:30 EDT

Excerpt from “History of Kentucky” by the late Judge Lewis Collins
ANNALS OF KENTUCKY, OR IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF
KENTUCKY, 1539-1874.

"1684 -- By a treaty held with the “Five Nations”, or Iroquois, at Albany,
New York, by
Lord HOWARD, Governor of Virginia, and Col. Dungan, Governor of New York, they
place themselves under the protection of the British nation, and make a deed
of sale to the
British government of a vast tract of country (which included Kentucky) south
and east of
the Illinois river, and extending across Lake Huron into Canada.

1742 -- John HOWARD, an Englishman crosses the mountains from Virginia, and
descends the Ohio river.*
* De Hass’ Western Virginia, p. 48. One of the grounds on which the English
claimed the
Ohio Valley, was priority of discovery; and which they sustained by this
voyage of
HOWARD -- which De Hass calls a “vague tradition.”

I capitalized the surname. Diane

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