Kentucky County!

 From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"I went on over to Jim's cabin, thinking to have a word with him before heading back to the stockade.  Ad I was glad I did, for he had news.  Billy Bush was through yesterday, he said, from the Holston.  He brought word of Cap'n Clark and Jack."

"Boys, Virginia has claimed title to the new country and has set it up as a new county.  Kentucky County! [news from Billy Bush]  What about the colonel...He's lost clean out.  Oh, he fought to the last ditch, but when they voted, that ruined him.  Well, nobody cared about the colonel now.  The big thing was we'd got shut of him and his company in Kentucky.  What Virginia decided to do about him was their business.  Billy was fumbling with his pouch.  I don't reckon, he said, pulling out some papers, it'll hurt to show you these.  

I got the militia commissions here.  David Robinson was named the county lieutenant...that was the highest militia office in a county.  John Bowman was named colonel; Anthony Bledsoe was the lieutenant colonel; George Rogers Clark, major; John Todd, Benjamin Logan, Daniel Boone and James Harrod, captains.  I felt just a little disappointed.  Not over me not being named.  Lord, no.  But because they'd put Virginians in the highest offices.  We didn't even know David Robinson or John Bowman, and Anthony Bledsoe ran an ordinary over on the Long Island of the Holston.  Those were the appointments made by the Assembly.  But David Robinson didn't accept, and Bledsoe ain't going to.  He's got too good a business where he is to give it up, he says."