From The Kentuckians:
Boys, Virginia has claimed title to the new country and has set it up as a new county. Kentucky County! [news from Billy Bush]
"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."
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"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."
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