Judge Richard Henderson
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Significant name | Ashland | Henderson | |||||
| 1775/00/00 | Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone negotiate the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, in which Henderson's Transylvania Company buys large parts of modern Kentucky and Tennessee from the Cherokee. | Work | Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area | Elizabethton | |||
| 1775/04/01 | Daniel Boone dispatches a letter to the colonist led by Richard Henderson, Nathaulel Hart and John Luttrell, three of the "Transylvania" Proprietors, who are to follow soon. | Frontiersman | Fort Boonesborough Site | Fort Boonesborough State Park | |||
| 1775/05/23 | A convention of the people in the deep wilderness of Kentucky gather in a constitutional convention, meeting under the shade of a huge elm tree and which its president, Richard Henderson, called our Church, State-house, Council Chamber, etc. | Leader | Fort Boonesborough State Park | Kentucky | |||
| 1776/07/16 | Boone's rescue party track the fleeing Indian raiders: We observed their course, and on which side they had left their sign and traveled upwards of thirty miles. | Frontiersman | Abduction of Jemima Boone and the Callaway Girls | ||||
| 1776/07/17 | Jemima Boone and Betsy and Fanny Callaway are rescued from Indian kidnappers: Four of us fired, and all of us rushed on them, which prevented them from carrying away anything, except one shot-gun without ammunition. | Frontiersman | Abduction of Jemima Boone and the Callaway Girls |
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