Judge Richard Henderson

  • American


Timeline

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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