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2. Great Grant Deed - Wikipedia

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   The Great Grant Deed, also known as The Great Grant, was a transaction for the sale of property by the Cherokee Nation to Richard Henderson and Company. The grant is also known as the Louisa purchase or the Transylvania purchase. The transaction occurred at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River on March 17, 1775.

3. Transylvania Colony - Wikipedia

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   Some adjacent land to the southeast, in Virginia and North Carolina, was also purchased. [2] The land thus delineated, 20 million acres (81,000 km 2), encompassed an area half the size of present-day Kentucky. Henderson and his partners probably believed that a recent British legal opinion, the Pratt–Yorke opinion, had made such purchases legal.

4. List of plantations in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Built in 1835 by Isaac Davis Stone on land owned by his father since 1791. Villa Lawn: Bardstown: Nelson: W.J. Kendrick Plantation Monticello: Wayne: Walnut Hill Gethsemane: Lincoln: Walnut Hill was one of the first brick buildings built in Kentucky, but it was torn down in the 1940s. Only the meat cabin survives. 80001662 Walnut Groves ...

5. Richard Henderson (jurist) - Wikipedia

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   Richard Henderson (April 20, 1735 – January 30, 1785) was an American jurist, land speculator and politician who was best known for attempting to create the Transylvania Colony in frontier Kentucky. Henderson County and its seat Henderson, Kentucky are named for him. He also sold land to an early settlement that went on to become Nashville ...

6. 'That's one we can fix': Commanders explain how 'bold' fourth ...

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   Dan Quinn surprised many with his fourth-down decision late in Thursday's loss to the Eagles, but Commanders players took the blame for the outcome.

7. National Register of Historic Places listings in Floyd County ...

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   Location of Floyd County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Floyd County, Kentucky.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.