biography
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| lived:
| (1735–85)
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| biography:
| Promoter and colonizer, born in Hanover Co, Virginia, USA. He was a lawyer and an associate justice of the North Carolina Superior Court (1768–73). He retired as a judge to form a land development company, Richard Henderson & Co, and sent Daniel Boone as his agent to explore Kentucky. In 1774 he organized the Louisa Company (renamed Translyvania Company) and tried to set up a proprietary colony on land between the Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers (present day Kentucky) that he had bought from the Cherokee Indians. He established the settlement of Boonesborough, but the American Revolution cost him the necessary support of England needed to legalize his colony. In 1779–80 he established a settlement at French Lick (now Nashville), TN. |
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