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Pennamite-Yankee Wars... Kentucky to separate from Virginia...
Pennamite-Yankee Wars... Kentucky to separate from Virginia...
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September 28, 1785
PENNSYLVANIA PACKET & DAILY ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, Sept. 28, 1785
* Connecticut & Pennsylvania settlers conflict
* State of Kentucky forming
This issue was printed during the brief period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the creation of the Federal Constitution. Page 3 has a report relating to the Yankee-Pennamite Wars, during which people in Connecticut laid claim to Pennsylvania land along the north branch of the Susquehanna River (see hyperlink). Also a letter from Kentucky which: "Our third convention have...with the concurrence of some more important personages...confirmed the decree of separation from Virginia."
Four pages, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's