CHAPTER II

MEMORIAL   AND   PETITION   OF THE PIONEERS OF 1782-1783.

To the Honorable President and Delegates of the Free United States of America in Congress assembled:

The memorial and Petition of a number of Inhabitants of Kentuekey Settlement of the Low Dutch Reformed Church persuasion in behalf of themselves and other intended settlers.

Humbly Sheweth

That in the Spring of the year 1780 they moved to Kentuekey with their families and effects, with a view and expectation to procure a tract of land to enable them to settle togeather in a body for the conviency of civil society and propogating the Gospel in their known language; when they arrived there to their sorrow and disappointment they were, thro' the dangerousness of the times by a cruel savage enemy oblidged to settle in Stations or Forts in such places where there was the most appearance of safety, notwithstanding all their caution numbers of them suffered greatly in their property, several killed and others captivated by the enemy, living in such distressed confined way al

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