The Transylvania Colony, also referred to as the Transylvania Purchase or the Henderson Purchase, was a short-lived, extra-legal colony founded in early...

Look up Transylvania in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transylvania is a historical region in present-day Romania. Transylvania may also refer to: Principality...

speculator and politician who was best known for attempting to create the Transylvania Colony in frontier Kentucky. Henderson County and its seat Henderson, Kentucky...

Transylvania—Latin for 'across the woods'—was the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains and was named for the short-lived Transylvania Colony...

Bird's invasion of Kentucky. Other events include the invalidation of Transylvania Colony and the survey of Walker's Line, Kentucky's southern boundary. The...

Acts that contributed to the American Revolutionary War. 1775 – Transylvania (colony) founded in what is now Kentucky by Richard Henderson. Daniel Boone...

Harrod and ten other colonial colonels founded the Colony of Transylvania when they met for the Transylvania Convention on May 23, 1775, to write the "Kentucke...

Country Overhill Cherokee Overmountain Men State of Franklin Transylvania Colony Vandalia (colony) Northwest Territory Southwest Territory Wilderness Road...

the banks of the Watauga River. An agreement to sell land for the Transylvania Colony, which included the territory in Tennessee north of the Cumberland...

Trans Allegheny Virginia For similar contemporary movements, see: Transylvania Colony Watauga Association State of Franklin Vermont Republic Abernethy...

Watauga with the Cherokee to establish the Transylvania Colony on May 23, 1775. At its time, the Transylvania Colony was the first democratic government free...

northern Tennessee. Their intention was to establish a 14th colony to be called Transylvania Colony. To help attract people to purchase land and populate the...

officer in Lord Dunmore's War.: 33–4, 37–8  On March 17, 1775, the Transylvania Colony, founded by Henderson, and for which Boone was employed, reached...

Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106...

17, 1775. The Great Grant was for lands forming Henderson's new Transylvania Colony comprising much of what is now the state of Kentucky. The Great Grant...

first settled by Gasper Butcher, as a frontier settlement of the Transylvania Colony of Virginia, around 1780, but others have questioned this claim....

immense tract of land from the Cherokees to found the short-lived Transylvania colony, in what is today Kentucky, Henderson turned to Martin as his agent...

Indiana Grant (including part of southwestern PA), Vandalia Colony and Transylvania Colony. That the county was named for a loyalist was reason for the...

had become essentially extinct). In 1621 Gabriel Bethlen, prince of Transylvania and a Calvinist, "invited" Hutterites to come to his country. In fact...

held by Cherokees in Kentucky, which was then called the Transylvania Colony or Transylvania Purchase. Kentucky was recognized as a county of Virginia...

a scheme with land speculator Richard Henderson to establish the Transylvania Colony in Kentucke. Starting in 1769, Ebenezer Zane, afterwards a famed...

mountain where the Transylvania colony lands began. The result was the Path Grant that secured not only the route to Transylvania colony lands but the Holston...

Boonesborough, Kentucky. He took part in organizing the short-lived Transylvania Colony. In 1776, two of Callaway's daughters, along with Daniel Boone's...

his party tried to create a settlement in what would become the Transylvania colony. Some Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Mingo, and Cherokee attacked a...

of $400,000. The Transylvania Stakes is named for the heavily forested region of western Virginia known as the Transylvania Colony, which became most...

River in present-day Elizabethton. An agreement to sell land for the Transylvania Colony, which included the territory in modern-day Tennessee north of the...

Henderson County Kentucky Richard Henderson (1734–1785), founder of the Transylvania colony Henderson County North Carolina Leonard Henderson, Chief Justice...

demanding clarification of the boundaries, North Carolina nullified the Transylvania Colony and asserted sovereignty over the western territory. That western...

about proper leadership behavior, that is, unusually circumspect. Transylvania (colony) Attakullakulla Conocotocko and his nephew Conocotocko II bore the...

assimilation of the Deva Bulgarians into other ethnicities of Transylvania prevented the colony from growing and by the late 19th century the Bulgarian ethnic...