CHAPTER VIII.
THE HOLSTON SETTLEMENTS, 1777-1779.
Organization of the Holston Settlements.
The history of Kentucky and the Northwest has now been traced from the date of the Cherokee war to the close of the Revolution.

Those portions of the southwestern lands that were afterwards made into the State of Tennessee, had meanwhile developed with almost equal rapidity.

Both Kentucky and Tennessee grew into existence and power at the same time, and were originally settled and built up by precisely the same class of American backwoodsmen.

But there were one or two points of difference in their methods of growth.

Kentucky sprang up afar off in the wilderness, and as a separate entity from the beginning.