25, 1785.] Second Convention Held.
The convention assembled accordingly, Logan being one of the members, while it was presided over by Col.

Samuel McDowell, who, like Fleming, was a veteran Indian fighter and hero of the Great Kanawha.

Up to this point the phases through which the movement for statehood in Kentucky had passed were almost exactly the same as the phases of the similar movement in Franklin.

But the two now entered upon diverging lines of progression.

In each case the home government was willing to grant the request for separation, but wished to affix a definite date to their consent, and to make the fulfilment of certain conditions a prerequisite.