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Opening the Gateway--Dunmore's War.
Virginia, we conceive, can claim this Country [Kentucky] with the greatest justice and propriety, its within the Limits of their Charter.

They Fought and bled for it.

And had it not been for the memorable Battle, at the Great Kanaway those vast regions had yet continued inaccessable .-- The Harrodsburg Petition.

June 7-15, 1776.
It was fortunate for the Watauga settlers that the Indians and the whites were on the most peaceful terms with each other at the time the Watauga Valley was shown, by the running of the boundary line, to lie within the Indian reservation.