Excerpt from Richard Henderson and the Occupation of Kentucky, 1775 Those epic ships of 1607 which beached their keels upon the shores of tidewater Virginia bore in their bosom the English, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh breeds who peopled the Appalachians and gave to the New World a new meaning of liberty. The great-grandfather of Richard Henderson, named Samuel, emi grated from Dumfries, Scotland, to Jamestown, Virginia, in the early years of the seventeenth century. And for more than a century and a quarter, the family lived in Virginia the simple and hardy life of colonial settlers. Richard Henderson's father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.