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4250. KENTUCKY, Statehood.—[continued].

There are now 100,000
inhabitants at Kentucky. They have accepted
the offer of independence on the terms
proposed by Virginia, and they have decided
that their independent government shall begin
on the 1st day of the next year. In the
meantime, they claim admittance into Congress.—
To William Carmichael. Ford ed., v, 23.
(P. June. 1788)