The area south of the Ohio River and west of the Kanawha River (long referred to as Kentucke country after a region … See more

Early in May 1774, Dunmore received word that fighting had begun at Yellow Creek and other points on the Ohio. He requested the legislature to raise regular military forces to quell the threat of growing violence. The House of B… See more

The peace did not stay for long following the treaty, however. On March 24, 1775, a band of Shawnee who apparently did not recognize the Ohio river boundary attacked Daniel Boone in Kentucky along the Wildernes… See more

• Pontiac's War, an earlier rebellion of Native tribes against British forces in the Great Lakes region.
• Dunmore's Proclamation, a Revolutionary war offer of amnesty to slaves who agreed to serve in the British … See more

1. ^ "I likewise advised them to withdraw the Senecas of Ohio from thence and settle them nearer their natural friends as at present by their Connections with others they bring disgrace & suspicion on their own confed… See more