Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — TRANSYLVANIA [ARTICLE]

TRANSYLVANIA

Transylvania was never a state, but there waa once a colonization movement and a settlement under that name which aimed at trie formation of a state, but which failed. Tlie movement liegun Just bes tire the beginning of the Revolutionary war under the leadership of Richard Henderson ot North Carolina. Henderson was a law-

yer by profession, Judge of a local “court in North Carolina and a shrewd land speculator. In 1775 he and some associates made a treaty with the Indians . l>.v which —thev galned, or thought they gained, title to a body of land comprising more than half of the present state of Kentucky. When independence was declared Henderson

and his associates planned the organization of to be called Transylvania. Tlit- plan had considerable backing, but it was opposed and defeated by the state of Virginia, which claimed title to the whole of Kentucky. Henderson made as good a show of title by his treaty with the Indians that Virginia granted him 200.0Q0 acres. He*died in Hillsborough. N. C., January 30, 1785. A son of lilk, Leonard Henderson, became one of the judges„o£ the supreme court of Aorth Carolina. »