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Henderson, Richard

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Henderson, Richard (1735–1785)

US colonizer. A lawyer and an associate justice of the North Carolina Superior Court (1768–73), he retired from the legal profession to form a land development company, the Richard Henderson & Company. He sent Daniel Boone as his agent to explore Kentucky. He organized the Louisa Company (renamed Translyvania company) in 1774 and tried to set up a proprietary colony on land between the Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers (present day Kentucky) he had bought from the Cherokee Indians. He himself established the settlement of Boonesborough, but the American Revolution cost him the support of England necessary for legalizing his colony. In 1779–80, he established a settlement at French Lick (now Nashville), Tennessee. Henderson was born in Hanover County, Virginia.



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