17 November 2017

Riding Over The Territories



He [Israel Dodge] built the first stone house at Bardstown, now Kentucky. Attracted by the large grants of land offered by the King of Spain to all who would settle in his Colony, which then included the whole region south of the Ohio River and west of the Allegheny Mountains southward to the Gulf of Mexico...


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...Israel Dodge mounted his horse and riding over what became the Territories of Indiana and Illinois, crossed the Father of Waters to the ancient town of Ste. Genevieve, now in Missouri. Here he erected mills and made other public improvements for which he received large grants of land from His Catholic Majesty.

Text excerpts from Tristram Dodge and His Descendants...


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