Around the same time as the Lewises joined the Virginia planer-elite to Georgia, the Clark’s joined the Virginia planter elites in Kentucky. Unlike Georgia, which was one of the thirteen colonies (though sparsely populated by white Europeans), Kentucky fell beyond the old Proclamation of 1763, the boundary line devised after British victory in the French and Indian War. It’s story will be told as we continue over the mountains but, like Matthew’s inviting picture of what Georgia might be, the land schemes between the wars led American colonists pouring into the Ohio Valley, ratcheting up tensions that boiled over into Revolution.

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