Some of you may have gotten questions about counties in KY
with the same name as VA counties. I've now linked those
counties on the state page to a page that describes the sequence
of those county's formation and the re-use of their names for
later VA counties. Six of the nine VA counties which went
to make up the fledgling state of KY, had the names re-used.
four of the six "new" counties wound up in WV. A seventh
KY county (Lincoln) had the name re-used in WV, but I'd
guess the namesake was a different person. ... 8^)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb/kentucky.htm
There've been a number of questions in the past about
VA's western lands, so I posted excerpts from two books
that describe the ceding of these lands to Congress, and
the formation of the various "Territories" and the eventual
rise to statehood (IN, IL, MI, OH, WI).
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb/illinois.htm
Regards,
Freddie S.