Genealogy Club - February 4

We are having a special presentation at the meeting this week.  Sandi and Bill Wilson will be educating us about "Kentucky Settlers during the American Revolution." Sandi is on the speaker's staff of the state DAR organization; she and her husband have been genealogists for 30 years and they have also been re-enacting as Kentucky settlers for many years.

 

Here is part of the information she offered to explain what they would cover.

"Their first person (in costume) program will take us from  the Boston Tea Party, to the Declaration of Independence, to the early settlement of Kentucky and subsequent attacks by Indians incited by the British commander, Henry Hamilton, known as the Hairbuyer.  We will eventually visit the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender of the British Troops to General Washington.    Various 18^th century accoutrements will be displayed (Flint Lock, tomahawk, cooking items, etc.)."