File:Constituent Assembly Boonesborough Kentucky May 23 1775.JPG
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English: Anonymous sketch of the Transylvania Constitutional Convention, May 23, 1775 at Boonesborough (now in Kentucky, USA): "On May 23, 1775 a convention of the people in the deep wilderness of Kentucky gathered in a constitutional convention, meeting under the shade of a huge elm tree (the limbs of which extended at least a hundred feed wide), and which its president, Richard Henderson, called "our Church, State-house, Council Chamber, etc." |
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| Source | Scan from Ranck, G.W., Boonesborough: Its Founding, Pioneer Struggles, Indian Experiences, Transylvania Days, and Revolutionary Annals (Louisville, Ky, 1901) |
| Author | Christian G. Fritz, University of New Mexico Law School |
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