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John Filson (c. 1747 – October 1788) was an American author, historian of Kentucky, pioneer, surveyor and one of the founders of Cincinnati, Ohio. John...

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The Filson Historical Society, previously known as The Filson Club, is a privately supported historical society located in the Old Louisville neighborhood...

land speculator. In 1784, on Boone's 50th birthday, frontier historian John Filson published The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke. The...

Thomas (1884). John Filson, the First Historian of Kentucky: An Account of His Life and Writings, Principally from Original Sources. Filson club. p. 37....

mouth of the Licking and decided to settle there. The original surveyor, John Filson, named it "Losantiville". On January 4, 1790, St. Clair changed the name...

the Louisville Equal Rights Association, and Women's Rights". John Filson Blog. Filson Historical Society. Retrieved 23 November 2016. "Mary Barr Clay"...

ISBN 978-0-8117-0979-8. Durret, Reuben Thomas (1884). John Filson, The First Historian of Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton & Co. p. 31. Harrison, Lowell...

SETTLEMENT And present State of KENTUCKE "(Page 100-103) – 1784 Mr John Filson (1747–1788) The Appalachian Indian Frontier; "The Edmond Atkin Report...

(Subsequent editions would include the adventures of Daniel Boone, written by John Filson, as an appendix.) Imlay later tried his hand at fiction, publishing The...

primarily accomplished by John Filson, a schoolteacher from Chester County, Pennsylvania. Filson arrived in Kentucky in 1783. Filson was interviewing well...

explore the surrounding area. John Finley referred to the view from the outcrop as "the beautiful level of Kentucky". John Filson later became Daniel Boone's...

Losantiville, the central settlement, was named by the original surveyor, John Filson, who scouted the area on September 22, 1788 with Mathias Denman, and...

document 146. Gersony 1982, p. 343, document 116; Roberts 1983, p. 152. John Filson, deputy chief of the USGS Office of Earthquake Studies, quoted by Hough...

Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876–1938) was a journalist from Northern Ireland, who published the first book about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, called...

John Filson travelled by river to Vincennes and returned to the Falls of the Ohio via the Trace; he documented his travels along the road. Filson's overland...

the area of Harrod's Town. Shortly thereafter, Jacobus Westervelt hired John Thixton as a guide for the caravan. The Dutch-American families gathered...

legendary expeditions in the 1760s were John Findley, trader 1752; James McBride 1754 (historian John Filson's nominee for "Discoverer of Kentucke"); and...

Crothers - Maryland governor, 1908–1912 John Filson - author, founder of Cincinnati Eric Fischl - artist and sculptor John H. Jenness (1862–1915), physician...

Matthias Denman, Robert Patterson, and John Filson entered an agreement to found Cincinnati, with Ludlow taking Filson's place upon his death. The town was...

Ohio River town from Indian attacks. Mathias Denman, Robert Patterson, John Filson and Israel Ludlow, met on the land of their new purchase, then called...