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John Floyd (pioneer)

Index John Floyd (pioneer)

James John Floyd (1750 – 10 April 1783) was an early settler of St. Matthews, Kentucky, and helped lay out Louisville. [1]

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  1. 71 relations: American Revolutionary War, Amherst County, Virginia, Arthur Lee (diplomat), Battle of Blue Licks, Battle of Point Pleasant, Beargrass Creek (Kentucky), Benjamin Franklin, Boonesborough, Kentucky, Botetourt County, Virginia, British America, Bullitt County, Kentucky, Bullitt's Lick, Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone, Carter Braxton, Charles Floyd (explorer), Cherokee, Clinch Mountain, Colony of Virginia, Courier Journal, Cumberland Gap, Daniel Boone, Davis Floyd, Dix River, Edmund Pendleton, Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area, Fincastle County, Virginia, Floyd County, Indiana, Floyd County, Kentucky, Floyd's Station, Kentucky, Floyds Fork, Floydsburg, Kentucky, Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), French and Indian War, George Rogers Clark, George Rogers Clark Floyd, George Washington, Great Miami River, Gunshot, Jefferson County, Kentucky, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, John Floyd (Virginia politician), Kanawha River, Kentucky, Kentucky River, Long Run massacre, Lord Dunmore's War, Mississippi River, Native Americans in the United States, New Orleans, ... Expand index (21 more) »

  2. American people who self-identify as being of Powhatan descent
  3. Kentucky pioneers

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Amherst County, Virginia

Amherst County is a county, located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Arthur Lee (diplomat)

Arthur Lee (20 December 1740 – 12 December 1792) was an American physician, diplomat and abolitionist who was born in the British colony of Virginia.

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Battle of Blue Licks

The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War.

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Battle of Point Pleasant

The Battle of Point Pleasant, also known as the Battle of Kanawha and the Battle of Great Kanawha, was the only major action of Dunmore's War.

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Beargrass Creek (Kentucky)

Beargrass Creek is the name given to several forks of a creek in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.

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Boonesborough, Kentucky

Boonesborough or Boonesboro is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Kentucky, United States.

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Botetourt County, Virginia

Botetourt County is a US county that lies in the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

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British America

British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783.

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Bullitt County, Kentucky

Bullitt County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Bullitt's Lick

Bullitt's Lick is a historic salt lick west of Shepherdsville in Bullitt County, Kentucky.

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Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone

The capture and rescue of Jemima Boone and the Callaway girls is a famous incident in the colonial history of Kentucky.

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Carter Braxton

Carter Braxton (September 10, 1736October 10, 1797) was a Founding Father of the United States, signer of the Declaration of Independence, merchant, and Virginia planter.

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Charles Floyd (explorer)

Charles Floyd (June 20, 1782 – August 20, 1804) was an American explorer, a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, and the quartermaster of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. John Floyd (pioneer) and Charles Floyd (explorer) are American people of Welsh descent.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.

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Clinch Mountain

Clinch Mountain is a mountain ridge in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Virginia, lying in the ridge-and-valley section of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Colony of Virginia

The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.

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Courier Journal

The Courier Journal, also known as the Louisville Courier Journal (and informally The C-J or The Courier), and called The Courier-Journal between November 8, 1868, and October 29, 2017, is a daily newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky and owned by Gannett, which bills it as "Part of the ''USA Today'' Network".

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Cumberland Gap

The Cumberland Gap is a pass in the eastern United States through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains and near the tripoint of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (1734September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. John Floyd (pioneer) and Daniel Boone are American people of Welsh descent and Kentucky pioneers.

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Davis Floyd

Davis Floyd (1776 – December 13, 1834) was an Indiana Jeffersonian Republican politician who was convicted of aiding American Vice President Aaron Burr in the Burr conspiracy. John Floyd (pioneer) and Davis Floyd are American people of Welsh descent.

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Dix River

The Dix River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Edmund Pendleton

Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was an American planter, politician, lawyer, and judge.

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Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area

The Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area is a national, bi-state area on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States, administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

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Fincastle County, Virginia

Fincastle County, Virginia, was created by act of the Virginia General Assembly April 8, 1772 from Botetourt County.

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Floyd County, Indiana

Floyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Floyd County, Kentucky

Floyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Floyd's Station, Kentucky

Floyd's Station was a fort on Beargrass Creek in what is now St. Matthews, Kentucky.

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Floyds Fork

Floyds Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Floydsburg, Kentucky

Floydsburg is a rural unincorporated community in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States.

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Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania)

Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western Pennsylvania (modern day Pittsburgh).

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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George Rogers Clark

George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. John Floyd (pioneer) and George Rogers Clark are Kentucky pioneers and people from colonial Virginia.

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George Rogers Clark Floyd

George Rogers Clark Floyd (September 13, 1810 – May 7, 1895) was an American politician and businessman. John Floyd (pioneer) and George Rogers Clark Floyd are American people of Welsh descent.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Great Miami River

The Great Miami River (also called the Miami River) (Shawnee: Msimiyamithiipi) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Gunshot

A gunshot is a single discharge of a gun, typically a man-portable firearm, producing a visible flash, a powerful and loud shockwave and often chemical gunshot residue.

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Jefferson County, Kentucky

Jefferson County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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John B. Floyd

John Buchanan Floyd (June 1, 1806 – August 26, 1863) was the 31st Governor of Virginia, U.S. Secretary of War, and the Confederate general in the American Civil War who lost the crucial Battle of Fort Donelson. John Floyd (pioneer) and John B. Floyd are American people of Welsh descent.

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John Floyd (Virginia politician)

John Floyd (April 24, 1783 – August 17, 1837) was an American politician and military officer. John Floyd (pioneer) and John Floyd (Virginia politician) are American people of Welsh descent and American people who self-identify as being of Powhatan descent.

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Kanawha River

The Kanawha River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi (156 km) long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Kentucky River

The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River, long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Long Run massacre

The Long Run massacre occurred on 13 September 1781 at the intersection of Floyd's Fork creek with Long Run Creek, along the Falls Trace, a trail in what is now eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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Lord Dunmore's War

Lord Dunmore's War, also known as Dunmore's War, was a brief conflict in fall 1774 between the British Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo in the trans-Appalachian region of the colony south of the Ohio River.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Opechancanough

Opechancanough (1554–1646) was paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death. John Floyd (pioneer) and Opechancanough are people from colonial Virginia.

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Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.

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Powhatan

The Powhatan people are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Richard Henderson (jurist)

Richard Henderson (April 20, 1735 – January 30, 1785) was an American jurist, land speculator and politician who was best known for attempting to create the Transylvania Colony in frontier Kentucky. John Floyd (pioneer) and Richard Henderson (jurist) are Kentucky pioneers.

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Robert Morris (financier)

Robert Morris Jr. (January 20, 1734May 8, 1806) was an English-born American merchant, investor and politician who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Salt River (Kentucky)

The Salt River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Shawnee

The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Silas Deane

Silas Deane (September 23, 1789) was an American merchant, politician, and diplomat, and a supporter of American independence.

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St. Matthews, Kentucky

St.

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Stockade

A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. John Floyd (pioneer) and Thomas Jefferson are people from colonial Virginia.

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Thomas Walker (explorer)

Thomas Walker (January 25, 1715 – November 9, 1794) was a physician, planter and explorer in colonial Virginia who served multiple terms in the Virginia General Assembly, and whose descendants also had political careers. John Floyd (pioneer) and Thomas Walker (explorer) are Kentucky pioneers.

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Transylvania Colony

The Transylvania Colony, also referred to as the Transylvania Purchase or the Henderson Purchase, was a short-lived, extra-legal colony founded in early 1775 by North Carolina land speculator Richard Henderson, who formed and controlled the Transylvania Company.

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Virginia General Assembly

The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere, and the first elected legislative assembly in the New World.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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William Christian (Virginia politician)

William Christian (1742 – April 9, 1786) was a military officer, planter and politician from the western part of the Colony of Virginia.

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William Preston (Virginia soldier)

Colonel William Preston (December 25, 1729 – June 28, 1783) was an Irish-born American military officer, planter and politician. John Floyd (pioneer) and William Preston (Virginia soldier) are 1783 deaths and people from colonial Virginia.

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William Russell (Virginia politician)

William Russell (1735 – January 14, 1793) was an army officer and a prominent settler of the southwestern region of the Virginia Colony.

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See also

American people who self-identify as being of Powhatan descent

Kentucky pioneers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Floyd_(pioneer)

Also known as James John Floyd, John Floyd (Kentucky).

, Ohio River, Opechancanough, Patrick Henry, Powhatan, Privateer, Richard Henderson (jurist), Robert Morris (financier), Salt River (Kentucky), Shawnee, Silas Deane, St. Matthews, Kentucky, Stockade, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Walker (explorer), Transylvania Colony, Virginia General Assembly, Wales, West Virginia, William Christian (Virginia politician), William Preston (Virginia soldier), William Russell (Virginia politician).