Transylvania Colony

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Was a short-lived, extra-legal colony founded in early 1775 by North Carolina land speculator Richard Henderson.

Establishment

March 1775: Richard Henderson and his investors reached an agreement with the Cherokees to purchase a vast tract of lands west of the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. In the purchased region, they founded the extra-legal Transylvania Colony.

Chronology

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1. American-Indian Wars

Were fought by European governments and colonists in North America, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers, against various American Indian and First Nation tribes.

1.1.Cherokee-American wars

Were a series of skirmishes between the Cherokee and the American settlers on the frontier.

Disestablishment

January 1779: The Transylvania Company's purchase was in violation of both Virginia and North Carolina law, as well as the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited private purchase of American Indian land and the establishment of any non-Crown sanctioned colony. In December 1778, Virginia's Assembly finally declared the Transylvania claim void. In compensation, Henderson and his partners received a grant of 12 square miles (31 km²) on the Ohio River below the mouth of Green River.