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Signers of the Cumberland Compact 1780

Please join and bring your pioneer ancestors with you. ==Cumberland Compact==* from Westerly Journeys - COLONIAL KENTUCKY FRONTIER In the spring of 1780 despite the hazards of life at the frontier, Judge Richard Henderson initiated the Cumberland Compact and obtained the signatures of 236 would-be settlers to the land south of Kentucky called "Tennessee." Many of his own family were among the p...