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Events
Boone County
Two additional
Justices of the Peace
are authorized for
Boone County
: one at
Union
and one at
Francisville
.
The “Gordon Tract” of 10,000 acres is offered for sale.
Kentucky
The Cherokee Trail of Tears passes through western Kentucky, near Hopkinsville.
U.S. & World
Senator Henry Clay, hoping for a Presidential nomination, condemns abolitionism. He is unsuccessful.
Telegraph creator Samuel Morse makes the first daguerreotype portraits to be produced in America.
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Tax Lists
, 1839.