Excerpt from Kentucky Neutrality in 1861: A Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of the United StatesFabulous stories of the fertility and beauty of the new territory open for settlement spread over all the land, and a steady stream of emigrants poured in, much the larger portion of it from Virginia, each head of a family carrying with him a land patent, with authority to locate and survey any vacant 0r unoccupied land he might fancy.The inevitable result of this loose method of business was reaped in after years in numerous land suits, when it was found that all the more valuable portions of the State was shingled with con¿icting patents and interlapping lines of survey three or four times over.The courts first held that the oldest patent carried the land, but afterward, under the Occupying Claimant Laws of the State, the same courts decided that a junior patent with twenty years of occupancy held to the extent of its survey and claim.From [781 to 1792 the influx of population into Ken tucky was very great, and through all those years there was warm contention between the mother State and the dependent territory as to the right of the latter to apply to Congress for admittance into the Union as a co-equal State.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.