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eery jurisdiction coextensive with its limits. The 

 name of Kentucky, which had been dropped when 

 the original county was divided into three, was thus 

 permanently revived. The first court sat at Har- 

 rodsburg, but as there was no building where it 

 could properly be held, it adjourned to the Dutch 

 Reformed Meeting-house six miles off. The first 

 grand jury empaneled presented nine persons for 

 selling liquor without license, eight for adultery and 

 fornication, and the clerk of Lincoln County for not 

 keeping a table of fees; besides several for smaller 

 offences. 30 A log court-house and a log jail were 

 immediately built. 



Manufactories of salt were started at the licks, 

 where it was sold at from three to five silver dollars 

 a bushel. 31 This was not only used by the settlers 

 for themselves, but for their stock, which ranged 

 freely in the woods; to provide for the latter a tree 

 was chopped down and the salt placed in notches 

 or small troughs cut in the trunk, making it what 

 was called a lick-log. Large grist-mills were erected 

 at some of the stations; wheat crops were raised; 

 and small distilleries were built. The gigantic sys- 

 tem of river commerce of the Mississippi had been 

 begun the preceding year by one Jacob Yoder, who 

 loaded a flat-boat at the Old Redstone Fort, on 

 the Monongahela, and drifted down to New Or- 

 leans, where he sold his goods, and returned to 

 the Falls of the Ohio by a roundabout course lead- 

 ing through Havana, Philadelphia, and Pittsburg. 



30 Marshall, I, 159. 31 McAfee MSS. 



