General Notes

 [Hadley#1.FTW]

[Final#2.FTW]

[Vol.16,File#0785.FTW]

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 16, Ed. 1, Tree #0785, Date of Import: May 29, 1999]

From information I received from Les Lindley of Vienna, Va. in 1997. Jonathan Lindley served five terms in the North Carolina House of Commons {now called the House of Representatives} between 1788 and 1805 and one term in the Senate of the General Assembly of North Carolina.  While in the House of Commons, he introduced and pushed to a test vote a bill that would have prohibited further importation of slaves into NC. In 1788 he was elected as one of the five delegates from Orange County to the State Constitutional Convention called to ratify the Federal Constitution.  He voted against ratification hoping to delay it until a Bill of Rights could be added.  In 1811 he led a large wagon train of emigrants from Orange County to Lick Creek in Indiana  Jonathan probably led the expedition over the Boone Trail, through the Cumberland Gap, and over the branch road to what is now Louisville, Kentucky.  According to a Lindley tradition, "they camped at the falls of the Ohio River for three weeks, waiting for the river to reach a low stage.  Then, they placed the heavy wagons of flat bottomed boats,called skids, and the animals swam to the opposite shore with heavy loads." Their route led past the Lick Creek area, where they intended to make a rest stop.  Because of the persuasion of the settlers in the area, and because of warnings of as Indian uprising along the Wabash River, they remained in Lick Creek.  When Indiana attained statehood, he was the first representative of his county in the General Assembly of the new state.  The General Assembly named him to a board that established a State Seminary that later became the University of Indiana.