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This file appears in: Marker #1083, "Mercer County before Kentucky Became a State"
This file appears in: Marker #1083, "Mercer County before Kentucky Became a State"
Marker #1083, "Mercer County before Kentucky Became a State"
The names of two women are listed among the 1776 “Mercer County FIRSTS [sic] in Kentucky”: Jane Coomes and Ann[e] [Pogue] McGinty. The contributions of both women to the history of Anglo-American settlement in frontier Kentucky are worthy of further…