The leader of this organization was Judge Richard Henderson.

* Judge Henderson dreamed a big dream.

His castle in the air had imperial proportions.
He resolved, in short, to purchase from the Cherokee Indians the larger part of Kentucky and to establish there a colony after the manner and the economic form of the English Lords Proprietors, whose day in America was so nearly done.

Though in the light of history the plan loses none of its dramatic features, it shows the practical defects that must surely have prevented its realization.

Like many another Caesar hungering for empire and staking all to win it, the prospective lord of Kentucky, as we shall see, had left the human equation out of his calculations.
* Richard Henderson (1734-1785) was the son of the High Sheriff of Granville County.