1. Craig was a former Orange County resident and dissenting preacher (Papers of Madison description begins William T. Hutchinson et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (9 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). description ends , I, 183 n. 7). After he moved to Kentucky, Craig became an associate of Robert Johnson, who was an active local political figure. No trace of this petition has been found in the JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond, In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends or the October 1786 legislative papers (Vi), but see Robertson, Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky … 1769 to 1792, pp. 85–86, 107–8, 116–17. Madison and Mercer counties were created in the Kentucky district in 1786, and the only other counties formed under Virginia jurisdiction prior to statehood were Mason (1789) and Woodford (1789) (Hornbook of Virginia History, p. 13).