The present work is the result of consultation and cooperation. Those engaged in its composition have had but one purpose, and that was to give to the people of Kentucky a social and political account of their state, based on contemporaneous history, as nearly as the accomplishment of such an undertaking were possible. It has not been the purpose of those who have labored in concert to follow any line of precedent. While omitting no important event in the history of the state, there has been a decided inclination to rather stress those events that have not hitherto engaged the attention of other writers and historians, than to indulge in a mere repetitionot that which is common knowledge. How far they have succeded in this purpose a critical public must determine.

A genealogy and a history of the descendants of Christen Lehmann christened 5 Feb 1699 the son of Peter Lehmann and Madlena Lehmann of Bern, Switzerland. Christen and his wife and children left Switzerland and came to Pennsylvania in 1730. Their son Jacob Lehman/lemmon was born about 1736 in Philadelpia County, Pa. Jacob married 1) Anna Maria Jung on 9 Aug 1757 in Fredrick, Maryland 2) in 1797 Catherine Conrad. He died before 23 Nov 1798 in Harrison County, Kentucky.