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Crab Orchard. Certain of these advertisements are extremely interesting; the verbal changes are significant if closely read:

Notice

is hereby given, that a company will meet at the Crab Orchard, on Sunday the 4^th day of May, to go through the wilderness, and to set out on the 5^th. at which time most of the Delegates to the state convention will go^[1]

A large company will meet at the Crab orchard on sunday the 25^th of May, in order to make an early start on Monday the 26^th through the wilderness for the old settlement^[2]

A large company will meet at the Crab Orchard on the 15^th. day of May, in readiness to start on the 16^th. through the Wilderness for Richmond^[3]

1. Kentucky Gazette: no. 33, April 12, 1788.
2. Id., no. 36, May 3, 1788.
3. Id.