plan included executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Demise After concluding the compact, Henderson returned to North Carolina. On behalf of his fellow investors in the land scheme he petitioned the Continental Congress, seeking to make Transylvania a legally recognized colony. Despite those efforts, the Congress declined to act without the consent of Virginia and North Carolina, both of whom claimed jurisdiction over the region in question. In June 1776 the Virginia General Assembly prohibited the Transylvania Land Company from making any demands on settlers in the region. In December 1778, Virginia's Assembly finally declared the Transylvania claim void. In compensation, Henderson and his partners received a grant of 200,000 acres (312 square miles) on the Ohio River below the mouth of Green River. An early settlement there was named Red Banks, and became the city of Henderson in 1797. Henderson pressed on with his remaining modest claim in Tennessee, and it was finally invalidated by North Carolina in 1783. See also Isaac Shelby, surveyor for the Transylvania Company and future KY governor Transylvania University namesake, but unrelated to the Transylvania Purchase Henderson County, Kentucky, the namesake county whose seat was Henderson References Further reading Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. Western Lands and the American Revolution. New York: Russell & Russell, 1959. External links "Transylvania Purchase", entry from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture Early American land companies Colonial settlements in North America Former regions and territories of the United States Pre-statehood history of Tennessee Pre-statehood history of Kentucky 1776 disestablishments States and territories established in 1775 1775 establishments in the British Empire