After the explorations of the Kentucky territories led by Daniel Boone, the Transylvania Company established itself to colonize the territories. The Company was partially promoted by the British government wanting to fill the gap between the Atlantic colonies and Louisiana, but as it pretended to form a new colony, it generated some opposition from Virginia and North Carolina, who were in the verge of declaring their independence. Nothing so far. Lots of arable land and nobody to claim it, except Indians and Americans.