Alexander Scott Bullitt

At first, Bullitt emulated his father's career, serving part-time in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Prince William County.

His late uncle Thomas Bullitt, after commanding the Virginia militia westward during Dunmore's War, had returned to the Falls of the Ohio and surveyed a town site in 1773.

Alexander bought 1000 acres (4 km2) about 9 miles (14 km) south of Louisville and began clearing another farm.

Two months later Alexander married their young daughter Priscilla, and thus also improved his political associations (her uncle was Patrick Henry).

After Colonel Christian died in a skirmish with Indians in 1786, Bullitt continued with the local militia and was promoted to the rank of major.

In 1792 when the idea of Kentucky statehood was accepted, Bullitt became a delegate to the convention (again in Danville) and was part of the committee that drafted the first state Constitution.

[5] Henry Clay's last court case concerned the will of Mary (Polly) Bullitt that her two brothers challenged.