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Letter from Willliam Clark to Jonathan Clark, 5 April 1802
Clark writes his brother Jonathan reporting on the progress on Jonathan's house. A recent flood of the south fork of Beargrass Creek has broken William's mill dam. -
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 2 March 1802
Clark writes his brother Jonathan from Louisville, reporting the party's arrival but also the unfortunate death of one of Jonathan's horses. He reports on a variety of land business, a school in their neighborhood starting, and beginning work on Jonathan's house. -
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 4 February 1802
William Clark writes his brother Jonathan from Redstone Landing [present Brownsville, Pennsylvania] on the Monongahela River updating him on the status of the trip moving Jonathan's enslaved people and some household goods and animals from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, to Jefferson County, Kentucky, ahead of Jonathan's family moving there later in the year. He provides specific information on the difficulties and costs encountered regarding the roads, weather, and enslaved people. -
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 13 October 1801
William Clark writes to his brother Jonathan from Louisville, Kentucky, reporting financial arrangements regarding land he has purchased on Jonathan's behalf. -
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 13 August 1801
William Clark writes to his brother Jonathan from his farm, Mulberry Hill, reporting on legal and land business, the state of his farm and mill, and the Ohio River being very low. -
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 4 October 1798
William Clark writes his brother Jonathan from Baltimore, Maryland, after journeying from Kentucky to New Orleans with a shipment of tobacco, and then sailing from New Orleans around the Florida peninsula to New Castle, Delaware. Plans on visiting Jonathan in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on his way home to Kentucky.Tags agriculture; Delaware; Florida; Letters; Louisiana; Maryland; tobacco; travel; Virignia; William Clark