Browse Items (102 total)
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Letter from Mary Adair to her sister, 16 March 1797
Letter from Mary Adair to her sister, Mary McCalla, mentioning her son, Alexander. -
Mary Adair letter, 23 November 1799
Letter from Mary Adair to her sister, updating her on her family and wishing she has enjoyed "all of the happyness of a wife and mother in the midst of an agreeable family." She worries of her father dying soon because without him she will be "destitute of any other home." -
Letter from John J. Audubon to Lucy Audubon, 19 January 1827
Written from Edinburgh to Louisiana, he talks about the influential people he's met in england and edinburgh and subscribers to his bird publications, painting and attending lectures and debates regularly, elected to several prestigious societies, reminds her to collect natural history objects for him. -
Letter from John J. Audubon to Richard Harlan, 20 March 1833
Letter in which Audubon discusses his recent seizure that left him paralyzed in his pen hand, mouth, and lips, and the gassing of a golden eagle so he could paint it. Discusses his "Birds in America" series. -
Daniel Banta legal document, 1 March 1813
Legal document where Daniel Banta is making a complaint against Peter Banta, Albert Paris, and David Demarde over the price of some land acquired from Squire Boone. -
Alexander Blair, deed of emancipation, 7 July 1828
At a court held for the County of Woodford at the Court House in Versailles, 7 July 1828, an instrument of writing from Alexander Blair by which he manumitted Sam, a man he enslaved, and which was produced and acknowledged by the said Blair to be his hand and seal act and deed. Included is a description of Sam followed by testimony of the Clerk of Woodford County that the foregoing is a true copy of the order of Court and deed of emancipation, dated 1 September 1837 and signed by Herman Bowman. -
Letter from Joseph Bowman to Isaac Hite, 14 June 1779
Bowman's letter to Isaac Hite discusses trade with New Orleans, the abundance of money at Kaskaskia, British and American troops in the northwest, and a message he wrote that was not received because the messenger was killed at the Falls of the Ohio. Bowman gives a detailed description of the retaking of Vincennes in February 1779 by the Americans led by George Rogers Clark. Bowman mentions guns, military stores, and Native-American goods captured by Clark's men, and notes the Virginia Assembly's indifference to the western territory. Bowman died not long after writing this letter from wounds received during the retaking of Vincennes several months earlier. -
Letter from John Breckinridge to John Coborn, 7 November 1798
Writes that he has some resolutions prepared on the unconstitutional laws of Congress that he will offer in the House tomorrow. Hopes they will go down. Whether passed or not they will be printed due to the "political truths they contain." Returned from Virginia five days ago. These were the famous Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, Breckinridge introduced them in the Kentucky legislature and secured their passage. -
John Bryant, deed of emancipation, 5 October 1818
Legally acknowledges Bryant's emancipation of three enslaved persons: Patsey, Adam and Clary. Signed by Bryant and Mercer County, Kentucky Court Clerk, Thomas Allin. -
Letter from Charles Caldwell to J. F. Leaming, 9 December 1820
Discusses his experience with influenza, the medical school, and the conditions of living in Lexington, which he states, "all is not right with us...even in paradise was found one serpent..." He mentions some tension happening between his wife and a Miss Cliffords. -
Military orders for the Lexington Rifle Company, 1813
Military orders for the Lexington Rifle Company, 24 February 1813. -
Letter from George Rogers Clark to Jonathan Clark, 11 May 1792
Letter from George Rogers Clark to his brother, Captain Jonathan Clark, discussing Indian troubles, war, and business affairs. -
Letter from Jonathan Clark to Isaac Hite, 6 August 1804
Letter discussing money owed for rent on a plantation in 1802. Clark sends love from himself and Sarah, his wife, to Isaac and his family. -
Letter from Henry Clay to Thomas Hart, 25 May 1805
Letter from Henry Clay to Thomas Hart discussing the impossibility of large vessels passing through the Falls of the Ohio. He also discusses Napoleon Bonaparte's assassination, stating that "a revolution ought not to astonish us." -
Letter of introduction for Charles Stewart Todd, 31 August 1810
Letter of introduction for Charles Stewart Todd, son of Justice Thomas Todd of the Supeme Court, and request he be entered into the recipient's law school. -
Letter from Henry Clay to William Wilkins, 18 January 1812
Letter from Henry Clay to William Wilkins anticipating the War of 1812 before the end of the session in Congress, discussing raising money for military force, and appointing officers for said milita. -
Letter from Henry Clay to William Simmons, 14 December 1813
Letter from Henry Clay to William Simmons at the War Department requesting the proper pension to be paid to the widow of Colonel John Allen, who was killed at the Battle of River Raisin. -
Letter from J. Colquhoun to David L. Ward, 21 February 1814
Letter to David L. Ward about the labor and administration of a saltworks. -
Letter from J. Colquhoun to David L. Ward, 3 June 1814
Letter to David L. Ward with detailed discussion of construction and operation of Kanawah saltworks.