Browse Items (102 total)
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Warrick Miller's commission as Captain, 5 April 1816
Warrick Miller's commission as Captain in the militia, by Governor Isaac Shelby -
Triplett and Burnley broadside postponing a land auction near Yellow Banks, 22 September 1826
Broadside postponement for a land auction near Yellow Banks because a large number of the population is sick and would not be able to attend. -
Squire Boone deposition, 25 September 1813
Deposition in the case of John Boling vs. Richard Meriwether, addressed to the Clerk of the Shelby Circuit Court. Involves a dispute over land that Squire Boone surveyed. -
Receipt to William Davis, 4 October 1811
Receipt given by John Dishman to Davis for salt on behalf of David L. Ward. -
Receipt to Mr. Calvert, 17 August 1811
Receipt given by John Dishman to Calvert for salt on behalf of David L. Ward. -
Receipt to David L. Ward, 22 June 1814
Receipt given by M. Fishel to Ward for collection of money from John Dishman. -
Patent right issued to Nathaniel Foster, 28 June 1809
Patent issued to Nathaniel Foster of Fleming County, Kentucky, for a machine for spinning hemp and flax. Signed by President James Madison, Secretary of State Robert Smith, and Attorney General Caesar A. Rodney. -
Note for a freedom-seeking enslaved man named Tom, 28 May 1828
Note for a freedom-seeking enslaved man named Tom, age 26, with a $100 reward, by Joseph Able, 28 May 1828
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Note adding the amount of issues to Indians for the months of July, August, and September, 1817
Note adding the amount of issues to Native Americans for the months of July, August, and September, 1817 -
Moses Hall, deed of emancipation, 4 August 1800
Deed of emancipation setting free an enslaved African-American girly named Phebe once she hits 21 years of age. The original is from 4 August 1800 and a true copy made 2 December 1813. -
Military orders for the Lexington Rifle Company, 1813
Military orders for the Lexington Rifle Company, 24 February 1813. -
Military note from 1813
Military note from 1813, addressed to "all the boys left at Fort Winchester," stating that all the officers in the 1st Regiment are all dead or prisoner, and that "We Kentuckians will hang together," with a list of names on the back. -
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." -
Manifest for cargo on the ship Neptune, 1818
Manifest for cargo shipped on The Neptune, from Kentucky to New Orleans, 6 February 1818. -
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 Valentine Meriwether to his father at the Falls of the Ohio, 23 August 1787
In this letter to his father, Meriwether discusses settling estate debts, stating that is they are not settled satisfactorily, the family may have to leave the state (Virginia). He tells of moving the enslaved persons from the kitchen into their own cabin, states the value of enslaved people will go down and "will not sell for more than a third of what they're worth." States he "never wanted to go to Kentuck [sic] till now but I am sure I can't stay here." -
Letter from Thomas Swaine to Captain Anthony Bartlett, 27 February 1795
Notes he has sent multiple letters to Captain Bartlett, which he apparently did not receive. Discusses hostility of Native Americans, who “come in to pave a way for a permanent Treaty,” states many officers are home on furlough, sends him best wishes for his recent marriage. -
Letter from Thomas Scott, 10 January 1814
Scott writes about difficulties in hiring enslaved laborers. -
Letter from Thomas Prince to David L. Ward, 14 January 1814
Letter to David L. Ward about supplying a saltworks.