Browse Items (10 total)
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MIlitary survey around Louisville
Plot of original military survey around Louisville. -
Falls of the Ohio survey, 1773
Original survey around the Falls of the Ohio, now Louisville, Kentucky. -
Letter from John May to Samuel Beall, 20 January 1781
Letter from John May at the Falls of the Ohio in which he talks of discovering a sufficient amount of land in Kentucky for all of the military warrants. -
Surveys on Elkhorn, 1774, 1972
Reproduction of survey of Elkhorn Creek in modern day Fayette County, Kentucky. -
Letter from John May to Samuel Beall, 17 August 1779
Letter in which May proposes a scheme in which his brother would purchase the 2,000 acres to avoid paying a penalty. May discusses the selling of "British property in Jefferson County". -
Letter from John May to Samuel Beall, 17 August 1779
Letter in which May proposes a scheme in which his brother would purchase the 2,000 acres to avoid paying a penalty. -
Letter from John May to Samuel Beall, 16 August 1779
A letter to Samuel Beall in Williamsburg, Virginia, in which May writes of buying 2,000 acres of British lands in Kentucky. He hopes to get lower than the asking price. -
Letter from John May to Samuel Beall, 30 August 1779
Letter to Samuel Beall in which May writes of having his brother search out British subjects' land in Kentucky in order to purchase below market value. May writes of trying to get the Charlton and Southall tracts at the Falls of the Ohio. -
Letter from John Bowman to Isaac Hite, 10 June 1782
Writing from Lincoln County, Kentucky, Bowman states that no surveying had been done lately because of the fear of attacks from Native Americans. -
Letter from George Rogers Clark to George Mason, 19 November 1779
Sketches of the enterprise and proceedings in the Illinois Country by Colonel George Rogers Clark, Commander of that Expedition, in a letter to Colonel George Mason of Gunston Hall, Virginia. In this letter, Clark writes about the origins of the mission, his contact with Native Americans and British, and the conquest of the Illinois territory.