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Map of the State of Kentucky, from actual survey, facsimile, 1795
Shows cities, towns, forts and stations, rivers, roads, etc. Includes notations on the fertility of the land and the quality of the salt licks.
The Filson has another original of this map which was removed from the 3rd London edition of Imlay's Topographical description of the western territory of North America, 1797. -
Letter from John May to Samuel Beall, 15 March 1780
John May in his 15 March 1780 letter to Samuel Beall discusses the challenges of travel to Kentucky given his inability to hire assistance, along with the problems of land purchase in Kentucky, including high costs of land around the Falls of the Ohio; he states that he commissioned Meade to purchase Littlepage's 2000 acre tract. -
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 May to Samuel Beall, 29 April 1780
Letter from John May to Samuel Beall in which he relays information about land purchasing and land warrants. -
Edward Worthington vs. Daniel Callaghan & others, 27 June 1801
Court case between Edward Worthington and Daniel Callaghan & others, regarding land Worthington had located for Callaghan in Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1779. Worthington sued for his locator's share of the land. -
Observations on the North-American land company, 1796
Observations on the North-American land-company, contains an illustration of the object of the company's plan, the articles of association, with a succinct account of the states wherein their lands lie: to which are added, remarks on American lands in general, more particularly the pine-lands of the southern and western states, in two letters from Robert G. Harper, to a gentleman in Philadelphia.