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Filson Club. Filson Club lectures, 1887-1992.

Title: Filson Club lectures, 1887-1992.

Often referred to as "Talks Before the Filson," the collection contains numerous research papers and memorial speeches given before meetings of the Filson Club from 1887 to 1992. Topics cover many aspects of Kentucky history and culture. The bulk of the collection focuses on the period from the frontier era to the Civil War, but papers about later periods and non-historical topics are also included. Many prominent club members gave papers and had speeches given about them after their deaths. The collection also includes several poems and short stories.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60811962 View

Forbes, John, 1707-1759. Papers of John Forbes [manuscript], 1755-1759.

Title: Papers of John Forbes [manuscript], 1755-1759.

The papers from Forbes's campaign against the French at Ft. Duquesne contain correspondence, reports about Indian allies and the colonial governments, military returns and instructions, intelligence reports and some financial papers. They concern strategy, supply, the advance across Pennsylvania, colonial cooperation, provisioning of the troops, Indian negotiations and relations with British and colonial officers. Material is present from other British campaigns in the French and Indian war, particularly the assault at Ft. Ticonderoga, the massacre at Ft. William Henry, the siege of Louisburg, and Braddock's defeat which is described in the letterbook of Sir John St.Clair, the highest ranking officer to survive.

ArchivalResource: 530 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835114 View

Aronhime, Gordon, 1911-1983. Papers, 1959-1977.

Title: Papers, 1959-1977.

This collection consists of Aronhime's exhaustive research into the early history of Southwest Virginia. Focusing on the upper Holston-Clinch River area during the period 1770-1795, he attempted to verify and/or locate mills, forts, settlements, military events, place names, and Indian affairs. There are biographical sketches of a number of prominent area settlers. There is a card file on all verifiable adult males in the area in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, as well as extensive information on early East Tennessee settlers. There are also sketches on revolutionary war soldiers and activities, the postal system, and Washington County tithable lists (1782-1784).

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122538802 View

Patrick Henry Letter, 1777 September 1

Title: Patrick Henry Letter 1777 September 1

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00242.xml View

Shelby Family Papers, 1738-1916, (bulk 1757-1829)

Title: Shelby Family Papers 1738-1916 (bulk 1757-1829)

Correspondence, memoranda, legal and financial papers, military records, genealogical data, and memorabilia relating mainly to Evan Shelby, soldier and frontiersman, and to his son, Isaac Shelby, soldier and political leader, providing a record of frontier life and political and economic developments in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 2,315 items; 9 containers; 2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013008 View

Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Lyman Draper's notes, primarily of interviews (1841-1868), with maps and transcriptions from state and county archives, newspapers, and personal manuscripts, concerning the trans-Appalachian West from about 1750 to 1815, with emphasis on Indian-White conflict, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Includes material on Indian wars, including Dunmore's War, 1774; expeditions against the Cherokee in 1776, 1788, and 1793; Crawford's campaign, 1782; John Logan's Shawnee expedition, 1787; the Great Miami treaty, 1786; the Nickajack campaign, 1794; a battle between the Potawatomi and Stephen Cole's party, 1810; Henry Dodge's expeditions of 1812 and 1814; and Indian attacks and captivities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also includes material on the Revolutionary War in Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and the Mohawk Valley, and the battles of Point Pleasant, Monmouth, King's Mountain, and Blue Licks, activities of spies, St. Clair's defeat, and Clark's Illinois campaign. Material on the War of 1812 includes descriptions of the Chicago massacre and battles of Frenchtown, Raisin River, and Thames. Also includes information on early settlement in Missouri and Kentucky, the state of Franklin, Shays' Rebellion, the upper Mississippi River, Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin), the Rock River valley (Illinois and Wisconsin), Indian traders at Milwaukee (circa 1800), and Hugh F. Bell's recollections of game hunting and cooking in Kentucky (circa 1795), with instructions for making a bearskin coat. Persons interviewed include Seneca Indians at the Cattaraugus Reservation (New York); Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, and his wife, Olive Van Bibber Boone; Simon Girty's daughter, Sarah Munger; and Simon Kenton's son, William M. Kenton. Includes excerpts from Benjamin Van Cleve's manuscript biography, from Nathaniel Hart's journal of Anthony Wayne's 1794 campaign, and copies of Wayne papers for 1792-1795. Individuals noted as subject terms below are discussed in the interviews. Also includes information on the Lewis family of Virginia, and on the Musick, Renfroe, Todd, and Wetzel families, and genealogical information for the Boone, Bryan, Callaway, Girty, Kenton, Munger, Sevier, and Van Bibber families, and for the families of John Cuppy, Thomas Dickerson, Silas Hedges, Henry Jolly, and Spencer Records. Maps include Kaskaskia (Illinois), portions of Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and the Tippecanoe battleground.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 cubic feet (33 volumes)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper00s View

Shelby, Evan. Evan Shelby document, 1780 Feb. 19.

Title: Evan Shelby document, 1780 Feb. 19.

This document is an original agreement, dated February 19, 1780, between Evan Shelby and Pierce Wall to manufacture rye whiskey. According to his agreement with Wall, Shelby was to provide rye meal and malt at his distillery, logs for fuel and candles, and "to find" Wall in "Diet and Washing." Wall was to be allowed the fifth part of the whiskey distilled through the arrangement, divided weekly. Wall agreed to cut his own firewood, and to make malt and two gallons of whiskey for every bushel of rye he distilled.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42838117 View

Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley (University of Chicago. Library). Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1674-1912 (inclusive), 1776-1829 (bulk).

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1674-1912 (inclusive), 1776-1829 (bulk).

Contains originals and copies of manuscripts including letters, legal documents such as wills and marriage records of families from the Ohio River Valley, purchase and delivery orders, inventories, bills, receipts, invitations, records and reports of voluntary organizations, land indentures, land surveys, deeds, court decisions, warrants of arrest, military orders and records, state and local government documents, appointments, and a large number of land warrants. Manuscripts cover a variety of topics including the activities of the Shelby family, early Kentucky politics, various aspects of the early history of Jefferson County and Louisville, Kentucky; and attitudes toward slavery and abolition. Includes original documents signed by James Madison, Washington Irving, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, and others.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1,700 items (7 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52247703 View

Thompson, William, 1736-1781. William Thompson correspondence, 1775 July 6.

Title: William Thompson correspondence, 1775 July 6.

Letter signed by Thompson and addressed to Evan Shelby relating to land transactions in Lincaster County [Lancaster County, Pa.?] and the possibility of Shelby receiving a commission in the Continental Army from George Washington.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980841 View

Shelby Land, 1751-1927 1774-ca. 1816 (bulk dates).

Title: Shelby Land, 1751-1927 1774-ca. 1816 (bulk dates).

This collection is comprised of the early land records of the Shelby family. Included are land warrants awarded to Evan Shelby, Isaac Shelby, and John Shelby in return for military service; survey reports of some of these lands; including several to Isaac Shelby in Kentucky and to Evan Shelby in Fincastle County, Va.; tax notices; legal documents; bills of sale and a map of Pennsylvania and Maryland.

ArchivalResource: 22 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16393060 View

Shelby Family Papers, 1738-1916, (bulk 1757-1829)

Title: Shelby Family Papers 1738-1916 (bulk 1757-1829)

Correspondence, memoranda, legal and financial papers, military records, genealogical data, and memorabilia relating mainly to Evan Shelby, soldier and frontiersman, and to his son, Isaac Shelby, soldier and political leader, providing a record of frontier life and political and economic developments in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 2,315 items; 9 containers; 2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013008 View