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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.

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United States District Court. Kentucky (Eastern district). Eastern District of the United States District Court of Kentucky : records, 1795-1801.

Title: Eastern District of the United States District Court of Kentucky : records, 1795-1801.

Records include memorandum book and an order book. The memorandum book was kept by Thomas Tunstall, clerk of the U.S. District Court of Kentucky for the July 1799 term through the Mar. 1801 term, and contains a record of certain cases before the court with instructions from the attorneys in the cases. Included are instructions from William Clarke, U.S. attorney for the District of Kentucky; instructions from James Morrison, supervisor of revenues for the Ohio District, in cases brought by him against Ky. distillers for taxes to the U.S. government; and instructions from other attorneys who practiced before the court, including Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, Thomas Todd, James Hughes, Henry Clay, Isham Talbott, James Brown, John Allen, James Blair, and others. The following cases are among those recorded: Robert Morris v. George Rogers Clark and Mark Mitchell v. Daniel Boone et al. The order book, 1799-1801, contains orders for rules adopted by the judges of the sixth circuit in the U.S. to regulate proceedings of the Circuit Court within the District of Kentucky, and is signed by judges Harry Innes, John McNairy, and William McClung, 15 May 1801; additional orders adopted in the May and Nov. terms, 1801; and reports of cases before the court, 1795, 1798-1800.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49348326 View

Daviess, Joseph Hamilton, 1774-1811. Daviess, Joseph Hamilton 1804 October 4 Letter.

Title: Daviess, Joseph Hamilton 1804 October 4 Letter.

Writes from Frankfort, KY, to Col. Thomas Resspass ('near W. Breckenridges') upon learning that Resspass has retained his mares and he is now in debt to Resspass for this summer's pasturage. Requests that Resspass wait until he has money to pay the debt.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50710654 View

Wilson, Samuel M. (Samuel Mackay), 1871-1946. Classified papers, 1748-1941.

Title: Classified papers, 1748-1941.

This collection is part of Judge Samuel M. Wilson's papers.

ArchivalResource: 32 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15625626 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. Letter, 1883 Aug. 31.

Title: Letter, 1883 Aug. 31.

Letter on Wisconsin State Historical Society letterhead discussing Draper's forty year long collection of materials for an intended biography of Daniel Boone. He describes a Boone tree near the head of Shawnee Run, on which Boone's initials were cut, and questions whether the initials were not actually "S.B." for Squire Boone. Also mentions Reuben Durrett's proposed work on Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, and says that Durrett could produce a "most credible work."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49217777 View

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Henry Clay : miscellaneous papers, 1799-1855.

Title: Henry Clay : miscellaneous papers, 1799-1855.

Collected correspondence covering aspects of Clay's personal life, political life, campaigns, and legal practice; legal papers, which include deeds, briefs, indentures, complaints, and lawsuits; and miscellaneous items which include a draft of Clay's Compromise of 1833, his passport from 8 March 1851 with his physical description, a 26 February 1844 program from the Third Ward Democratic Clay Club Ball at Washington Hall, New York, an 1844 Whig electoral ticket listing Clay for president, campaign ribbons, broadsides, handbills, programs for celebrations, and the order of arrangements for Clay's funeral.

ArchivalResource: 186 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49201472 View

Daviess, Joseph Hamilton, 1774-1811. Joseph Hamilton Daviess : papers, 1780-1856.

Title: Joseph Hamilton Daviess : papers, 1780-1856.

Correspondence, legal papers, land papers, statements of account, commissions, and estate papers. Correspondence, 1797-1811, relates chiefly to Kentucky lands and slaves, Daviess' opposition to Aaron Burr, his removal from office as U.S. attorney for the District of Kentucky in 1807, publication of his pamphlet vindicating his conduct, and authorship of a bill before Congress for arming and disciplining the militia of the U.S. in 1811. Legal papers, 1797-1810, include an opinion of Edmund Randolph, 1800. Also included are papers of Daviess' brother, Samuel Daviess (1775-1856), lawyer of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, consisting of letters, 1811-1855, legal papers, 1812-1850, and statements of account, 1816-1854; and correspondence of Thomas Patrick Moore, lawyer of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, while serving as U.S. minister to Colombia from 1829-1833. Correspondents include John Breckinridge, James Brown, Joseph Desha, Andrew Jackson, Richard M. Johnson, James Madison, Humphrey Marshall, James Monroe, John Pope, John Rowan, James Speed, John Speed, Robert Todd, Thomas Todd, Thomas Tunstall, and others.

ArchivalResource: 0.66 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49241698 View

Guthrie family. Guthrie-Caperton family : papers, 1780-1939.

Title: Guthrie-Caperton family : papers, 1780-1939.

Guthrie's papers consist of correspondence, 1811-1871, land papers, 1780-1867; legal papers, 1802-1870; accounts, 1812-1866; bills, receipts, and promissory notes, 1801-1871; papers of Guthrie's estate; stock certificates; commission as secretary of the treasury; and steamboat papers, 1819-1857. Small groups of papers of John Rowan, Joseph Hamilton Daviess, John C. Fremont, William Kenton (son of Simon Kenton), William C. Buck, John and William Aull Co., 1815-1837, John and Samuel Thomas Co., 1823-1835, James Craig and William Culver, and Paschal D. Craddock and Thomas Hundley are included in Guthrie's papers. The correspondence discusses law activities of James Guthrie and Levi Tyler, Guthrie's interest in the Louisville Hotel, the Peters Colony of Texas, politics, Congressional activity, railroads, land in Illinois, operation of steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi, duties while secretary of the treasury (including John C. Fremont's account of his 1845 expedition in California and his claims against the government), news, and family matters. Correspondents include Leven L. Shreve, Thomas Hicks, E.G. Minor, Charles J. Meng, John D. Colmesnil, Adam Guthrie, John W. Stevenson, and John C. Breckinridge. The papers of John Caperton consist of correspondence, 1846-1892; letterbook of Caperton, 1859-1860; land papers, 1832-1893; legal papers, 1851-1892; accounts, 1847-1882; bills, receipts, and promissory notes, 1843-1894; stock certificates; two household account books, 1872-1880, of Mary E. Caperton; account book of the estate of Caperton children; pass books and canceled checks of John and Mary Caperton; maps; pamphlets; and newspaper clippings. Small groups of papers of J. Guthrie Coke (b. 1841), J. Lawrence Smith (1818-1883), Sarah Julia Smith (1827-1901), and John Hays Caperton (1857-1923) are included in Caperton's papers. Correspondence discusses life and exploration in Texas during the 1840s, an overland trip to California in 1849, life in California in the early 1850s, work as deputy sheriff of San Francisco County, business in Louisville, lands in Texas and California, politics, railroads, mining, Louisville real estate development, and news of family and friends. Correspondents include Colonel John C. "Jack" Hays, J.A. Freaner, and W.H. Glascock about affairs in California, and Harry Thompson Hays, Allen T. Caperton, J.H. Rhorer, John H. Caperton, C.J. Benham, James Guthrie, G.R. Arbegust, Hugh Caperton, J.M. Preston, A.B. Gray, and Horation D. Newcomb.

ArchivalResource: 9 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49252969 View