Charles Lynch letters : 1799-1804.

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Charles Lynch letters : 1799-1804.

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Two letters, one from 1799 and the other from October 20th, 1804, written by Charles Lynch to William Taylor of Shelby County, Kentucky. Both letters deal with land matters and land transactions within the state. The 1804 letter also discusses some obstacles to doing business in New Orleans, such as outbreaks of yellow fever and smallpox, refers to "Americans" there, and a change in the government.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Lynch, Charles.

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In 1803, the United States acquired from France the region of Louisiana. Uneasy at news that Spain had secretly retroceded Louisiana to a Napoleonic France, President Jefferson, in 1802, dispatched Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe to purchase New Orleans and West Florida for two million dollars. Since Louisiana was of diminishing importance to France, that country offered to sell the entire territory to the surprised envoys for fifteen million dollars. The treaty of cession was dated April ...

Taylor, William Charles

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Attorney. From the description of Reminiscences of William Taylor: oral history, 1989- (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122441470 ...