Harry Innes collection, 1772-1890 (bulk 1772-1807).

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Harry Innes collection, 1772-1890 (bulk 1772-1807).

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This collection contains notebooks kept by Judge Harry Innes and some miscellaneous letters received by him. The notebooks include records of land patents Innes secured and his legal cases in Virginia and Kentucky (particularly those in Bourbon, Jefferson, Madison, Mercer, and Nelson counties). Also included is a judgment book from Innes' service as a federal judge; inventories and estate papers for the estates of Stephen Trigg, Enock Tucker, Edmund Lyne, and Hannah Harris; Innes' personal business records, recording his payments to creditors; essays, cures, and recipes; and records of Innes' orchard. One of the notebooks contains a clipping from an unidentified newspaper, which is "A Table of the value of Cents from one to one hundred in the currency of Kentucky." Papers in the collection include a copy of a 1787 letter by Innes to John Brown concerning Brown's appointment to Congress as Kentucky's delegate in pre-statehood days. This letter also discussed at length the latest state constitutional convention, the area's "defenseless state", Congress, the eastern states' indifference to the West, and Kentucky's concerns about the Mississippi River commerce and possible cession of the river to Spain. There are also comments about the new federal constitution, forthcoming elections for the next Kentucky constitutional convention, Indian hostilities, and emigration to the state. There is also a typescript and photocopy of a 1792 letter to Innes by General James Wilkinson concerning land in Frankfort, and desertions from Wilkinson's troops. Other materials include a 1794 letter to Innes from William Fleming concerning land and a copy of the document appointing Innes as Assistant Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court for Kentucky District, signed by Governor Benjamin Harrison. There is also a copy of an undated agreement between Innes and Humphrey Marshall to settle a lawsuit between them. In this copy they agree to forget their previous differences and incidents and pledge not to write or publish anything in the future that would be disrespectful of each other. Also included is a typed description by George Davidson Todd about the exhumation of Innes, Ann Innes, Justice Thomas Todd, and Todd's son and grandson from a family cemetery for re-interment in Frankfort Cemetery.

1 cubic ft.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Brown, John, 1757-1837

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John Brown (September 12, 1757 – August 29, 1837) was an American lawyer and statesman who participated in the development and formation of the State of Kentucky after the American Revolutionary War. Brown represented Virginia in the Continental Congress from 1787 to 1788 and the U.S. House of Representatives from 1789 to 1792. While in Congress, he introduced the bill granting Statehood to Kentucky. Once that was accomplished, he was elected by the new state legislature as a U.S. Senator for Ke...

Marshall, Humphrey, 1760-1841

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Humphrey Marshall was born in Virginia in 1760. He worked as a surveyor and served in the Virginia Cavalry in the Revolutionary War before moving to Kentucky in 1780. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in Fayette County. Marshall began a stormy and controversial political career as a delegate to the 1787 convention in Danville where he opposed the proposed separation of Kentucky from Virginia. After Kentucky became a state, he served four terms as an U.S. Representative for the new C...

Innes, Harry, 1752-1816

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Harry Innes was involved, at the time this letter was written, in what is now termed the Spanish Conspiracy. The conspiracy involved Kentucky petitioning to become an independent state and then entering into an alliance with Spain. This would be benificial to Kentucky economically while protecting Spain's valuable colony, Mexico. This alliance plan failed after the defeat of the Jay-Gardoqui Treaty. The treaty would have forbidden United States navigation of the Mississippi River for twenty-five...

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825

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James Wilkinson was born in Maryland and served as an officer in the American Revolution. In 1783 he settled in Kentucky, where he engaged in politics, land speculation, and trade. In 1805 he was appointed governor of Upper Louisiana. Wilkinson's activities in the West implicated him in the Spanish Conspiracy and the Burr Conspiracy; he was acquitted by a court of inquiry during the Burr investigation and by a court martial in 1811. He served as a military commander in the West during the War of...