Harry Innes : papers, 1750-1816.

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Harry Innes : papers, 1750-1816.

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The papers include a bound volume (182 p.) containing mounted personal, legal, and miscellaneous accounts, 1750-1810, during Innes' residence in Bedford County, Va., where he was a lawyer and commissioner of taxes prior to 1785 and following his removal to Ky. in that year. It contains miscellaneous accounts of Virginians from 1750 to 1785, including statements of account against Edmund Pendleton and Alexander Rose, executors of Robert Innes, father of Harry Innes; bills for books purchased by Innes for his library in 1785 and 1799; and letters from Samuel and George Trotter of Lexington, Ky. Also included is John Logan's 1790-1792 account book containing a record of money collected in 1790 by Logan, Innes, Levi Todd, and Greenbury Dorsey for clearing and making the Wilderness Road; accounts of Harry Innes and Levi Todd with road cutters, owners of pack horses and others, 13 Sept. 1792; a list of subscribers, 30 June 1792, for clearing and making the road; and "The amount of the Expenditures for clearing the Wilderness Road under the direction of Colonels John Logan and James Knox in 1792," being signed receipts to Harry Innes from road cutters, owners of pack horses and others, dated at Lincoln Court House, 20 Oct. 1792, and witnessed by Thomas Todd. The collection also includes a typewritten manuscript of the case, Harry Innes v. Humphrey Marshall 1809-1816, for $10,000 for libel.

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Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...

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...

Trotter, George, ca. 1778-1823.

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Trotter, Samuel, d. 1833.

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Logan, John, 1747-1807.

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John Logan, an associate of Daniel Boone, was an early settler in Lincoln County, Kentucky. He served in several of the conventions called to draft a constitution for Kentucky when statehood was sought. As a militia officer, he served in the American Revolution and led a militia company as a colonel as late as 1806. Logan became state treasurer in 1792 and held the position until his death in 1807. From the description of John Logan records, 1798-1806. (Kentucky Historical Society). ...

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...