Simon Kenton : miscellaneous papers, 1798-1818.

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Simon Kenton : miscellaneous papers, 1798-1818.

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Included is a 21 Sept. 1798 letter to Robert Wood, signed by Kenton, concerning the disposition of Wood's land claims on the Ohio River; a 24 Nov. 1815 deposition that describes roads in Mason County, Ky. in the latter part of the eighteenth century and men in the area in 1778; and a 28 May 1818 deposition concerning a survey made for John McClellan in which Kenton gives information on Ruddles Station in its early years, ca. 1780-1784, and states that the north fork of the Licking and Lees Creek were generally known by those names in 1780.

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