Collection, 1774-1869.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Collection, 1774-1869.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49252542

Consists of typed transcripts of legal records, most of which were original circuit court records, from Bullitt, Jefferson, and Nelson counties of Ky. The papers from which these copies and abstracts were made date from 1774 to 1869. A number of depositions bearing dates in the early 1800's contain reminiscences of men who came to Ky. as early as 1774. Many of the papers included in this collection reflect attempts to sort out ownership of land on which claims literally were "shingled." Depositions from earliest settlers describe where and when they came into Ky., their "settling out" at tiny isolated stations, many of which the depondents helped establish in raw wilderness; the buffalo roads they found here, the roads they made, and as time went on the means of telling one from the other. They tell who lived where in their neighborhoods and some of the conditions under which they lived and died. These volumes also include descriptions and documents of the salt trade, the river trade, and trade in general; and documents and depositions concerning slavery, health conditions, the care of the insane, and even one bawdy joke.

2 cubic ft.

The Filson Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7603973

The Filson Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 24 Entities related to this resource.

Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s0045v (person)

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and was for the most part educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, and assisting his father-in-law ...

Nicholas, George, 1754?-1799

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq6ftx (person)

Virginia politician and Kentucky pioneer. Member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention (1792). Kentucky's first attorney general. From the description of Papers, 1788-1890. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248875 Public official in Virginia and Kentucky and army officer. From the description of Report of George Nicholas, 1777. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452862 ...

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gq70hs (person)

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...

Helm, George, d. 1822.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6284356 (person)

Patton, James, 1735-1815

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx1cm6 (person)

Crist, George, b. ca. 1747.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z35tvk (person)

Bibb, Richard, 1752-1839.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tn15jf (person)

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69z9711 (person)

Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century. From the description of Documents, 1778-1818. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287330 American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue ...

Breckinridge, Robert, 1754-1833

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rj4v2x (person)

Soldier, surveyor, politician, and state legislator. From the description of Robert Breckinridge : miscellaneous papers, 1819-1831. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46729085 ...

Pope, William, 1775-1844.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64467tc (person)

Farmer and landowner of Jefferson County, Ky. From the description of William Pope Papers, 1783-1864. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49264401 ...

Brooks, Joseph, d. 1818.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b28gcc (person)

May, John, d. 1790.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65n0127 (person)

McDowell, Robert Emmett, 1914-1975

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gt6v3d (person)

Kentucky novelist and historical writer. From the description of Robert Emmett McDowell : added papers, 1775-1862. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252670 From the description of Collection, 1774-1869. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252542 From the description of Writings, 1961-1967. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252691 Historian, novelist. From the description of Robert E...

Bullitt, Alexander Scott, 1761-1816

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t1813 (person)

Filson, John, approximately 1747-1788

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68k7g7r (person)

Frontiersman and surveyor who made the first map and wrote the first history of Kentucky and was one of the founders of the city of Cincinnati. From the description of Survey : AMsS, Lexington, Ky., 1788 Sept. 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591758 Historian, surveyor, and cartographer. From the description of John Filson : miscellaneous papers, 1788. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49221753 ...

Brashear, Ignatius, 1734-1807.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sf6qbw (person)

Boone, Squire, 1744-1815

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65m6bj5 (person)

Squire Boone was the brother of Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky explorer and settler. Squire Boone helped to blaze the Wilderness Trail, and was one of the settlers at Boonesborough, the operator of a gristmill and sawmill, and an ordained Baptist minister. From the description of Papers 1787-1813. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28189399 Squire Boone was born in 1744, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married Jane Van Cleave in 1765 and had five childre...

Meriwether, Nicholas, 1749-1828.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jq4vtn (person)

Kentucky pioneer. From the description of Nicholas Meriwether : miscellaneous papers, 1779-1799. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49253446 ...

Hite, Abraham, 1720-1790.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s5kf9 (person)

Hill, Atkinson, ca. 1755-1824.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h45mbp (person)

Henderson, Richard, 1735-1785

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w385x4 (person)

McDowell, John, 1798-1881.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d0rrq (person)

Faith, William, d. 1779.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc0zzk (person)

Lacassagne, Michael, d. 1797.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zp7ntp (person)

Early French settler in Louisville. From the description of Michael Lacassagne : miscellaneous papers, 1785-1788. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46612968 ...