Samuel McDowell : papers, 1783-1814.

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Samuel McDowell : papers, 1783-1814.

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Letters written by Judge Samuel McDowell from various places in central Ky. to his son-in-law, Andrew Reid of Rockbridge County, Va., concerning family news; Reid's land in Ky.; St. Clair's defeat; Ephraim McDowell's proposed trip to Scotland; fights with Indians; his lawsuit against Benjamin Borden's heirs about land; criticism of Thomas Jefferson; Governor Isaac Shelby's campaign in the War of 1812; and the proposed capture of Canada and exclusion of the British from North America.

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McDowell family.

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St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

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Born in Thurso, Scotland, 1734, o.s. ; studied medicine in Edinburgh; served in the British Army in America, 1757-1762; surveyor of Cumberland, 1770; colonel of Pennsylvania militia, 1775; brigadier general, 1777 to the close of the Revolution; commander of the Army, 1791-1792; delegate to the Constitutional Congress, 1785-1787, and president, 1787; governor of Northwest Territory, 1789-1802; died in Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1818. (Bio. Cong. Dir., 1928 ed. ; Dic. Am.Biog. --gives b. date, 17...

McDowell, Samuel, 1735-1817,

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Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826

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Isaac Shelby, Kentucky's first governor, was born in Maryland in 1750. As a young man, he served in Lord Dunmore's War and the Revolutionary War, from which he emerge as one of the heroes of the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina. Following the war, he and his bride, Susannah Hart, moved to Lincoln County, Kentucky, where he quickly became a leader in Kentucky politics. He was chosen as Kentucky's first governor, serving from 1792-1796. Just before the War of 1812, Shelby was persuaded by...

McDowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830

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Madison, James, 1751-1836

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Hardin, John, 1753-1792

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