Willis Green : papers, 1818-1893.

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Willis Green : papers, 1818-1893.

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The papers consist mainly of letters, 1818-1856, to Green concerning trade with New Orleans; the improvement of Green River; legal matters; Kentucky politics; his campaigns for election to Congress; the convention of the Loco Foco Party at Frankfort, Ky. in January 1840; the presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison in 1840; formation of the Native American Party at Hopkinsville, Ky. in November 1844; friendly relations with Henry Clay; letters from his constituents requesting aid in obtaining pensions, appointments to office, etc.; proceedings of a meeting of Whigs of Breckinridge Co., Ky. at Hardinsburg, 15 May 1843; statements of account, 1825-1854, with business firms in Philadelphia, Louisville, and other cities; legal papers in the case of Willis Green v. Benjamin Sebastian, William Sebastian, and N.D. Anderson, 1820-1831, about land, including the mill seat at Falls of Rough. Miscellaneous legal papers about slavery, the shipment of lumber in flatboats, etc.; manuscripts entitled "Bank of the United States" and "The Tariff and Distribution Bill"; and a day book, 1830-1831, of the general merchandise store at Falls of Rough, containing Green's name as a customer. Also included are Lafayette Green's (nephew of Norvin Green) letters and papers, 1861-1893; and papers of Lafayette Green's father-in-law, Robert W. Scott of Franklin County, consisting of letters, 1847-1885, a volume of poetry transcribed at Transylvania University in 1826, and his farm book with accounts and diary entries, 1834-1859.

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