Fee book, 1787-1788.

Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799

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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 ...

Tardiveau, Pierre, 1971 -....

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Kentucky.

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May, John, 1748-1812

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Christian, John Henry, 1781-1800.

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Taylor, Hubbard.

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Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820

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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was a pioneer land settler, Indian fighter and he served in military and political positions in Kentucky. At the time this letter was written, he was on the verge of losing his many tracts of land because the titles were improperly entered. From the description of Letter : to Charles Yanc[e]y, Luecy [i.e. Louisa] County, 1785 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122602570 Indian fighter and scout. From the description of Daniel Boone pa...

Boone, Squire, 1744-1815

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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...

Croghan, William, 1752-1823

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Croghan was a Revolutionary War veteran, surveyor, and farmer from Jefferson County, Kentucky. From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1788-1822. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52249260 From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1784-1788. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248592 From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1788-1822. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 80444098 ...

Christian, Elizabeth Barfoot, 1971-

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Bullitt, Alexander Scott, 1761-1816

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Fry, Benjamin.

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Speed, James, 1739-1811.

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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...

Taylor, Richard, 1744-1829.

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Craig, Lewis, 1741-1825.

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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...

Filson, John, approximately 1747-1788

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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 ...

Craig, John

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Served in the 12th NY Inf, Co D. From the description of Letters, 1863. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 32934711 ...

Brodhead, Jr., Daniel.

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Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818

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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 ...

Craig, Elijah, 1738-1808

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Christian, Annie Henry, ca. 1744-1790.

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Taylor, James

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Cherokee Indian representative to the U.S. government, from Valley Town (Cherokee Co.), N.C. From the description of Taylor, James papers, 1831-1932 ; (bulk 1843-1908) [microform]. (Fort Worth Library). WorldCat record id: 260090342 From the description of Papers, 1851-1960. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41546385 From the description of Papers, 1831-1932; (bulk 1843-1908). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188586 Harness make...

Steel, William Edward

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Dinwiddie, John

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