Thurman, Edward C. (1882-1950) Collection, 1788-1950
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Collector: Edward C. Thurman, 1882-1950
Title: Collection, 1788-1950
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 1.66 cubic feet
Locator Number: Mss. A T539
Scope and Content Note
The Thurman collection contains a variety of letters, envelopes, and other documents related to Kentucky history. Although collected primarily for their postmarks, the items in the Thurman collection relate to a wide variety of topics in Kentucky history. Correspondence discusses politics, the military, business, legal matters, religion, slavery, and education. The collection contains a large sample of early stamps and Kentucky postmarks. Many feature handwritten and hand-stamped cancellations. Most of the collection is arranged alphabetically by postmark.
Biographical Note
Edward C. Thurman (1882-1950) was a philatelist and former postmaster of Sonora, KY in Hardin County. He began collecting “stampless covers” around the time of the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Thurman pursued his hobby until his death in 1950.
Folder List
Folder 1: Stampless Covers: Aron’s Run-Bardstown
Folder 2: Stampless Covers: Blandville-Bowling Green
Folder 3: Stampless Covers: Brandenburg-Cedar Creek
Folder 4: Stampless Covers: Clarksburg-Covington
Folder 5: Stampless Covers: Cumberland Ford-Danville
Folder 6: Stampless Covers: Elizabethtown-Flemingsburg
Folder 7: Stampless Covers: Frankfort, 1805-1824
Folder 8: Stampless Covers: Frankfort, 1825-1855; Frederick, MD
Folder 9: Stampless Covers: Gaines Cross Roads-Glassgow
Folder 10: Stampless Covers: Great Crossings-Hardinsburg
Folder 11: Stampless Covers: Harrodsburg-Hawesville
Folder 12: Stampless Covers: Henderson-Horse Shoe Bottom
Folder 13: Stampless Covers: Jamestown-Leitchfield
Folder 14: Stampless Covers: Lexington, 1798-1817
Folder 15: Stampless Covers: Lexington, ca. 1817-1837
Folder 16: Stampless Covers: Lexington, 1836-1854
Folder 17: Stampless Covers: Locust Post-Louisville, 1813-1828
Folder 18: Stampless Covers: Louisville, 1826-1838
Folder 19: Stampless Covers: Louisville, 1836-1844
Folder 20: Stampless Covers: Louisville, 1847-1853
Folder 21: Stampless Covers: Louisville, 1849-1856
Folder 22: Stampless Covers: May’s Lick-Maysville
Folder 23: Stampless Covers: Middletown-Mt. Sterling
Folder 24: Stampless Covers: Mt. Washington-Nicholasville
Folder 25: Stampless Covers: North Fork-Owingsville
Folder 26: Stampless Covers: Paducah-Perryville
Folder 27: Stampless Covers: Pittsburg, PA-Russellville
Folder 28: Stampless Covers: Sandy Spring, MD-Shepherdsville
Folder 29: Stampless Covers: Side View-Stanford
Folder 30: Stampless Covers: Trenton-Winchester
Folder 31: Slavery Documents
Folder 32: Hardin County Academy Documents
Folder 33: Miscellaneous Stampless Covers, Letters and Documents
Folder 34: Decorative Envelopes
Folder 35: Stamped Covers
Folder 36: Edward C. Thurman Miscellaneous Papers
Item list
Note: All postmarks are from Kentucky unless noted otherwise
Folder 1
D. O. Sully to Capt. Jas. Holladay
Aron’s Run – 9 February 1852
re: Sully having been offered $75 to rent for a year or $300 to buy one of his slaves; wanting to get a better price from Holladay
To James H. Holladay (envelope only)
Aron’s Run – 25 April 1857
R. Fisher to Jacob Akers
Athens – 21 April 1845
James Davidson to Jacob Akers
Athens – 26 December 1852
To Rev. Arthur W. Elliott
Augusta – ca. 1845
Ryan & Armstrong to M. L. Hallowell (wrapper only)
Augusta – 4 February 1847
To Mary G. & Martha P. Camp (envelope only)
Augusta – 13 June 1851
To James S. Holladay (envelope only)
Augusta –14 February
Samuel Spotts to Col. Roger Jones
Bardstown – 15 August 1825
Eliza Cook to William B. Cook
Bardstown – 1 April 1837
re: going to school at Nazareth College; missing her parents; April Fool’s Day, “I wonder if you have made any use of the privilege which the first day of April gives, as for my part I have been making April fools all day.”
John P. Duvall to Lt. Henry Daggett
Bardstown – 24 July 1834
To Rev. Dr. Brulé Bishop (wrapper only)
Bardstown – 12 December ca.1840
To Hon. W. L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Bardstown – 15 June 1846
re: Mexican War, “C. Wickliffe offers a Co. of mtd. men.”
To Hon. W. L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Bardstown – 1 December 1846
Re: Mexican War, “C. Wickliffe again offers his Co. of mtd. men for services.”
James Slaughter to Sheriff of Hardin County
Bardstown – 11 January 1848
Subpoena for Ambrose Geoghegan & Mary Ann, his wife
Folder 2
To the Clerk of Nelson Circuit Court
Blandville – 28 August 1854
Montgomery & Greenwell to Samuel [Bissham?]
Bloomfield – 27 March 1846
re: having heard about damage done to a canal and wanting his goods shipped another way
L. P. Holladay to J. H. Holladay
Blue Lick Springs – 21 September
re: Winfield Scott, “Genl Scott will probably be here Thursday or Friday. He left Cleveland this morning.”
Jona. Hobson to Col. Towson, Paymaster General
Bowling Green – 23 April 1821
re: the arrest of Henry Wright in Washington for forgery, how Wright obtained some government documents that he probably forged
Isaac Reese to Samuel Judah
Bowling Green – 19 April 1830
A. C. Dickerson to Rev. M. Badger
Bowling Green – 25 November 1844
re: Jackson Purchase, American Home Missionary Society; Presbyterian missionaries in southwest Kentucky, “Below the TN river, we have in the extreme SW of our state some five or six counties – of excellent country – of recent purchase by the state, and rapidly filling up with a good population, But one single minister have – in that large field nor is the ground overrun and preoccupied with other orders like many older districts. Our Genl Agent, Bro. Black, . . . writes us that it is by far the most needy and promising field, he has visited in our state.”
A. C. Dickerson to Rev. M. Badger
Bowling Green – 8 April 1845
re: American Home Missionary Society; Presbyterian missionaries in Kentucky, “Kentucky as a miss.y field is truly need and yet very promising”; “There are from 15 to 20 counties in the So. East, South, and So. West of the State, exceedingly destitute of the means of grace.”
Silas Field to Vines L. Collin, Jr.
Bowling Green – 24 October 1849
re: slaves; “Mrs. Field would have no objection to disposing of her . . . negroes if it can be done to any sort of advantage.”
John B. Helm to Samuel Haycraft (wrapper only)
Bowling Green – 4 August 1850?
To Revd. Mr. [Zevly?]
Bowling Green – 1 January
Edwin S. Williams to William L. Marcy
Bowling Green – April 1846
re: Mexican War, “Offers to raise 500 men by July next.”
Bettie to Hester Edwards
Bowling Green – May 1847
re: slaves she would like to have: a maid and one to do sewing, lists possible slaves by name
Charles D. Morehead to A. G. Abell
Bowling Green – 31 May 1844
re: not receiving money needed to pay a debt to Abell
Folder 3
H. L. Board & Co. to Richard Ashhurst & Sons
Brandenburg – 10 May 1841
re: business matters, selling ham, tobacco and bacon
Richard B. Robertson to William P. Thompson
Brandenburg – 21 April 1848
To H. Thompson
Bridgeport – December
To Clerk of Livingston Circuit Court (wrapper only)
Brooksville – 4 June 1853
Marcus Huling to David W. Huling
Burkeville – 24 April 1823
re: needing money and calling in debt; wants payment of “all the money you have collected for me in bills on the bank of the United States. Cut them in two & send them by two different mails let them be large bills or send me a check on the United States branch Bank at Louisville.”
To Miss Eugenia C. Price (envelope only)
Burlington – 14 April 1857
W. D. Wood to Bohannon & Edwards
Phillipsburg – 7 April 1858
Elizabeth Dobson to Isaac Edwards
Allendale – 2 November 1860
John G. Fee to Isaac Edwards
Cabin Creek – 23 February 1848
re: antislavery activity in Lewis County, “You ask can it be done – to give the Bible to the slave as well as to the poor white man. I answer I have done it, and I never have heard of a master or masters refusing that their slaves should have Bibles.”; “We have but little home for a permanent and pure gospel until slavery is removed – its removal is a ‘sine qua non.’”
Samuel Gowdy to S. Garvin
Campbellsville – 31 January 1852
re: not being able to build a boat for Garvin
I. W. Allison to Lindsay & Blackiston
Catlettsburg – 29 March 1845
G. A. Branham to Joseph Lyle
Cedar Creek – 5 September 1839
Folder 4
To James H. Holladay (envelope only)
Clarksburg – no date
To John Bruner (envelope only)
Cloverport – 10 December
To William C. Jennings (envelope only)
Cloverport – 21 December 1850
Marcus Huling to David W. Huling
Columbia – 8 April 1820
re: making salt, “averaged from 25 to 30 bushels per day”; an oil well, “the oil still flows as usual I have sent about 2000 gallons to Urope, no returns as yet from it. I have also made sale of a great deal in small quantities in the different parts of this & Tennessee state & many pack horses have come from Nort Carolina & Geogi & taking of some hundred Gallons.”
Robert Perry to Mr. Lyle
Covington – 9 December 1837
C. Masters, Jr. to C. Masters [Marten?]
Covington – 26 July 1845
re: slaves, “This is a great country for corn & niggers.”
To John W. Tibbats (wrapper only)
Covington – 10 December ca.1843-1847
To the Adjutant General (Roger Jones) (wrapper only)
Covington – 1 November 1846
re: Mexican War; Company H, 4th Infantry, “There are no men reported to have been killed or wounded in action on the regt. return in this company.”
Seneca Austin to Calvin Austin
Covington – 11 March 1847
John S. Perry to Guy C. Irvine
Covington – 23 November 1848
Thomas F. Tobey to Miss S. C. Tobey (envelope only)
Crab Orchard – 27 May ca.1863
To Miss Lucy J. Whitaker (envelope only)
Crittenden – January
To James K. Polk (wrapper only)
Covington – 25 August 1846
re: Samuel McScott’s promotion to “2nd Lieutcy – to fill vacancy in Co. R. (Grenadiers) Capt. Brannons Co. 16th Regt.”
Folder 5
Thomas C. & Mary Burch to Ann Burch
Cumberland Ford – 22 July 1834
re: bad corn crop; Bank of the United States, “The oldest settlers hear say they have never experienced sutch hard times not heard sutch a cry for money as they have since Jackson’s vetoe on the United States Bank.”
B. N. Sands to Capt. Joseph Hook
Cynthiana – 16 February 1820
re: beginning to manufacture gunpowder; banking, the state legislature revoking the “Charters of all the Independent Banks of which there was about forty,” no one taking out of town bank notes
Alexander Givens to James Ranking
Cynthiana – 9 January 1834
Perrin & Magee to Morris L. Hallowell & Co.
Cynthiana – 30 December 1846
Clemeny Y— to John S. Boyd
Cynthiana – 11 December 1846
re: Christmas, social life and customs, “The approaching holidays are filled with joy – fun and frolic will reign supreme. The good citizens of our place intend having a Ball on the 29th. I fear very much Pa will not let me attend, he objects so strongly to public parties.”; Mexican War, “We have no news from the Volunteers since you were here. This invasion of Mexico will, me thinks, prove more serious than was at first anticipated. How I dread the storming of Vera Cruz.”
To John W. Tibatts (wrapper only)
Cynthiana – 8 January
To J. H. Holladay (envelope only)
Cynthiana – 2 July
To Clerk of Nicholas Circuit Court (envelope only)
Cynthiana – 20 October
George James to Joseph Barnett
Danville (no postmark) – 4 June 1788
re: selling land
John C. Young to Charles Hodge
Danville – 15 June ca.1836
re: slavery; emancipation, “My hope is for the generation to come may well emancipate for their children but not for themselves and as to wages of labor to the slave, they never think of it. If I preached this doctrine they would think I was a raving abolitionist.”
Joseph Huber to Absalom Peters
Danville – 13 March 1830
re: having been commissioned a missionary to New Orleans; having arrived on February 2 and left on February 18 because the American Home Missionary Society did not provide him with enough money to support his family and because they would not allow him to take outside money; believes New Orleans is as in need of missionaries as the Sandwich Islands
Deinologian Literary Society to John S. Boyd (form letter)
Danville – 27 February 1841
re: Centre College, DLS moving into new building but needing money to furnish it and improve the library
M. A. Hart to John B. Mersey
Danville – 21 November
Davidge & Caldwell to Morris L. Hallowell & Co.
Danville – 28 March 1847
Folder 6
H. G. Wintersmith to Absalom Peters
Elizabethtown – 21 January 1831
re: missionaries in Kentucky
A. M. Brown to J. Caldwell Walker
Elizabethtown – 3 September 1840
re: “our friend Jackson M. is about commencing a course of Lectures on Phrenology”
To William L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Elizabethtown – 17 April 1846?
To Adjutant General (wrapper only)
Elizabethtown – 18 July 1851
J. Moss/Lucinda to Benjamin Hinck (two letters on one sheet of paper)
Elkton – 4 August 1840
re: social life and customs; Lucinda’s suitors, “the only think lacking on my part is I do not love him nothing but love alone will ever actuate me to marry. Yes contentment is more desirable than riches.”
George W. Botts to John C. Calhoun
Flemingsburg – 4 January 1822
re: the military record of James Brown, substitute for Samuel Moore
To Hon. Richard French (wrapper only)
Flemingsburg – 30 May
To Hon. W. L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Flemingsburg – September ca.1845-1849
H. Powers to Samuel C. Bell
Flemingsburg – 7 November 1850
W. P. Boyd to Minor & Cruttenden
Flemingsburg – 27 September 1847
re: a calfskin Boyd had planned to have made into a pair of boots
To J. B. Temple (wrapper only)
Flemingsburg – 5 June 1850
To James H. Holladay (envelope only)
Flemingsburg – 31 August
To James H. Holladay (envelope only)
Flemingsburg – 17 October
Folder 7
Worden Pope to Worden Pope
Frankfort – 5 April 1805
re: lawsuits
Achilles Sneed to Clerk of Hardin County Circuit Court
Frankfort – 20 August 1805
re: lawsuits
Gabriel Lewis to Thomas Barbour
Frankfort – 5 September 1808
re: bonds, “There is one other bond in the Hands of Mr. Henry Clay which I believe is balanced by the Credits”
Isham Talbott to John T. Langhorne (wrapper only)
Frankfort – 12 December 1814
D. C. Humphrys to Peter Wainwright, Jr.
Frankfort – 15 July 1815
John A. Merkley to Michael Reed & Co.
Frankfort – 24 March 1817
J. R. Wilcox to John C. Calhoun
Frankfort – 30 September 1822
re: traveling from West Point to St. Louis as ordered; coming down with a “bilious fever”
Secretary of State of Kentucky to Governor of New Hampshire
Frankfort – 10 April 1824
Folder 8
Joseph Desha to Governor of New Hampshire (circular letter)
Frankfort – January 1825
re: sending resolutions of General Assembly
O. G. Waggener to General D. Porter
Frankfort – 31 January 1825
re: having sent a report of the strength of the Kentucky militia
Ben Hardin to James Barbour
Frankfort – 23 May 1825
re: lawsuit
B. B. Johnson to Editor of the Home Missionary
Frankfort – 8 May 1832
B. B. Johnson to Editor of the Home Missionary
Frankfort – 18 January 1833
re: mail sent to missionaries
Thomas Metcalf to J. P. Williams
Frankfort – 17 December 1842
John Watson to Quartermaster General of the Army
Frankfort – 10 October 1844
re: prices for delivering horses to dragoons
Thomas S. Page to John McReynolds
Frankfort – 20 January 1849
To James K. Polk (envelope only)
Frankfort – 5 September 1847
re: recommendation for commission, “O. G. Curtis of Frankfort, Ky recommends W. W. Stapp for a commission in the army. Mr. Stapp served in the KY Cavalry in Mexico” – notation by Polk
Thomas Page to Will Woodcock
Frankfort – 7 December 1843
Ben Edwards Grey to William Cook
Frankfort – 20 November 1850
William Clark to Emory & Addison
Frankfort – 18 February 155
re: being in jail, “I am at present confined in Ky. Penitentiary. Charge Burglary, Sentence four years – have been here 23 months.”
H. Doyle to Eli Beatty
Frederick, MD – 26 March 1840
re: sending money
H. Doyle to Eli Beatty
Frederick, MD – 20 May 1840
re: sending money
H. Doyle to Eli Beatty
Frederick, MD – 28 February 1840
re: sending money
Folder 9
John N. Taliaferro to Mr. Lyle
Gaines Crossroads – 1840
re: the estate of Eliza P. Craig
Wm. Gayle, Sr. to Temple E. Gayle
Georgetown – 10 August 1817
R. Wilson to Peter Campbell
Georgetown – 10 November 1841
James W. Grant to Nathaniel Hart
Georgetown – 20 January 1820
To Jonathan Shepard (wrapper)
Georgetown – 24 August
Robert Read to Absalom Peters
Georgetown – 11 August 1831
re: list of people who refused the Home Missionary
Robert Read to Absalom Peters
Georgetown – 28 October 1831
re: people refusing the Home Missionary
A. Duvall to Robert S. Bell
Georgetown – 15 May 1846
To Prof. J. Ammen (envelope only)
Georgetown – 15 December 1854
To Elina A. G. Parrish (envelope only)
Georgetown – 19 December 1850
To J. W. Holladay (envelope only)
Germantown – 17 November
John C. Lindsay to John Calvert
Ghent – 4 August 1848
re: slaves, you will please proceed to qualify as Admr. and advertise a sale of the property together with the negroes.”
Turner Morehead to James H. Hooe
Glasgow – 20 May 1816
re: agriculture, “But few nights passed we had a hard frost which put what Corn was up down to the earth & much which has been planted lately is dry rotted & never can Corn, the prospects for Tobo.(which has occupied the attention of nearly all the people of this state) I feel will prove abortion as the plants are nearly all burnt up.”
H. Woods to Rev. Mr. McMillan
Glasgow – 17 October 1844
re: Brother Dickerson; Presbyterian missionaries
Thomas Lewis to Dr. William Merton
Glasgow – 3 September 1841
Re: slaves; bringing suit to get “negroes” promised in his father’s will
R. D. Maupin to James K. Polk (wrapper only)
Glasgow – 13 May 1846
re: wanting a commission in the army
D. Chaplain Nutting to William Nutting
Glasgow – 9 July 1855
re: “From bro. George I have not heard for a year. Is he still in R. [Randolph, Vt.] & why doesn’t he write? Please ask him if he has cast of his negro brother.”; politics, “Are you a know nothing uncle? There has been & still is a great excitement in regard to political affairs here, only equaled in ‘Hard Cider’ times. Most people think the American party will elect their entire ticket in Ky. I think it doubtful but hope for the best. It seems to me high time to give to the rescue. If the battle must be tonight, as it seems it must. Why the sooner the better. Voting now may save blood letting a few years later & by blood or by votes, I for one, wish to see our country free from the shackles of foreign influence.”
Folder 10
R. M. Johnson to John C. Calhoun
Great Crossings, KY – 23 February 1821
re: Major William Bradford’s war record and wanting Calhoun to have him keep his post at Port of Belle Point
Samuel J. Cook to William B. Cook
Greensburg – 17 February 1828
re: the death of their brother
John P. Little to James A. Brown
Greensburg – 21 May 1835
re: commercial goods, a detailed list of items for his store in Barren County
E. W. Cook to William S. Cook
Greensburg – 8 July 1837
To Governor William Owsley (wrapper)
Greensburg – 11 September ca.1844-1848
J. Moss/Lucinda to Benjamin P. Hinck (two letters on one sheet of paper)
Hadensville – 17 October 1840
James & Sally Barrett to Joel Johns
Hardinsburg – 14 May 1836
re: religion, “the distracted Condition of a number of Churches in this western region and of different creeds Elicit from me a few lines on the subject, honest difference of opinion and abstract and metaphysical subjects has been the fruitful sourse of discord and strife [among] Brethren of the same order.”
J. [Jenniss?] to John McReynolds
Hardinsburg – 9 December 1847
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William Henry Harrison to Henry Dearborn (wrapper only)
Harrodsburg – 27 April 1807
Thomas P. Moore to John Adair (wrapper only)
Harrodsburg – 8 April 1822
Thomas Cleland to Rev. Absalom Peters
Harrodsburg – 4 December 1830
Lewis Willhite to John H. Smith
Harrodsburg – 27 July 1829
Joseph Lillard to John Baum [or Raum?]
Harrodsburg – 20 August 1842
Robert McAfee to James K. Polk [mailed to Henry C. Pope]
Harrodsburg – 20 December 1844
re: a letter to Polk recommending Pope for a government job
To Col. Knox Walker (wrapper)
Harrodsburg – 25 March
C. C. Moore & Co. to M. L. Hallowell & Co.
Harrodsburg – 22 January 1848
re: business
To James L. Polk (wrapper only)
Harrodsburg – 23 August ca.1848
re: recommending a commission for Joseph Ewing, who served in Mexico
Harrison Taylor and Henry Rhodes to Benjamin Helm
Hartford – 20 July 1807
re: chancery suit over settlement of a will
James Hobart to Thomas A. Dexter
Hawesville – 7 November 1837
R. T. Robertson to Robert Tyler
Hawesville – 22 December 1838
re: lawsuits
A. G. Hawes to James K. Polk (wrapper only, written notations by Polk)
Hawesville – 15 September 1847
Folder 12
L. W. Powell to D. S. Slaughter
Henderson – 28 April 1840
re: real estate, the price of a town lot in Henderson
L. B. Thornton to General Roger Jones
Henderson – 31 October 1844
re: army business, reporting himself on sick leave
M. Maxwell to James A. Fry
Henderson – 10 October 1851
W. P. Jones to James K. Polk
Hickman – 20 September 1847
To Ben L. McAtee
Hodgenville – 22 December ca.1845
J. C. Fisher to J. P. Niles
Hodgenville – 12 March 1854
re: “if i live till fall i intend to make tennessee my home”
Graham Boyd to John Ramage
Hopkinsville – 3 February 1846
Re: business and slaves, “as to the barrel of sugar it was so very bad I could not sell it for anything . . . and I give it to my negroes.”
Landes & Glass to C. B. Henry
Hopkinsville – 1 December 1843
re: business
B. Shackelford to William H. Bell
Hopkinsville – 3 June 1843
To unknown
Hopkinsville – 11 July
Ben Edwards Grey to A. Boston
Hopkinsville – 20 October 1850
W. H. Hopsen to W. L. Marcy
Hopkinsville – 2 September 1847
re: wanting a commission as surgeon in U.S. Army
J. R. Abernathy to James Croney
Hopkinsville – 19 January 1834
Re: business dealings, miscount of kegs of ink
Marcus Huling to D. W. Huling
Horse Shoe Bottom – 20 July 1822
re: salt, “I am making salt but not much.”; discusses financial troubles in the area
Folder 13
Charlotte Hout to John Jones
Jamestown – 29 March 1835
To Thomas S. Tucker (envelope only)
La Grange – 17 June
Spalding, Wathen & Co. to Richard Ashurst & Sons
Lebanon – 17 April 1837
To John Harding (envelope only, franked by Aaron Harding)
Lebanon – 10 April 1867
Dr. Fouche to Dr. B. Young
Lebanon – 21 February 1839
John R. Barton receipt for letter
Leitchfield – 23 November 1853
To Clerk of Nelson Circuit Court (envelope only)
Leitchfield – 2 January
Folder 14
Amasa Delano to Jabez Delano
Lexingon – 11 October 1798 (written, at least in part, from Mt. Sterling)
re: Alien & Sedition Acts, politics, “The most distinguishing characteristic of this State at present is the disposition of the City respecting Politics. They in general disapprobate the late measures of Congress with respect to the Alien and Sedition Act and likewise the power vested in the President for raising troops, and borrowing money. A majority of the Counties in Kentucky have convened their citizens, and enter into resolutions against the aforesaid measures which are to be forwarded to Congress. For my own part I believe that the factious Spirit which seems to be prevalent in this, as well as any other part in the Union, is mostly conducted by the designing and embraced by the Ignorant.”
Finance, medicine, “Tho’ at present money is very scarce yet in time I think this corner a very rich and populous part. A new Court-House has been Erected in this Town this last summer and a number of Other new buildg. Land has very much fallen in value since I came here. I have been particularly successful in my practise since I came to this place having lost but very few patients.”
Will Lavy to John Meredith
Lexington – 19 September 1798
James Morrison to John Matthews (wrapper only)
Lexington – 26 November 1804
Josiah Taylor to William Linnard
Lexington – 8 September 1804
re: Taylor having used Linnard’s credit
Josiah Taylor to William Linnard
Lexington – 5 December 1804
re: Taylor having used Linnard’s credit
Daniel Bradford to Tench Coxe
Lexington – 30 July 1811
re: business, offering cloth to Coxe who made uniforms to the U.S. Army
Daniel Bradford to the Secretary of War
Lexington – 25 March 1811
re: business, wanting to make cloth for the Army
Thomas Buford to Callender Irvine
Lexington – 18 June 1813
re: provisions for the Northwestern army under William Henry Harrison
Jesse Harris to General Dearborn
Lexington – 12 April 1807
Robert Frazer to Aul & Co.
Lexington – 2 July 1817
re: taking a fifty dollar loan
Robert C. Nicholas to General D. Parker
Lexington – 20 December 1817
re: Army policy on using honorable discharge
Thomas Jefferson to Captain James H. Hook
Lexington – 8 August 1815
Richard M. Johnson to Peter Hagner
Lexington – 16 October 1816
re: papers concerning “the case of Lieut. Berry’s account”; “most of these papers were received from a Indian by mere accident”
E. F. Carthran to John Carthran, Jr.
Lexington – 23 October 1817
re: traveling to Woodford Co. from Rockingham, VA, “we were 4 weeks excepting 2 days on the road”
Folder 15
Richard M. Johnson to John C. Calhoun
Lexington – 17 June ca.1817-1825
re: army, increasing pension benefits of Thomas Barney
A. J. Shymanski to E. Parmly
Lexington – 22 April 1818
re: Natchez, “I can not give any serten description of Natchez. It is the size of Louisville and the buildings tolerable good, and its inhabitans [sic] are collected of different Nasions French Spanish English Dutch &c &c (except Polish).”; Croghan, having an “applicasion” from “Major Crowen’s family, one of the wealthiest in that county, lives 7 miles of Louisville.”
Henry Asbury to Allen Trimble
Lexington – 28 July 1830
J. Friklin to Francis P. Blair
Lexington – 1 February 1831
re: “Is there no way for you peacemakers at the City to conciliate the parties at craziness, what a pity it is that Mr. Crawford should have been able to rekindle embers which had smothered twelve years.”; two subscribers to Blair’s paper
L. Hawkins to Robert Brent
Lexington – 8 April 1818
re: being appointed paymaster of the 8th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army
Charles A. Campbell to Corresponding Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society
Lexington – 23 May 1832
re: receiving pay for missionary work
Margaret M. Parker to Stephen Wichter
Lexington – 6 July 1833
re: “I should have written an answer to your letter before this time but the raging cholera has visited our city and swept before it a number of our inhabitants, and amongst it one of my connexions.”; free blacks, “There were 4 acres of the said land that My Mother gave to her manservant Richard Morrisson a free man of colour, who now demands it of the Estate as he would wish to settle himself.”
J. Amsden, Jr. to Joseph G. Lyle
Lexington – 16 December 1837
re: description and travel, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans to setup a business
Folder 16
S. T. Tibbatts to General Roger Jones
Lexington – 7 May 1838
re: being stationed in Louisville on recruiting duty for army
W. A. Leavy to Joel P. Williams
Lexington – 11 May 1842
re: stock sales for the Harrodsburg & Perryville Road Company
George C. Thompson to Charles M. Cunningham
Lexington – 1 December 1836
re: appointing John H. Slaughter his proxy as stockholder in Harrodsburg & Perryville Turnpike Road Company; gives his preference for the route of the road
To General Winfield Scott (wrapper only)
Lexington – 29 May 1845
Thomas M. Hickey to L. Goodall
Lexington – 16 June 1842
Leslie Combs to Richard Ashurst & Sons
Lexington – 8 May 1840
Isaac W. Scott to M. L. Hallowell & Co.
Lexington – 11 December 1846
re: his business in Lexington, “Business very dull, scarcely able to make expenses without dealing in exchange.”
N. Fleming to Samuel Peterson
Lexington – 15 March 1848
Thomas A. Marshall circular letter
Lexington – 7 May 1851
re: Marshall’s career as appellate judge ending; citizens feeling the need to offer “their high appreciation of your official conduct”; Marshall’s reaction to the letter
To E. Yeisee (envelope only)
Lexington – 18 September 1854
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John T. Cromwell to B. P. Hinch
Locust Port – 13 November 1839
re: weddings; disease and deaths in the family
William Croghan to Thomas H. Cushing
Louisville – 23 March 1813
Re: military career of George Croghan as aide to General Boyde at Tippecanoe, recommended for promotion by Boyde and William Henry Harrison, captain in 17th US Infantry
John H. Crane to William D. Solheir
Louisville – 12 January 1820
re: Missouri Compromise, “The proceedings at Boston on the Missouri question have excited some strong emotions in the slave states of the West. But the friends of the New England principles and practice of freedom are hourly increasing in the country. The policy is as well as the right of holding slaves begin to be questioned by our most considerable planters – God send them a happy deliverance.”
William D. Payne to John R. Parker
Louisville – 23 January 1820
Whittelsley & Crane to William D. Soheir
Louisville – 31 July 1821
Alphonso Wetmore to D. Parker
Louisville – 5 October 1821
re: paying an army general
D. C. Terrell to Dabney Minor
Louisville – 4 March 1822
re: “One who has not witnessed it can form no idea of the wretchedness of our situation here on account of the Deplorable state of our currency. Our paper, bad as it is, very difficult to be procured and an unexampled depression in the prize of every species of property. The scarcity of money in Indiana is even greater than on this side of the River, and no one in Kentucky can be prevailed on to purchase on to purchase lands there.”
Peter Hagner to General Thomas L. Jesup
Louisville – 20 August 1822
J. J. Allison to Charles J. Nourse
Louisville – 12 September 1822
Re: an army captain having “severe Bilious fever”
Thomas Biddle to General D. Parker
Louisville – 8 April 1822
re: army business, “It is reported that the Socs & Foxes will attempt to interrupt the communication between St. Louis & St. Peter. I, myself, give no credit to the rumour.”
Thomas S. Bryant to Colonel Roger Jones
Louisville – 25 January 1828
re: Mississippi River, description and travel, “I have got this far on my journey to Cantonment Leavenworth, Missouri, and am here informed that intelligence has been received the Mississippi is frozen up and the stages in consequence of the roads have discontinued running.”
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Alphonso Wetmore to N. Towson
Louisville – 13 August 1826
re: paymaster work at Ft. Atkinson
Forsyth & Co. to Robert R. Preston
Louisville – 5 May 1828
Session of Bethany Church to Absalom Peters
Louisville – 15 November 1831
re: paying a minister in Owen Co., IN
George Croghan to Colonel Roger Jones
Louisville – 4 October 1827
Re: being attacked by “bilious fever” and recovering in Louisville
B. F. Sands to Major J. A. Hook
Louisville – 3 July 1832
re: dueling, “cousin charles’ death”, “It arose from an old family feud. Charles was challenged by young Morgan (nephew to the one that Sterling killed). The note was borne by a person of no standing in society and charles would not accept it but said he would, if it was handed him by any one but this fellow. Charles being a favorite with the young men, none of the them would bear a challenge to him. Mr. Morgan met Charles in the street Sunday morning – told him he had sent him a challenge, that he refused to accept it, and consequently must defend himself, at the same time, drawing a pistol from his pocket cocked and presented it. Charles presented one, but both pistols snapped. Each drew another and Charles was shot through the heart as he was drawing his – in fact his hand was in his pocket when he fell.”
J. G. Goolrick to Major J. A. Hook
Louisville – 29 October 1832
re: the cholera is increasing here, though yielding somewhat of its malignity.”
Prentice & Buxton to Charles Lyon
Louisville – 10 October 1832
re: buying paper for the Louisville Journal in Cincinnati; wanting to regularly by paper from Lyon (letter is not in Prentice’s handwriting)
R. C. Wetmore & Co. to Charles C. Peck
Louisville – 13 December 1837
re: business, agriculture, “We had an arrival yesterday from Liverpool bringing advice of a rise in cotton of equal in our city to 3/4¢ on the pound. On this advice we have thought it advisable for you to immediately invest your funds in cotton of a prime quality.”
I. -. Drake to Major William W. Leer
Louisville – 12 April 1838
re: “I write to apprise you that I shall forward by the St. H. Clay (Capt. Holton) the remains of your daughter Caroline.” – notation indicates she arrived in Baton Rouge on April 21 and was buried on April 23.
To B. F. Morris (wrapper only)
Louisville – 20 December
Thomas M. Smith to J. G. Lyle
Louisville – 13 September 1837
Folder 19
J. S. Chenoweth & Co. to Sweringen & Bridell & Sons
Louisville – 11 November 1836
re: shipping goods by steamboat
Aonill & Browning to G. M. McCartney
Louisville – 22 July 1837
re: “We are sorry to hear that money, with you is so scarce, it is unnessary [sic] to say that it is distressing times here.”
William Riddle to C. P. Leverich
Louisville – 15 December 1838
re: drought, business, “The Ohio river is lower than it was ever known before at this season of the year and within a few inches of the lowest stage during the past summer. In consequence of this state of the river trade is entirely stopped in the staples of the country and almost suspended in [illegible] owing to the want of supplies,” gives prices for sugar, coffee, pork, green ham, lard & flour
N. A. Lowry to Guy C. Irvine
Louisville – 7 December 1837
Kennedy, Smith & Co. to Dr. E. W. Theobald
Louisville – 20 April 1840
I. M. Scott to General Roger Jones
Louisville – 9 February 1839
re: army business
L. H. Mosby to Joseph Patterson
Louisville – 21 February 1842
J. Chamberlin to Muslin & Pepper
Louisville – 12 July 1842
re: business, paying debt
Sanderson Robert to P. W. Waugh
Louisville – 6 January 1841 (mailed from New Orleans)
Re: establishing a business in New Orleans
A. Thruston to B. F. Morris
Louisville – 28 March 1844
re: banking business
John D. Young to Guy C. Irvine
Louisville – 22 February 1844
John D. Young to Guy C. Irvine
Louisville – 25 March 1844
Folder 20
To Colonel C. R. Jones (wrapper only)
Louisville – 9 April 1847
To William L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Louisville – 20 August 1848
re: wanting to serve in the army in either Oregon or California
Fred G. Edwards to Joseph Ficklin
Louisville – 26 June 1850
re: vouchers given by the army during the Mexican War to merchants in Louisville
A. J. Irvine to Gus C. Irvine
Louisville – 15 July 1851
J. B. F. Cotter to Gus C. Irvine
Louisville – 3 November 1851
re: Cotter’s business plans, needing to borrow money
J. B. F. Cotter to Gus C. Irvine
Louisville – 30 March 1854
re: “I have been arrested a few days ago and am now in Jail in this City upon a false charge a false swearing against me.”; wanting to be let out on bond, “It is a long time to lay here until July, and I could be of good service if I had my liberty.”
To Thomas H. Sharp (wrapper only)
Louisville – 26 December 1848
To Levi Lincoln (wrapper only)
Louisville – 1 January 1851
Rev. David Smith to Rev. Dr. M. Badger (wrapper only)
Louisville – 14 January 1853
re: wanting to renew his commission as minister
Folder 21
To Frederic Huidekoper (wrapper only)
Louisville – 12 January 1856
To S. C. Bell (wrapper only)
Louisville – 12 September 1849
To Mrs. C. M. Burtwell (wrapper only)
Louisville – 19 January
S. H. Bullen to T. H. Sharpe
Louisville – 16 August 1850
Leight, Hite & Co. to Morris L. Hallowell & Co.
Louisville – 19 October 1850
H. Ainslie to B. S. Hinch
Louisville – 9 December 1851
To Rev. Dr. Bland (envelope only)
Louisville – 10 August 1853
William Kendall to John J. Thurman
Louisville – 3 January 1854
To Washington County Circuit Court Clerk (envelope only)
Louisville – 1 September 1855
S. Sexton to Mary S. Moorman
Louisville – 18 November 1855
To the Editor of the Home Missionary
Louisville – 25 April 1856
re: publication not being picked up at the post office
Folder 22
Austin A. Hover to the Honorable Secretary of War
May’s Lick – 13 March 1849
re: emigrating to California; requesting arms (1 rifle, 2 rifled pistols, 1 Colt revolver) and wanting pick them up at Newport
To Dr. Lucian McDowell (envelope only)
May’s Lick – 1 July
To Eveline McDowell (envelope only)
May’s Lick – 16 September
To Lucian McDowell (envelope only)
May’s Lick – 22 October
James C. Coleman to Dr. Loyd Warfield
Maysville – 28 June 1836
re: selling slaves, “On Saturday last Nicholas went out to see Mr. Mefford, upon your business, but found him from home. This evening I met with his son, who informed me that the negro woman, wife to your negro man, together with all her children, four in number, were for sale.”; mentions that the slaves can be bought privately before the auction
To Absalom Peters (wrapper)
Maysville – 15 November 1835
William Molloy to General Roger Jones
Maysville – 6 March 1841
re: enquiring about a soldiery in the 7th Infantry.
A. M. January to Newell & Pruitt
Maysville – 29 October 1847
re: the market for cheese in Maysville
H. B. Hill to D. S. Trumbull
Maysville – 23 February 1847
G. Worthington to M. L. Hallowell & Co.
Maysville – 17 May 1848
re: being owed money by Hallowell & Co.
Hunter & Phister to Daniel Simms
Maysville – June 1848
re: ordering axes from New York
G. Worthington & Co. to M. L. Hallowell & Co.
Maysville – 8 July 1848
Rees & Allen to M. L. Hallowell & Col.
Maysville – 9/12 May 1849
9 – “Cholera being on the increase in our city has alarmed a great many there being 9 or ten deaths last night.”
12 – “Up to this morning there has been 40 deaths of Cholera in the city and vicinity.”
To James K. Polk (wrapper only)
Maysville – no date
Maysville & Louisville Railroad Company to James H. Holladay
Maysville – 16 September 1851
re: Board of Directors meeting; stock information
William Huston & Sons to Newell & Pratt
Maysville – 16 March 1850
re: selling cheese, “We have still on hand some 10 or 15 that are utterly worthless & a number of those we have sold have been returned.”
To Most Rev. Archbishop Blanc (envelope only)
Maysville – 21 March
To James Holliday (envelope only)
Maysville – 1 May
Folder 23
Thomas Q. Roberts to A. Duvall
Middletown – 25 October 1846
re: blacks, depositions for a case involving “the Negroes now in Controversy”
To Clerk of Crittenden County Circuit Court (wrapper only)
Middletown – 29 July 1854
To Miss Annie Oldham (wrapper only)
Midway – 19 October
To Rev. Absalom Peters (wrapper only)
Millersburgh – 22 June 1831
To James Holladay (envelope only)
Millersburgh – 5 March
To Francis Flanagan (envelope only)
Millersburgh – 31 July
J. A. Huling to Marcus Huling
Montezuma Salt Works – 23 October 1826
re: needing money, “I am making Salt fast but my expenses is Great all the improvements to be made by the salt & Now another furnace & putting up mettle for it will cost about $1000 exclusive of a Great many buildings necessary to go on with our business.”
W. Preston Smith to Isaac Shelby Smith
Morganfield – 29 July 1835
re: people in Henderson dying of cholera
J. H. McCormick to Agent of the Biblical Repertory
Morganfield – 7 January 1845
Daniel & Peters to Coats & Austin
Mt. Sterling – 29 March 1845
Richard French to James K. Polk
Mt. Sterling – 22 April 1845
re: army, recommending Captain William R. Jouett for a promotion
Richard French to James L. Polk (wrapper only)
Mt. Sterling – 4 September 1847
re: recommending “General Tracy for a majority in the Ky troops”
Folder 24
To Nathan J. Kendall (envelope only)
Mt. Washington – 9 March
J. E. Cloyd to Enoch B. Brown
Murray – 6 April 1848
re: social life and customs – a camp meeting, trading horses, his plans for marriage
Nancy Brown to Anne Martin
Munfordville – 15 February 1840
Henry C. Wood to W. L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Munfordville – 27 June 1846
re: Mexican War, “will vol. co.”
Elizabeth W. Cook to Slaughter G. Cook
Munfordville – 13 September 152
Re: being sorry her son is going to college without taking the prep course, urging him to learn as much as he can
Major Alex R. Thompson to Callender Irvine
Newport – 7 August 1835
re: religion – requesting Bibles for the soldiers in his camp
Major John Bliss to Brigadier General Roger Jones
Newport – 22 May 1836
re: being suspended as commander of Fort Snelling
To Colonel C. A. Waite (wrapper only)
Newport – 20 March 1850
re: army business
To Major General Roger Jones (wrapper only)
Newport – 31 January 1851
George B. Hodge to James Holliday
Newport – 11 September 1854
re: legal business
James O. Hervey to James K. Polk
Nicholasville – 21 January 1848
re: his military service, wanting a captain’s commission
To James L. Hunt (envelope only)
Nicholasville – 1 September
Folder 25
To S. S. Mier (envelope only)
North Fork – 18 November
W. L. Case to James H. Holladay
Oak woods – 4 September 1856
re: legal business
W. L. Case to James H. Holladay (envelope only)
Oak Woods – 4 September
Nannie O’Bannon to John E. Kimball
O’Bannon – 26 January
re: being a student at boarding school
To Howerd Lodge (envelope only)
Owensboro – 8 July 1851
To Nathaniel Wickliffe
Owensboro – 9 August 1845
Deposition of Lucina Humphrey
John W. Green to Grant Green
Owensboro – 12 October 1847
Re: pretty girls in Louisville; preparing to go to Mexico (Mexican War); will come back to see them if he isn’t killed
To J. G. Walker (envelope only)
Owensboro – 11 December 1852
Cyrus Hawley to Samuel W. Collins
Owingsville – October 1832
re: business – working as a traveling salesman
Collins & Co. to B & R. Carter
Collinsville, CT – 1 August 1833
Form letter re: business matters, selling axes
W. C. Allen to James H. Holladay
Owingsville – 23 September 1851
re: legal matters
To Capt. James Holladay (envelope only)
Owingsville – April
Folder 26
James [illegible] to John Raum
Paducah – 20 February 1835
re: a debt James owes to Raum
Surgeon General Lawson to General Roger Jones (wrapper)
Paducah – 29 June 1842
re: army business
James E. Cloyd to Alexander Brown
Paducah – 4 August 1848
Re; learning carpentry; plans to live and marry in Tennessee
Linn Boyd to Ann L. Boyd
Paducah – 23 October 1853
Re: missionaries, “John T. Johnson, a brother of Col. Richd. M, & a Mr. Rice, both of whom are talented preachers of the Campbellite order are here & with all the Ethiopian Ministres followed by Dan Rice with trumpets & banners are on him.”
Harvey Bell to David P. Page
Paducah – 28 April 1849
re: being a new school teacher, wanting to improve schools and obtain new tax books
To Clerk of Livingston Circuit Court (envelope only)
Paducah – 2 December 1853
To Clerk of Livingston Circuit Court (wrapper only)
Paducah – July 1853
John Corlis to Brown & Ives
Paris – 6 December 1818
re: business, finance, “If the Kentucky banks continue to pay specie, they must call very hard on other debtors, consequently the traders of the country can only buy on credit . . . Those that are able to stand the Call & the Branch of US will have the control of all the exchange or market almost on their own terms, individuals will have no money to buy with, & if the orders from eastward & New Orleans are not too large, I presume tobacco would be lower, in the course of the present month.”
Dewey Whitney to Absalom Peters
Paris – 15 August 1832
re: missionary work in Bourbon and Harrison Counties, church in Bourbon County “has been very much stronger but with two years the spirit of emigration to the new settlements has swept away its principal supporters. It is situated however in a wealthy and populous section of the county where there are a vast multitude of souls living without God and without in the world! Here by the grace of God, a large church might be gathered. The principle opposing influence, without the church is that of avowed infidelity.”; describes church in Cynthiana
James Paton to Loyd Warfield
Paris – 23 April 1838
Henry Morris to Harrison Thomson
Paris – 26 January 1842
re: calling due a note
To Thomas W. Riley (wrapper only)
Paris – 31 August
To Seth Wheeler (wrapper only)
Paris – 27 December
A. M. Brown to Alvin Duvall
Paris – 3 November 1849
re: Duvall collecting an account for Brown
B. Mills to Rev. Milton Badger (American Home Missionary Society)
Paris – 15 July 1848
re: missionary work in and around Cynthiana; suffering from cholera morbus
Thomas Kelly to Morris L. Hallowell
Paris – 12 March 1852
William Garnet to Richard Eubank
Perryville – 1 June 1845
Subpoena
Folder 27
Frederick Hanckel to Charles H. Halsey
Pittsburg, PA – 15 June 1802
re: shipping good; selling goods (coffee, sugar, etc.)
N. W. Watkins to James K. Polk (wrapper only)
Princeton – 18 September 1847
re: army business
R. A. Patterson to Blount Hodge (wrapper only)
Princeton – March
E. Forman to M. B. Hope
Richmond – 4 May 1848
Robert T. Barnet to Adjutant General Roger Jones
Richmond – 4 November 1848
re: army, taking the oath of allegiance in order to accept commission as 2nd Lt.
Thomas Burch to Ann Burch
Rome – 5 December 1840
re: whiggery, politics, “My business as a plasterer has been a little brisker for the last 7 or 8 years & I think it will continue During president harrison’s administration & I hope all business will flourish from the 4th of March 41 as the Democracy is thrown overboard or at least so sayes [sic] the people or they did on the first monday in Novb. last (in Ky. and other states since).”
Ira White to Marvin C. Delano
Rochester, NY – 28 June 1821
re: Rochester, “The Village of Rochester is one of the most growing places in this state, it is but about 7 or 8 miles from lake ontario situated on the Genesee River near the falls, in 1815 and 16 it was a wilderness, but now it is larger than the Village of Windsor, the public buildings are not so [large?] yet but provably will soon be larger. The great canal passes through this Village . . . they are also prepareing to make an aqueduct across the River which will cost 30 or 40 thousand dollars there are also a great many buildings a growing up this year, there has been and is contracted to be 140 buildings put up this season including dwelling houses and stores &c.”
“If ever I am happy, if ever I enjoy myself in this life it is when I am faithful in the cause of the religion of Jesus, then it is that I can enjoy that peace of mind which the world cannot give nor take away.”
John Baird to Samuel Bard
Rollingfork – 14 July 1836
W. M. Clark to Alexander Brown
Russellville – 20 January 1855
John B. Bibb to Linn Boyd
Russellville – 20 January 1847
Re: recommending John B. Peyton for a commission in one of the ten new regiments in the US Army, Peyton had been elected captain of a Kentucky volunteer unit for the Mexican War but the group had not been accepted by the Govenor, Peyton has “longed to join our army in Mexico.”
P. M. Barbour to General Roger Jones (wrapper only)
Russellville – 2 July 1843
George W. Ewing to Willis L. Reams
Russellville – 1 April 1843
re: issuing subpoenas
J. W. Wills to Clerk of Nicholas County Court
Russellville – 7 January 1852
Printed circular re: locating land warrants in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa
Folder 28
Edward Stabler to James Hallowell
Sandy Spring, MD – 24 October ca.1848-1855
To Circuit Clerk (envelope only)
Sardis – 2 January
Joshua Barnes to Samuel Minor
Sharpsburg – 20 December 1850
Re: wanting his boots sent by “the stage”
George Moore to H. M. Morfit
Shelbyville – 10 April 1831
re: legal business
M. L. Beeman to Duncan Mauzey
Shelbyville – 26 June 1837
H. Ellingsworth to Editor of the Biblical Repertory
Shelbyville – 2 January 1843
James L. O’Neill to Coates & Austin
Shelbyville – 15 March 1842
re: business, receiving damaged hats
W. C. Crittenden to General Roger Jones
Shelbyville – 6 September 1845
re: army business
To Hite & Tydings (wrapper only)
Shelbyville – 15 July 1851
From Science Hill Academy
B. C. Failk to Ephraim K. Willson
Shepherdsville – 25 July 1844
To Thomas W. Riley
Shepherdsville – 15 March 1847
Subpoena
M. Quincy to Guthrie & Tyler
Shepherdsville – 1 March 1848
re: business
Ellen G. Yenowine to Margaret C. Knox
Shepherdsville – 10 December 1852
Aaron Harding to John Harding (envelope only)
Shepherdsville – May 1865
Folder 29
To James H. Holyday (wrapper only)
Side View, Ky – 27 December
Peter Cutright to John C. Nichols
Slate – 16 April 1853
John G. Anderson to John Raum
Smithland – 23 June 1843
re: a “swindler” Old Vaughan, “He swindled Shacktel out of his negros for $10.”
S. M. Barnes to James K. Polk
Smithland – 8 April 1847
Re: Barnes’s recommendations for commissions in the army’s 10 new infantry regiments
Reuben Dawson to David S. Chambers
Smithland – 19 November 1847
re: investigating the sinking of a flat boat in the Cumberland River near Smithland, “…fully confirmed that she had been scuttled and sunk purposely.”
W. J. Dallam to M. L. Hallowell & Co.
Smithland – 24 November 1848
Isaphena McCandless to Decatur Wright
Smithland – 10 December 1852
To William L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Somerset – September
To Mrs. Eveline B. McDowell (envelope only)
Stamping Ground – 16 November
To Clerk of the Anderson Circuit Court
Stanford – 2 April 1841
Deposition
Henry M. Withers to W. L. Marcy (wrapper only)
Stanford – 10 September 1847
Folder 30
L./L.G. Moss to Benjamin Phinck
Trenton – 9 March 1840
Amasa Delano to Jabez Delano
Versailles – 7 April 1804
Amasa Delano to Jabez Delano
Versailles – 28 February 1806
Gideon Blackburn to Rev. J. W. Douglass
Versailles – 1 October 1832
re: missionary work
P. C. F. Noursel to Abraham Peters
Versailles – 5 September 1833
re: a preacher needing more money
Gideon Blackburn to Abraham Peters
Versailes – 22 May 1833
re: slavery, missionary work, “I have fixed my resolution in consequence of my feelings respecting slavery to setle [sic] my family in the state of Illinois, and therefore, an agency in Tennessee or Alabama would be impracticable.”
Eliza to Martha B. Watkins
Versailles – 29 April 1839
A. Buford to General Roger Jones
Versailles – 1 September 1841
re: Buford acknowledging his commission as a 2nd Lt. in the 1st Dragoons
Robert Kinkead to Alexander G. Abell
Versailles – 26 March 1844
re: getting subscriptions for The Life of President Tyler
To C. G. Wintersmith or Samuel Haycraft (envelope)
West Point – 9 July
J. C. Brashear to C. A. Wickliffe
West Point – 22 September 1854
re: finances, business
C. D. Shear to Warren Mitchell or Abraham
No postmark (addressed to Mouth of the Salt River) – 24 February 1844
re: transporting a body, “You will receive a box containing the corpse of John Ditto jr. by this boat Belle of the West as we suppose it is her in sight. The coffin is enveloped in a tin case & soldered. If any of his friends should want to see him, the tin case can be unsoldered or cut with a chissell.”
W. O. Phillips to Commissioner of Pensions
Williamsburg – 18 August 1844
Re: looking for information on the military service of James Pritchard
Lewis Myers to Joseph Lyle
Williamstown – 8 February 1841
re: legal business
A. W. Mills to Henry M. Morfit
Winchester – 24 March 1838
Poston & Winn to M. L. Hallowell & Co.
Winchester – 7 April 1847
re: business, merchants, selling & buying goods
Hampton & Hickman to Morris L. Hallowell & Co.
Winchester – January 1851
re: business
Folder 31 (selected inventory)
-26 November 1829 receipt for the sale of a slave to Sinclair Garvin
-29 October 1844 receipt for the sale of a slave to Sinclair Garvin
-1 January 1851 receipt for slave hiring a boy named John, requires clothing to be furnished
-an 1851 list of the property of S. Garvin including a list of slaves and their value
George W. Hitchings to William U. Garvin
21 August 1860 – re: selling slaves
Folder 32 (selected inventory)
-transcriptions from the minute book of the Hardin County Academy Board of Trustees
Stephen Glascock to Samuel Haycraft
29 August 1816 – re: wanting to be a teacher at the Hardin County Academy
A. Payne to H. G. Wintersmith
5 February 1829 – re: seeking payment for surveying work done for the academy
Robert Hewitt to Benjamin Helm
7 September 1833 – re: accepting a teaching position at the academy
Robert Hewitt to Benjamin Helm
6 March 1837 – re: offering himself as a candidate for an opening as a teacher at the academy
J. L. Burrows to Samuel Haycraft
7 August 1837 – re: purchasing equipment for the academy in New York City
J. Brown & Co. to Samuel Haycraft
16 May 1839 – re: wanting payment for equipment purchased by Burrows while in NYC
Folder 33 (selected inventory)
John Harding to Aaron Harding (envelope only)
31 October 1862
Aaron Harding to John Harding (envelope only)
1 August 1866 (franked by Aaron Harding)
Aaron Harding to John Harding (envelope only)
26 December 1866 (franked by Aaron Harding)
Alexander H. Stephens to Linton Stephens (envelope only)
21 January 1846 (franked by Alexander Stephens)
J. B. Wathen & Co. to Cowan, Dykes, & Co.
Lebanon – 6 May 1853
re: selling barrels of whiskey in New Orleans, “If you can sell it on arrival at not lest than 37½ cts we would be glad to have it done.”
M. J. Wright to Bohannon & Edwards
Aubrey, KS – 13 November 1860
“We are afraid that Lincoln is elected”
“This county is settled up buy people from Ky mostly.”
M. J. Wright to Bohannon & Edwards
Aubrey, KS – 3 February 1861
re: having received a check, “I would be glad to get another buy [sic] the first of next month or sooner times is very hard here on account of the failure of the crops.”
Civil War, slaves, “We are all watching your prosedings in that state [Kentucky] and for one I will say that the sooner you sever the cords of the union the better it will be for you you cannot remane in the union in pease & retane your slaves.”
Thomas S. Page to William Fairleigh
Frankfort – 25 August 1830
re: finances
Thomas S. Page to William Fairleigh
Frankfort – 10 August 1830
re: finances
Commercial Bank of Kentucky stock certificate
Signed by C. M. Flournoy, President
Jacob Van Mater promissory note
18 August 1801 to pay £26.18.4 to William R. Hynes
Louisville Courier Letter-Sheet Price Current for 25 March 1852
-(commerce) list of wholesale prices for a range of goods including nails, cloth, flax, hemp, food products, liquor, beverages, etc.
-lists shipping quantities
Folder 34 (selected inventory)
Prof. James Brown to Christiana Thurman
New Albany, IN – 22 September 1871
re: shipping headstones to Upton
John Donan to J. W. Edwards
Louisville – 25 January 1861 (written in Frankfort)
re: Civil War, “Gov. Letcher died last night. The Virginia resolutions were sent to both Houses today by the Gov. They were referred to the committee on federal relations. This committee must now have about a bushel of resolutions before them they have employed a clerk and I expect will want a printer. I suppose you have seen the Virginia resolutions they must be met with much favor. I don’t Know who our commissioners will be several distinguished Citizens of Ky have been mentioned in the connection. A resolution tendering the use of the Hall has been very properly qualified I think not to include Abolition and emancipation speakers. This will exclude such men as Judge Robertson, Nichols, &c of that stripe as to some of them.”
“What is called the border Confederacy is bitterly denounced by man of the most prominent Bell & Douglass men.”
Cassie to Caroline B. McCleery
Frederick, MD – 6 June 1848
“There was a very serious accident happened on the railroad a few days ago. The cars ran off the track and a young man who was standing in the door got his leg dreadfully crushed . . . it was thought it would have to be take off, but I have heard since that he is getting better.”
Folder 35 (selected inventory)
Machine cancellations
Roller cancellations
“Fancy cancels”
Davis & Birney to Bohannon & Edwards
Philadelphia – 31 March 1859
Form letter re: legal business
Davis & Birney to Bohannon & Edwards
Philadelphia – 22 August 1859
Form letter re: legal business
P. M. Henry to Jno. S. Bohannon
Washington – August 1858
Form letter re: an act to continue pension benefits to widows and orphaned children of soldiers, “This act mostly benefits the widows of the soldiers and officers who died in the War of 1812 and the late war with Mexico…” (Mexican War)
M. J. Wright to Bohannon & Edwards
Wataga, IL – 4 September 1858
re: Lincoln-Douglass debates, “In answer to your Question is Duglass to be our next US Senator from this state I think he sertainly will be he is warmly supoarted by his own party he has entered the canvas with all the vigor of youth they people of Ky never was more devoted to H. Clay than the people of Ills is to the little Giant his opponent is a verry feeble both physically and mentally he seldom fills all the time allowed him on the stand either fails in the head or the legs & some times boath & what is worse than all the people is generly anxious for him to quit before he dose his speeches is dry uninteresting & generally forigen from the point. The most prominent position that Linckon takes is negroro equality that thing of its selfe will secure Duglass Election Duglass is warmly aplauded whareever he adrsses the people he leaves the people anxious to heare more I have not cast a single vote since I have bin in this stat but if alive & well I will count one for Duglaless.”
Subject Headings
African Americans – Kentucky
Alien and Sedition laws, 1798
American Home Missionary Society
American Party – Kentucky
Antislavery movements – Kentucky
Business enterprises – Kentucky
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
Cholera – Kentucky
Commerce – Southern States
Croghan, George, 1791-1849
Croghan, William, 1752-1823
Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861
Dueling – Kentucky
Fee, John Gregg, 1816-1901
Hardin County Academy (Elizabethtown, Ky.)
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
Jackson Purchase (Ky.)
Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850
Kentucky – History – 1792-1865
Kentucky – Politics and government – 1792-1865
Kentucky – Social life and customs
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Louisville journal (Louisville, Ky.)
Marshall, Thomas Alexander, 1794-1871
Medicine – Kentucky
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Missionaries – Kentucky
Missouri compromise
Natchez (Miss.) – Description and travel
Oil wells – Kentucky
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
Postmarks – Kentucky
Salt industry and trade – Kentucky
Slavery – Kentucky
Stamp collecting – Kentucky
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865
United States – Territorial expansion
United States. Army
