Manuscript Database - Subject: Hemp industry - Kentucky
Hemp industry - Kentucky
Beatty-Quisenberry family. Papers, 1796-1962. 6 cu. ft.The correspondence of Adam Beatty includes frequent letters about the hemp industry, both growing and selling it (10, 14, 16, 18, 20-25, 27, 35, 45). An 1841 letter from Thomas B. Stevenson discusses the role of hemp in Anglo-American foreign relations (19). Beatty's receipts detail expenses related to hemp production mostly wages for laborers (55,64-71). The collection also contains essays written by Beatty about hemp production (75).
Hemp industry - Kentucky
Myers, Jacob and Augustine C. Respess. Account book, 1819-1830. 1 volume.Entries by Respess in an account and memorandum notebook describe various transactions relating to farming operations and trade in Bourbon County, Ky. Some of the major transactions involved hemp, a major crop on Respess' farm.
Hemp industry - Kentucky
Dumesnil, Henry Alexis, 1820-1905 To James Cotton, Port Gibson, Miss. Louisville, Ky., 10 June 1851. ALS. 1 page.A letter of 10 June 1851 from Dumesnil in Louisville, KY to James Cotton of Port Gibson, Mississippi thanking Cotton for the transfer of funds and discussing the local prices of pork, hemp and bagging.
Hemp industry - Kentucky
Sanders family. Papers, 1804-1979.Lewis Sanders' letterbooks contains correspondence, 1825-1831. regarding his production of hemp, the water-rotting process, markets, and sale of his products. Other correspondence includes letters dated 19 Nov. 1853 and 10 Sept. 1854 regarding Sanders' appointment to "test and purchase" water-rotted hemp for the U.S. Navy and Sanders' 14 Dec. 1853 letter to the Louisville Democrat discusses the formation of the Water- rotted Hemp Agency and legislation effecting the production of hemp. Collection also includes ledger listing equipment, expenses. and salary while Sanders was Hemp agent; and a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings regarding hemp.
Hemp industry - Kentucky
Wood and Simmons. To Edwin D. Morgan, New York Louisville, Ky., 25 Nov. 1841, ALS, 1p.Letter written by Simmons of Wood and Simmons inquiring about the purchase of some hemp. The letter is written on a blank page from a Louisville Wholesale Prices Current November 20, 1841, printed by the Louisville Journal.
Hemp industry - Kentucky
Dennis Fitzhugh. Papers, 1802-1856. 0.33 cu. ft.In a letter dated 22 January 1837 from Clark Fitzhugh in Louisville to John O'Fallon in St. Louis, Fitzhugh reports that Brother Charles (Thruston) sold 27 factory hands at nine-hundred dollars apiece and rented the factory and ropewalk to the same individuals (f. 4).
