Ingram, Jeremiah Papers, 1796-1832
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Ingram, Jeremiah
Title: Papers, 1796-1832
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: .33 cu. ft
Location Number: Mss. A I54 1-12
Scope and Content Note
Included are Ingram’s records of accounts, 1796-1830, with a variety of vendors for general merchandise; bills of sale for enslaved people, 1804-1805, and 1818, from Culpepper County, Virginia and Adair County, Kentucky; deeds for property transferred in Adair County, Kentucky and Caldwell County, Kentucky from Ingram to relatives; and a bill of lading, 1843, for goods being shipped on a flatboat from the Green River to New Orleans by Ingram’s son-in-law, Thomas Jefferson Smith.
Also includes miscellaneous papers of Pilson Smith of Greensburg, Kentucky, 1843-1861, (who was the son of Thomas Jefferson Smith and Sarah Ingram Smith, grandson of Jeremiah Ingram), a list of practicing physicians in Green County, Kentucky, 1888-1899, and miscellaneous ephemera.
Folder List:
Includes record of vote of the Fourth Congressional District, August 1843 for Caldwell, Owsley, and Stone; Letter to Pilson Smith from John M. Buckley March 2, 1845, which includes local news and recipes for ink and medicines; work agreement between Silas Cheek (a tenant) and Pilson Smith, December 11, 1848; Pilson Smith’s account with John B. Carlile, 1851-1852; letter from John W. Lewis of Greensburg, Kentucky to Pilson Smith regarding secessionists raiding of stores in Greensburg, Kentucky, December 30, 1861. Also some sort of account book regarding merchandise and blacksmith work, 1843-1844, mentioning Pilson Smith, Jeremiah Ingram, and others. 6 items.
Folder 12: Miscellaneous. [click to access PDF]
Includes Price list for Valentin Blatz, wholesale dealer in oils, paints, varnishes, and window glass, Louisville, Kentucky, February 1, 1882 and small philosophical broadside, printed by S. Robinson in Greensburg, Kentucky, on behalf of Daniel Boody, Campbellsville, Kentucky, October 18, 1838. Also list of pamphlets removed to library collection. 6 items.