Original manuscripts, 1782-1801, the majority of which pertain to Boone's surveying business, his land claims, and other business transactions. Correspondence includes a letter (1784) by Richard Henderson to John Holder listing the books Henderson had left at Boonesborough; a letter (March 16, 1787) by Boone to Robert Patterson concerning Boone's recovery of a boy captured by Indians; a letter (December 6, 1787) by Charles Yancey to Boone, who was then a delegate to the Virginia legislature in Richmond; and an undated letter on a land matter by Alexander D. Orr. Boone's survey notebooks, 1783-1785, 1784-1797, and other documents on land claims contain the names of dozens of Kentucky persons with whom he had business associations. His mercantile account books, 1785, 1787-1801, show purchases he made for clothing, food, liquor, gunpowder and shot, hardware, and other supplies. Also in this volume is a copy by a British officer, John Stuart, of an undated proclamation by Hyde Parker and Archibald Campbell to rally the Georgia Loyalists to the support of the British.

Among the many other persons represented by signatures on Kentucky notes and business documents are: George Boone, James Bridges, Thomas Brooks, Peter and William Byram, William Caldwell, William Christian, Septimus Davis, Baker Ewing, John Filson, James Finney, Arthur Fox, David Gillespie, Willis Green, William Hays, Gilbert Imlay, Joseph Lindsay, Benjamin Logan, John Loveless, Hugh McGary, William Moore, John C. Owings, Robert Parker, Ebenezer S. Platt, Rebecca Platt, George Reading Jr., John Reed, Joseph Scholl, James Scott, William Smith, Thomas Speed, James Thompson, and Van Swearingen.