Series: 2 CC (Volume 2)
Scope and Content Note: Richard Henderson papers, 1791-1817, followed by correspondence, 1833-1855, by Draper and others with relatives and descendants of Henderson, James Hogg (whose family surname was changed to Alves), and Nathaniel Hart concerning Henderson's life and his papers. The original manuscripts include: records of a law suit [1799], William Cocke v. Henderson and Company, in which Cocke sought land or its monetary equivalent for his services at Boonesborough in 1775; a survey (1791) of a land grant to Richard Henderson and Company in Powell's Valley and on Powell's and Clinch rivers signed by James Mayberry and Stockley Donelson; records of law suits (1803-1806) in Tennessee by Robert Burton, James Davis, and James Hogg involving Tennessee land grants made in 1795 by North Carolina; an ordinance (1797) governing disposition of lots in Henderson, Kentucky, and lists of lots sold there (1800-1817) by the agent for Henderson and Company. Also found in the volume are a biographical sketch of Richard Henderson and a detailed genealogical history of the family by his son Pleasant Henderson. Other notes and interviews about Richard Henderson and about events in Henderson, Kentucky were gathered by Draper in 1846; among these are a few anecdotes about Samuel Mason and the Harpe brothers. The volume contains one letter (1818) by Henry Clay to Isaac Shelby.