Series: 31 CC (Volume 31)
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous papers, 1780-1862, including numerous original manuscripts and contemporary copies prior to 1816. Most were written, signed, or addressed to Kentuckians. Letters, receipts, militia commisssions, legal documents, and fragmentary pieces relate mainly to land sales and surveys, mercantile business, politics, and law suits. Names appearing most frequently as signers or addressees in the papers before 1816 are Adam Beatty, Henry Lee, Peter Lee, Alexander D. Orr, Charles Pelham, and Walker Reid. A Mason County meeting in 1807 recorded its proceedings in protest of British threats and depredations after the attack on the United States frigate “Chesapeake” by the British ship “Leopard”. A group of militia commissions bear signatures of Kentucky governors James Garrard, Christopher Greenup, Charles Scott, and Isaac Shelby, and there is one letter (1813) from Scott to Shelby. Two printed circulars were issued by Charles Savage, Lexington and Louisville commission agent, to advertise the firms of Savage & Prentiss (1817) and Savage & Company (1819). Three letters on research matters were written to historian Lewis Collins in 1847. Documents mounted on pages 209-212 of this volume are printed facsimiles, not original manuscripts.