Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 115

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870. cn; Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889. cn
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Covington, Ky., Collins & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452

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Fern Creek, Fisherville, Floyd's Fork, Jeffersontown, Lacona, Lyndon, Long Run, LOUISVILLE,* Middletown, Newburg, O' Bannon, Orell, River View, Saint Matthews, Taylor's Station, Worthington. Jessamine County. Hanley,

Concord,

Edenton,

Nevada,

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Nelson Furnace, New Haven, New Hope, Samuel's Depot. Nicholas County. Black Hawk, Blue Lick Springs, CARLISLE, Head Quarters,

Dividing Ridge, Elizabethville,

Payne's Depot,

Stamping Ground, Stonewall,

FALMOUTH,*

Flower Creek,

Gardnersville,

Knoxville,

Straight Fork, White Sulphur. Shelby County. Bailey's Store, Bagdad,

Warren County.

BOWLING GREEN, * Bristow Station,

Claypool, Green Hill,

Green Castle,

Weston. Ohio County.

Ash Camp, Bent Branch,

Beaver Dam,

Dorton,

North Benson,

Buck Horn,

Head of Coburn,

Scott's Station,

Buford,

Little Creek,

SHELBYVILLE,*

Richardsville,

Centretown,

Mouth of Pond,

Ceralvo,

PIKETON,

Cool Spring,

Robinson's Creek. Powell County.

FRANKLIN,* Hickory Flat,

Temperance Mount. Spencer County.

Elk Creek,

Beechland,

Hogg's Falls,

Adams' Mills,

Little Mount,

Fredericktown,

Horse Branch,

Cain's Store,

Mount Eden,

Mackville,

Point Pleasant,

Cato,

Smileytown,

Sharpsville,

Render Coal Mines,

Clio,

TAYLORSVILLE,#

Van Dyke's Mill,

Texas,

Rockport, Rossine,

Garden Cottage,

Waterford,

Wilsonville.

Taylor County.

Berryville,

Beard's Station,

Plato,

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Mannsville,

Saloma. Todd County.

Rock Creek,

Goshen, LA GRANGE, Peru,

Thompsonville,

Allensville,

Steubenville. Webster County.

Pewee Valley,

Waterloo,

Daysville,

Clay,

DIXON,

Poole's Mill,

Canby,

Bratton's Mills, Kentontown,

Kirkmansville,

Sebree,

Slaughterville,

Harrisburg Academy, Broadhead,

Hills,

Fish Point,

Goochland,

CADIZ,*

Brown's Creek,

Lusby's Mill,

Gum Sulphur,

Canton,

Evans' Mills,

Monterey,

Level Green,

Cerulean Springs,

Lot,

New Columbus,

MOUNT VERNON,

Empire Iron Works, Marsh Creek,

Golden Pond,

Meadow Creek,

Patterson Creek,

Pleasant View,

Pleasant Home, Rock Dale,

MOREHEAD,

Montgomery,

Rockhold's,

Squiresville, Sweet Owen, West Union. Owsley County.

Creelsborough,

Horse Shoe Bottom,

JAMESTOWN, Millersville, Royalton. Scott County.

GEORGETOWN,"

Bordley,

Millville,

Boxville,

Mortonsville,

Caseyville,*

Spring Station,

Commercial Point, DeKovan,

Troy,

VERSAILLES.

Hooktown, Moorefield, Myersville, Oak Mills,

Cut Shin,

Clay Village,

Cropper's Depot,

Pike County.

Graefenberg,

Harrisonville,

Jacksonville,

Simpsonville, Todd's Point.

Simpson County.

Cromwell,

Elm Lick,

Fordsville,

HARTFORD,#

West Bend.

Haynesville,

Pulaski County.

Dallas,

Sulphur Springs. Oldham County.

Lincolnville,

Brownsborough,

Shopville,

MONTICELLO,

Buckner's Station,

SOMERSET,

Parmleysville,

Westport. Onven County.

White Oak Gap. Robertson County.

Guthrie,

Hadensville,

Providence,

Eagle Hill, Gratz, Harmony,

MOUNT OLIVET. Rockcastle County.

Sharon Grove,

Vanderburg. Whitley County.

New Liberty,* North Savern, OWENTON,

Pine Hill. Rowan County.

Farmer's,

Gill's Mills,

Pine Springs. Russell County.

Roaring Spring,

T'rigg Furnace, Wallonia. Trimble County.

COMPTON,

BOONEVILLE,

BEDFORD,

Hazle Green. Woodford County.

Milton, Winona. Union County.

Ducker's, Midway,

Island City, South Fork, Traveller's Rest. Pendleton County. Batchelor's Rest, Boston Station, Butler, Catawba, De Mossville,

Great Crossings, Little Eagle, Minorsville,

Newtown, Oxford,

Laurel Furnace,

Lindsey's Mill, Linton,

Rock,

Trenton. Trigg County.

Bark Camp Mills,

Lone Oak,

Valley Oak,

Clifty,

ELKTON,*

SPRINGFIELD,

Willisburg. Wayne County.

Line Creek,

Sublimity,

Harrah's Mills, STANTON,

Richland, Rockfield, Smith's Grove, Woodburn. Washington County. Antioch, Beech Fork,

Hadley, Hay's Ford,

Memphis Junction,

Oakland Station,

Rich Pond Grove,

HAZARD.

Levingood, Morgan, Motier. Perry County.

Chestnut Grove, Christiansburg,

Drake's Grove, Hitesville, MORGANFIELD, Raleigh, Seven Guns, Uniontown .*

WHITLEY C. H., Wild Cat. Wolfe County.

Pilot Knob,

Mill Springs,

HISTORIANS OF KENTUCKY.

" The groves were God's first temples," . . . . where man " knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplications."

THE groves and trees were not alone churches. The monarchs of the grove, the grand old forest trees, were, for thirty years, the historians of Ken- tucky. They kept the silent record of the first exploring adventures and of the first survey. Where paper and pen and ink were not at hand or could not be carried, these monuments of the goodness of the God of nature stood, all over Kentucky, ready to perpetuate whatever the patience, and ingenuity, and thoughtfulness of the earliest visitors chose to confide to them.

In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker,* Ambrose Powell, Colby Chew, and several others entered, through Cumberland Gap, what is now the state of Kentucky -being the first white men known to have visited that part of the state. A beech tree, on Yellow creek, near Cumberland mountain, has preserved the date, A. POWELL-1750. Twenty years after, Gov. Isaac Shelby examined the tree, and found the record perfect.

In 1754, James McBride and several others came down the Ohio river, in a canoe, and at the mouth of the Kentucky river marked upon a tree, J. M'B., 1754.+

In 1772, or earlier, near the spot whereon the town of Louisa, in Law- rence county, now stands, a surveyor, for John Fry, of 2,084 acres of land, stretching across the Big Sandy river into two states, West Virginia and Kentucky, carved upon one corner-tree the simple letters, G. W.# For ninety years, until cut down by a sacrilegious hand during the civil war, that tree preserved the beautiful incident-as every thing connected with that true nobleman is beautiful-that there George Washington had done skilled labor upon Kentucky soil ! the same George Washington, whom a wonderful Providence kept childless, that millions of people might "adopt" him as the " Father of their country !"

On the north side of Barren river, three miles from Bowling Green, War- ren county, and near Vanmeter's ferry,|| some beech trees, with thirteen names upon them, indicate the camping ground of an exploring party of Kentucky pioneers, for ten days, from June 13 to June 23, 1775. Of these, at least six left the impress of their bold and adventurous spirit upon the early history and progress of central Kentucky.

On March 11, 1780, a number of the party engaged with Dr. Thomas Walker in surveying the southern boundary of Kentucky, engraved their names and the date upon a tree in the boundary line,? upon the East fork of Red river in now Logan county-where they were found, and the line thereby recognized, by the new boundary surveying party in 1859, seventy- nine years after they were cut.

Thus, the trees were ready and faithful historians, and kept the record of time and place of explorations that otherwise could not have been so truly kept. A ring for each year, as the years rolled on; and the record of the trees was complete, and for ninety years told an unvarying story. All around, and over, aud through the state-on the south, and the north, and the east boundary, at the southeast corner, and toward the southwest, and near the very center-everywhere-for thirty-four years, from 1750 until the first book-record in 1784 and the first newspaper record in 1787-the dates and points and names of the earliest movements were confirmed, if not entirely preserved, by the trees. Those times have changed ; now the printing press is carried with the advancing wave of civilization, and the trees but seldom keep the story, as they did a hundred years ago !

* Great-grandfather of the late Joshua Fry Bell, of Thomas Walker Bullitt, of Louisville, and many others. See Vol. II, p. 416.

t Same, p. 120.

# See Vol. II, p. 460. Same, p. 738. ¿ Same, p. 481.

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1. JOHN FILSON was the first to preserve in book form the early history of Kentucky-in a small work published in 1784, at Wilmington, Delaware, entitled "The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucky," and of which by far the most important portion, embracing two-fifths of the work, is "The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, formerly a Hunter : containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky." The latter is written in the style of auto-biography; the substance evidently the dictation of the old pioneer, but the language, instead of being brief, plain, and unpretending, is sophomoric and ostentatious, yet singularly interesting, and, at times, exci- ting. The correctness of the description preceding it, is vouched for in a certificate of Colonels Daniel Boone, Levi Todd, and James Harrod, dated May 12, 1784. The work in the original is exceedingly rare, but few copies being known to be in existence. It was translated into French, by M. Par- raud, and published at Paris, France, in 1785. Three editions of the origi- nal were reprinted in England, in 1792, 1793, and 1797, as part of Imlay's North America, named below. These, also, are quite rare, but still obtain- able.

For further information about Filson, see pages 22 and 185 of this volume, and 120, 183, 416, and 432 of volume II, of this work. A memorandum left br his brother says he " was killed by an Indian on the west side of the Ohio, October the 1st, 1788, about five miles from the great Miami river, and twenty or twenty-five from the Ohio"-a few miles northwest of Glendale, Hamilton co., Ohio. A MS. sketch of his trip to St. Vincent, or Vincennes, Indiana, in the spring of 1784, was found a few years ago, and is in the library of Lyman C. Draper, of Madison, Wisconsin.

2. WILLIAM LITTELL's contribution to the recorded history of Kentucky, now as rare a work as the original of Filson, was entitled " Political Trans- actions in and concerning Kentucky, from the first settlement until June, 1792," 147 pp., 12mo., and published at Frankfort, in 1806. It is valuable from the important documents preserved in the Appendix. [See page 412, of this volume, for sketch of Mr. Littell.]

3. HUMPHREY MARSHALL's was for thirty-five years the most prominent of Kentuckian histories-prominent because of his high positions in public life, and as a lawyer and editor, and because until 1834 his was the only work generally known and quoted as a history of Kentucky, and the one most ex- tensively known until 1847. It was first published at Frankfort in IS12, 407 pp., 8vo., entitled "The History of Kentucky, including an account of the Discovery, Settlement, Progressive Improvement, Political and Military Events, and Present State of the Country." A second volume was promised, but not published until 1824; when the work was issued in two volumes, with the first volume much amended and revised, 522 and 524 pp., Svo. The work was very able and very interesting; but it was often partisan, bitter, and prejudiced, and as such was savagely attacked by the newspapers of the day. One of the most remarkable passages in the 1812 edition was this, from page 181 :

" Already had the flattery of the minister, and the thousand seductive blandish- ments of Paris, gained over to his purpose that singular composition of formal gaiety, of sprightly gravity, of grave wit, of borrowed learning, of vicious morality, of patri- otic treachery, of political folly, of casuistical sagacity, and Republican voluptuous- ness-Doctor Franklin :" * * *

This language was greatly modified in the 1824 edition, pages 156-7. Dr. Mann Butler, in the preface to his history in 1834, felt bound to explain the extraordinary differences between his own statements of " the complexion of many events, and the character of most of the early statesmen of Kentucky," and those of Mr. Marshall; and to express

" His solemn conviction that every man and party of men who came into collision with Mr. Marshall or his friends, in the exciting and exasperating scenes of Kentucky story, were essentially and profoundly misrepresented by him-however unintention- ally and insensibly it may have been done. The contentions between Mr. Marshall and his competitors for public honors were too fierce to admit of justice to the charac- ter of either, in each others' representations. These enmities transformed his history into a border feud, recorded with all the embittered feelings of a chieftain of the

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marches. . . To have been opposed to him, in the political struggles of Kentucky, seems to have entailed on the actors a sentence of conspiracy and every dishonorable treachery. Isaac Shelby, Harry Innes, James Wilkinson, John Brown, and his bro- ther James Brown, George Nicholas, Wm. Murray, Thomas Todd, and John Breckin- ridge, were thus unjustly denounced by Mr. Marshall." # = *

This is strong language, used in 1834. Dr. Butler does not deny him, what all conceded who knew him, the possession of brilliant talents and command- ing force of character. He was a Federalist, held to all the principles and measures of that party in their fullest extent, and as such was elected to the U. S. senate over John Breckinridge for six years, 1795-1801. During his term in the senate, some public men bitterly pursued him, and he, years after, as bitterly pursued them. [For sketches of his sons and grandsons, and other mention, see Vol. II of this work, pp. 377, 394, and the General Index of both vols.]

Humphrey Marshall was born in Virginia-son of John Marshall, and married his cousin, a daughter of Col. Thomas Marshall, and sister of U. S. chief justice John Marshall. He emigrated to Kentucky in 1780. His un- disputed talents soon gave him a conspicuous position among the public men of the state. He was a member of the convention at Danville in 1787, pre- liminary to the formation of the state constitution; of the Virginia conven- tion which ratified the constitution of the United States; of the house of representatives of Kentucky, from Woodford county in 1793, and from Franklin county in 1807, 1803, 1809, and 1823, besides being defeated, several times, by small majorities ; and U. S. senator, as above. During the legislative term of 1807, on Jan. 19th, his celebrated duel with Henry Clay occurred [see ante, p. 26, and Vol. II, p. 477]. He died about 1842, aged about 82, and is buried on the Kentucky river bank, one mile below Frankfort.

4. MANN BUTLER, M. D., LL. B. (his baptismnal name was Edward Mann Butler, but he preferred to be called only by his mother's family name), was prominent as a historian of Kentucky; born in Baltimore, Md., in July, 1784; taken at three years of age to his grandfather's, at Chelsea, near London, England; returned to his native land at 14, continued his education and graduated at St. Mary's College, Georgetown, District of Columbia; graduated in medicine at the same college, but abandoned it because of great distaste for the practice ; then graduated at the same college in law, and was admit- ted to the bar in Washington city and Baltimore; in March, 1806, emigrated to Lexington, Ky., where he practiced law for a short time, but lacking the eloquence of speech that characterized Henry Clay and others of that bar, he became discouraged and relinquished the practice; opened an academy at Versailles, Woodford co .; married Miss Martha Dedman, Aug., 1806; taught at Maysville, in 1810-11, and perhaps longer; then at Frankfort, until called to a professorship in Transylvania University, at Lexington ; was a successful educator at Louisville, from about 1831 to 1845; and then at St. Louis until his death, in 1852, aged 68; he was one of the many distinguished citizens killed and mangled on the Pacific railroad excursion train, by the falling of the Gasconade river bridge.

In 1834, Dr. Butler issued, at Louisville, his " History of Kentucky, from its Exploration and Settlement by the Whites, to the close of the Northwestern Campaign, in 1813," 12mo., pp. 396; and in 1836, at Cincinnati, a second edition of the same, revised, and enlarged by the addition of some important documents, 12mo., pp. 623. He also published, at Frankfort, in 1837, in a pamphlet of 32 pp., 8vo., " An Appeal from the Misrepresentations of James Hall respecting the History of Kentucky and the West; and a Chronology of the Principal Events in Western History to 1806." At the time of his death he had mainly completed a " History of the Valley of the Ohio," in the monthly numbers of the Western Journal and Civilian. Of this he left the MS., revised and nearly ready for publication in book form; but during the civil war, a portion of this, with other valuable papers and most of his li- brary, was stolen or destroyed by Federal soldiers. As a historian (see Por- trait in the group of Kentucky Historians) Dr. Butler was exceedingly laborious, full sometimes even to tedium, exact as to facts, conscientious, fair, plain-spoken, and nearly always interesting, but with few passages that were I ... 41

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eloquent or specially attractive in style. The legislature of Kentucky (sec pages 38, 39, ante) favored his work by granting unusual privileges with the archives. His labors as a historian were highly valuable.

5. Judge LEWIS COLLINS published, in 1847, a history of Kentucky which had a larger circulation and was more generally known than any which pre- ceded it -- entitled "Historical Sketches of Kentucky, embracing its History, Antiquities, and Natural Curiosities, Geographical, Statistical, and Geological Descriptions, with Anecdotes of Pioneer Life, and more than 100 Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Pioneers, Soldiers, Statesmen, Jurists, Lawyers, Divines, etc .; " in one vol., 8vo., pp. 560. Of this work, 4,300 copies were published; and yet it is very rare. Judge C. was the father of the author of the present work. [See sketch of him, in Vol II, page 583.]

6. In 1872, Col. WILLIAM B. ALLEN issued his "History of Kentucky, em- bracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches;" in one vol., Svo., pp. 449. [For sketch of Col. A., see Vol. II, page 298.]

7. RICHARD H. COLLINS (author of the present work, the most recent and most comprehensive History of Kentucky, issued in August, 1874, in two vols., 8vo., 707 and 804 pages), eldest son of Judge Lewis Collins above, was born at Maysville, Ky., May 4, 1824; educated at the Maysville Seminary until 1840; graduated at Centre College, Danville, 1842, and A. M. of same, 1845 ; in mercantile business, 1842-45 ; graduate of Transylvania Law School, 1846; editor of Maysville Eagle, 1845-50 and 1853-57; practiced law, 1851- 53 and 1862-71; founder and publisher of Danville Review, 1861 ; engaged exclusively in the preparation of this work, for nearly four years, 1870-74.

OTHER WORKS UPON THE HISTORY OF KENTUCKY.

In addition to those noted above, upon the general history of the State, the following works, several of them very small, have done an important part in preserving portions of the history :

8. Rev. HENRY TOULMIN. "A Description of Kentucky, etc. ; " 8vo., 124 pp., with map. London, 1792. [See sketch, on page 249, Vol. [I.]

9. GILBERT IMLAY's "Topographical Description of the Western Territory, belonging mainly to Kentucky. Svo., 247 pp. London, 1792, and repub- lished 1793 and 1797. This is chiefly valuable for preserving John Filson's work, above. Imlay was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and as " com- missioner for laying out lands in the back settlements " (whatever that means) came to Kentucky, and in 1784 was appointed a surveyor in Jefferson county, and " laid off" many thousands of acres of lands. Probably, he was agent for English land speculators (see Vol. II, page 599).

10. Gen. ROBERT B. MCAFEE's " History of the Late War in the Western Country," published at Lexington, Ky., in 1816, 536 pp., Svo. [See sketch, Vol. Il, p. 621.]

11. Dr. SAMUEL L. METCALFE's " Narratives of Indian Warfare," Svo., Lexington, 1821. Very rare.

12. JOHN A. McCLUNG's "Sketches of Western Adventure," 12mo, 360 pp., published at Maysville, in 1832, is a work of remarkable interest. [See sketch, Vol. II, page 584.]

13. Gov. JAMES T. MOREHEAD's " Address in Commemoration of the First Settlement of Kentucky, at Boonesborough, May 25, 1840." Svo., 181 pp. Frankfort, 1840. Rare, and strikingly interesting.

14. Judge JAMES HALL. Sketches of History, etc., in the West. 2 vols., 12mo., pp. 282 and 276. Philadelphia, 1835. Preserves some valuable let- ters and documents no where else to be found except as copied from it. Much romance, in his writings, needs to be separated from what is history.

15. JOHN BRADFORD's Notes on Kentucky, in newspaper articles ; 1827.

But these are not all. Several histories of the churches, of Louisville, and of Lexington, public addresses, and biographies of Daniel Boone, Simon Ken- ton, Dr. Lewis F. Linn, and other pioneers and sons of pioneers, have preserved much that is intensely interesting and valuable in Kentucky history. They can not be mentioned in detail here, for want of space. [See their titles in the List of Authorities, page 11, ante.]

GENERAL INDEX.

Adoption of children .. $2 | Allen, Dr.Jno. Rowan474 Andrews, Judge Lan- Aeronaut, remarkable Allen, Jos .. .. 369

Ables, George. .213

Abel, Rev. Jeremiah.457

Abell, Robert. .356

Abell, Robert ............ 4.6 | African [ see NEGRO]. Allen, Thomas ...... 355,356 Anger, R

Abell, Will .. 357

Abney, Wm ....

Abernathy, Geo. L ... 107 ;Agricultural college. 155

Academies ....... 24, 26, 502 i

Academy, Ky .. 24, 25, 502 Franklin ..

Jefferson .24

Lexington .. 24 groes .. .220

Salem .. .... 24, 502| Akers, Rev. Peter ..... 455

first female .26

Accident, first rail- sioners. .. 85

road 40

at Bank Lick .. 153 honse burned. .....

bridge ...... .. 19;

Ackerman, W ........ 246€ ments .115 Amendment,

Act and Testimony,

the .. .477

Acts of General As- senibly, missing ...... 242

Acton, Smallwood ....... 6 ADAIR County ... 28,37,55, 57. 89, 111, 117, 118, 125, Alexander, Jernsha ..... 5 126, 145, 191, 205

Adair, Alexander ...... 368 Adair, Gen. D. L ..... 2460 Adair, Gov. John ... 9, 28. 29, 350, 351, 331, 356, 363, 492, 503 attacked by Indians23 legislative compli- ment. .25

elected governor .. Alexander, Philip .... 256i .29; Alexander, Robert .... 543 | monument to ......... 226| Alexander, Robert

aids Burr.

Aitcheson .. 67.75,77,133, 135, 154, 173, 1 3

Alexander, Judge Thos. T.

.7| Alexis, grand duke, visit ... 222, 223|

Alf. J. T .. .246f

Adams, Benj ... ... 7 Alford. J. T. .. 246/

Adams, Daniel ..

Adams, George .. 355 230, 235. 243, 351

Adams, Geo. M .. 180, 184, Alien and sedition

laws condenined .... .2-5

Adams, Green ..... 351, 370! Allan, Dr. A. Sidney . 169) Anderson, Geo. W .... 361 Arbuckle, Thos .........

Adams, John, vice

Allan. Chiitou526,319,351

Allegewi. .. 381

Allegheny, fast steam- er .. 65, 66

ALLEN County ..... 57,100, 108. 111, 121. 129, 211

Allen, Alfred .. 71, 81, 129, 152. 174, 151

Allen, Capt., death ... 112

Allen, shot ..... .152| Anderson, Richard C ..! Jr. ............. 351. 35%, 364

Allen, Rev. Carey HI.461, 462

Allen, Elizabeth. 5 Allen, George D ......... 107| Allen, James .... .4-4 Allen, James C .... 360, 361 Allen, James L .......... 214 Allen, Capt. James ..... 41 Allen. Col. Jolin ..... 9. 23. 179.355,356,356,357,463, Anderson, Simeon H.43, Armstrong, Robert T., 525

Robert A. .. 246d1 Aton ... .3+ murder of ..... 171

conusel for Burr .... 291 Anderson. Thomas L.361 Armstrong, Win ........ 34 killed.

Adkins, Thos ....

Administrator,

public

153| Allen, Col. Jack .... 73,170'

daff Watson .... .. 47,116, 152,157, 166, 246m2. 351,370

Allen, Rev. Richard

African church mob- bed ... .46 .474 . Andrews, Rev. Lor- Howe .. Allen, Tandy .369 in .192, 359

Allen, Dr. Tom ...

.104 Augora, horse race ..... 41 Allen, W. C., artist .... 44 Animals, dead, into Allen, W. .24he

Allen, Wm .... 2464 Annexation, first step Allen, Win. B. 525. in territorial ..... .... 287 Allison, R. F. 213 Annexation of Texas, and its effects ........ .327

Almanac, first in West ...

Alluut, John J ...

Alston, Lieut. Col .... 134 Anniversary, 66th. of Alverson. John S .. ... 7

settlement of Ky ...... 46 Anthony, Win. T, ex- pelled .... .. 100

Ambrose, James C ... 246/ Anti-slavery news-

paper stopper ....... .. 330 Alcorn, Jas. D ..... 60, 367) , XIIIth ...... 154, 159, 165' Appeals, court of .. 26,31, XIVth .. .175

XVth ... .. 195, 203

Alexander, Dorcas ...... 5! Ament, Anthony ..

American party, nat -

Alexander, Col. Francis N. .. 142, 150 ional convention of.76 Albany, Ill., fatai

Anidas, Philip .. 14 storm in. 83 Ammen. Gen. Jacob .. 130: Albany, Ky., court

house burned. 153

Albany, N. Y 15

Journal, on Ky's position ... 115

horse, death of .... 55 Antle, Dorcas. - .132 Apperson, Richard.52), 367

Jr :11

Apples, large 75 Apple brandy. .. 239 Apple tree, old 246n Appomattox C. H., surrender .. 158

Apportionment of first legislature .23 Appropriations. .. 179, 1 -6 to navigation .... 29 Arbitrators. six ......... 90 Arbuckle, James. ........ 6 .. 11

Anderson, Jacob ......... 11 Archer, Edmund. ....... 8 Anderson, James ..... .Il , Archives, removal .... 109 Anderson, John B ..... 000 Ark, Uriel. .. 13

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Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 115

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870. cn; Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889. cn Publication date: 1874 Publisher: Covington, Ky., Collins & Co. Number of Pages: 1452

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870. cn; Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889. cn
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Covington, Ky., Collins & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452