(Kentucky Borderlands) [An original manuscript account detailing a trip to and from Kentucky via the Ohio River, including the return trip via the Old Wilderness Trail, with two hand-drawn plat maps] An Account of Expences in Travelling to and from Kentucky in search of Land Claimed by Mr. H. McClery   Myself.

Brothers

Verlag: Brothers, 1797

Brothers / 1797 circa / (Kentucky Borderlands) [An original manuscript account detailing a trip to and from Kentucky via the Ohio River, including the return trip via the Old Wilderness Trail, with two hand-drawn plat maps] An Account of Expences in Travelling to and from Kentucky in search of Land Claimed by Mr. H. McClery   Myself. (Safe 2, 81445) Folio. Two bifolium sheets of laid paper, comprising 8 pages (6 pages with manuscript text) and two manuscript plat maps on separate sheets. Some moderate edge chipping and a few minor breaks or separations in the paper along the usual folds of both the plat sheets and the bifolium sheets. Otherwise condition is very good. Manuscript Travel Account to Kentucky by a Revolutionary War Veteran in 1797 With Two Manuscript Plats of Kentucky Lands A fascinating manuscript document of an early trip to Kentucky to survey land, including two manuscript plats of the lands on what was then part of the western frontier of the United States. The travel account and plat maps are wonderful source documents for the history of the early settlement of the region. Daniel Boone's 1769 expedition through Cumberland Gap was followed by the first permanent settlement in Kentucky in 1774. After the American Revolution, Kentucky grew rapidly, with migration drawing mostly from Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, including German-speaking Pennsylvania Dutch settlers. The present manuscript concerns the surveying of a substantial tract of land in Kentucky by the Maryland-born son of German immigrants - as such it stands as evidence of how the western frontier of the United States at that time was surveyed in preparation for settlement. Valentine Brothers, a.k.a. Valentine Brudder or Valentine Brunner (1758-1841) was a Revolutionary War soldier from Frederick, Maryland, the son of German immigrant parents originally from Rhineland-Palatinate. He enlisted as a private on July 1, 1776 in Captain Peter Mantz's Company of the Flying Camp, marching from Frederick Town to Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. The present manuscript relates to nearly 2000 acres of land near Lexington, Kentucky that Valentine inherited from his brother Henry Brother (a.k.a. Heinrich Brudder, who died in 1776). Brothers set out for Kentucky in 1797 with H. McClery to affirm his claim to this significant frontier land holding. Leaving Maryland on May 2nd, the two men traveled overland to the Muskingum River and descended the Ohio, reaching Limetone (modern day Maysville) in Kentucky fifteen days later. For the following month they traveled within Kentucky, including a side trip to Louisville indicated by an entry in the accounting for 15 shillings of expenses at a horserace! They succeeded in finding the tracts and getting proper surveys made, and both manuscript plats are included here with their narrative of the trip. Although unsigned, the two plat maps are evidently by a surveyor named McIntire who is referenced in the manuscript. Their return to Maryland, overland via Tennessee and Virginia on the Old Wilderness Trail, is also described in some detail, including mentions of some of the stations that appear only in the earliest accounts of the Trail, with a few that are apparently unrecorded elsewhere. Consequently, the manuscript stands as one of the very few extant accounts of the stations along the Old Wilderness Trail, and is among the latest known accounts of the Trail before it fell into disuse shortly thereafter. While the manuscript is undated, the travel account begins on Tuesday, May 2, suggesting a date of either 1786 or 1797; the place names suggest the latter date. Brothers refers to Union or Beasontown, though the place was already being called Uniontown as early as 1788. He also refers to Muskigum, which is an earlier name used by travellers before the settlement of Marietta. The taverns mentioned by Brothers durin. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 81445

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Titel: (Kentucky Borderlands) [An original ...
Verlag: Brothers
Erscheinungsdatum: 1797
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: VG
Art des Buches: Book