Letter dated February 4, 1880, from Sam Frank, Cotton and Commission Merchant in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Julius Weil in Paducah, Kentucky. Frank responds to a confidential inquiry about a new businessman in town.
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A legal summons document issued on April 5, 1815, in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky. The summons concerns a debt owed to Ezekiel Hart by Thomas Key. The document is signed by Kentucky frontiersman Ben Helm. The single-page document measures 6-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches.
Writ issued by the Sheriff of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on April 22, 1780, against James Bogle, accused of trespass by Simon and Joseph of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The writ measures 13" x 4", is partially printed, and bears an embossed seal of Cumberland County. The verso is docketed July 3, 1780. Joseph Simon (1712-1804), a prominent member of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Jewish community and associate of the Gratz family, and John Campbell, a Revolutionary War soldier, Kentucky legislator, and early recipient of Lord Dunmore's land grants, were influential partners in frontier Kentucky. They planned and founded the city of Louisville, with Simon providing financial backing and securing a lien on a portion of the city's land. A 1000-acre tract within Campbell's military survey was deeded to Simon within the present city limits of Louisville in 1786.