Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

1-2-2013

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 819. Facsimile of letter, 22 September 1814, written by Robert Fulton, New York, to Governor Isaac Shelby, Frankfort, Kentucky, requesting militia or volunteers to assist in the removal of the steamboat Vesuvius from a sandbar 200 miles below the mouth of the Ohio River. He also expresses fear of an Indian attack.

Disciplines

United States History

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