MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
1-2-2013
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
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 (SC 819)" (2013). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 2696.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/2696
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu