Extracts from the journal of Samuel Shepard, 1787-1796
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Extracts from the journal of Samuel Shepard, 1787-1796
- Creator
- Shepard, Samuel, 1765-1839.
- Extent
- 1 reel
- Subjects
- Shepard, Samuel, 1765-1839.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky.
- Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
- Ohio River.
- Georgetown (Ky.)--History.
- Journals (notebooks)
- Arrangement
- Paginated.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Pioneer. Samuel Shepard was a native of Weston, Massachusetts who arrived in Kentucky in 1787. He settled in Georgetown and married Frankey Barlow in 1792.
- Scope and Content
- This accession includes excerpts from a journal kept by Samuel Shepard on his journey down the Monongehela and Ohio Rivers in the 1780s. It offers details of several campaigns against the Indians.
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