Arthur Campbell Papers, 1752-1811 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Collection includes correspondence, statements of account, receipts, promissory notes, land papers, military papers, and legal papers. Papers reflect Campbell's activities as county lieutenant of Washington County, Virginia, from its formation in 1777 through the Revolution and the Indian wars that followed, his service as sheriff of the county, and as a member of the Virginia Assembly. Correspondence, 1774-1811, concerns land, the state militia, frontier defense against Indians, military aid to Kentucky, Indian treaties, the Creek War, the Virginia-North Carolina boundary, the state of Franklin, separation of Kentucky from Virginia, navigation of the Mississippi River, Anglo-American relations, national and state politics, proceedings of Congress in 1790, Anthony Wayne's campaign against the Northwest Indians, the French Revolution, and Jedidiah Morse's Geography