Philadelphia Merchants Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains manuscript material from three Philadelphia merchants (Richard L. Ashurst, Andrew Clow and John Gill) who had dealings with various storekeepers in Kentucky from the late eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century. The collection consists largely of correspondence that concerns banking, property, account settlements, businesses and trading in Kentucky. Researchers may also find invoices and pages from account books. The collection does not contain complete records of these firms, but was acquired because of the individual documents from Kentucky business owners.
Dates
- Creation: 1790 - 1861
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1819 - 1849
Creator
- Ashurst, Richard L. (Person)
- Clow, Andrew (Person)
- Gill, John, Jr. (Person)
Full Extent
0.44 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Hottle, Ken
Method of Acquisition
Purchase
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Philadelphia Merchants Collection (Subject)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Amanda Mardis
- Date
- 03/2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives Repository