copy of the record book of Col.

John Todd, the first governor of the Illinois country after Clark's conquest; the McAfee MSS., consisting of an Account of the First Settlement of Salt River, the Autobiography of Robert McAfee, and a Brief Memorandum of the Civil and Natural History of Kentucky; MS.

autobiography of Rev.William Hickman, who visited Kentucky in 1776, etc., etc.
I am also under great obligations to Col.

John Mason Brown of Louisville, another member of the Filson Club, for assistance rendered me; particularly for having sent me six bound volumes of MSS., containing the correspondence of the Spanish Minister Gardoqui, copied from the Spanish archives.
At Lexington I had access to the Breckenridge MSS., through the kindness of Mr.Ethelbert D.Warfield; and to the Clay MSS.

through the kindness of Miss Lucretia Hart Clay.