1To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown of Boone County, Kentucky, 28 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Pleasure to inform you that I have forwarded to Mr. Peale a Present to the Sosiety, of Curious Matter. It consists of Part of the skull Bone , the neck Joint on the head, the Pith of the left Horn now Twenty one Inches in Circumference, the end off & in a decay’d State. I suppose it to have been Part of the head of the Animal whose large Bones are found in so many Parts of America &...
2Memorandum from John Brown and John Breckinridge, 3 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
John Rowan Daniel Weisger John Inston } of Frankfort James Morrison John A. Seitz John Bradford } of Lexington We think the above Gentn. will be proper persons to be appointed as Commrs of Bankruptcy in the State of Kentucky. May 3rd 1802. MS ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR ); in Breckinridge’s hand, signed by Breckinridge and Brown; endorsed by TJ as received 3 May and “Commrs. bkrptcy” and so recorded...