Harry Innes (1753–1816), federal judge, was a native of Caroline County who moved to Bedford County and became an attorney prior to the Revolutionary War. During that conflict he administered gunpowder mills and lead mines for the Virginia Committee of Safety and served as an escheator, a commissioner settling claims to unpatented lands, and a tax collector. The state legislature appointed Innes a judge of the Kentucky District’s supreme court in 1782 and attorney general over that portion of western Virginia two years later. In the spring of 1785 he moved to what later became the state of Kentucky and lived there for the rest of his life. Although Innes opposed the ratification of the United States Constitution, he accepted President George Washington’s appointment as a federal judge for the Kentucky District in 1789 and remained on the bench until his death. A firm Republican and an early proponent of Kentucky statehood, in the mid-1790s he communicated his strong belief that the Mississippi River had to be opened to navigation to both TJ and the Spanish governor at Natchez. Innes’s secret contacts with the latter, coupled with his friendship with James Wilkinson, led to allegations that he had supported a Spanish plot to seduce Kentucky from the Union. Congress conducted an investigation in 1808, but Innes kept his judgeship. TJ maintained a cordial, albeit sporadic, correspondence with him for more than thirty years. In 1790 Innes sent TJ an old Indian sculpture, and nine years later he forwarded information regarding the 1774 murder of the Mingo Indian Logan’s family that TJ incorporated into later editions of his Notes on the State of Virginia (DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 34 vols. description ends ; JHD description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia description ends [1785–86 sess.], 51; Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, and others, eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution [1976– ], 8:221–3, 385–7; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 1:29, 32 [24, 26 Sept. 1789]; Arthur Preston Whitaker, “Harry Innes and the Spanish Intrigue: 1794–1795,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 15 [1928]: 236–48; Notes, ed. Peden description begins Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, ed. William Peden, 1955 description ends , 231–2, 237, 241–2; Clay, Papers description begins James F. Hopkins and others, eds., The Papers of Henry Clay, 1959–1992, 11 vols. description ends , 1:319–20; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, 1832–61, 38 vols. description ends , Miscellaneous, 1:922–34; Lexington, Ky., Western Monitor, 27 Sept. 1816; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 1816).

The British and their Indian allies made two unsuccessful attempts to capture Fort Meigs (ft meigs) (in present-day Perrysburg, Ohio) during the spring and summer of 1813 (Stagg, Madison’s War description begins John C. A. Stagg, Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830, 1983 description ends , 326). The miami of lake erie is the Maumee River. Isaac Shelby helped to organize and conduct the campaign which ended in an American victory at the Battle of kingsmountain in western North Carolina, 7 Oct. 1780 (ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ).