Articles and Source Material

Relating to Ruddell's and Martin's Forts


Background Information on the Forts

Martin's Fort

Hinkson's/Ruddell's Fort


Articles About Invasion

Destruction of Ruddle's and Martin's Forts by Maude Lafferty

Bradford's Notes on Kentucky

The Taking of Ruddell's and Martin's Fort from "History of the Girties"

"The British Invasion of Kentucky" by J. Winston Coleman

"Ruddles' Fort and the British Invasion of Kentucky," a lecture by Richard Bean

Draper Manuscript Collection

Excerpts from "Collins History of Kentucky"

Milo M. Quaife's "When Detroit Invaded Kentucky"

Excerpts from "Benjamin Logan: Kentucky Frontiersman"

Excerpts from "Frontier Kentucky" by Otis K. Rice

"Chronicles of Border Warfare" by Alexander Scott Withers


Official Correspondence

American Correspondence Concerning the Captives


Other Source Material

George Rogers Clark Papers

Land Acquisitions in Vicinity of Ruddell's and Martin's Forts


Other Articles or Information of Interest

Spencer Records' Memoir of the Ohio Valley Frontier 1766-1795

Simon Kenton

James Sellars Correspondence


Maps

Map from Lair, Kentucky, to Ruddell's Fort

Close-up of Ruddell's Fort

Filson's Map of Kentucke