litionists, there appears an appathy about the matter, so what is every bodies business is no bodies at all.
You may see that petitions have lately been presented our Legislature from sundry colored people about the benefit of our school system, &c.
The Dutch have had their advocates in the house to have appropriations of the school fund so that the German language may be kept up; also a petition has been before the Legislature for like privilege to the Welch, to keep up the native language, &c. Our internal improvement and school system are inviting a debt on the State which has raised our taxes to such a degree as to be really burdensome and the prospect of increasing the State tax alone is about 14 mills to the dollar. My tax on a 42 foot lot with common improvements, was upwards of $64, besides city tax of upwards $15, and no doubt as the last year increased more than 30 per cent, the next will be in proportion. But it is useless to complain, lest you be called an enemy to the poor.
Since Mr. Smith went to the great house at Frankfort I have no news from Lexington. As I have to write a couple other letters, I must conclude by saying I got a compleat loco-foco letter from Jas. McClure since my return. They are all well. He says there are two of his daughters living in Cincinnati. I hope to see them when I pass through that place at a future time. Our love to Sister Sullivan and family.
Capt. William Sullivan, near Lexington, Ky."
3. Mary McClure, third child of Rev. Andrew McClure, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, Jan. 5, 1788, and died Aug., 1880. She married Capt. William Sullivan (Feb. 23, 1780—July 11, 1842), a son of William Sullivan, Sr., who moved from Virginia to Fayette Co., Ky., sometime prior to 1779. Twelve children, all born in Fayette County:
- (1). James Wilson, b. Jan. 11, 1807, d. May 2, 1878.
- (2). Eleanor, b. Nov. 2, 1808, d. Oct. 9, 1816.
