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Warren County, Kentucky - Census, 1850 (Mss 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Census, 1850 (Mss 238), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 238. Two large volumes separated into fifteen subfolders representing various census schedules for 1850 in Warren County, Kentucky. Information about free and slave populations, deaths, agriculture, and industry in Warren County's two enumeration districts is included.
Boyd Family Papers (Sc 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boyd Family Papers (Sc 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 53. Photostats of receipt for slaves and money to be transported to George and James Boyd in Texas, 1862; oath of allegiance, 1862; and Union military pass, Graves County, Kentucky, 1865.
Slave Trade - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Sc 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slave Trade - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Sc 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 49. Two bills of sale for enslaved persons purchased by Sallie W. Harris (Mrs. Josiah), Louisville, Kentucky.
Groves, James (Sc 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Groves, James (Sc 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 39. Bill of sale for three slaves, Edy, about five years old, Cyntha, about two years old, and Stepen, about seven months old, sold for $600 to W.W. Milliken, Simpson County, Kentucky, and letter concerning the bill of sale, 1948.
Halliday, William R., B. 1926 - Collector (Sc 1751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Halliday, William R., B. 1926 - Collector (Sc 1751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1751. Letter, 21 June 1839, from Elizabeth Davis, Lexington, Kentucky to her cousin Judeth Brown, Madison, Indiana describing daily family activities. Also, letter, 7 February 1848, from A. Duvall, Georgetown, Kentucky to Reverend Robert S. Bell, Winchester, Virginia related to a court case concerning land and slaves.
Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lucas, Marion Brunson, B. 1935 (Sc 1733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1733. Research notes (saved on CD-ROM) used in the compilation of "History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891" (first published in 1992; paperback in 2003). Includes an index with eighteen specialized topics.
Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1682. Three letters to Ford, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, from John H. Blue, Brunswick, Missouri, related to land owned there by ancestor John Bright, and a letter of information from Bright’s daughter in Texas. Also, the answer of defendants to a petition filed in Barren County, Kentucky Circuit Court by C. C. Stark, administrator of James Stark, disputing the value of three slaves stated to have been mortgaged to James Stark by Ford on 4 May 1865. With respect to one enslaved woman, the defendants claim …
Thomas, William (Sc 1680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, William (Sc 1680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1680. Letter, 11 November 1864, from William Thomas, Jacksonville, Illinois to H. C. Mitchell, [Kentucky], relating to his father's estate and the support of Thomas's widowed mother.
Poe Family Papers (Sc 1641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Poe Family Papers (Sc 1641), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1641. Two Warren County, Kentucky deeds, one receipt, and a letter from Alvin Poe, Connersville, Missouri, to his brother Stephen M. Poe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 25 January 1855 in which he discusses crop and livestock prices and the political situation in Nebraska. A typescript of the letter is attached as an additional file.
Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 85. Genealogical materials revolving chiefly around the Hobday family of Tennessee and Kentucky as researched and collected by Bob Law, Nashville, Tennessee.
Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 91. War of 1812 letters, 1814-1815 (3), written by James Hines to his wife, also deeds and will; John Hines papers pertaining to selling and employing slaves, 1823-1840 (3); and correspondence, etc., 1856-1879 (27) of John Henry Hines, from Johnson's Island, an Ohio prisoner of war camp. The Hines family migrated from Virginia to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Various other family items are in the collection.
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1617. Civil War reminiscences of John Aker Lafferty, Harrison County, Kentucky, recounted in 1905 to his son W.T. Lafferty. John A. Lafferty served with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and later with the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. W.T. Lafferty adds an account of his family's lives as Confederate sympathizers in Harrison County during the war.
Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harper, J. (Sc 1612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1612. Letter, 12 September 1862, from Harper, Cincinnati, Ohio to William Single discussing conditions in Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. He expresses fervent pro-Union and anti-slavery sentiments.
Henry, W. W. (Sc 1526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Henry, W. W. (Sc 1526), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1526. Letter from Henry, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to J. Speed Smith, a U.S. Attorney, Richmond, Kentucky, which relays information about an affray in which several slaves were taken from his stagecoach while he was delivering the mail.
Hess, Nelson Irvin, 1795-1869 (Sc 1451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hess, Nelson Irvin, 1795-1869 (Sc 1451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1451. Bond given by N. I. Hess, Cumberland Presbyterian minister, and L.B. Gilchrist, both of Gibson County, Tennessee, to secure a judgment obtained against Hess by Watt Renick, Hickman County, Kentucky. The bond requires the obligors to deliver four enslaved persons, the property of Hess, to be sold to satisfy the judgment.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Politics, 1864 (Sc 1452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Politics, 1864 (Sc 1452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1452. Letter, 20 February 1864, written from Orleans, Indiana, to "Bro. Will." The unknown writer, a politically active Republican, has very interesting comments about politics and slavery in Indiana and Kentucky.
Slave Register - Warren County, 1853-1865 (Sc 1327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slave Register - Warren County, 1853-1865 (Sc 1327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1327. Warren County, Kentucky “Register of Slaves Owned for Life,” listing name, sex, age, and other information about each slave as provided by the person holding a life interest in said slaves, along with the names of the owners in remainder who would subsequently inherit the slave(s). Includes link to typescript.
Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 9. Correspondence, diaries, receipts books, tax receipts, licenses receipts, church membership certificates, and miscellaneous receipts of John G. Durham, a Baptist minister of Warren County, Kentucky. Also legal papers of Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Correspondents include A. Broaddus, Samuel Howard Ford, George W. Robertson, and Orson Holland Morrow.