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Religion - Letters Of Recommendation (Sc 1228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Religion - Letters Of Recommendation (Sc 1228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1228. Letters of recommendation of various individuals given by the following Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky: Bethel, 1836, 1861; Bethlehem, 1851; Liberty, 1852; and by Rocky Spring in Warren County, Kentucky, 1852.
Hopewell Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hopewell Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 466. Minutes, including lists of both white and African American members, of Hopewell Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky.
Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 2218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 2218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2218. Church register of Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes register of pastors, baptisms and members. Also includes minutes of Church Conference of Chapel Hill, 1924-1925.
New Bethel Society - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Bethel Society - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 763. Class and church book of New Bethel Methodist Society, Allen County, Kentucky. Consists almost exclusively of lists of members.
Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1296. Typescript of the Class Book (membership register) of the Society at Walker's Chapel (now Walker's Chapel United Methodist Church), Allen County, Kentucky. Includes a foreword with historical information, and an index of names.
Bethel Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bethel Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 256. Record books of Bethel Baptist Church, Gainesville, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes brief business information about the church, acts of church discipline, and when people were admitted to membership. Also includes the church's "Rules of Decorum" and "Articles of Faith."
Smyrna Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smyrna Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 282. Photocopies of the record books of Smyrna Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Allen County, Kentucky, consisting of business meeting minutes covering primarily 1840 to 1898, and membership lists.
Zoar Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Zoar Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 245. Record books of Zoar Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky. Entries consist chiefly of church and Sunday school minutes.
Scottsville Baptist Church - Scottsville, Kentucky (Mss 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scottsville Baptist Church - Scottsville, Kentucky (Mss 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 248. Record books of Scottsville Baptist Church, 12 May 1841 to 5 January 1908. Entries consist chiefly of minutes of church business meetings.
Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1688. Four letters of dismissal in good standing for members from three Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky. Three of the letters are signed by minister Mordecai F. Ham.
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.
Spencer, John Henderson, 1826-1897 (Mss 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spencer, John Henderson, 1826-1897 (Mss 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 120. Incomplete biography of John Henderson Spencer for the years, 1826-1876. Spencer, a native of Allen County, Kentucky, was a Baptist minister and author. Includes a tribute to Spencer on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, 1946.
Rough Creek Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rough Creek Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 125. Minutes, 1841-1961, of Rough Creek Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes a small amount of minutes from a Maderson School, a Sabbath School or Sunday School, in Allen County. Minutes includes information about church leadership, governance, discipline and activities.
Brown, R. T. (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, R. T. (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1351. Ministerial record book kept by R. T. Brown, a Methodist minister, who resided mostly in Kentucky and West Virginia. Besides listing places where he preached, he also lists sermon titles, responses, weddings and funerals.