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Elder James Martin And His Brother Simon Martin, Steve Malone, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Elder James Martin And His Brother Simon Martin, Steve Malone, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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This little booklet is an extension of the Martin portion of a book that I self-published in late 2014 entitled The Pioneer Williams Families of Smith Township, Posey County, Indiana and their Allen, Cater, Davis, Harmon, Johnson/Johnston, Journey, Lowe, Martin, Prewitt/Pruitt and Rook Connections.1 It contains by far the most detailed published account of Elder James Martin’s life and family. This new work has been created to document additional facts and sources related to the lives of Elder James Martin and his brother Simon.

Elder James Martin is very unique among people of his era, in that he left a …


Fannie Goodrum Neel Photograph Album, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

Fannie Goodrum Neel Photograph Album, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:

Name of owner

Number of slave

Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex

Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.

Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf and dumb, blind, insane, …


1860 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

1860 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:

Name of owner

Number of slave

Number of slave houses

Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex

Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.

Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf …