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Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 219. This collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Moore, Mulligan, Brown and Johns families, who are interrelated. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters and events occurring in Trigg County, Kentucky and Allen County, Kentucky.
Warren County, Kentucky - Equity Court Cases (Mss 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Equity Court Cases (Mss 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 137. This collection contains the extant Equity Court cases for Warren County, Kentucky, from Case #1 (1802) to Case #1977 (1856). The cases are arranged in numerical order. Information in this finding aid includes: case number, plaintiff, defendant, date, number of documents related to the case and notes. To search this document, download it and then use the "Find" function. When searching for a name, it is suggested that you search only the surname. Please remember to search for variant spellings, as there are many in these early records.
Evans, Walter, 1842-1923 (Sc 2018), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Evans, Walter, 1842-1923 (Sc 2018), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2018. Letters of Walter Evans, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, to Robert Ludlow Fowler, a New York jurist and author.
Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 1787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 1787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1787. Photocopy of will of prominent Kentucky jurist and Congressman John Rowan, written 28 June 1840 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Reynolds, Charles H., 1924-1996 (Sc 1778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reynolds, Charles H., 1924-1996 (Sc 1778), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1778. Tributes to Charles H. Reynolds, justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court, on his death. Includes eulogy by Chief Justice Robert F. Stevens, funeral homily by his son Rev. James Patrick Reynolds, and a resolution adjourning the Kentucky State Senate in his memory. Also includes a subsequent tribute by his son Mike Reynolds at the unveiling of his portrait at the Warren County Justice Center.
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 1768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 1768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1768. Letter, 26 April 1825, from Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee to A. P. Maury, also of Nashville, in which he declines to act as guardian for the children of the late Major John Reid owing to ill health and increased responsibilities.
Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1826-1842 (Sc 1761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1826-1842 (Sc 1761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1761. Record book of William G. Howard documenting his duties as a Justice of the Peace. It includes stray notices, legal judgments, and marriages performed (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripted list of marriages.)
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1744. Record of trial held in Simpson County, Kentucky of William P. King, Charles Smith, Abraham Owen and seven others for the murder of Harvey King. Defendants and victim had all participated in a previous train robbery. Also includes a photocopy of The Life of King and Owen, Written by Themselves, Revised and Prepared by Rev. L. M. Horn, Explaining the Railroad Robbery and Murder of Harvey King (Louisville, Ky., 1867); and “‘A High Handed Outrage:’ The King & Owens Railroad Robbery of 1866,” a paper written …
Brown, Austin, 1786-1863 (Sc 1671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Austin, 1786-1863 (Sc 1671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1671. Documents from the lawsuit of Thomas J. Hudnall vs. Elizabeth Brown related to the disposition of the Austin Brown estate.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 201. Correspondence and research notes relating to biographical information compiled for labels attached to portraits of Warren County, Kentucky Circuit Court judges. Copies of the labels and photos of five of the portraits are included. Detailed information about Judge John B. Rodes is included.
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 198. Three indices for Barren County, Kentucky Quarterly Court records; the actual court records are not part of this collection and are located in the Barren County courthouse. Two of the indices are not dated, and the third one marked "Executions" is dated 1916.
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.
Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church - Fountain Run, Kentucky (Sc 1456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church - Fountain Run, Kentucky (Sc 1456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1456. Monroe County Circuit Court case involving members of the Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church. The injunction enjoined certain members (or ex-members) from threatening, etc., those in the majority.
Bullitt, William Grigsby, 1833-1901 (Sc 1533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bullitt, William Grigsby, 1833-1901 (Sc 1533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1533. Autograph album of the Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate W.G. Bullitt of McCracken County. Includes autographs of delegates and stenographic staff. Many delegates include brief biographical information such as date and place of birth.
Boone, George Street, 1918-2004 (Sc 1530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boone, George Street, 1918-2004 (Sc 1530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1530. Letter, 18 September 1987, from George Street Boone, an attorney In Elkton, Kentucky, to Senator Wendell H. Ford, Washington, D.C., discussing the candidacy of Robert H. Bork, Jr. as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1347. Legal response of those charged by the sheriff of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to appraise land owned by the Green River Coal, Iron & Manufacturing Company as ordered by the Warren County Circuit Court, to satisfy a judgment against the company in favor of Mary P. Martin.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 1468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 1468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1468. "Memoranda from the Records in the Warren County Circuit Court Clerk's Office" copied by Judge John B. Rodes. Includes notes on the establishment and evolution of Kentucky county courts.
Biddle, Hyman P., 1821?-1878 (Sc 1457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Biddle, Hyman P., 1821?-1878 (Sc 1457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1457. Letter, 16 March 1863, written by merchant Biddle, Union Star (Breckinridge County), Kentucky, to lawyers Allen & Bruner, Hardinsburg, Kentucky, advising that his Negro servant girl is being harassed and robbed when sent on errands and asking about the law relative to penalizing such misconduct.
Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 144. Full name index and subject listing (252 p.) of miscellaneous Logan County, Kentucky court records. Originals are in the archives of the Logan County Genealogical Society, Inc., Russellville, Kentucky.
Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1334. Lawyers' combined collection record book and docket book kept by the law firm of Hines and Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1838-1857 (Mss 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1838-1857 (Mss 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 61. Docket books, 1838-1876 (3), kept by J. Gee, justice of the peace of Monroe County, Kentucky; miscellaneous papers found in books, 1838-post 1952 (20); and record book kept by B. C. Maxey of Barren County, Kentucky, which contains Gee family history, Maxey cemetery records, etc., 1925-1957.
Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975 (Sc 1449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Swinford, Mac, 1899-1975 (Sc 1449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1449. Letter, 21 April 1970, of U.S. District Court Judge Mac Swinford, Lexington, Kentucky, to Crawford Crowe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling a request for a copy of his book Kentucky Lawyer. He declines to vouch for the accuracy of the book's historical facts "other than as legend."