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Stockton, Robert (Lg 392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2015

Stockton, Robert (Lg 392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 392. Original land grant, 1825 February 25, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Stockton 115 acres in Adair County.

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Warren Seminary - Warren County, Kentucky (Lg 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Warren Seminary - Warren County, Kentucky (Lg 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 384. Copy of a land grant, 1816 December 27, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to The Trustees of the Warren Seminary, 75 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Shackelford, William (Lg 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Shackelford, William (Lg 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 385. Original land grant, 1815 June 28, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Shackelford and Obadiah Hendrick, assignee of Henry Wood, assignee of Henry Wood, assignee of Mary Wood, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Brayton, Elijah (Lg 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Brayton, Elijah (Lg 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 386. Original land grant, 1867 September 16, by which Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, granted to Elijah Brayton 80 acres in Crawford County, Ohio.

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Bowling Green Seminary - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Lg 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Bowling Green Seminary - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Lg 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 383. Original land grant, 1816 October 30, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to The Trustees of the Bowling Green Seminary, 100 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Middleton, Thomas (Lg 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Middleton, Thomas (Lg 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 382. Original land grant, 1814 June 10, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas Middleton, assignee of Daniel Dougherty, 50 acres on the north side of Big Barren River, Warren County, Kentucky.

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Bunch, George (Lg 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Bunch, George (Lg 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 379. Original land grant, 1808 June 29, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Bunch, assignee of Arthur Brooks, assignee of Thomas Highsmith, assignee of David Hudspeth, assignee of Edward Stapleton, Junior, 200 acres on Drakes Creek, Warren County, Kentucky.

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Chapline, Abraham (Lg 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Chapline, Abraham (Lg 377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 377. Copy of a land grant, 1793 May 30, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Abraham Chapline, assignee of James Montgomery 800 acres on Big Barren River and Bays Creek.

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Walton, Curancy P. (Lg 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Walton, Curancy P. (Lg 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 381. Original land grant, 1867 August 10, by which Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America, granted to Curancy P. Walton, assignee of Eau Claire Lumber Company, 80 acres in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

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Bunch, George (Lg 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Bunch, George (Lg 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 378. Original land grant, 1808 June 29, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Bunch, assignee of Charles Bunch, 360 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Bunch, George (Lg 380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Bunch, George (Lg 380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 380. Original land grant, 1808 June 29, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Bunch, assignee of Thomas Spencer, 310 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Enochs, Charles J., 1881-1945 (Mss 560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Enochs, Charles J., 1881-1945 (Mss 560), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 560. Financial records, chiefly cancelled checks, from the Charles Enochs Funeral Home, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information about funeral home supplies, caskets, interments, employee salaries, etc. Funeral registers for Charles Enochs and his mother-in-law, Lassie Fonville.

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Wilson, Jewell Gladys (Benedict), 1908-1996 (Sc 2930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Wilson, Jewell Gladys (Benedict), 1908-1996 (Sc 2930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2930. Correspondence of Gladys B. Wilson, Glasgow, Kentucky. Includes personal letters of Wilson, but many also relate to her genealogical and local history research and her work on behalf of the Barren County (South Central Kentucky) Historical Society.

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Ponder, Edna Mae (Friend), 1920-2006 (Sc 2929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Ponder, Edna Mae (Friend), 1920-2006 (Sc 2929), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and image (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2929. Materials relating to design of the Kentucky Bicentennial Star Quilt by Edna Ponder, Danville, Kentucky. Includes typescript history, quilt pattern, unused pieces and cardboard template, newspaper articles, and photographs. Also includes a coloring book related to Danville history, illustrated by Ponder. The original quilt is in the Kentucky Museum collection at Western Kentucky University.

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Breeding, George, 1772-1859 (Sc 2928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Breeding, George, 1772-1859 (Sc 2928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2928. Two slave bills of sale from George Breeding, Adair County, Kentucky, to John M. Nunn, also of Adair County. Includes a note on the Breeding-Nunn family relationship.

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Carpenter, Sidney Crider, 1914-2014 (Sc 2884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Carpenter, Sidney Crider, 1914-2014 (Sc 2884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2884. Digital images of photographs, passports, Kentucky Senate resolution related to 100th birthday, certificate from the Cumberland Trace Chapter of the Military Officers Association, four pieces of currency—Japanese (3) and Russian (1); military identification, from Sidney Crider Carpenter of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Most of the material relates to Carpenter's military career and his role as a coach for several national and international marksmanship teams. Also digital copies of a Korean War photograph album and a 1929 Boy Scout diary kept by Carpenter.

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Hines, Thomas (Lg 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Hines, Thomas (Lg 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 373. Facsimile of a land grant, 1780 May 11, by which Thomas Jefferson, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Thomas Hines, assignee of James Robinson, 1000 acres in Kentucky County.

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Stewart, James (Lg 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Stewart, James (Lg 376), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 376. Copy of a land grant, 1870 September 29, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Stewart, 200 acres on Big Barren River, Warren County.

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Degroot, W. H. (Lg 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Degroot, W. H. (Lg 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 375. Original land grant, 1870 August 18, by which John Stevenson, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to W. H. DeGroot, H. B. Meredith, L. H. Thickstun, and L. Carmichael, 200 acres on the Kentucky River, Perry County, Kentucky.

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Clark, James (Lg 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Clark, James (Lg 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 372. Original land grant, 1842 July 5, by which Robert P. Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Clark 104 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.

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Murton, Jessie Wilmore (Jones), 1886-1973 (Mss 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Murton, Jessie Wilmore (Jones), 1886-1973 (Mss 439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 439. Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, and financial records of Kentucky native and poet Jessie Wilmore Murton. Although born and raised in Kentucky, she spent most of her adult life in Battle Creek, Michigan. Her poetry and prose was published in several solo books and anthologies and appeared extensively in religious publications of the mid-twentieth century. The contents of Box 9 Folder 7 related to the League for Sanity in Poetry has been scanned and can be accessed by clicking on "Additional Files" below.

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Heron, James (Lg 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Heron, James (Lg 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 374. Copy of a land grant, 1798 November 15, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Heron 886 acres on Drakes Creek.

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Tanksley, Edwin Roberts, 1898-1975 (Sc 2927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Tanksley, Edwin Roberts, 1898-1975 (Sc 2927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2927. Transcript of a recorded interview with Edwin R. Tanksley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, an employee of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad from 1925-1960. He recalls his career as a railroad clerk, the skill of his co-workers, the development of railroading in the area, and aspects of Bowling Green such as hotels, entertainment, and visits by political figures. Both the interviewer’s name and the whereabouts of the original recording are unknown.

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Cavanah, David (Lg 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Cavanah, David (Lg 371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 371. Original land grant, 1818 December 31, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to David Cavanah, assignee of Simon Sugg, who was assignee of John M. Flint, 300 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.

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Stone, William Francis, 1826-1879 (Lg 368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Stone, William Francis, 1826-1879 (Lg 368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 368. Land grant, 1842 February 22, by which William N. Trousdale, Governor of the State of Tennessee granted W. F. Stone 40 acres in Marion County, Tennessee.

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Lucas, Charles (Lg 369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Lucas, Charles (Lg 369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 369. Original land grant, 1837 January 7, by which James Clark, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Charles Lucas 50 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Boone, Squire, Jr., 1744-1815 (Lg 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Boone, Squire, Jr., 1744-1815 (Lg 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 367. Copy of a land grant, 1785 November 19, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Squire Boone, assignee of Richard Brashear, 400 acres in Jefferson County, Virginia.

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Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 559. Letters to Benjamin Gideon Davidson “B.G.,” III, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written primarily by female friends when he was a student at Bowling Green High School and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Includes some letters from his mother and miscellaneous papers.

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Fowler, John (Lg 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Fowler, John (Lg 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 370. Copy of a land grant, 1793 September 5, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Fowler 1000 acres on Poagues Creek in the district set apart for the officers and men of the Virginia Line.

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Moody, John (Lg 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Moody, John (Lg 361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 361. Photocopy of a land grant, 1810, (no month), 23, by which Willie Blount, Governor of the state of Tennessee, granted to John Moody, assignee of Francis Dougan, 10 acres in Sumner County, Tennessee.

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