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Enscore, James Albert, D. 1865 (Sc 2541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Enscore, James Albert, D. 1865 (Sc 2541), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2541. Letter of James A. Enscore, written to his family while serving with the 56th Illinois Regiment encamped near the Memphis Railroad in Tennessee. James mentions his recovery from illness and the arrival of his brother George, and asks for letters from family members. Both James and George were lost on the steamer General Lyon when it caught fire during a storm off Cape Hatteras on 31 March 1865.
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Compiler (Sc 2534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Compiler (Sc 2534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2534. “An Aviation Heritage Park Salute to Those Warren County Veterans Who Lost Their Lives in Aerial Combat or Aviation Related Activities,” by Ray B. Buckberry, Jr. Contains biographical and service information on Warren County, Kentucky veterans who suffered aviation-related deaths from 1919-1969.
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Compiler (Sc 2536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Compiler (Sc 2536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2536. List compiled by Ray B. Buckberry, Jr. of Warren County, Kentucky, World War II veterans interred in foreign cemeteries or recognized on “monuments to the missing,” based on records of the American Battle Monuments Commission. List provides name, rank, cemetery name and location.
Robert Kerr And Company - Great Britain (Sc 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robert Kerr And Company - Great Britain (Sc 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 424. Business letter from Robert Kerr and Company, Liverpool, England, written on a ledger sheet, and addressed to Harbert A. Powell, Henderson, Kentucky, regarding tobacco shipments. Also, statement of Powell’s account is given.
Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 44. Typed copies of personal and legal papers, 1791-1840 (43) of Charles Meriwether, a pioneer doctor of Christian County, Kentucky; family letters of Caroline Gordon Tate, author and educator, 1938-1947 (18); and family letters of newspaper columnist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (“Dorothy Dix”), 1930-1949 (13).
Durbin, Richard, B. 1811 (Sc 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Durbin, Richard, B. 1811 (Sc 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 414. License obtained by Richard Durbin, Edmonson County, Kentucky, to have a tavern in his house.
Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 422. Printed circular letter from Campbell, McKee and Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 January 1860, regarding tobacco, etc., on the New Orleans market; market circular, New Orleans, 26 May 1860; and circular letter from Pickett Tobacco Warehouse, Spratt, Bourn and Company, Louisville, Kentucky, December 1858, regarding an exhibition of tobacco for premiums.
Rollins, John W., 1800-1869 (Sc 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rollins, John W., 1800-1869 (Sc 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 413. Letter from John W. Rollins, Rumsey, Kentucky, to Doctor Sterman about hiring a Negro boy (slave) from him to teach the trades of wool carding, millwright, and machine work.
Briggs, John M., 1798-1882 (Sc 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Briggs, John M., 1798-1882 (Sc 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 412. Deed for a lot located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Phineas D. Hampton, signed by John M. Briggs.
Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 416. Certificate, 5 August 1869, confirming voter registration of J.J. Crisp, issued by the Commissioner of Registration for Warren County, Tennessee.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Songs (Sc 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Songs (Sc 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 418. Holographic copy of the words of a Confederate song entitled “The Southern Wagon.” The song was composed during the Civil War as a parody of the song “Wait for the Wagon.” Author is unknown.
Gardenhire, Erasmus Lee, Sr., 1815-1899 (Sc 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gardenhire, Erasmus Lee, Sr., 1815-1899 (Sc 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 419. Letter written by Erasmus Lee Gardenhire, Sr., Burkesville, Kentucky, to Dr. J.D. Hale, Nashville, Tennessee, requesting his aid in securing the restoration of his citizenship forfeited during the Civil War. On the reverse side, Hale addressed a note to the President [Johnson] requesting a pardon for Gardenhire.
Angel, E. M. (Sc 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Angel, E. M. (Sc 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 420. Notice, Greensburg, Kentucky, to the African-American men of the 4th Congressional District, asking for recruits with bounties being offered, and stating that if they do not volunteer, they will be drafted. Signed by E.M. Angel, Deputy Provost Marshal, 4th Congressional District.
Barry, G. E. & Company (Sc 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barry, G. E. & Company (Sc 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 421. Circular letter, broadside, and envelope, from G.E. Barry & Company, Wilmington, Delaware, advertising a lottery for the benefit of the state of Delaware, 25 March 1861.
Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 415. Miscellaneous receipts from Warren County, Kentucky: carding business, 1855-56, dry goods store receipt and inventory, 1860, 1872, grocery, 1871, and freight business, 1868-1869. Also memo to county attorney asking that pistol be returned to the lawful owner, 1875.
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 (Sc 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 (Sc 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 417. Papers relating to Henry Clark Corbin's commission as a captain in the U.S. Army.
Kavanaugh, Benjamin T., 1805-1888 (Sc 2542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kavanaugh, Benjamin T., 1805-1888 (Sc 2542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2542. Loyalty oaths of Benjamin T. Kavanaugh, taken before the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri (1865) and the Register of Harris County, Texas (1868).
Caswell County, North Carolina - Weather (Sc 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Caswell County, North Carolina - Weather (Sc 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 406. Notes by an unknown observer of the weather in Caswell County, North Carolina, 25 December 1844 to 6 January 1845.
Kernes, Adam (Sc 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kernes, Adam (Sc 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 388. Photocopy of a bill of sale of Adam Kernes, Russell County, Kentucky, to Bartholomew Helm, Russell County, for an enslaved African-American woman and her infant.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2540. “Fifty Years in a One-Room School,” an account by Alfred Leland Crabb, Jr. of the teaching career of his grandfather James Wade Crabb in one-room schools, primarily in Butler and Warren counties in Kentucky. Includes data on the Crabb family, a copy of James W. Crabb’s Warren County teaching certificate, a list of Warren County schools, 1908-1919, and an early twentieth-century photo of Plum Springs Schoolhouse, Warren County. Also includes A. L. Crabb, Sr.’s account of a student’s last day at Plum Springs Schoolhouse.
Gilliland, Thomas, 1745-1814 (Sc 2537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gilliland, Thomas, 1745-1814 (Sc 2537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2537. Letter, 29 December 1813, from Thomas Gilliland, Hardin County, Kentucky to his son Thomas in Warren County, Illinois. He endorses the wish of the younger Thomas to marry, as he is now of legal age.
Cossitt, Franceway Ranna, 1790-1863 (Sc 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cossitt, Franceway Ranna, 1790-1863 (Sc 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 396. Letter from Franceway Ranna Cossitt, Princeton, Kentucky, to brother, Ambrose, Claremont, New Hampshire. He reflects on the death of their mother, describes his family, and relates his success and progress as president of Cumberland College, Princeton.
Skaggs Family Bible Records (Sc 392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Skaggs Family Bible Records (Sc 392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) typescript (clip on "Additional File" below) for Small Collection 392. Removed from Skaggs family Bible. Records of James Skaggs, 1789-1861, and his wife, Dorothy Dunham Skaggs, b. 1789, married 1810.
Guthrie, James, 1792-1869 (Sc 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Guthrie, James, 1792-1869 (Sc 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 410. Letter, from James Guthrie, Washington, D.C., to R.S. Fisher, New York City, stating that the Treasury Department does not have extra copies of documentation requested.
Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 381. Photostats of a Kentucky Legislature Resolution, 1812, signed by Governor Isaac Shelby; letters to President James Madison, 1814 (2) supporting the war with Great Britain; letters to General Andrew Jackson and others regarding Kentucky Volunteers for the war, 1814, 1815 (4); and papers concerning a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians, 1818 (2), accompanied by a copy of the joint report of Shelby and Jackson regarding the treaty, 1818.
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 384. Photocopy of letter from Henry Clay, Washington, D.C., to Isaac Shelby, inquiring about the Indian title to the lands south of the Cumberland River in Kentucky which Clay thinks were purchased by Richard Henderson & Company from the Indians.
Scott, Charles, 1739-1813 (Sc 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, Charles, 1739-1813 (Sc 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small collection 385. Photostats of a Kentucky Legislature Resolution, 1812, signed by Governor Isaac Shelby; letters to President James Madison, 1814 (2) supporting the war with Great Britain; letters to General Andrew Jackson and others regarding Kentucky Volunteers for the war, 1814, 1815 (4); and papers concerning a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians, 1818 (2), accompanied by a copy of the joint report of Shelby and Jackson regarding the treaty, 1818.
Harris, John (Sc 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, John (Sc 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 387. Bill of sale of John Harris, Union County, Kentucky, to heirs of James Huston, Union County, for a Negro woman and her children.
Seay, Samuel (Sc 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Seay, Samuel (Sc 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 393. Manuscript excerpts from diary which was used as proof of marriage by Polly Grundy Seay in her application for a pension. Samuel Seay was a Revolutionary soldier who immigrated to Kentucky in 1793 and lived in the counties of Washington and Graves. Evidently, he later lived in Amelia County, Virginia.
Frazer Family Legal Papers (Sc 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Frazer Family Legal Papers (Sc 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 397. Affidavit, 1815, Warren County, Kentucky, stating that George Frazer has three horses in his possession that are not his; Frazer’s will, 1828; Warren County deeds, 1819, 1841 (2); and Warren County survey, 1846. Also, letter relating to a disallowed Civil War claim of Thomas A. Frazer, 1894.