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Miller Family Papers (Sc 140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller Family Papers (Sc 140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 140. Papers of Tobias Miller and James B. Miller, Giles County, Virginia. Includes bill of sale for slave, 1843; five tax receipts, 1857-1869; railroad bill of lading for wheat shipment, 1859; certificate of appointment as surveyor of public road, 1860; statements for dry good and physician's services, 1862-1864, 1867; receipt for C.S.A. bonds, 1864; military notice of impressment and receipt for corn, 1864; and unsigned surety bond.
Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 139. Deeds for land in Warren County, Kentucky, involving the Jenkins and Mitchell families. One deed includes a certificate of privy examination for Susan Jenkins.
Perkins, Nicholas, 1779-1848 (Sc 187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Perkins, Nicholas, 1779-1848 (Sc 187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 187. Photostat of letter written by Nicholas Perkins from Richmond, Virginia, 19 August 1807 to relative Nicholas Tate Perkins, Williamson County, Tennessee, while he was attending Aaron Burr’s treason trial. Perkins was chiefly responsible for Burr’s capture. Also includes biographical information about Perkins.
Landrum, Reuben, 1777-1848 (Sc 188), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Landrum, Reuben, 1777-1848 (Sc 188), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 188. Photostat of letter, 31 July 1837, of Reuben Landrum, Clark County, Kentucky, to his nephew Thomas Landrum upon learning of the death of Thomas’s father, Reuben’s oldest brother. He reflects on their family and supplies some genealogy.
Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barnett, Alexander, Sr., 1745-1819 (Sc 138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 138. Response and counterproposal of Alexander Barnett, Sr., to an 1816 Ohio County, Kentucky Court subpoena to explain his objection to the establishment of a road through his land. Includes typescript of a 1934 newspaper article about a commemorative marker at Barnett's Station in Ohio County.
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 (Sc 186), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 (Sc 186), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 186. Daily diary, 26 October to 4 November 1851, kept by Simon Bolivar Buckner while travelling on military duty from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Atkinson in the Kansas Territory. This record takes the form of ten letters to his wife, Mary, in which he comments on the countryside, the Indians, and the wildlife, vividly describing vast herds of buffalo.
Mcknight, James (Lg 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcknight, James (Lg 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 435. Original land grant, 20 November 1866, by which Thomas E. Bramlette, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James McKnight, assignee in part of B. Q. Hewlett, 150 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Owens, Joshua (Lg 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owens, Joshua (Lg 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 433. Original land grant, 7 July 1834, by which James T. Morehead, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Joshua Owens, assignee of A. G. Gordon, 50 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Givins, John C. And Y. M. Johnson (Lg 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Givins, John C. And Y. M. Johnson (Lg 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 431. Original land grant, 3 February 1883, by which Luke P. Blackburn, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John C. Givins and Y. M. Johnson 100 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Browning, Robert (Lg 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Robert (Lg 432), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 432. Original land grant, 14 October 1859, by which Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Browning 185 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Edmiston, John (Lg 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmiston, John (Lg 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 430. Original land grant, 26 April 1842, by which Robert P. Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Edmiston, assignee of A. Townes, 150 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Simpson County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Simpson County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 102. Deeds for land in Simpson County, Kentucky, 1845-1876, deed of gift for African American woman and child, 1847, and will of E. N. Mitchell, 1872.
Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Anderson, Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813-1845 (Sc 185), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 185. Photostat of letter 12 January 1843 written by Anderson, Three Forks, [Barren County], Kentucky, to Henry Wingate, Frankfort, Kentucky, describing his stay at Mammoth Cave in hopes of being cured of consumption. He also remarks about traveling conditions. Includes typescript as part of a June 1946 letter from Anderson’s great grandson, Warren County, Kentucky native Lockwood Barr, relating more information about him.
Beshears, Isaac (Lg 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beshears, Isaac (Lg 434), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 434. Original land grant, 1 April 1839, by which James Clark, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Isaac Beshears 300 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Wiggins, Howard (Sc 2420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wiggins, Howard (Sc 2420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2420. Letter from Howard Wiggins, manager of Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to R. L. Wolfe, Cerulean, Kentucky. The letter advises that the addresse's proposed electric line has been staked and that he may proceed with house wiring. A schedule of agreed contractor's rates for the work is included.
Claybrook-Doswell Papers (Sc 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Claybrook-Doswell Papers (Sc 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 101. Letters, 1806, and deed of gift for enslaved African American girl, 1814, of the Doswell family of Virginia, and letters, 1816, 1862 and Civil War pass, 1863, of the Claybrook family of Washington County, Kentucky.
Bousman, Louise Tate, 1906-1979 (Sc 99), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bousman, Louise Tate, 1906-1979 (Sc 99), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 99. Paper, 1935 (41 p.), entitled "Handwoven Textiles," written by Louise Tate Bousman, Louisville, Kentucky, which is a summary of material gathered for a textile show held at the Kentucky Library & Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. There are photos and samples included and the the paper is indexed. Also letters of Miss Bousman, 1935, 1945, news clipping and printed item related to weaving.
Harrison, Elaine (Maher), 1924-2016 (Sc 2418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrison, Elaine (Maher), 1924-2016 (Sc 2418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2418. "Manual for Processing Manuscript Collections in the Manuscript Division, Kentucky Library," a project submitted by Elaine M. Harrison for a library science class at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Scott, William Kennedy, 1788-1879 (Sc 2417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, William Kennedy, 1788-1879 (Sc 2417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2417. Letter from Dr. William Kennedy Scott, Buffalo, New York, to his uncle Samuel Younglove, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He discusses the completion and printing of family memoirs and comments on current presidential election issues. Includes Samuel Younglove’s letter to his cousin Timothy Younglove, written and forwarded on the same paper, with proposals on how to complete the memoirs project.
Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Milligan, R. A., B. 1849 (Sc 137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of typescript (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 137. Diary kept by R. A. Milligan, superintendent of the East family farm of the Shaker Society at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. The diary records acreage cultivated, crop yields, planting and harvesting times, and general farm work. Includes some weather observations.
Milburn, Blanche, 1901-1973 (Sc 2416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Milburn, Blanche, 1901-1973 (Sc 2416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2416. Letter, 12 March 1918, to Blanche Milburn, Greenwood, Indiana from "L. G. B.," serving in the Ordinance Department at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky. He writes of military life, principally about an unauthorized absence from camp.
Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patterson, J. (Sc 2415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2415. Letter from J. Patterson, Louisville, Kentucky. Patterson writes of her children, her hopes to move to Covington or Newport, Kentucky, asks about Terrell's family, and complains of the number, poverty and ignorance of free blacks in Louisville.
Bowles, John (Sc 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowles, John (Sc 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 593. Ciphering book kept by John Bowles of Granville County, North Carolina. Bowles used "Pike's Arithmetic" in making his ciphering book.
Hart, Nathaniel, Jr., 1770-1844 (Sc 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hart, Nathaniel, Jr., 1770-1844 (Sc 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 182. Letter, 25 April 1813, from Nathaniel Hart, Jr., Spring Hill, Woodford County, Kentucky to Henry Clay, Washington, D.C., asking Clay to present a claim for him to the Secretary of the Treasury for reimbursement for a trip he made in October 1812 to deliver treasury notes to banks in Chillicothe, Ohio and Frankfort, Kentucky.
Bains, Samuel, 1783-1836 (Sc 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bains, Samuel, 1783-1836 (Sc 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 183. Typescripts and photocopies of two 1813 letters written by Samuel Bains serving at Fort Strother and Fort Deposit in Alabama to his wife Christiana, Dixons Creek, Smith County, Tennessee, describing battles against the Indians and military life.
King, John (Sc 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
King, John (Sc 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 594. Ciphering book of John King including mathematical exercises, numeration of money, simple and compound reduction, weights and measures, and word problems.
Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 184. Photographs of a $500 bond posted by Thomas Lincoln as constable of Cumberland County, Kentucky. In addition to Lincoln, bond signed by Jesse Gee and Moses Kirkpatrick. Scholars disagree as to whether the signer of this bond was President Abraham Lincoln's father or a cousin.
Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 966. Ciphering book (94 p.), focusing chiefly on surveying and navigating rules for solving problems as well as giving specific problems, of Spencer Curd, Logan County, Kentucky, with accompanying genealogical data.
Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 135. Letter from William Stewart Cross Webster, Paris, Kentucky, to G. Fred Ziegler in London, England. Writing to his former Princeton classmate, Webster, a Presbyterian minister, tells of his pastorate in Paris, speculates on his future plans, including his hopes to marry, and gives news of other school friends.
Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 136. Papers of the Payne family of Warren County, Kentucky, including letter from Civil War prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois; letter describing the death of Halley Payne; 1874 letter from a Glasgow teacher referring to unrest among African Americans; promissory note; remedies for piles and rheumatism; and a letter detailing with the prevention and treatment of cholera.