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Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. John, A Slave (Sc 3653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. John, A Slave (Sc 3653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3653. Record from the Warren County (Kentucky) Equity and Criminal Court, of John, a slave, charged with the murder of Harriet Porter, the wife of his owner Uriah Porter. After being convicted in Allen County, John was granted a new trial at which he was acquitted.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 739. Various records of the Warren County, Kentucky Court relating to roads, bridges, wills and estates, land boundaries, taxation, stray animals, and other matters of law and local government. Most date from the first half of the 19th century.
Steen, Jennifer (Hines), B. 1949 - Collector (Mss 738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steen, Jennifer (Hines), B. 1949 - Collector (Mss 738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 738. Genealogical data, family papers and photographs collected by Jennifer (Hines) Steen on the Hines, Duncan, Covington and Nicholls families of Kentucky, and related families.
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Gee, John Bugg, 1801-1878 (Sc 3539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gee, John Bugg, 1801-1878 (Sc 3539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3539. Contract, 1 January 1841, for the hire of “Emily” for twelve months, stipulating a payment of $9.00 to John B. Gee by John Carter and Herod Turner. The contract also stipulates the clothing to be provided to Emily during the summer and winter.
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 651. Letters and papers of the Weir family of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and related members of the Rumsey and Miller families. Well-to-do merchants and farmers, the Weirs were leading supporters of the Union during the Civil War, providing advocacy, financial support, and military service. Includes full-text scans of a letter from the brother of steamboat pioneer James Rumsey defending his legacy as an innovator; James Weir's journal; James Weir's will; the annotated recollections of Edward Weir, Sr.; and two letters from former Weir slaves recolonized in Liberia (Click on "Additional files" below).
Dunham, Josiah, 1769-1844 (Sc 3246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dunham, Josiah, 1769-1844 (Sc 3246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3246. Letter, 25 December 1842, of Josiah Dunham, Lexington, Kentucky, to his brother-in-law Daniel Chipman, Ripton, Vermont. He welcomes news of Chipman’s family and describes his own domestic life, including his and his wife’s health and advancing age, her able household management, and the cost of his African-American servants, who appear to be slaves hired out by their owner. He refers to Chipman’s participation in Vermont’s constitutional convention; he also comments on Henry Clay’s travel to the South, where people acknowledge his talents but will likely …
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3203. Four letters, 1836-1837, of Noah S. Pond to his sister and brother-in-law in Washington, Connecticut. Writing from New Design, Trigg County, Kentucky, where he is working as a peddler, Pond describes many aspects of life in frontier Kentucky: changeable weather, agricultural practices and prices, lay preaching, voting, and the lives of slaves, who he believes are well treated and better off than the poor in the North. He describes selling to a Dutchman who dislikes “Yankees,” notes recent political developments, and finds Kentucky …
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 612. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and family papers of Richard Vance, a Warren County, Kentucky native and U.S. Army officer. After his Civil War service, Vance spent his career at several posts in the South and on the frontier until his retirement in 1892.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.
Harrod, James, 1746?-1792? - Relating To (Sc 2962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harrod, James, 1746?-1792? - Relating To (Sc 2962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2962. Inventory of the personal estate and slaves of the late James Harrod, Mercer County, Kentucky, as appraised on 5 February 1794; and accounts of the estate, 19 May 1798, showing payments and settlements by Anna Harrod, executrix.
Slavery - Kentucky (Mss 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Kentucky (Mss 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 45. Photocopy of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves (1941), transcriptions of oral interviews which recount many aspects of being a slave in nineteenth century Kentucky. The interviews were conducted during the 1930s, part of a Federal Writers’ Project funded by the Works Progress Administration project and administered by the Library of Congress.
Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wall Family Papers (Sc 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1094. Documents mainly of Wall family members of Cynthiana (Harrison County), Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas. The family correspondence includes three Civil War era letters. The financial receipts include one for the cost of an 1841 servant’s coffin.
Howard, Obediah, 1741-1804 - Relating To (Sc 2754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howard, Obediah, 1741-1804 - Relating To (Sc 2754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2754. Wills for Obediah Howard, Barren County, Kentucky, and James Bray, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Also includes a short vignette about Eliza Lewis, a former slave of the Howard family, Barren County.
J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
J. W. Cardwell & Company (Sc 2702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2702. Blank agreements for the services of J.W. Cardwell & Company to procure contracts and make out claims of sundry persons for slaves in the military service of the United States. Includes the terms of compensation. One agreement is undated; the other is dated 1865 and references claims to be made in Warren County, Kentucky.
Skiles, Henry Hamilton, 1832-1889 (Sc 2688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Skiles, Henry Hamilton, 1832-1889 (Sc 2688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2688. Correspondence and other professional papers of Henry Hamilton Skiles, an attorney of Warren County, Kentucky, relating mainly to Civil War claims, courts martial, and applications for release of prisoners of war. Other letters relate to an impressment of a slave to work on the fortifications at Bowling Green, Kentucky, a slave’s travel in Kentucky with a Michigan regiment, and compensation claims for the loss of slaves in Warren County, Kentucky.
Green, Frank (Sc 885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green, Frank (Sc 885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 885. Letter, 11 April 1886, written by Frank Green, Galveston, Texas, to Mrs. Rachel Williams, Hill Grove (Meade County, Kentucky), relating his life’s experiences since being sold in Louisville in 1858. His Kentucky memories are positive and he longs to visit his former owner.
Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Correspondence, deeds, legal and other personal papers of the Edmunds family of North Carolina and Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data and papers of associated families, primarily the Cameron family of North Carolina.
Milliken, Edna Beatrice (Myers) Moore, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Milliken, Edna Beatrice (Myers) Moore, 1921-2005 - Collector (Sc 571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 571. Typescript of original 1827 indictment for dueling of Samuel Houston in Simpson County, Kentucky; typescript of original letter, September 1865, from Henry Grider, Bristow, Warren County, Kentucky, to his niece, Katherine, Happy Camp, California, commenting on the Civil War and its effects. Original letter housed in Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hannum Family (Sc 746), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 746. Ciphering book containing problems using the British pound system, which also contains accounts of John Hannum, Jr., and Richard Hannum, and writings of Penelope Hannum, Logan County, Kentucky. Also clippings, chiefly from newspapers of Russellville, Kentucky, 1820-1860.
Johnson, Sylvanus, 1779-1856 (Sc 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnson, Sylvanus, 1779-1856 (Sc 34), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) . for Manuscripts Small Collection 34. Letter written by Sy Johnson, Mount Pinia, Edmonson County, Kentucky, to John H. White, Warren County, Kentucky concerning the hiring of slaves.
Slavery - Tennessee (Sc 704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Tennessee (Sc 704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 704. Photostats of slave narratives which relate a folk history of slavery in Tennessee from interviews with former slaves. The records were prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938. Originals (typed) are in the Library of Congress.
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 379. Personal and family correspondence, papers, and genealogical research materials of Nora (Young) Ferguson, a native of Richardsville, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes original land, estate and guardianship records, and other early county records which Mrs. Ferguson was permitted to remove from the Warren County Courthouse for microfilming prior to its renovation in 1957. Click on "Additional Files" below to see receipts from the Warren County "Poor House."
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 624. Photocopy of letter written by Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her great-niece, Ellen Hartnett of St. Paul, Minnesota, in which she answers an inquiry about the Civil War and its relationship to the Helm and Blakey families who resided in Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the letter, 1973.
Settle, Simon Dewitt, 1899-1963 (Sc 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle, Simon Dewitt, 1899-1963 (Sc 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 529. Typed manuscript titled "Charles Morgan, Early Kentucky Land Agent," written by Simon Dewitt Settle of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Porter, John Marion, 1839-1884 (Sc 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, John Marion, 1839-1884 (Sc 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 547. Manuscript book of recollections concerning Porter family written by John M. Porter in 1872; clippings pertaining chiefly to Porter, 1870(?)-1884; certificate of his attendance and his ribbon from The Morgan Encampment, 1883; photo of Porter, lawyer and Commonwealth’s Attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Rollins, John W., 1800-1869 (Sc 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rollins, John W., 1800-1869 (Sc 413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2529. Two slave bills of sale (1849, 1856) to Tobias S. Grider, and agreement (1861) of a family of emancipated African Americans to be enslaved by William Davenport.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2527. Warrant (1822) to sheriff to take custody of a free mulatto man found in Warren County; certificates (2) and appointment (1) relating to slave patrols in Warren County (1824-1825); and undated power of attorney authorizing apprehension of a fugitive slave from New Orleans, Louisiana.