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Pearce, James Anderson, 1777-1825 (Sc 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1970

Pearce, James Anderson, 1777-1825 (Sc 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1365. Letter, 6 August 1813, written by James A. Pearce, Louisville, Kentucky, to Armistead Morehead, Russellville, Kentucky, regarding land that Pearce had sold to the South Union Shaker Society in Logan County, Kentucky. Also data from Shaker Record "A" and a local history about this transaction.


History Of Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logansport, Kentucky (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1957

History Of Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logansport, Kentucky (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Compilation of various historical records from the Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Logansport, Butler County, Kentucky. Includes historical information, lists of leadership, and an annotated membership list. This document was prepared by several individuals at different dates, some as late as 1983.


Caswell, Samuel Lee, 1907-1991 (Sc 2503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 1944

Caswell, Samuel Lee, 1907-1991 (Sc 2503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2503. V-mail letter from S. Lee Caswell, serving in Italy during World War II, to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones, Upton, Kentucky, in which he inquires about his family.


Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 3251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1910

Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 3251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3251. Stock certificate for five thousand shares in the Cold Air Double Action Motor Company of Louisville, Kentucky, a notice of shareholders meeting, and a Better Business Bureau query about the company.


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Dentists (Sc 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1891

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Dentists (Sc 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 178. Resolution of sympathy adopted by five Bowling Green, Kentucky dentists regarding the death of their colleague, William R. Desobry.


Barnett, D. L. (Sc 3148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1880

Barnett, D. L. (Sc 3148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3148. Letter, 2 September 1881, of D. L. Barnett to his niece Mrs. Mary F. Guest, Morley, Missouri. Writing on letterhead of the John Thixton Distilling Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, Barnett discusses payment of a debt owing to her, mourns poor crop yields and business prospects, and refers to the possibility of his returning home if “the house that I am as[s]igned to is not a going to Run this Season.”


Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Militia Rolls, 1874-1875 (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1873

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Militia Rolls, 1874-1875 (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Militia rolls (two volumes) for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 1874, 1875. Names are listed in alphabetical order; no other information is provided.


Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Black Marriages, 1866-1872 (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1865

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Black Marriages, 1866-1872 (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Black Marriages, 1866-1872. Information include: names of bride and groom, witnesses, and minister along with marriage date and place of residence. An alphabetical index is located at the back of the volume.


Hornbeck, Mary Mahala (Allen), B. 1810? (Sc 3247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 1846

Hornbeck, Mary Mahala (Allen), B. 1810? (Sc 3247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3247. Bullitt (County, Kentucky) Circuit Court documents relating to the fate of an enslaved woman and her daughter, ordered to be sold in a judgment against Mahala Hornbeck’s husband, Isaac. Mahala obtained an order restraining the sale and placing the slaves in the sheriff’s custody. She then posted bond and successfully bid to hire the slaves until her complaint was adjudicated. Includes a photocopy of the consent order conveying title to the slaves to Mahala and her children upon payment by a trustee of the purchase money …


Blain, Robert Clay, Jr., 1818-1883 (Sc 2005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 1839

Blain, Robert Clay, Jr., 1818-1883 (Sc 2005), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2005. Essay titled "Union" in which Robert Clay Blain, Jr. eloquently discusses the patriotic heritage of the United States and the need to preserve its unique unity.


Morehead, Charles Slaughter, 1802-1868 (Sc 583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 1830

Morehead, Charles Slaughter, 1802-1868 (Sc 583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 583. Receipt signed by Charles S. Morehead to Charles Croghan for a note on Josiah Morin of Christian County for $600, on 300 acres of land, money to be collected by Morehead.