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Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 1787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 1787), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1787. Photocopy of will of prominent Kentucky jurist and Congressman John Rowan, written 28 June 1840 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1826-1842 (Sc 1761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe County, Kentucky - Records, 1826-1842 (Sc 1761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1761. Record book of William G. Howard documenting his duties as a Justice of the Peace. It includes stray notices, legal judgments, and marriages performed (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripted list of marriages.)
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1744. Record of trial held in Simpson County, Kentucky of William P. King, Charles Smith, Abraham Owen and seven others for the murder of Harvey King. Defendants and victim had all participated in a previous train robbery. Also includes a photocopy of The Life of King and Owen, Written by Themselves, Revised and Prepared by Rev. L. M. Horn, Explaining the Railroad Robbery and Murder of Harvey King (Louisville, Ky., 1867); and “‘A High Handed Outrage:’ The King & Owens Railroad Robbery of 1866,” a paper written …
Brown, Austin, 1786-1863 (Sc 1671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown, Austin, 1786-1863 (Sc 1671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1671. Documents from the lawsuit of Thomas J. Hudnall vs. Elizabeth Brown related to the disposition of the Austin Brown estate.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 201. Correspondence and research notes relating to biographical information compiled for labels attached to portraits of Warren County, Kentucky Circuit Court judges. Copies of the labels and photos of five of the portraits are included. Detailed information about Judge John B. Rodes is included.
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barren County, Kentucky - Court Records, 1916 (Mss 198), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 198. Three indices for Barren County, Kentucky Quarterly Court records; the actual court records are not part of this collection and are located in the Barren County courthouse. Two of the indices are not dated, and the third one marked "Executions" is dated 1916.
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.
Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church - Fountain Run, Kentucky (Sc 1456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church - Fountain Run, Kentucky (Sc 1456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1456. Monroe County Circuit Court case involving members of the Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church. The injunction enjoined certain members (or ex-members) from threatening, etc., those in the majority.