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Genealogy Project - notes and documents, 1841-1972

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3

Dates

  • Creation: 1841-1972

General

Includes research notes on the history of black residents of Scot County, KY with suggestions for where scholars/researchers might find additional information; photocopies of biographies of black residents of Scott County, KY; black and white photographs of locations in KY where exodusters met before embarking for Kansas; photocopies from 1876-1877 editions of the "Georgetown Weekly Times" listing siezed properties for sale by the sheriff and notices to deliquent tax payers; lists of members of the Stamping Ground Baptist Church, some with limited annotations, and color photocopies of the Stamping Ground Baptist Church membership lists and meeting notes dated between 1841-1854; heavily annotated list of the original settlers and organizers of Nicodemus Colony; family trees and genealogies for the the Moore, Switzer/Wellington/Williams, Samuels/Sadler-Craig/Garland-Alexander/Napue-Vaughn, and Bates families; handwritten lists of 1880 precincts and colored schools in Scott County, KY; genealogical notes on the Lewis-Ford, Scruggs-Thomas, Kirtley, Jackson, Lewis-Jackson, Scruggs-Giftie, and Scruggs-Lewis families; copies of 1880 Nicodemus census records; handwritten notes; and a photocopy of "History of the Negro Members of Stamping Ground Baptist Church," culled from Master's "History of Kentucky Baptists and Ranck's "The Traveling Church"

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

Contact:
1450 Poplar Lane
Lawrence KS 66045-7616 United States
785-864-4334