Amos family papers
Abstract
The Amos family papers (dated 1814-1979, undated; 2 cubic feet; 6 boxes) primarily comprise the correspondence, photographs, receipts and account ledgers, bonds, notes, and checks, other financial records, legal papers, and other personal papers belonging to or created by the Amos family.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Amos family papers
- Date
- 1814-1979, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 2.31 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Bonds.
- Bank notes.
- Family archives -- Kentucky.
- Legal documents.
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Letters.
- Missouri
- Gossip.
- Slavery, abolition, and emancipation
- Slavery -- Economic aspects
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- Amos, Abraham, 1779-1818
- Amos, Abram, 1810-1888
- Amos, Julia Matheny, 1810-1888
- Amos, Mary Granvillene, 1903-1988
- Amos, Nicholas, Jr., 1771-1847
- Amos, Nicholas, Sr., 1742-1815
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 2021ms090: [identification of item], Amos family papers, 1814-1979, undated, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Nicholas Day Amos, Sr. was born September 19, 1742 in Baltimore County, Province of Maryland. On October 29, 1761, he married Christiana Ditto and the couple birthed twelve children. During the American War of Independence Nicholas fought with the Harford County Militia Company 15, which was formed 27th January, 1776. He and sons and a son-in-law purchased land in Bourbon County, Kentucky circa 1794. The family participated in enslavement and supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Members of the Amos family include Nicholas Amos, Sr. (1742-1815), his sons Nicholas Amos, Jr. (1771-1847), Abraham Amos (about 1779-1818). Also, Nicholas Amos, Jr.'s son, Abram Amos (1810-1888), and his wife Julia (Matheny) Amos (1810-1888), along with Abram and Julia's granddaughter, Mary Granvillene Amos (1903-1988).
- Sources: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68883701/nicholas-day-amos : accessed 05 May 2022), memorial page for Nicholas Day Amos (19 Sep 1742–Aug 1815), Find a Grave Memorial ID 68883701, citing Parker Cemetery, Millersburg, Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by 47117651 (contributor 47117651).
- The Amos Family, submitted by Kellie Scott, Family Collection Record, Bourbon County Genealogical Society, (http://sites.rootsweb.com/~kybcgs/family/ff-amos.htm : accessed 05 2022), RootsWeb community.
- Scope and Content
- The Amos family papers collection (dated 1814-1979, undated; 2 cubic feet; 6 boxes) primarily comprises the correspondence, photographs, receipts and account ledgers, bonds, notes, and checks, other financial records, legal papers, and other personal papers belonging to or created by the Amos family of Bourbon County, Kentucky and Missouri. The correspondence comprises letters between members and friends of the Amos family, with subject matter pertaining to family matters, education, the Civil War, slavery and slavery abolition, legal matters, and gossip. Much of the collection deals topically with slavery in Kentucky and Missouri prior to, during, and after the Civil War. Letters in the collection discuss specific troubles with enslaved persons and their performance, violence against enslaved persons, idealogical and biblical arguments for slavery, difficulties selling enslaved people during the Civil War, and having to pay former enslaved persons. Other records include bills of sale for enslaved people and their children. Events discussed in the letters include John Hunt Morgan raids in Kentucky, Bushwackers in Kansas, the recruitment of Black soldiers in Paris, Kentucky, Civil War troop movements in Kentucky and Missouri, and rising costs post Civil War.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Letters, 1837-1942, undated
Scope and Contents
The Letters series (dated 1837-1942, undated) comprises letters created by and belonging to the Amos family. Subjects of the letters include family and town gossip, talk of the Civil War, legal matters, education, and enslavement. The letters are primarily written and sent by Nicholas D. Amos, Abram Amos, Abraham Amos, Julia Matheny Amos, and Washington Kennedy.
To Abram Amos, signed Thomas H. Matheny, letter - mentions Ohio, an estate, a dispute, family news, 1837 January 25
To Abram Amos, signed Joseph Amos, letter - command re: delivery and confidentiality of a letter, request for council and news update, suspicion of a hoax re: bank note, signature, bank rules, mentions Pennsylvania and Kentucky, 1837 February 8
To Abram Amos, signed John B Sheethley , letter - legal dispute, weather, land dispute, estate, 1843 August
Dear Sir, signed J. S. Scrogin and L. B. Allise, letter - confidential direction for recruitment in upcoming election, names listed, working on district boundary, Central Democratic Committee of Paris, Kentucky, 1845 June
To Abram Amos, signed J. J. Amos, letter - Bourbon County, death of father, settlement of matters, Circuit Court, "conclusions about the Blacks", 1847 October 3
To Abram Amos, signed Johanon Amos, letter - treatment of enslaved people and Methodist Church conference, with transcript, 1847 October 13
To Abram Amos, signed Joseph J. Amos, letter - "I lost it all and need money from the estate. Can you send it?", "Ruinous year for men in the hog trade,", 1848 January 21
To sister, signed brother, letter - Boone County, Missouri, re: an estate?, financial details, 1854 April 10
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - gum disease, Bourbon County, prices of goods/cattle, shipment from Cincinnati, crops, weather, partnership in sale of goods, due bill, 1855 April 27
To Abraham Amos, Esq., signed Minister Thompson, letter - Fayette, Missouri (?), condolences on death of son, consolation through scripture, 1855 July 31
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - weather and accounting, 1856 February 4
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter detailing various financial accounts and checks sent out, mentions land note, taxes, etcetera, 1856 March 5
To A. Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - talk of money and checks, The Estate, farming details, 1856 May 14
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - weather, farming, deaths from (name of disease?) in Millersburg were mostly children, business accounting on back, 1856 October 7
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - pre-civil war politics, democratic party "corruption", importing Irish and Dutch, J. Breckenridge (next vice president) gave an abolition speech in Ohio and Indiana, mentions Free Soil Society, check mailed, weather causing low prices, hogs down to five dollars per hundred, 1856 October 27
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - finances, weather, marriages, 1856 December 4
To Mrs. Amos, from Sallie Challes(?), letter - "your brother has died," "left home healthy one day, got a chill, brought home in wagon. Died nine days later of pleurisy and pneumonia,", 1857 April 24
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter about land execution, amount of payments, debt, weather, crops, measles, mostly financial, 1857 May 12
To Cousin, signed N. A. Jameson, letter - "We now have one of the finest farms in Bourbon County," weather, marriages, "dancing picnics,". Robert Champ (?) is in jail and charged with ravishing the widow Champ. The jail was broken into and he was castrated by a mob, 1857 June 8
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - mentions Pleasant Hill, Missouri, checks sent in mail, health, 1857 June 23
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - money matters, crops, hog cholera, price of mules, swapping of farms, deed, 1857 October 12
To Br. A, signed L. Marston, letter - Abe Barton's still house burned down, not rebuilding, news of deaths, mule sales and pricing, marriages, hog cholera in county, land sales/trades, mention of Missouri, 1857 December 9
To "Most Egregious Sir", unsigned love letter from Bunker Hill, 1858 April 1
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - health, deaths, money scarce, livestock dull, season and crop, purchase of farm at eighty dollars an acre, move to Missouri/Texas, 1858 May 11
Dear Bro, signed J. J. Amos, letter - death of wife, tubercular consumption, Rushville, Missouri, 1959 June 28
To Abram Amos, signed Milton Jameson, letter - health, weather, crops, sale of a tool, neighborhood news, 1860 June 17
To Abram Amos, signed N. A. Jameson, letter - notice of father's death and request of money to cover debt, 1860 September 7
To Abram Amos, from S. H. Boulder, re: acquisition of a payment on a debt, 1860 September 15
Dear Uncle, signed N. A. Jameson, letter - discussing a check, 1861 May 5
To Imele (?), signed N. A. Jameson, letter - early Civil War, neutrality of Kentucky, success of Crittendon ticket 1861 House of Representatives, "great reaction in favor of the Union", debt, advice for companionship, 1861 May 19
Dear Brother, signed L. Marston, letter - Bourbon County, Kentucky, finances, Kentucky's succession will depend on the outcome of the war, 1861 May 26
Dear Friend, signed B. McClintock, letter - town gossip/news, trips, moves to Virginia, health/deaths/suicide, marriage, weather/crops, Methodist Church meeting in Millersburg, 1862 February 24
Nicholas D. Amos, certificate of entry into Confederate States Army, Cass County, Missouri, 1862 November 28
Dear father, signed N. D. Amos, letter - Republican candidate for Governor spoke, person who would vote for him as bad as Jeff Davis, 1863 July 25
Dear father, from N. D. Amos, letter - "All the Parker boys taken prisoner at the fight at (?), Bob Austin was wounded,", 1863 August 10
Dear Son, signed A. Amos, letter - Lawrence, Kansas burned, not sure if to stay or leave, unsure mail is moving, "I have such contempt for the scoundrels,", 1863 August 29
To A. Amos, signed J. J. Amos, letter - finances, family news, health, 1863 October 8
To Mr. Amos, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - Randolph County, Missouri, Allen, Missouri, railroad station, difficulty boarding enslaved people, difficulty seeing enslaved people, horses/mules/drought, livestock at low prices, mention of "Rebels"?, many leaving Lafayette, Saline, Platte, and Clay counties in Missouri, 1863 October 10
To Abram Amos, unsigned, letter - "Raid of Morgan" Civil War Morgan's raid 1863, mentions Indiana and Ohio, circa 1863
To Cousin Abe, signed Thomas Amos, letter - Ruddles Mills, Kentucky sale of enslaved people, season, weather, local death news, 1864 January 18
To Mr. Amos, signed Kole Smith, letter - White Hall, Illinois, family news, health, sale of enslaved people- low price, deaths, frost bite, blind staggers, dissatisfaction with Lincoln's reelection, 1864 January 31
To Mrs. Amos, unsigned letter - Second CO cavalry regiment, Captain Elmer, General Brown, promise to help after misfortunes, Missouri women running off with Kansas men/troops, fires, Christian trial, pneumonia, 1864 March 1
Dear Parents, signed Nic D. Amos, letter - weather, heavy rain impact on cotton, roads, drownings, inflammatory rheumatism, sale of mules, 1864 March 13
Dear Uncle, signed Merrell Jameson (?), letter - Millersburg, Kentucky, immediate concern about family's life, mental illness, 1864 March 26
To Mrs. Amos, signed Lizzie Collins, letter - Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri, University President Reverend Thomas Barbour, sender is having to live with Union affiliates, Greensburg, Kentucky, Pleasant Green, Missouri, Jackson, Missouri, 1864 April 1
To Mrs. Amos, signed Mollie E. W., letter - movement at General's orders, improvement of town, telegraph and railroad, property value rising, Greenbacks, gold, currency, local news, travels and professions, Army movements/policies, abandonment, hogs killed by Kansas Men, 1864 April 3
To Letitia D. Crump, signed Mr. Nicholas, letter - foot injury, severe sore throat, federal soldiers in Paris, Kentucky, talk of sending five thousand to Missouri, sender expects Rebels will arrive within thirty days to chase away Yankees, displeasure with Union in Kentucky, crops, wedding fashion, 1864 April 19
To Mr. and Mrs. Amos, signed Mary E. McThrain, letter - familial letter, sender in poor health, husband has died, visit with family in Oxford, Ohio, 1864 August 6
To Mr. Amos, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - health, crops, recruitment of black soldiers, theft of horses, searches being done, 1864 August 24
Dear Aunt, signed Mary E. McThrain, letter - talk of plentiful black soldiers in Kentucky, 1864 August 25
Dear Parents, signed N. Amos, letter - logistics of posting mail during war, weather/health, school, employment, cost of living arrest, Thompson and Keene law firm, stolen silk, arrested and released salesman, 1864 September 10
To Mrs. Amos, unsigned letter - soldiers disrupting property, town full of soldiers but not black people, train of thirty wagons passed with black people going to Kansas, deaths, prisoners, hostages, paroled, 1864 September-October 4
Dear Mother, signed N. D. Amos, letter - trips, visitors, school, 1864 October 9
To Julia Amos, unsigned letter - employment tending mules, arrests in Kentucky, sender afraid to visit, 1864 October 14
Dear Daughter, signed Father, letter - hog purchase contract, plans for a visit, 1864 November 12
To Mrs. Amos, unsigned letter - family business about moving someone from one place to another- possibly enslaved person, 1864 December 1
Dear Mother, signed N. Amos, letter - mentions Manning Bowman and Company, crops, weather, hogs, business accounting, 1864 December 14
To sister, signed N. D. Amos, letter - peace rumors, Rock Island Prisoner of War Camp, Dave Arnold, Frank Folger, several individuals went with Rebels mentioned by name, casualties listed, skirmish at Wellington, Helen Stewart married federal officer, death by consumption, 1865 February 4
To Mrs. Kennedy, signed Nannie Kiersey (?), letter - Jackson County, Missouri, John. A. Williams, talk of return to homes and hope for peace, several people listed by name with records of movements during Civil War, 1865 February 24
Dear Julia, signed A. Amos, letter - neighbor looking through mail, broken Jack, will/property, travel, listed salary for trade, Liberty, Missouri, 1865 April 28
Dear Uncle, signed N. A. Jameson, letter - court case and levy on the recipient's land, John Howard, 1865 May 17
To Father, signed N. Amos, letter - "I got your letter and I am sending the goods to you,", fabric for pants, etcetera, "I am about to graduate,", 1865 May 21
Dear Son, signed A. Amos, letter - family news, regarding disagreement over livestock and money, tobacco crop, 1865 June 4
To Wash Kennedy, signed A. Amos, letter - visit with friends, picnic at Nelson College, sick horse (maybe poisoned?), Jack "break him", finances, accounts, settlements, 1865 June 16
Dear brother, signed L. Marston, letter - re: payment of lawsuit and judgment, mentions Paris, Kentucky, swearing in not done correctly in court (?), death/will, public sale of land, 1865 June 28
Dear Father, unsigned letter - hard to find job after end of schooling, mentions Kentucky, "up north", and Memphis, Kansas railroad construction, 1865 July 3
To A. Amos, signed N. Amos, letter - deed or selling of shares, price of stamp, neuralgia, 1865 October 2
Unaddressed, signed N. D. Amos, letter - measles, wedding, 1865 October 2
To Julia, signed Emma Walters, letter - Cincinnati, recipient's house destroyed, joke about family member's new girlfriend, local news, 1865 October 15
To parents, unsigned letter - sixty dollars per month from road, money from trading, sale/stock of mules, mule colts fifty-two dollars each, cost of land, stealing horses, one thief was federal officer, one was Rebel, troops preparing to leave, Nick Trundles going to Missouri, prices crop/goods, Cincinnati, rails, rent/taxes, caught measles at fair, 1865 October 15
To Aunt Julia, signed Gatia D. Crump (?), letter - Paris, Kentucky, health of family/neighborhood, neuralgia sudden deaths, teeth removal, household duties, local marriages, 1865 November 19
Dear Parents, signed N. D. Amos, letter - shipment of cattle to New York for David Penn and Jacoby, travel to Canada to buy clothing at reasonable price, fashion, pricing, payment in "greenbacks", visit Niagara Falls, 1865 December 24
Dear Uncle, signed Merritt Jameson, letter - Paris, Kentucky, sale of an estate/shares, personal letter discussing finances, 1865
Dear Son, unsigned, letter - discussion of post-war abolition issues, weather, building of large house, local news, Pleasant Hill, Missouri, 1866 January 4
My Dear Friend, signed Siba (?) Hamilton, letter - Millersburg, Kentucky, sickness/death, measles and mumps, weather, weddings among returning "Rebels" calling enslaved people "hired staff" post-war, 1866 February 20
To Mr. Amos, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - Pleasant Hill paper, sale of land with unauthorized signatures, references to black people hired from road, plans to go with them to Missouri stalled by Nick Trundles, sixty dollars/month from road, crops/prices, full names of noteworthy people including Major Branham, work mare not good, rail construction lumber hickory better, 1866 March 22
Dear parents, signed N. H. Amos, letter - money, livestock, disagreement over ownership, 1866 April 29
Dear Parents, signed Sarah Kennedy, letter - health, injury thrown from horse, travel to Missouri and Indiana, rumors about young girl losing her mind, money transfer, prices of goods, town news, clothing freed enslaved people, two authors but one signature, 1866 May 6
Dear Aunt, signed Gish (?), letter - health, whooping cough, farm/crops, pricing of goods, fashion, scuffle in town, mentions John Williams who may be first president of University of Kentucky, 1866 June 14
To Cousin Abram, signed A. J. Biddle, letter - New Maysville, Indiana, regarding a debt, hopes to sell land and relocate to Boone County, Missouri, scarcity of timber, status of crops, 1866 July 3
Dear Parents, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - family/neighborhood news, health, whooping cough, crops and meat, local estate, property values, 1866 July 2
To uncle and aunt, signed J. J. Keithly (?), letter - Missouri, mention of Jackson and Pleasant Hill, health, crops, 1866 July 7
To uncle and aunt, signed J. I. Pettily, letter - local deaths, crops, weather, reunions of old sweethearts, desire to visit Choctaw Nation, regret about Civil War results, 1866 August 11
Dear Nickolas, signed I. K., letter - Paris Kentuckian and Pleasant Hill Union newspapers, move from Missouri to Kentucky, Missouri anticipating more "trouble", another war in a year, hire of young black girl, cattle disease caused by Texas cattle, cattle killed by lightning, description of house, state fair, buggy, crops and shipping cost, rising prices, 1866 September 17
To Nick, signed Amanda Amos, letter - health, crops, weather, trouble in recipient's county, "sell your farm and come stay with us where there is 'peace'", 1866 September 18
Dear Nick, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - lynching, gunfire at far between black man and white Marshall with name, outrage over event, black man lynched and Marshall arrested, taxes, land deed, worry about another war soon in Missouri, 1866 September 18
To Mr. A. Amos, signed J. A. Gingry, letter - financial account and travel to California via Kansas City, 1866 October 29
Dear Parents, signed Nic D. Amos, letter - Cincinnati, cholera outbreak, typhoid fever, whippings at school, looming threat of trouble in Missouri, farm rental cost, local shooting, County court day stock was "dull", prices of cattle/crops, 1866 November 6
Dear Parents, signed Nic Amos, letter - court date, mule prices, neighborhood news of shooting of a black boy, 1866 November 22
Unaddressed, signed I. J. Pettily, letter - family update with interesting phonetic spelling, 1866 December
Dear parents, signed N. D. Amos, letter - bank notes, health, rat bite, court, crops, corn price, cattle on the decline, local trade, sale/price of family farm, working on road for twelve to fifteen dollars per year, 1866 December 4
Dear parents, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - mentions Indiana, threat to sue, formerly enslaved people's new relationships and duties, post-war labor, farm, price of goods, mules, 1866 December 14
Dear parents, signed I. K., letter - stroke, Paris, Kentucky, poor job prospects/economy in Missouri, Major Branham, sale/price of mules, cllothing/fashion prices, family news, 1866?
Dear aunt, signed Gish (?) , letter - written from Kentucky (?), health, cold weather, parties, marriages, local news, post-war difficulty with black people staying in town, 1867 February 3
To parents, unsigned letter - local/family news, property sale, salary details, travel, debt, livestock prices, mule drivers, farm rentals, Major Branham four hundred dollar offer on Missouri farm, 1867 February 14-17
Dear Parents, signed Nicholas Amos, letter - Murfreesboro, Tennessee, sale and price of mules and horses, wedding, debt, 1867 February 19
To parents, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - land rental with price per acre, travel to Missouri, land rental in Missouri, weather/season, things are bad in Missouri, "as Mrs. Amos don't sign her name to her letters", 1867 March 9
To friend, signed Sabina Hamilton, letter - health, pneumonia, weather, leaving of formerly enslaved people, death of friend, Millersburg, 1867 March 10
To aunt, signed I. J. Keithly, letter - winter weather, joke about marriage, talk of visiting family but concerned for safety, written with shorthand and phonetic spelling, 1867 March 13
To parents, signed N. D. Amos, letter - from Kentucky, lots of names and updates, talk of making parishoners mad, reaper machine one hundred and ninety dollars, wheat crop light, eight to ten bushels per acre, details of livestock sale on square, 1867 May 7
Dear parents, signed Nic, letter - crops, weather, Congressional Election candidates and parties listed, major performance in Paris, Kentucky, shipment of notes, mentions Cynthiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, 1867 May 7
Dear aunt, signed Gish, letter - health, neuralgia, weather, crops and livestock, fashion, local news, 1867 May 18
To uncle and aunt, signed I. J. Keithly, letter - general town and family updates, 1867 May 23
To parents, signed S. K., letter - family gossip, farming deaths, "The election was all democrats here," wheat seed details, mule prices, gathering blackberries, scratched arm, swelled up two times, boy of twelve thrown from hose, broke skull, expected to die, 1867 August 8
To parents, signed N. D. Amos, letter - farming details, someone is visiting from Missouri, spell of fever, "I will bring horses to sell because they are high there," gossip, 1867 September 21
To sir, signed A. Amos, letter - approval of by-laws for a new mason lodge, 1867 October 4
My Dear, signed Amanda Amos, letter - family update, 1867 December 2
Dear parents, signed N. Amos, letter - visit, settle business, shipment horse stock, travel to Cincinnati, family news, 1867 December 17
To A. Amos, signed S. S. Colburn, letter - antagonistic argument over a buggy and travel to Missouri and housing an enslaved person, argument over payment for wheat, 1867
To Abram Amos, signed (?) Whitman, possible purchase of a Walter A. Wood reaper, 1867 May 22
Dear father, signed Nic, letter - purchase of a reaper and might become a sales agent for manufacturer, 1867 May 20
To Wash Kennedy, signed Mis (?), letter - weather, farming details, describes growth of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, land sales, 1868 January 24
To Mr. Amos, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - health, scarlet fever, permit for goods, Provost Marshall United States Army, renting Talbot farm, 1869 December 29
To cousin, signed Helen, letter - Locust Grove, Missouri, school, picnics, meeting with preacher, visit to Jackson, family news, purchase of organ, 1878 August 25
To Granvillene Amos, signed Darlene Cooper, personal letter, student to teacher, 1942 May 17
To Brother Abram and Berny, unsigned letter - detailed business proceeding, loan, power of attorney, re: law firm, mentions wills repeatedly, undated
Dear Julia Amos, signed Emma Walters, letter - Cincinnati, family illness and death, inflammatory rheumatism, weight gain, family stories, parade, weather, leaving the city, fear of cholera, undated
To Julia Amos, signed Emma Walters, letter of family gossip, undated
To Julia Amos, signed Emma Walters, letter - family update, Cincinnati, undated
To Julia Amos, signed Emma Walters, letter - reconstruction era, Cincinnati, family deaths, paralysis, cholera outbreak, travel, mention of radical Republicans, undated
To Nicholas Amos, signed A. M. Blanton, letter - regarding a debt, enclosed with payment, mentions a barrel of flour, undated
To Nicholas Amos, signed L. Mainous, letter - debts, court, land sales, marriages, livestock and mules, court case involving a jailed enslaved person, enslavement, undated
To Nicholas Amos, unsigned letter - places and town gossip with full names, farm, travel, violence, death, deadly storm with casualties, search for dangerous man, shooting of horse thief, weather, crops, undated
To father, unsigned letter - banking, job hunting, undated
To friend, signed Rachel (?), letter - "regiments in the woods, officers looking for someone", John (?), illness, bronchitis, doctors, fevers, local townspeople by name, Blind Lick River, crops, farm, weather, visit to Illinois, Ruddels Mills, Kentucky, undated
Dear friend, unsigned letter - stationed troops, conscription, local killings, desertion, casualties, Armstrong, Vicksburg, POW, Bob Austin, David Fleming, undated
Dear friends, unsigned letter - union refugees, Mount Sterling, price of goods, Paris, Kentucky, undated
Dear Mother and Sister, signed N. Amos, letter - new children and achievements, living fever, "recognition of the South by foreign powers", undated
To parents, signed N. Amos, letter - travel east with cattle, weather, price of goods, fashion, robberies, marriage, grocery business, land trade and gift, undated
Dear Parents, signed I. K., letter - Cincinnati, farm, livestock, prices, deaths, slavery, moving an enslaved person, undated
To parents, signed I. K., letter - family update, undated
To parents, signed I. K., letter - family update, Millersburg, undated
Dear parents, signed I.K., letter - Methodist ministers preaching at local schoolhouse, town news, family updates, undated
To parents, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - marriages, winter fever, schooling, weather, crops, livestock, grain sale and land rental, undated
Dear parents, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - weather, food, crops, townspeople mentioned by name, teeth extraction, school, preaching, travel, undated
Dear parents, unsigned letter; two writers - town news of weather, deaths, family, school, farm, re: a rental property, mention of soldiers, invading the country, undated
Dear parents, unsigned letter - weather, clothing, health, death, enslaved people leaving and joining a coalition, undated
Dear uncle, signed N. A. Jameson, letter - notifying recipient of an incoming check, undated
Unaddressed, signed A. Amos, partial letter - visitor at the tavern, prices of goods, health, undated
Unaddressed, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - many farms for sale as many move to Missouri, price of houses, mules better in Missouri, whooping cough, "searching for all of my property- the Troops took it to town (The Kansas Boys),", undated
Unaddressed, signed Wash Kennedy, letter - trial, re: land settlement with amount recovered five hundred or six hundred dollars, involved were Mr. Patient, Praul, Marston Howards, Peter Smith, undated
Unaddressed, signed S. K., letter - family news, quilting, kids, gossip, clothing, undated
Unaddressed, signed I.K., letter - local news, salary for shipping stock, drought, price of goods, robbery at their property, meat (?) stolen, language suggests sender was an enslaver, undated
Unaddressed, signed Emma Walters, letter of family gossip, undated
Unaddressed, signed Gish, partial letter with missing pages - family update, cooking, milking, travels, sewing, death due to apoplexy, undated
Unaddressed, unsigned letter - wartime, evacuation of areas leaving possessions behind, six men killed near Lone Jack, collection of items/documents, undated
Unaddressed, unsigned letter - prices, list of names, talk of Bushwhackers and Confederates, undated
Unaddressed, unsigned letter - "torment about the draft", undated
Unaddressed, unsigned letter - crops, cattle, health, local killings, fires with great destruction, forced evacuation, undated
Unaddressed, unsigned letter - corn sales, potential famine and theft re: corn, detailed pricing, crops, livestock, court, marriages, whipping of an enslaved person, Millersburg, undated
Receipts and account ledgers, 1814-1892, undated
Scope and Contents
The Receipts and account ledgers series (1814-1892) comprises account tabs, receipts, accounting, and shopkeeping records books. These record the purchases and sales of things such as fabrics, building materials, enslaved peoples, clothing, legal services, tax, and various shop items.
Tax receipts, 1814-1860, undated
Receipt for two levies, scrap of accounting, 1814
Receipt for four levies, 1819
Receipt for five levies, 1828
Receipt for one levy, 1833
Tax receipt, receipt for levy, 1837
Receipt for one levy, 1838
Receipts for six and two levies, 1841
Receipt for one levy, 1846
Receipt for two levies, 1848
Tax receipt, 1850?
Tax receipt, 1853
Railroad tax receipt, 1856
Tax receipt, 1857
Railroad tax receipt, 1858
Two state, county, asylum tax receipts, 1859
Two state, county, state interest, and state asylum tax receipts, 1860
Tax receipt, undated
Account tab and receipt for final payment, Amos, Nicholas, 1814-1817
Legal services receipt, 1815
Receipt for moving a piece of meddow (sic), reverse side maybe receipt for final payment, Bourbon County, 1815-1816
Receipt for "crying" the sale of enslaved people, according to the Decree of the Court of (?) of Bourbon County, Amos, Nicholas, 1816 December 28
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1818
Four receipts for legal work, miscellaneous, 1819
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1823
Receipt, 1827 November 12
Receipt, Marston, M. L., 1829
Receipt for sale of enslaved person, Amos, Nicholas, 1830 March 6
Receipt for estate settlement, 1830 April 17
Receipt for "Star in the West", 1832
Receipt for boarding family members, Jones, Joseph to Amos, Nicholas, 1833-1834
Shop receipt, Amos, Abram, Ruddels Mills, 1833-1834
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1834
Receipt for executor of estate, 1835 February 1
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1835 February 13-September 26
Receipt, 1835 November 26
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1836 August 29
Detailed, lengthy list of goods with prices - account ledger, 1836?
Receipt for one pound tobacco, Amos, Abraham, 1837-1838
Note and repayment ledger receipt, 1838 March-June
Account ledger, receipt of settlement, Amos, Abe, 1838
Account ledger and receipt of payment, Amos, A., 1839 January-September
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1839 March-December
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1839
Account ledger with pricing of goods, receipt of payment, Amos, A., 1839-1840
Account ledger, receipt of final payment, Amos, Abe, 1839-1842
Receipt, Amos, Abram, 1839-1842
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1840-1841
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1841 January-February
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1841 April-August
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1841 October-November
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1842
Account ledger, 1843 September 1
Receipt of debt payment, Amos, Abram, Bourbon County, 1843 October 3
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1843-1844
Receipt, 1843-1845
Receipts, miscellaneous, Amos, Joseph J. and N., 1844
Debt and repayment receipt, Amos, Abram, 1845 November 8
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1845
Receipt, 1846
Account ledger, receipt, for horse shoe placement and removal, single and double, free horse/buggy hitch with prices, Amos, Abram, 1846-1847
Receipt for mare, Amos, Abram, 1846-1848
Two receipts, one for Western Citizen subscription (Paris, Kentucky paper), 1847
Receipts with pricing of goods, 1847-1848
Receipt, Amos, A., 1848
Long, detailed account ledger and receipt with price of goods, Amos, Abram, 1848-1849
Receipts, miscellaneous, Amos, Abram, 1848-1849
Long, detailed account ledger and receipt with price of goods, Amos, Abram, 1849-1850
Personal record of accounts and finances, 1849-1851
Account ledger, Amos, Abram, 1850
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1850 January-May
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1850 May-November
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1850 November
Credit account ledger and receipt with detailed pricing of goods, Amos, Abram, 1851-1852
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1851-1852
Account ledgers, receipts, with pricing, Amos, Abram, 1852-1853
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1853 January-October
Financial account for Grand Lodge, Masons, 1853 October
Account ledger, receipt, with pricing of goods, Amos, Abraham, 1853-1854
Account ledger, receipt, with pricing of goods, Amos, Abraham, 1853-1854
Receipts, miscellaneous, Amos, Abraham, 1853-1855
Account ledger, receipt, with pricing of goods, Amos, A., 1854 January-October
Account ledger, Amos, A., 1854
Account ledger, Amos, Abraham, 1854
Receipt, miscellaneous, Amos, Abram, 1854 February 10
Receipts, miscellaneous, and receipt scrap, 1854
Account ledger, receipts, Amos, Abraham and Abram, 1854-1855
Account ledger with full page of addition calculations, Amos, Abraham, 1855 January
Receipt for purchase of Harris, enslaved man, Amos, Abraham from Huttsell, Jacob, 1855 February 26
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1855 March-September
Receipt, miscellaneous, Amos, Abram, 1855-1857
Receipt for shipping one plow, one table, and fourteen packages, move to Missouri, 1856 March 24
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1856 March-December
Account ledger, receipt, with pricing of goods, Amos, Abram, 1856 October-November
Account ledger, receipts, miscellaneous, 1856-1857
Account ledger, receipt, with pricing of goods, Amos, A., 1856-1857
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1856-1857
Receipt, 1857 May
Account ledger, Amos, Abram, 1857
Shop finances, 1857-1858
Shop receipt, 1857-1858
Receipt, miscellaneous, Amos, Nicholas, 1857-1859
Account ledger, receipt, 1857-1860
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1858 January-May
Account ledger, Amos, Abram, 1858 January-December
Account ledger, receipt, with pricing of goods, Amos, Abe, 1858-1859
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1858-1859
Account ledgers, receipts, with pricing of goods, Amos, Abraham, 1858-1860
Receipt, Amos, A., 1858-1861
Receipt for clothing, Amos, A., 1859 January
Receipt, Amos, Abram, 1859 April 4
D.O. Tully (doctor), about one week's visits to four men, bloodletting, other medical treatments used, receipt, 1859 May-September
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1859
Account ledger, Amos, A., 1859-1860
Account ledger, receipt, Amos, Abram, 1859-1860
Account ledger, receipt, with pricing of goods, Amos, A., 1859-1860
Account ledgers, receipts, 1859-1860
Receipt, Amos, A., 1859-1860
Account tab and final payment receipt, Amos, A., 1859-1861
Account ledger and receipts, Amos, A., 1860 January-October
Account ledger, Amos, A., 1860
Receipt, Amos, Abram, 1860 January 9
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1860
Account tab, receipt of payment, pricing of goods, 1860-1861
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1861
Receipt, 1863
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1864 January
Receipts, miscellaneous, 1864 March-July
Receipts - legal services, railroad shipping carpet, inter-revenue express stamp, 1865
Shop receipt, Amos, Pleasant Hill, Missouri, 1866 June 9
Cemetery receipt book, 1889-1892
Account ledger for calico, receipt, undated
Building supplies ledger, undated
List of accounts with names, undated
Receipt, accounting, Amos, Abram, undated
Receipt for hauling wood, stove, undated
Receipts, miscellaneous, undated
Receipt, miscellaneous, Marston, L., undated
Receipt, page of accounting, undated
Receipt scraps, undated
Shopkeeper's day book, 1854
Shopkeeper's record book, 1861-1867
Parker and Amos store accounting and estate records book, 1888
Bonds, notes, and checks, 1836-1921, undated
Scope and Contents
The Bonds, notes, and checks series (dated 1836-1921) comprises railroad bonds, promissory notes, bank checks, and bank books and papers. An item of note in this series is a promissory note for the "hire" of a black child named George.
Two railroad bonds, 1851
Three railroad bonds, 1852
Four railroad bonds, 1853
Three railroad bonds, 1854 March 20
Four railroad bonds, 1854
Two promissory notes payable in gold or silver, 1836
Promissory notes, 1837
Promissory notes, 1837
Promissory notes, 1837
Promissory notes, 1837
Promissory notes, 1837
Promissory note, 1838
Promissory notes, 1839
Promissory notes, 1840
Promissory notes, 1841
Promissory notes, 1842
Promissory notes, 1842
Promissory note, 1843
Promissory notes, 1844
Promissory note, 1845
Hire of black boy, George, for thirty-five dollars and promise to clothe, 1845
Promissory note, 1846
Promissory notes, 1847
Promissory notes, 1848
Promissory note, 1849
Promissory note, 1851
Promissory notes, 1852
Promissory note, 1853
Promissory note, 1856
Promissory note, 1857
Promissory note, 1858
Promissory note, 1859
Promissory note, 1873
Two bank checks, 1833
Four bank checks, 1888 March-April 14
Four bank checks, 1888 April 23-September
Three bank checks, 1888 October-November
Four bank checks, 1889 March
Four bank checks, 1889 January 3-24
Four bank checks, 1889 April-June 1
Four bank checks, 1889 June 11-August
Four bank checks, 1889 September-October 1
Three bank checks, 1889 October 3-18
Two bank checks, 1889 November 1
One bank check, 1892
Four bank checks, 1893 April 13-October 4
One bank check, 1893 December 11
Four bank checks, 1894 September 13-27
Four bank checks, 1894 September 29-October 18
Four bank checks, 1894 October 29-November 10
Four bank checks, 1894 November 10
Four bank checks, 1894 November 10-December 20
Four bank checks, 1901 August 24-September 21
Four bank checks, 1901 September 24-October 5
Four bank checks, 1901 October 5-November 8
Four bank checks, 1901 November 9-18
Two bank checks, 1901 November 19-24
Four bank checks, 1902 April 19-May 3
Four bank checks, 1902 May 24-June 9
Checking account stubs, 1899-1900
Account register, Citizens Bank, 1920-1921
Bank book, 1884-1885
Bank book, 1892-1893
Bank book with account record, Citizens Bank, 1905
Sixty-day bank loan, 1838
Sixty-day loan document, 1838 September 21
List of unpaid notes, 1865
Page of accounting, undated
Subject files, legal and sales records, 1815-1979, undated
Scope and Contents
The Subject files, legal, sales series (dated 1815-1979) primarily comprises records of estate settlements, division of enslaved peoples, land agreements and sales, lawsuits, and property deeds.
Account payments to heirs, 1839
Agreement for division of enslaved people, 1846
Agreement/judgment on land deal, division of land and value, 1821
Circuit court, summons, complaint re: use of people, slavery issues post civil war, Jackson County, Missouri, Independence, Missouri, Kentucky, 1867 February 18
Estate settlement, 1819
Estate settlement, 1878
Estate settlement, undated
House deed, Pleasant Hill, 1883 June 29
Land agreement, Amos, Abram and Nicholas, 1835
Land agreement, Amos, Joseph and Nicholas, Bourbon County, Ruddels Mills, one hundred and fifty acres, 1830
Land lawsuit, Bourbon County, 1843
Land purchase, 1849
Land purchase, Amos, A., Nicholas, and Sarah, Dimitt, Rebecca, 1835
Land rental agreement, receipts for payment on back, 1839-1841
Land sale, 1828
Land sale, undated
Land sale, Amos, Joseph and Nicholas, 1827
Land sale, Amos, Joseph J. and Nicholas, Barton, Abraham, 1831-1832
Lawsuit/settlement regarding misuse of County Common School fund, very detailed, spans many years, Cass County, Missouri, 1850-1868
Legal judgment of five hundred dollars in Missouri court, references Kentucky too, 1871
Martin Rice town clerk, signature on document last name Tate, district demographics by gender, request for town meeting to "lay off" district, Lone Jack, Missouri, 1868 May 13
Payment for legal settlement, 1865
Power of attorney, 1841 April 8
Property deed, Blackwell, Kate A., Earnshaw, Donald, 1948
Property deed, Bourbon County, 1830
Real estate lawsuit, Cass County, Missouri, 1867
Real estate lawsuit, Schader, Phebe et. al. vs. Blackwell, Kate, 1948 April 12
Real estate sale statement, 1979 February 28
Re: exchange of money, estate, 1827
Sale of estate, Amos, Nicholas, 1815
Sale of farm, Amos, Nicholas, Bourbon County, 1831
Sale of Rachel, enslaved woman, and her four kids, for one thousand dollars, 1832
Sale of Sally, enslaved person, Amos, Nicholas to Amos, Abram, 1838 December 1
Sales of mares and horses, undated
Trust document, 1867
Subject files, assorted, 1817-1958, undated
Scope and Contents
The Subject files, assorted series (dated 1817-1958, undated) primarily comprises miscellaneous items such as multiple empty envelopes and postcards with stamps, personal books, files of family genealogy and history, marriage and death certificates, news clippings, and the school report cards, college transcript, teaching certificate, and several teaching contracts of Granvillene Amos.
Articles bought at sale, 1817
Book, gift to Eliza Amos for teaching penmanship, accounting receipts, religious diary, different writers, poetry, price lists, 1828-1843
Book of personal records; credit history, bank deposits, list of mares sold, circa 1840-1860
College transcript, Amos, Granvillene, 1922-1928
Death certificate, Blackwell, Katherine, 1956
Empty envelope with stamp, 1902 September 4
Empty envelope with stamp, 1918
Empty envelope with stamp, undated
Family history, genealogy to 1659, marriages, deaths, war honors, land, occupations, slavery, undated
Family history/lineage - begins 1700s with move to United States, education, occupations, dates, burial sites, religion, military service,, circa post 1945
Funeral notice of Ann, wife of Joseph J. Amos, undated
Genealogy research notes, undated
Genealogy research notes, undated
Life insurance policy, Flanery, Miles R., 1902
Two Manhattan High School graduation announcements, 1926, undated
Marriage certificate, Amos, Katie and Flanery, Miles R., 1918 October 20
Marriage certificate, Blachard, John and Flanery, Kate A., 1934 March 18
Newspaper clipping, undated
Newspaper partial page, 1864
Newspaper partial page, 1864
Newspaper on Alaska statehood, 1958
New York Life first aid booklet, circa 1900s
Notebook with newspaper clipping inside, circa 1900s
Notification of Abraham Amos' advance to Royal Arch Mason, 1853 January 18
Obituary of Deacon Ben Reed, 1950
Paper scrap, unreadable, undated
Six paper scraps with text, undated
Twelve paper scraps with text, undated
Twenty+ paper scraps with text, undated
Pleasant Hill High School graduation announcement, 1921
Postcard, unused, undated
Postcard with stamp, 1906 February 14
Prayer booklet, 1955 April
Recipe for alcohol, undated
Registered letter receipt, 1857
School report card, Amos, Granvillene, 1910 October 17
School report card, Amos, Granvillene, 1914-1915
Teacher's certificate, Amos, Granvillene, 1953 July 1
Teacher's contract, Amos, Granvillene, 1924
Teacher's contract, Amos, Granvillene, 1941
Teacher's contract, Amos, Granvillene, 1942
Teacher's contract, Amos, Granvillene, 1946
Teacher's position denial notification with handwritten report of farm finances for 1950 on back, 1950
Photographs, circa 1800s, undated
Scope and Contents
The Photographs series (circa 1800s, undated) comprises photographs, including several tintypes, presumably of the Amos family.
Couple's portrait, tintype photo, circa 1800s
Girl, undated
Man and dog, undated
Man and elderly woman in yard, circa 1800s
Portrait of five men, tintype photo, circa 1800s
Portrait of man, Atkinson, undated
Portrait of man, tintype photo, circa 1800s
Portrait of woman, undated
Portrait of young boy, circa 1800s
Portrait of young girl, undated
Portrait of young girl, tintype photo, circa 1800s
Portrait of young woman, circa 1800s
Town, landscape, circa 1800s
Two women, Ogden, Utah, circa 1800s
Woman, undated
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