Trabue family papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Trabue family papers
- Date
- 1770-1893, 1953 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 2.52 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Deeds.
- Gold mines and mining -- California.
- Huguenots.
- Land settlement -- Kentucky.
- Land settlement -- Virginia.
- Land use surveys.
- Law reports, digests, etc. -- United States.
- Migration, Internal -- Kentucky.
- Pioneers -- Kentucky.
- Real estate development -- Kentucky.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged chronologically and by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 51m2 : [Identification of item], Trabue family papers, 1770-1893, 1953, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Trabue family, of Huguenot heritage, originally settled in Charlotte, Amelia, and Prince Edward Counties, Virginia, but many of them migrated to Woodford, Bourbon, Franklin and Adair counties in Kentucky toward the end of the eighteenth century. Some family members later migrated to Missouri.
- Scope and Content
- The Trabue family papers (dated 1770-1893, 1953; 2.25 cubic feet, 5 boxes) comprise deeds, promissory notes, fragments of court cases, land grants, surveys, correspondence, and financial records of the Trabue family of Virginia and Kentucky. Although the bulk of the material is concerned with land acquisitions and land disputes in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century, some later material is present. This includes letters from William Henry Cosby, great grandson of John James Trabue, of Bethany, Missouri, who went West to seek gold in the 1850s. His letters offer a detailed picture of the trip west and of the time he spent in California. Also included is a receipt from Daniel Boone.
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 Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
1770-1779
1780-1783
1784-1789
1790-1792
1793-1794
1795-1799
1800-1804
1805-1807
1808-1809
1810-1811
1812-1813
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818
1819
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830-1832
1833
1834
1835-1836
1837
1838
1839
1840-1841
1842-1844
1845-1849
1850-1859
1860-1867
1870-1879
1880-1889
1891, 1893
undated
House article by Gene Maner, Lexington Leader, 1953 November 28
Land surveys, undated
Miscellaneous, undated
Fragments, undated
Newpaper clippings, 1851, 1891, undated
Willard Cosby letters, 1846-1854, undated
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