Before Abolition


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This book includes information about more than seven thousand black people who lived in Clark County, Kentucky before 1865. Part One is a relatively brief set of narrative chapters about several individuals. Part Two is a compendium of information drawn mainly from probate, military, vital, and census records.




Jacob Alt, Born 1725/30, Germany(?)-died 1770, Frederick Co., Maryland


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Jacob Alt was born in about 1725 or 1730, probably in Germany. He had six sons, John, Henry, Jacob, William, Adam and Michael. He died in 1770 in Frederick County, Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas.




Kershner Kinfolk


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Joseph Brunner of Rothenstein, Schifferstadt, and Frederick


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Joseph Brunner was baptized as Josephus on August 26, 1678. He was the son of Heinrich and Maria (Braun) Brunner of Rotenstein. He married Cathrina Elisabetha Thomas, daughter of Christian and Anna Margaretha Thomas, on November 23, 1700 at Schifferstadt. Eight children were born of this union. The family arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1729. Joseph and family settled in Prince Georges' County, Maryland by 1736. He died some time between 1753 and 1756 in Maryland.




Herald of Gospel Liberty


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Black Is Brown Is Tan


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Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives







History of Greene County


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