African Americans of the Kentucky Borderlands

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• Peake, George Logan
• Trimble County (Ky.)
  Located in north central Kentucky, along the Ohio River and the boundary with Indiana, the county is about 50 miles northwest of Lexington and the county seat is Bedford. It was named for Robert Trimble (1777-1828), Kentucky statesman and associate Supreme Court justice.
• Bradley, Thomas H.
  The 1820 Gallatin County, Kentucky census lists Thomas Bradley. A younger Thomas Bradley married in Gallatin in 1835 to Nancy Patton. He might be this Thomas.
• Bainbridge, Erastus
  In 1830 Erastus Bainbridge is living in Owen County, Kentucky with seven known enslaved. Erastus Bainbridge was known to have thirteen enslaved in the 1840 Owen County, Kentucky census. The 1850 Owen County, Kentucky census shows Erastus Bainbridge as a farmer.
• Barkshire, Jeremiah
• Boyd, Amanda
• Carroll County (Ky.)
  Located in northern Kentucky along the Ohio River and the boundary with Indiana, the county is about 30 miles north-northwest of Frankfort, and the county seat is Carrollton. The county was named for Charles Carroll (1737-1832) of Carrollton, Maryland, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• Carrollton (Ky.)
  Originally the town was named Port William, and served as the county seat of Gallatin County, until Carroll County was split off. The town was remaned Carrollton, after Charles Carroll, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. It is the county seat of Carroll County.
• Carroll County (Mo.)
  Located in northwest Missouri, the county was named for Declaration of Independence signatory Charles Carroll. The county seat is Carrollton.
• Owen County (Ky.)
  Located in north-central Kentucky, the county is 20 miles north-northeast of Frankfort, and the county seat is Owenton. The county was named for Colonel Abraham Owen (1769-1811), who served in the state legislature, and was killed in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
• Vest, Hugh Lemaster
  Hug Lemaster Vest appears to be living with his mother in Boone County (Ky.) in the 1850 census. He marries at some point in that decade and begins a family in Owen (Ky.). In the 1860 census, Hugh Vest enslaves a single man whereas in Boone County (Ky.) in 1850 he held several.
• New Liberty (Owen County, Ky.)
  The town is located in northern Owen County.
• Menzies, John William
• Prestonville (Ky.)
  The town is named for Revolutionary War Colonel William Preston, who held the original land grant. It is located where the Kentucky and Ohio Rivers meet in Carroll County.
• Floyd, John B.
  In 1850 John and his family was living in Trimble County, Ky. By 1860 they had relocated to Dallas County, Texas.
• 1820--Reward Ad for Trio
  In September 1820 Will French offered $100 for the return of Spencer, China (15 years old) and Bob (50 years old). The trio escaped from Kentucky near the Gallatin Steam Mill.
• 1820--Reward Ad for Man and Woman
  In August of 1820, Samuel Todd offered a $400 reward for freedom seekers “Patrick” and a woman with a wound on her head.
• Carpenter, Nicholas
• 1818--Reward Ad For Peter Hood
  A $40 reward is offered for the capture of Peter Hood who ran away from the Corn Creek area on December 6, 1818. He is described as about 6 ft. tall, bright mulatto, and very artful. The slaveholder involved is Shadrach Barns. The area in which this took place was Gallatin County in 1819, now known as Trimble County.
• 1859--Sarah Escapes and John Arrested
  Sarah, enslaved by Charles Henry of Trimble County, escaped with the help of John Robertson, who was arrested.
• 1855--Trio Escapes
  Three people, a man, woman and child, escaped from slaveholder John B. Floyd of Trimble County.
• 1839--Capture of Bartlett
  Bartlett, 21 yrs. old, fled the area of Ghent, in Carroll County, and remained on the run for over a week before being caught in Owen County, KY. He was accused of killing his slaveholder, Tabitha O’Neal, during an altercation in the field. After his capture, he was tried for murder and hanged.
• Owenton (Ky.)
  The county seat of Owen County, the town was named for the county, which in turn was named for Colonel Abraham Owen, who died at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
• Scott, Samuel S.
• Craig, Lewis N.
  In the Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky from the National Archive, Craig was sent to Louisville by order of General Boyle, Captured in Mount Sterling on 29 Jul 1862, is listed in Depot Prisoner of War, Johnson's Island, Ohio on 27 Aug 1862 and sent to Vicksburg on 22 Nov 1862.