Thomas Waring letter, 1845 Dec. 4.

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Thomas Waring letter, 1845 Dec. 4.

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This one item collection is a letter written by Thomas Waring, Brush Creek (Green County), Kentucky, Dec. 4, 1845, to D.W. Murphy, Rockville, Adams County, Ohio. The letter conveys family and farm news, but more importantly, discusses the Methodist Church and the possible end of slavery in Kentucky within two years.

1 item (2 leaves); 25 cm.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409441

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Waring, Thomas, 1778-1868.

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Thomas Truman Greenfield Waring was born in Maryland in 1778. He was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) and served as a Kentucky state representative for Greenup County in 1819. The letter was written seven months after the Methodist Episcopal Church split into North and South Conferences over the issue of slavery. Following Waring's disappearance in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1848, his wife, Nancy, was awarded $5,000 by the Nautilus Insurance Co. of New York for a life insura...

Murphy, D. W.

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