Mason County, Kentucky Slave Records
Courthouse probate inventories, deed book bills of sale, and 1850/1860 Federal Census Slave Schedules for Mason County, Kentucky.
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Mason County Historical Records
Nancy Wilson
Freedman's Bank Log (1872)Opened savings account No. 4992 at Mason branch. Recorded birthplace as Mason County, former master listed as Green.
Jacob Ellis
Freedman's Bank Log (1866)Opened savings account No. 6882 at Mason branch. Recorded birthplace as Mason County, former master listed as Foster.
Cato Page
Freedman's Bank Log (1866)Opened savings account No. 4688 at Mason branch. Recorded birthplace as Mason County, former master listed as Harvey.
Timothy Page
Estate Division Account (1859)Recorded in estate division between legal heirs of Rives. Allotted to lot #7 in final decree.
Charity Banks
Deed Book Bill of Sale (1852)Conveyed in land & chattel deed of sale from Harvey to Johnson for consideration of $792.
Absalom Nelson
1850 Slave Schedule Metadata (1850)Enumerated under slaveholder Armstrong in Mason County Schedule 2 (Slave Inhabitants). Age recorded as 32.
Stephen Jackson
1850 Slave Schedule Metadata (1850)Enumerated under slaveholder Jackson in Mason County Schedule 2 (Slave Inhabitants). Age recorded as 8.
Beatrix Cook
Deed Book Bill of Sale (1848)Conveyed in land & chattel deed of sale from Ellis to Spottswood for consideration of $423.