1875 Boyle Mercer County DeBeers Map Clusters
Location: Boyle, Kentucky, United States
Surnames/tags: Lee Caldwell Welsh
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Mapping the Lees, Caldwells, Weisiger and Welshes of Boyle County
This is a project Karen Lee is working on.
In researching enslaved ancestors who's enslavers were known, and discovering that some declared marriages in the period 1865-1870, I realized that though not legally married, those who declared marriage after emancipation, had been engaged in marriage-like relationships, but were often living on neighboring plantations.
This work is an attempt to find the enslaver of the spouse whose location before emancipation is unknown. In particular I am seeking the location of Patsy Caldwell and George Welsh, who married people who had been enslaved by Lee slave owners.
This is a holding page for this research, as I hope to return to it.
If you are looking for something to do -- make profiles for the slave owners listed below, and please put me on the trusted list, and shoot me an email.
Thanks,
Karen
An 1876 map of Boyle and Mercer Counties, published in Philadelphia by D.G. Beers & Co., 1876, [1] can provide clues to the locations of neighboring slave owners who enslaved people that formed unions during slavery, and after emancipation formalized their marriages. For instanceJacob Lee (abt.1820-bef.1890) enslaved by George Theodore Lee (abt.1792-1879) had children with Patsey (Caldwell) Lee (abt.1835-aft.1880) who I believe was enslaved by one of the several neighbors of George Theodore Lee with the last name of Caldwell. Later they formalized their marriage, and had many children and grandchildren. They have living descendants.
I printed the map at scale and began mapping the locations of the slave holding families I am studying, the Lee, Weisiger, Caldwell and Welsh families. I started to also locate their neighbors with last names, that were the names of enslaved people who later married people enslaved by these people, and begin researching their records.
There are several weaknesses to this approach.
- Enslaved people may or may not have adopted the last name of their enslavers after emancipation. Sometimes they did, sometimes they did not.
- the map was produced in 1876, and by then some of the former slave owners had sold or lost their land and moved elsewhere. For instance Nelson Thomson Lee had moved on to Louisville and later Missouri and Arkansas. Joseph Weisiger had departed for Texas. Research would be needed to identify who owned their properties after they left, and then the approximate location of their properties, which may have had vague geographical descriptions related to features no longer present -- ie starting at the large hickory tree near (a named) creek.
- the images and names of the lots owned that are printed on the map and are small. The 5 by 6 foot map on my wall requires the use of a magnifying glass and a headlamp for me to find anything.
Purpose: Looking at the Caldwells, Lees, Weisigers and Welshes of Boyle County by location. Mapping relationships, building Caldwell Family Trees. Finding the slaves of said families.
1876 D G Beers Co. - Boyle and Mercer Counties
LEE NOTES
GF Lee on GT Lee’s land
Four miles west of Danville on the Danville Perryville Pike' Salt Creek to the West about 1 mile Neighbors on the north side of the pike to the West of GT Lee property:
- JB Reed
- M Myer
- AM Taylor
- Mrs. McGiveens
Neighbors on the north side of the pike to the East of GT Lee property:
- SH (Probably School House) on what is now called School House Land)
- MJD
North of GFL
- Brown on School House Land
- Beyond there a CAVE
- Dr T W Jackson 667 acres
- WH and GP Woodcock
Mrs. J E Lee 200 acres
4-5 miles north of Danville on Haroddsburg Danville Pike, On the Harrods Run; 4.5 miles as the Crow flies from GF Lee; 8 miles by road; Nearby are a “Scales"; Site of harrods Station / Spring
CALDWELL NOTES
By closest to furthest form GF Lee
- W A CALDWELL - 1-2 miles SW of GFL on School House Land, acres a bridge over the Salt River Neighbors Linney, Cecil, Roberts
- WL Caldwell 390 acres on the East side of the Salt River on Shoolhouse Lane off the Danville Lebanaon Pike 2 mi from GFL Neighbors: * Mrs. Mc Roberts (n) * Caldwell Church (S) * WLC * H Cohen
- RH Caldwell , Thorn Hill School & Caldwell Church Danville Lebanon Pike where it crosses the Salt Creek. Nearby JT Caldwell and T Caldwell
- 'JS CALDWELL Danville Lebanon Pike on Sulpher Brook 4 m from GFL
- Mrs. Caldwell Parksville Pike on Quirelles Run
- Mrs. E Caldwell on Harrodsburg Pike 2 mile no of Danville 0n a for of the Harrods Run
- JB Caldwell ON Clarks Run on xxx pike running sought form Parksville Lebanon Pike
- Caldwell WEst just north of the RR and w of Alum Springs PO
- T Caldwell just south of the RII and W of Alum Springs PO
- D Caldwell 2 miles E of Perrivlee and 1 mile south of Danville Perryville Pike
- Caldwell TH? South of the Dirt road behind Parkville AA settlement, Near Jacob or Jordan Lee
- Caldwell R. H Pastoor CP Church Precinct No 5 Danville
- B Caldwell W L Farm ad Stock Grower Danville Precinct No 5
PERRYVILLE
South Side of RR E to W
With. Dirt road bounding the S end of narrow properties
- P xxxx
- J Cook
- W Cowamn
- J Lee
- Nxxx
- Caldwell
- Myers
- Owens
- Colored School House
South of the Dirt Road Caldwell, TR?
North side of RR E to W JC Lewis G Heath? S Caldwell O Crocker J Guthrie J Wilke
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