Spencer County

End of footnote an early acquaintance with the evil which was wrought upon his own class by the effects of the peculiar institution, combined with an independence of spirit which revolted at the consequent degradation which, as a poor wight he must undergo, if he remained in the midst of the helot's curse, continually prompted him northward, until, at length, In the autumn of 1816, finding a purchaser for his farm, he migrated from the then slave-teaming region of Kentucky to rude but free Indiana, accompanied by his wife and son, the latter then approaching the threshold of his ninth year.

The place whereon the home-seeking pioneer proposed to strive anew was in Spencer County, Indiana.

The price which he received for his Kentucky farm was 10 barrels of whiskey, 40 gallons each, valued at $280, besides $20 in money.

Such transactions in the disposal of real estate were quite common at that period.

From the information he had received, he determined to make his final landing at a place called Thompson's Ferry, which was the nearest point, on the river, to the location of his contemplated home.

He arrived at Thompson's Ferry without further mishap.

Here he found a settler named Posey, whom he hired to guide and convey him 18 miles into Spencer County, giving his boat in payment for the services received.

the district in which he proposed to locate his new home was very sparsely settled and the approach to it difficult in the extreme for the last few miles they were compelled to hew their way through the unbroken forest to make a road by which to proceed But the determined hardihood of veteran pioneers quails not before obstacles which a swinging axe and patient grit can surmount.

So, um, I grew up, uh, from Southern Indiana here, Jeffersonville, um, where my family's been for a few generations.

Louisville, Jeffersonville, uh, Shelbyville, Spencer County, uh, all in this area since, gosh, 1700s.

Wow.

Um, you know, the, the whiskey side of my family, AJ or Anton, who came from Germany, landed here in, I think, 1846.

An early acquaintance with the evil which was wrought upon his own class by the effects of the peculiar institution, combined with an independence of spirit which revolted at the consequent degradation which, as a poor white, he must undergo if he remained in the midst of the hellit's curse, continually prompted him northward, until, at length, in the autumn of 1816, finding a purchaser for his farm, he migrated from the then slave-teeming region of Kentucky to rude but free Indiana, accompanied by his wife and son, the latter then approaching the threshold of his ninth year.

The place whereon the home-seeking pioneer proposed to strive anew was in Spencer County, Indiana.

The price which he received for his Kentucky farm was ten barrels of whiskey, forty gallons each, valued at two hundred and eighty dollars, besides twenty dollars in money.

Such transactions in the disposal of real estate were quite common at that period.

From the information he had received, he determined to make his final landing at a place called Thompson's Ferry, which was the nearest point on the river to the location of his contemplated home.

He arrived at Thompson's Ferry without further mishap.

Here he found a settler named Posey, whom he hired to guide and convey him 18 miles into Spencer County, giving his boat in payment for the services received.

The district in which he proposed to locate his new home was very sparsely settled and the approach to it difficult in the extreme.

an early acquaintance with the evil which was wrought upon his own class by the effects of the peculiar institution combined with an independence of spirit which revolted at the consequent degradation which as a poor wight he must undergo if he remained in the midst of the helot's curse continually prompted him northward until at length In the autumn of 1816, finding a purchaser for his farm, he migrated from the then slave-teaming region of Kentucky to rude but free Indiana, accompanied by his wife and son, the latter then approaching the threshold of his ninth year.

The place whereon the home-seeking pioneer proposed to strive anew was in Spencer County, Indiana.

The price which he received for his Kentucky farm was 10 barrels of whiskey, 40 gallons each, valued at $280, besides $20 in money.

Such transactions in the disposal of real estate were quite common at that period.

From the information he had received, he determined to make his final landing at a place called Thompson's Ferry, which was the nearest point, on the river, to the location of his contemplated home.

He arrived at Thompson's Ferry without further mishap.

Here he found a settler named Posey, whom he hired to guide and convey him 18 miles into Spencer County, giving his boat in payment for the services received.

the district in which he proposed to locate his new home was very sparsely settled and the approach to it difficult in the extreme for the last few miles they were compelled to hew their way through the unbroken forest to make a road by which to proceed But the determined hardyhood of veteran pioneers quails not before obstacles which a swinging axe and patient grit can surmount.