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Estate of Kentucky Publisher and Bookbinder Includes Two Slaves and Extensive Library. 4 pages
Estate of Kentucky Publisher and Bookbinder Includes Two Slaves and Extensive Library. 4 pages
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Estate of Kentucky Publisher and Bookbinder Includes Two Slaves and Extensive Library

This inventory of the estate of David Niess Jr. included two slaves, three cows, and a wide variety of household furniture and utensils. Also listed are nearly one hundred books, including hymnals, law reports, histories, encyclopedias, medical books, and Payne's Age of Reason. In 1812, Niess published the second edition of Rev. Starke Dupuy's hymnal entitled Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, and thirty copies of the hymnal were listed on this inventory. Dupuy (1779-ca. 1840) was an early Baptist minister in Kentucky and Tennessee.

In February 1817, the Kentucky General Assembly authorized Robert Johnston and William Hunter, the administrators of David Niess's estate, to sell a lot he owned in Frankfort.

[SLAVERY.] Manuscript Document, Inventory of Estate of David Niess, ca. 1816, Franklin County, Kentucky. 4 pp., 8" x 13". Expected folds; general toning; small hole on page fold not affecting text; very good.

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"Inventory of the Personal Estate of David Niess, decd."

"1 Negro Woman          250
1 Negro Girl
                200"

David Niess Jr. (d. 1815) was a printer and bookbinder in Frankfort, Kentucky, from at least 1808 to his death. In 1810, he owned one slave. In 1813 and 1815, he was commissioned to bind the recent acts of the Kentucky General Assembly. At his death of bilious fever, he left a widow and three small children.

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