Scope and Contents The Gurdon Black Collection consists of correspondence, receipts, deeds, land transactions, account books, and genealogical information. The collection contains the papers of Dr. John Kennedy, including attendance tickets from his university courses at Glasgow University (Glasgow, Scotland), account books noting fees and patient records from his practice, a prayer book, and various land records. The collection also contains papers of John McKnight,...

Scope and Contents The collection includes original documents, photographs, and correspondence from the nineteenth century and genealogical information about the Black, Kennedy, Clayton, McCutchan, and McKnight families. It is divided into two series: Family Histories and Documents and Letters. The collection spans from 1809 to 2021 with bulk dates of 1850 to 1859 and circa 1950. There are large date gaps: 1812 to 1842, 1876 to 1910, 1912 to 1933,...