New Salem

[Angela]

(09-11-2014 06:33 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(09-11-2014 12:02 PM)Angela Wrote:  In "Abraham Lincoln Traveled This Way" there is the number of "two dozen families" mentioned; "largely hard-shell Babtists from Kentucky".

Many thanks, Angela - but that is strange, two dozen black families in New Salem? That's 24 families, and I read the highest population New Salem had was 25 families.

No - that was the number altogether given for New Salem.