Dear Friends and Relatives, As some of you know, I've compiled a history of the Bloomfield-Chaplin-Fairfield area with also a sketch of about 115 pioneer families of the area. I think it's going to amount to at least 400 pages. It's being published, sold and distributed by the Nelson Co. Genealogical Society, PO Box 409, Bardstown, KY 40004. At this point I don't know the price nor exactly when it will be ready for publication - perhaps in about two months. I've finished my part and the society is working on the index. The society is not a professional, for-profit publishing company, so they have to limit the copies printed to what they think they can sell. They try to price their books at a minimal level so that as many people as possible can afford them. Therefore, it's useful for them to have some idea ahead of time of the degree of interest. I will not be making anything on the book, and, as I say, I WILL NOT BE SELLING IT OR DISTRIBUTING IT. The small profits go to the society, and they use the money to buy genealogy and local history books for that section of the library, thus helping the researchers who visit Nelson Co. It would be nice if you were to write to them - if you're interested - and ask them to reserve a book for you. That way you'll help them get an idea of how many copies to order from the printer. Below you'll find some brief information about the contents of the book. Bob Moore Bloomfield, Chaplin and Fairfield: A History and Genealogy of Northeastern Nelson County, Kentucky Compiled by Robert P. Moore, Lexington, Ky., 2003 Table of Contents Coming to Kentucky 1 Locations of Early Forts, Incidents With Indians 5 Early Twentieth Century History of Bloomfield by Merrifield and Cunningham 21 "Old Bloomfield: 1785-1904" by John B. Thomas Jr. 135 Bloomfield in the 1930s and 1940s 196 Jereboam Beauchamp and His Murder Case 209 Early Families of Northeastern Nelson County 223 Land and Tax Records of Northeastern Nelson County 329 Chaplin 371 Fairfield 389 Families treated in genealogy section: Adams, Ashby, Bayne, Beauchamp, Berkley, Bishop, Bland, Blanton, Bodine, Brewer, Briggs, Brown, Brown, Bullitt. Calvert, Carr, Carter, Cheatham, Cokendolpher, Connelly, Coombs, Cotton, Crume, Dadisman, Davis, Davis, Dawson, Dodson, Downs, Drake, Dugan, Duncan, Duncan, Edwards, Edwards, Elder, Foster, Froman, Glasscock, Gore, Gore, Graham, Grant, Green, Greer, Grigsby, Guthrie, Hahn, Hall, Hammond, Harrison, Heady, Hobbs, Houtchens, Hughes, Hughes, Humphrey, Hunter, Huston, Jones, Kincheloe, King, Lefler, Lewis, Lewis, Lilly, Luckett, Marshall, Marshall, Mason, McClaskey, McKay, McMakin, Medley, Merrifield, Miller, Milton, Minor, Muir, Murphy, Murray, Nicholls, O'Neal, Ockerman, Parrish, Polk, Porter, Pulliam, Remey, Ruble, Russell, Shehan, Shields, Simpson, Skinner, Smither, Snider, Stallard, Stanley, Stone, Stone, Sutherland, Sweazy, Tennill, Thomas, Tichenor, Tyler, Wakefield, Weaver, Wells, Wigginton, Wilkinson, Wilson