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====== 1842 ======
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===== Events =====
==== Boone County ====
  * The Boone Academy is renamed the [[Morgan Academy]] in honor of Allan Morgan, whose [[slavery|slaves]] and property are transferred to the Academy.
  * The [[Burlington Baptist Church]] is organized.
  * The first Methodist [[churches|church]] is organized in [[Boone County]].

==== Kentucky ====
  * Ballard, Boyle, Crittenden, Letcher and Marshall counties are formed.

==== U.S. & World ====
  * U.S. Army Lieutenant John Charles Fremont maps out the Oregon Trail, opening the west to wagon trains. 
  * The Supreme Court rules that slave-owners may do anything to recapture fugitives, but that state officials are not obliged to help track runaways. This interpretation will become obsolete in [[1850]], when Henry Clay proposes a new fugitive [[slavery|slave]] law that will incorporate direct federal involvement.

===== More Information =====
  * Boone County Tax Lists, 1842: [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/32058/0|District 1]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/32325/0|District 2]].