Scope and Contents: The DeGroot, Meredith, Thickstun, and Carmichael Papers consist of land grants, court orders and Surveys for Josh Bell County, Kentucky (now Bell County) in February 1870. These documents are arranged in numerical order starting with number 9. All documents are foldered with the exception of one oversize map, which shows the area the surveys encompass. The map was drawn in 1884 fourteen years after the land grants were given to W.H. DeGroot, H.B. Meredith, L.H. Thickstun, and J. Carmichael. The land encompasses the area called Log Mountain south of Chenoa.