Słupy

in documents Słup, an estate with a parish church in Szubin county, Kcynia deanery, 7 km. southwest of Szubin, on the Ga~sawka, a tributary of the Notec~; it borders Da~brówka, Królikowo, Szubska Wies~, Kowalewo, and Wa~sosz.  Sl~upy has its own parish and post office, the railway station is 12 km. away in Kcynia.  It has 14 houses, 271 Catholic residents and 1 Protestant, 789 hectares of land (311 of fields, 293 of meadows, 20 of forest), a brick-making plant, a mill, a distillery, a cheese factory, and cultivation of Dutch cattle; the owner is Konstanty Z~ól~towski.  In 1233 Drogomir, son of Piotr, signed his name as z Sl~upów [from Sl~upy], as did Mikol~aj in 1399; in 1577 there were 2 fields owned and cultivated and 7 crofts, the number of which increased in two years to 13. The Polewskis owned this estate toward the end of the last century, then later the Sadowskis.  Near Sl~upy a bronze urn and stone ax were dug up.  The church, under the patronage of St. Wit, Modest, and Krescencya, existed before 1399; at that time Wojciech, Kamien~ castellan, and Mikol~aj z Sl~upów donated the village of Ga~bin (Gombin), a mile from Sl~upy, to the church, and it is the property of the presbytery.  Pastor Jan Prabucki erected a new, wooden church in place of the old one in 1730, and by 1840 a brick one stood on the spot.  The parish, numbering 1,857 souls, consists of: Antoniewo, Babiagac~, Chraplewo, Cie~z~kowo, Da~brówka, Katynka, Kowalewo, Królikowo, Piardowo, Sl~upy, Smarzykowo, Smolarnia, Wa~sosz, and Wrzosy.   There are parochial schools in Królikowo and Wa~sosz.  L~aski writes of the presbytery's endowment in Liber Benificiorum, I, 144.

Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1889, vol. 10, p. 862]