John M. Hewitt

Birth Date

c1794

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Franklin County, Kentucky attorney and politician. Virginia native. Married Mildred Holloway Hewitt in Woodford County, Kentucky, on November 13, 1832. Father of Martha F. Hewitt, Betty B. Hewitt, Thomas Hewitt, George Ann Hewitt, John M. Hewitt, and Zeba Hewitt. Attorney in Franklin County in 1850. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Franklin County from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in Frankfort in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 54B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 3 of 19 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 258-9.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 491B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film #252320, p. 57.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2,(Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), p. 241.

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