James Prentis

Birth Date

1796

Death Date

1874-04-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer and businessman. Virginia native. Married to Lucy W. Baugh Prentis. Father of W. T. Prentis, Robert C. Prentis, A. B. Prentis, Ann Prentis, Margaret J. Prentis, Earnest Prentis, Lucy T. Prentis, Hallack Prentis, and Beauscan Prentis. Educated at William & Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. Purchased land on which Lewisport, Kentucky, was founded. Magistrate in Hancock County. One of the founders of the Lewisport Pond Draining Company in 1858. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 68.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 6.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Lewisport Voting District, p. 22.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 755.
"Prentis Papers," MSS 32 Finding Aid, Western Kentucky University (http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2867&context=dlscmssfinaid) (accessed on March 29, 2017).
"An Act to Incorporate the Lewisport Pond Draining Company," _Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1858), 234-38.

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