David Redman Burbank

Birth Date

1806-03-04

Death Date

1872-10-31

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henderson and Union County, Kentucky, farmer and tobacco merchant. Maine native. Son of Eleazor Burbank and Mary Bracket Burbank. Married to Anne Terry Burbank in Henderson County, Kentucky, on December 19, 1838. Father of Robert Terry Burbank. Married to Mary Taylor Burbank in Henderson County on December 22, 1851. Father of David Burbank, Annie Burbank, Charles Burbank, Ambrose Burbank, Mary Burbank, and Hannah Burbank. Tobacco merchant in Henderson County in 1850. Employed Eleazer Newcomb as a tobacco dealer in Henderson County in 1850. Employed James White as an overseer in Henderson County in 1850. Owned forty-six enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Tobacco merchant in Henderson County and farmer in Union County in 1860. Owned thirty-seven enslaved persons in Henderson County and an additional twenty-seven enslaved persons in Union County in 1860. Hired Phil [Unknown] and Dick [Unknown] from Carrie [Ten] and Angeline [Ten] as enslaved laborers in Union County in 1864. Enslave Primus [Unknown] in Henderson County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 280A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 486.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 31.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 398.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 154A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 409B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson Ward 1, p. 102A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film 000576460.
George Burbank Sedgley, Genealogy of the Burbank Family and the Families of Bray, Wellcome, Sedgley (Sedgeley) and Welch (Farmington, ME: Knowlton and McLeary Company, 1928), pp. 224-225.
Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky: Comprising History of County and City, Precincts, Education, Churches, Secret Societies, Leading Enterprises, Sketches and Recollections, and Biographies of the Living and Dead (Henderson, KY: The Lewis Publishing Company,1887), pp. 804-805.
KYR-0001-004-2921.
KYR-0001-005-0040.

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