James Garrard

Birth Date

1749-01-14

Death Date

1822-01-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bourbon County, Kentucky, soldier, farmer, lumber mill owner, and Kentucky governor. Stafford County, Virginia, native. Son of William Garrard and Mary Naughty Garrard. Married to Elizabeth Montjoy Garrard in 1765. Father of Theophilius Toulmin Garrard, John Mountjoy Garrard, Margaret Garrard, Elizabeth Garrard Brooks, Ann Elinor Garrard Hawkins, Daniel Garrard, Maria Garrard Dudley, and James Garrard, Jr. Served as colonel in the Revolutionary War. Resident in Bourbon County in 1783. Farmer and lumber mill owner in Bourbon County c1780. Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804.

Lowell H. Harrison, "Garrard, James" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 363-4.
Find A Grave, "James Garrard (1749-1822)," Memorial #18123008, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18123008/james-garrard (accessed December 20, 2019).

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