William Wadlington, Sr.

Birth Date

c1783

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. North Carolina native. Father of Thomas B. Wadlington, Pernicia U. Wadlington Miller, Charles W. Wadlington, William J. Wadlington, and Margaret Wadlington. Resident of Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1820. Owned six enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1820. Resident of Caldwell County in 1830. Resident of Caldwell County in 1840. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1840. Owned six enslaved persons (Matison, Albert, Henry, Hampton, Dick, and Jim) in Caldwell County in 1847. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned thirty-eight enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860.

Fourth Manuscript Census of the United States (1820), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, p. 44.
Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, p. 141.
Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, p. 5.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 345B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 56.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 221A.
Christopher Waldrep, "Opportunity on the Frontier South of the Green," The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land, Craig Thompson Friend, ed. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 161.

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