Collin Shelton Throckmorton

Birth Date

1818-03-02

Death Date

1880-11-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Daviess County, Kentucky, midshipman and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Malvina L. Ward Throckmorton on May 5, 1846. Father of Emily Throckmorton, Aris Throckmorton, and Matt Throckmorton. Served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman from December 8, 1837, to 1843. Farmer in Daviess County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Daviess County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 683.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 374A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Upper Town, p. 321B.
U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1837, vol. 1, 34.
U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, 1839, 56.
U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1840, vol. 1, 28.
U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1841-1842, vol. 1, 49.
U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1843, vol. 1, 48.
C. Wickliffe Throckmorton, _ A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmorton family in England and the United States_ (Richmond, VA: Old Dominion Press, Inc., 1930), 360.

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