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Vincent Taylor (Cumberland, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer.)

b. 1786?

Cumberland, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer. Virginia native. Married to Francis Taylor. Father of Granville Taylor, N. B. Taylor, Martha Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, James N. Taylor, Josephine Taylor. Sheriff in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1844. Farmer in Cumberland County in 1850. Employed James Harney in Cumberland County in 1850. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1850. Farmer in Cumberland County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, p. 534B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland Division, p. 371.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District No. 2, p. 525.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District No. 2, p. 365B.

“Taylor, Vincent, late Sheriff of Cumberland, act for his benefit,” _Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, December 1844 (A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1845), 207.

Citation

Taylor, Vincent. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200187 (November 12, 2026).

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