Person

Jourdan [Unknown] (Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man)

b. 1825?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Resident in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Enslaved by Mary A. J. Cartwright in 1850. Resident of Caldwell County in 1860. Enslaved by Mary A. J. Cartwright Wadlington and Thomas B. Wadlington in Caldwell County in 1860. Charged, along with Thomas B. Wadlington and William J. Wadlington, with the murder of Milton A. Cartwright in January 1860. Released on bail in February 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
Black

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 778.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 221B-222A.

"Thomas and William Wadlington...," Princeton (Ky.) Bulletin, The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), February 10, 1860, p. 1.

KYR-001-020-0001.

KYR-001-020-0074.

KYR-001-020-0080.

Citation

[Unknown], Jourdan. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200458 (November 12, 2026).

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