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Henry Richardson (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1788?

Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Sarah Waddill Richardson in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on January 27, 1809. Married to Betsey Wadill Richardson in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on January 31, 1818. Father of Meriwether Richardson, Henry Richardson, Harriet A. Richardson, Sarah Richardson, and Catherine V. Richardson. Farmer in Trigg County in 1850. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1850. Farmer in Trigg County in 1860. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 300A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 92.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 376A.

Pittsylvania County Virginia Marriage Bonds, 1767-1862, Pittsylvania County Courthouse, Chatham, VA. Early Virginia Marriage Index and Bonds, book no, 1., p. 47, 67.

Citation

Richardson, Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200683 (November 12, 2026).

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