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Christopher Chinn (Mercer County, KY, judge, coroner, and farmer)

b. 1790? d. 1868-01-09

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, judge, coroner, and farmer. Kentucky native. Married Sarah W. S. Hardin Chinn in Washington County, Kentucky on May 12, 1811. Father of Jane Tandy Chinn, John Chinn, Mary Ellen Chinn, Christopher P. Chinn, and Jack Chinn. Trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Coroner in Mercer County in 1847. Farmer in Mercer County in 1850. Judge of the Mercer County Court in Harrodsburg in 1860. Owned nine enslaved people in Harrodsburg in 1860. Organized the Mercer Home Guard with William A. Hooe in June 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 276A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 689.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 46B.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1841 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1842), 174.

Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, "Madison (Chinn slave)" http://nkaa.uky.edu/record.php?note id=2867 (accessed August 15, 2017).

_Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, 1792-1930, Film #000241382, p. 331.

Taliaferro P. Shaffner, ed., _ The Kentucky State Register, for the Year 1847_ (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 133.

KYR-0002-022-0125.

Citation

Chinn, Christopher. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202893 (November 12, 2026).

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