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Bradford L. Porter (Hopkins Co., KY, farmer)

b. 1809-05-26 d. 1865-05-02

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha Rogers Porter in Logan County, Kentucky, on October 11, 1830. Father of Nancy Porter, Mary Porter, Martha Porter, Margaret Porter, Thomas B. Porter, and Hershel Porter. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 73B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 657.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 803.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Logan County Marriages, Film #000364550, p. 90.

"Bradford Lawrence Porter (1809-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial #113724370, accessed August 4, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113724370.

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Porter, Bradford L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203662 (November 12, 2026).

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