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Collin Shelton Throckmorton (Daviess County, Kentucky, midshipman and farmer)

b. 1818-03-02 d. 1880-11-11

Daviess County, Kentucky, midshipman and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Malvina L. Ward Throckmorton on May 5, 1846. Father of Emily Throckmorton, Aris Throckmorton, and Matt Throckmorton. Served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman from December 8, 1837, to 1843. Farmer in Daviess County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Daviess County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 683.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 374A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Upper Town, p. 321B.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1837, vol. 1, 34.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, 1839, 56.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1840, vol. 1, 28.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1841-1842, vol. 1, 49.

U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries (1814-1992), Navy Department Library, Navy Directory: Officers of the U.S. Navy, 1843, vol. 1, 48.

C. Wickliffe Throckmorton, _ A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmorton family in England and the United States_ (Richmond, VA: Old Dominion Press, Inc., 1930), 360.

Citation

Throckmorton, Collin Shelton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204419 (November 14, 2026).

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