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Hamilton Gray, Sr. (Mason County, Kentucky, liquor merchant.)

b. 1815?

Mason County, Kentucky, liquor merchant. Pennsylvania native. Married to Elizabeth Johnston Gray in Mason County, Kentucky, on January 28, 1840. Father of Hamilton Gray, Jr., Harriet Abby Gray, and Rosa Gray. Liquor merchant in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Merchant in Mason County in 1860. Employed Ellen Marion as a servant in Mason County 1860. Owned two enslaved people in Mason County in 1860. Liquor merchant in Mason County in 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p.49B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 691.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 346.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 3B.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 15, Mason County, Kentucky, 1862, p. 6.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281843.

Citation

Gray, Hamilton, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204550 (November 12, 2026).

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