Person

Benjamin M. Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1837-12-02 d. 1899

Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Nelson Burdett and America Letcher Samuel Burdett. Household owned twenty-eight enslaved persons in Garrard County, Kentucky in 1850. Farmer in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned seventeen enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1860. Resident of Gerrard County in 1863. Farmer in Garrard County in 1864. Attorney in Garrard County in 1864.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 218B.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 698.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 25A.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 5, Garrard County, Kentucky, 1863, p. 85.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 6, Garrard County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 33.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century(Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), pp.216-7.

"B. M. Burdett (1837-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial 190257046, accessed April 4, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190257046.

Citation

Burdett, Benjamin M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206628 (November 12, 2026).

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