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John T. Pratt (Scott County, Kentucky, tavern and hotel keeper.)

b. 1797-07-01 d. 1883-11-29

Scott County, Kentucky, tavern and hotel keeper. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Pratt and Susan Reding Pratt. Married to Eliza Kinsley Pratt in New York City, New York, on August 20, 1818. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point, Orange County, New York, in 1818. Postmaster in Scott County from 1831 to 1838. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County from 1837 to 1841, and in 1847. Resident of Scott County in 1840. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Scott County in1 1840. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County from 1841 to 1845. Tavern keeper in Scott County in 1850. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Hotel keeper in Scott County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 54.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 407B.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 995.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 233A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 269A.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), pp. 357-358.

"Deaths," Kentucky Advocate (Danville, KY), December 7, 1883, p. 5.

Citation

Pratt, John T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207061 (November 12, 2026).

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