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James Payne Mitchell (Boyle County, Kentucky, attorney and farmer.)

b. 1794-01-09 d. 1871-05-26

Boyle County, Kentucky, attorney and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Robert Mitchell and Rhoda Durham Mitchell. Married to Sarah Hamner Mitchell in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1815. Father of Martha Mitchell, Robert H. C. Mitchell, James H. Mitchell, and Lewis D. Mitchell. U. S. Postmaster in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1833. Attorney in Boyle County in 1850. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Farmer in Boyle County in 1860. Employed Emily Prisco and Sarah J. Smith in 1860. Owned twenty-five enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District No. 1, p. 637A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District No. 1, p. 549.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 65.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 151A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191846.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 86: year, p. 348.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Mercer County, Kentucky, p. 392.

"Jas. P. Mitchell (1794-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial #27923477, accessed July 15, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27923477.

Citation

Mitchell, James Payne. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209493 (February 13, 2026).

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