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Powhatan M. Robertson (Hopkins County, KY, merchant )

b. 1808-06-04 d. 1864-04-11

Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant. Tennessee native. Married to Jennetta Henderson Robertson in Ohio County, Kentucky, on June 25, 1834. Father of Susan E. Robertson, Irene A. Robertson, Elizabeth H. Robertson, Charles J. Robertson, Iredell H. Robertson, Mary Robertson, and Camma Robertson. Merchant in Hopkins County in 1850. Employed Calvin G. Couch as a merchant's clerk in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Merchant in Madisonville in 1860. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Madisonville in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 52A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 695.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 835.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221A-B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #000494956, p. 138.

"Powhatan M. Robertson (1808-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial #120364029, accessed September 30, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120364029.

Citation

Robertson, Powhatan M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209728 (November 12, 2026).

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