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Franklin Bryan Chinn (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1800-01-01 d. 1876-08-10

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Chinn and Sarah Bryan Chinn. Married to Mary Scott Chinn in 1827. Father of William L. Chinn, Amanda Chinn French, and Mary Chinn. Married Anne Bell Wells Chinn in 1835. Father of Sarah J. Chinn, Anna E. Chinn, Clement Bell Chinn, and Franklin Chinn. Resident in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1830. Owned three enslaved persons in Henry County in 1830. Resident in Franklin County in 1840. Owned five enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1840. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Farmer in Franklin County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, p. 297.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, North Division, p. 323.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 21B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 847.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 167.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 217.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 481A.

Jesse Procter Crump, A Biographical Sketch of Daniel Boone, the Pioneer (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974), 129, 192.

"Franklin Bryan Chinn (1800-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial #102204890, accessed July 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102204890.

Citation

Chinn, Franklin Bryan. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210173 (November 12, 2026).

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