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James P. Flint (Hopkinsville, Kentucky, merchant, tailor, and state agent)

b. 1816?

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, merchant, tailor, and state agent. Virginia native. Married to Frances "Fannie" M. Young Flint in Bardstown, Kentucky, on April 1, 1838. Father of Mary E. Flint, Bryan Y. Flint, George Ann Flint, Emma P. Flint, John T. Flint, Eliza Flint, and James B Flint. Merchant in Hopkinsville in 1860. Tailor in Hopkinsville in 1860. Notary public in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1864. Commissioner and agent for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from April 8, 1864, to December 1866. Notary public in Louisville in 1865. Author of the December 20, 1865, report entitled, "Report of the State Agent for Kentucky, in Regard to Credits on Drafts and Certificates for Slaves Mustered into the U.S. Service."

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 432B-433A

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 670-71.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #001929414, p. 320

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-66 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 302.

Tony Curtis, "Black Enlistment: Kentucky Was Against it, Before it Was Mostly Against it," _Civil War Governors of Kentucky (blog), Kentucky Historical Society, January 8, 2015, ( http://civilwargovernors.org/black-enlistment-kentucky-was-against-it-before-it-was-mostly-against-it/). KYR-0001-007-0339.

Citation

Flint, James P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210267 (November 12, 2026).

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