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Joseph T. Swetnam (Bath County, KY, farmer and soldier)

b. 1800-01-02 d. 1886-09-27

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Mary “Polly” Atchison Swetnam in January 1832. Father of Elizabeth A. Swetnam, M. A. Swetnam, John J. Y. Swetnam, William W. Swetnam, Ann E. Swetman, Mary Minerva Swetnam, Charlotte J. Swetnam, Nancy L. Swetnam, Sarah F. Swetnam, and Thomas Swetnam. Appointed lieutenant colonel of the 65th Regiment of Kentucky Militia in 1839. Farmer in Bath County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 77B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 256.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 94.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 83A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 113B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, 1814-1846, Film #000273004, p. 702 of 848 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1838), 378.

Find A Grave, "Jos T. Swetman (1800-1886)," Memorial #68470094, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68470094 (accessed October 21, 2019).

Citation

Swetnam, Joseph T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214128 (November 12, 2026).

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