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Political: <rs ref='#S32196690'>John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210385'>John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker)</rs><lb/>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 581<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 578B<lb/>

Henry Taylor (1838-1916), Memorial 36586302, accessed August 22, 2019, <a href='http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36586302.'>http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36586302.</a></bibl>
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                  <bibl>"Victoria (r.1837-1901)," <a href='https://www.royal.uk/queen-victoria.'>https://www.royal.uk/queen-victoria.</a><lb/>

Edgar Trevor Williams, "Victoria," in <hi rend='italic'>Encyclopedia Brittanica</hi>, <a href='https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-queen-of-United-Kingdom.'>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-queen-of-United-Kingdom.</a></bibl>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32202019'>Traugott Krachrugge (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)</rs><lb/>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32200877'>T. E. Dennis (Louisville, Kentucky)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32212069'>Anna Schmitt (Louisville, Kentucky, resident)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32215221'>Mary Schmitt Yanner (Maria Jannar) (Louisville, Kentucky, seamstress)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32201296'>Charles Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32211071'>Charles S. Glass (Jefferson County, Kentucky, steamboat mate and day policeman)</rs><lb/>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3. p. 291A-B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3. p. 814.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 8, p. 94B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910)</hi>, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 199. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Marriage Records</hi>, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817881.<lb/>

KYR-0001-031-0009.<lb/>

KYR-0001-033-0033.</bibl>
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                  <bibl>George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67.<lb/>

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Robert M. Rennick, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Place Names</hi> (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179.</bibl>
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<p corresp='TTP35095452P1' xml:id='OTP35095452P1'>Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, <rs ref='#S32212391'>Henry Taylor</rs>, who made oath that he is a subject of the <rs ref='#S32214608'>Queen of Great Britain</rs>; that he is a resident of <rs ref='#S32212697'>Canada</rs>; that he has been since February a resident of the city of <rs ref='#S32214836'>Louisville</rs>; has never received any of the political rights of a citizen; and desires to return to his home in Canada. Given under my hand this day and date above given.
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