Silas W. Hunt

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c1804

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"Silas W. Hunt" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00004598, (accessed September 14, 2025).

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Henry County, Kentucky, surveyor, farmer, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Lucinda Hunt. Father of A. S. Hunt, Elizabeth Hunt, Philip P. Hunt, Mathew W. Hunt, Nicholas O. Hunt, Rheuben P. Hunt, and John Allen Hunt. Surveyor in Henry County in 1842, 1848, and 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Henry County in 1860. Hired out two enslaved persons in 1860. Lieutenant colonel in a unit of the Kentucky State Guard in 1862. Founding member of the Kentucky River Navigation Company in 1865. Member of the Masonic Order at Faithful Friend Lodge, No. 313 in Lockport, Kentucky.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District No. 1.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 60.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 5.
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, at a Grand Annual Communication, in the City of Louisville, Commencing on Monday, the 21st Day of October, 1867 (Frankfort, Ky.: Frankfort Commonwealth, 1867), 232.
"An Act to Establish a State Road from the Ohio River to Albany in Clinton County, and for other purposes," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at December Session, 1841 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1842), 67-68.
"An Act for the benefit of the Surveyors of Henry and Lewis Counties," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at December Session, 1847 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges & Co–State Printer, 1848), 259-260.
"An Act to incorporate the Kentucky River Navigation Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at December Session (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 96-100.

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