James Lampton

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1787

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1864-07-27

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"James Lampton" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005732, (accessed May 21, 2025).

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Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Lampton and Patsy Schooler Lampton. Married to Susannah Ryan Lampton in Bourbon, Kentucky on June 19, 1809. Father of John B. Lampton, William Henry Lampton, Robert W. Lampton, Polly Lampton, and Susan Ann Lampton Womack. Owned seven enslaved people in Greenup County in 1830. Appointed postmaster in Greenup County on February 15, 1837. Manufacturer in Carter County in 1850. Farmer in Greenup County in 1860.

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup, p. 74.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter, District 2, p. 226A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup, p. 787.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000183145, p. 40.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Volume 12a, 1832-1844, Kentucky, Grayson-Knott, (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Clayton KeithSketch of the Lampton Family in America, 1740-1914, (C. Keith, 1914), p. 9, 41.
Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1907, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Accession no 7522 p. 125.

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