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John Wesley Hunt

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Gender Male
Date of birth January 1,1773
Born Trenton
New Jersey
United States
DiedLexington
Kentucky
United States
1849
Lexington
Kentucky
United States
Grandchildren Charlton Hunt Morgan
Henrietta Hunt Morgan
Children Henrietta Hunt
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John Wesley Hunt Life story


John Wesley Hunt was a prominent businessman, slave trader, and early civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky. He was one of the first millionaires west of the Allegheny Mountains. Hunt enslaved as many as 77 people, many of them children, including farm and industrial and domestic workers.

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