{"id":569,"date":"2026-06-24T00:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/?p=569"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:38:53","slug":"james-cunningham-b-1803-son-of-james-cunningham-sr-of-bullitt-county-kentucky-federal-land-entries-putnam-county-indiana-1827-and-1832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/2026\/06\/24\/james-cunningham-b-1803-son-of-james-cunningham-sr-of-bullitt-county-kentucky-federal-land-entries-putnam-county-indiana-1827-and-1832\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cunningham (b. 1803), Son of James Cunningham Sr. of Bullitt County, Kentucky: Federal Land Entries, Putnam County, Indiana (1827 and 1832)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Near Louisville, Kentucky, at least four men named James Cunningham lived in the same area \u2014 and several had sons named James. Sorting out who was who required digging through wills, land records, census records, and more. The full story is told in ‘Four James Cunninghams: Which One Witnessed Janet (McDonald) Cameron’s Will in Bullitt County, Kentucky in 1799?’ in The Kinship Papers, Vol. 1, available on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Cunningham, a son of James Cunningham Sr. who died in Bullitt County, Kentucky in 1817, was not mentioned by name in his father’s will.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The younger James Cunningham purchased federal land in Putnam County, Indiana in 1827. The land entries are significant for two reasons. First, they place James in Putnam County, Indiana \u2014 establishing his migration route from Kentucky to Indiana. Second, the 1827 and 1832 purchases show he was acquiring land over time, suggesting he was establishing himself as a permanent resident rather than passing through. Federal land entry records are particularly valuable to establish a timeframe of residency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Near Louisville, Kentucky, at least four men named James Cunningham lived in the same area \u2014 and several had sons named James. Sorting out who was who required digging through wills, land records, census records, and more. The full story is told in ‘Four James Cunninghams: Which One Witnessed Janet (McDonald) Cameron’s Will in Bullitt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50,12,10],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land-records","tag-early-settlers","tag-indiana","tag-kentucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecordlady.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}