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- James Ford, born James N. Ford, also known as James N. Ford, Sr., the "N" possibly for Neal (October 22, 1775 – July 7, 1833), was an American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois, from the late 1790s to mid-1830s. Despite his clean public image as a "Pillar of the Community", Ford was secretly a river pirate and the leader of a gang that was later known as the "Ford's Ferry Gang". His men were the river equivalent of highway robbers. They hijacked flatboats and Ford's "own river ferry" for tradable goods from local farms that were coming down the Ohio River. Ford was an Illinois associate of Isaiah L. Potts and the Potts Hill Gang, highway robbers, of the infamous Potts Inn. James Ford also was an associate of John Hart Crenshaw, an illegal slave trader and a kidnapper of free African Americans, and may have taken part in the Illinois version of the Reverse Underground Railroad. At one point, the outlaws used "Cave-in-Rock" as their headquarters on the Illinois side of the lower Ohio River, approximately around 85 miles below Evansville, Indiana. (en)
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- James N. Ford, Squire Ford, Captain James Ford, Major James Ford, Satan's Ferryman (en)
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- Ninety-Six District, Province of South Carolina, British America, present-day Spartanburg, South Carolina (en)
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- No known portrait of James Ford exists from life. This is an artist's likeness created from his physical description in historical records. (en)
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- river piracy, horse and cattle theft, highway robbery, slave stealing, illegal slave trading, counterfeiting, murder (en)
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- Ford's Ferry, Livingston County, Kentucky, near present-day Tolu, Kentucky (en)
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- Kentucky state government, Illinois territorial government, James Ford and Company, self-employed (en)
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- Being a pillar of the community and secretly, the criminal leader of the Ford's Ferry Gang, along the Ohio River (en)
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- James Ford (en)
- Ford's Ferry Gang (en)
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- Justice of the peace, planter, businessman, ferry operator, criminal gang leader, state militia officer, river pirate, slave stealer, slave trader (en)
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- James N. Ford, Squire Ford, Captain James Ford, Major James Ford, Satan's Ferryman (en)
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- Ford family cemetery, Kirksville, Livingston County, Kentucky, present-day Tolu, Crittenden County, Kentucky (en)
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- James Ford Signature.png (en)
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- Susan Miles (en)
- Elizabeth "Betsy" W. Armstead Frazier (en)
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- James Ford, born James N. Ford, also known as James N. Ford, Sr., the "N" possibly for Neal (October 22, 1775 – July 7, 1833), was an American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois, from the late 1790s to mid-1830s. Despite his clean public image as a "Pillar of the Community", Ford was secretly a river pirate and the leader of a gang that was later known as the "Ford's Ferry Gang". His men were the river equivalent of highway robbers. They hijacked flatboats and Ford's "own river ferry" for tradable goods from local farms that were coming down the Ohio River. (en)
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