Bradley would buy a total of three acres and 13 poles on two
lots. Lot 59 consisted of two acres and 62 had one acre and 13
poles. That same day he sold one acre and one and a half poles
of lot number 59 to Wyatt Mitchell for $220. Wyatt Mitchell then
sold his interest to William Owen(s), an attorney in
Russellville. By 1826 William Owen(s) had sold the lot to George
W. Cutton and a year later George Cutton traded the lot to John
and Caldwell Breathitt. The trade was for a claim on James
Edgars in the state of Missouri of $180. The Breathitt brothers
would keep the land for a couple of years and rent it out. John
Breathitt, the eldest of the Breathitt siblings, was the
eleventh governor of Kentucky and also the first democrat to
hold the office. He was born near New London, Henry County and
Virginia on September 9, 1786. His mother and father, William
and Elizabeth (Whitsitt) Breathitt had four boys as well as four
more girls. His brother George was a private secretary to
President Andrew Jackson. James, anot