Moses Scott is Justice of the Peace.

• The Boone County Court hears a murder charge against Ziba or Zedick Campfield for the beating death of a slave boy named Ned.
• Aaron Burr again passes through Florence.
• Tanner's Station is renamed Caledonia.
• An Inspection Station is to be Established in Boone County for tobacco, hemp and flour on the lands of Zarah Tousey across the Ohio River from Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

• General Charles Scott is elected to succeed Christopher Greenup as Governor.
• Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, is born in rural Kentucky.

• In accordance with the timetable allowed by the U.S. Constitution, Congress outlaws the importation of slaves.

• Boone County Tax Lists, 1808: District 1, District 2.