Benjamin Willis is Sheriff.

• Benjamin G. Willis is commissioned Sheriff of Boone County.
• A levy is enacted for tools to be used on public roads in the county.

• The first chapter of the Dominican Sisters of Peace is found in the United States. Their original convent is located in a one-room log cabin near Springfield, Kentucky.

• An informer reveals a plot led by Denmark Vesey, a free black man, for a massive slave uprising in South Carolina. Thirty-five blacks, including Vesey, will be hanged, and severely repressive slave codes will be passed throughout the region.

• Boone County Tax Lists, 1822.