Hardin County was established in 1793 from land given by Nelson County and was named after Colonel John Hardin, an officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Courthouse fires destroyed county records in 1864 and again in 1932
Hardin County Probate Records available to members of Kentucky Pioneers
Digital Images of Hardin County Wills and Estates, Book B, 1810 to 1816
Testators: Arnet, Jonathan | Attaberry, Richard | Baird, James | Barlow, Michael | Blesett, Francis | Bradshaw, Benjamin | Brady, Morris | Brown, Frederick | Bruce, Mary | Burris, Joseph | Bush, Christopher | Caldhoon, Hugh | Camron, Hannah | Cannon, Angus | Carter, Dannell | Carter, Samuel | Chastain, Lewis | Coombs, Samuel | Courts, Charles | Cozart, William | Daugherty, Christopher | Deavon, Henry | Dodge, Josiah| Dodson, William | Farguson, Usher | French, James | Furguson, John | Ganterman, Margaret | Gardner, Jonathan | Georgehegan, Thomas | German, John | Gilliland, Thomas | Goodin, Samuel Sr. | Gray, Joseph | Grayham, Andrew | Greenawatt, Lewis | Hare, Joseph | Harris, Samuel | Hart, Richard | Helm, Thomas | Hill, Thomas | Humphrey, John | Hunter, Robert | Jones, Isaac | Joseph, Jonathan | Kennedy, Daniel | Kuydendall, Jacob | Larkin, William | Larue, John | Linder, Isaac | McCullum, William | McDaniel, Daniel | McIntire, Moses | McLean, Leonard | MacMahon, William | Melton, John | Miller, Alexander | Miller, Peter | Morris, John | Murphy, James | Nevitt, Joseph | Pearpoint, Francis | Pearpoint, Mary | Pickerell, Samuel | Potter, Daniel | Price, Richard | Reid, John | Roof, Nicholas Sr. | Sanders, Azariah | Shaggs, James | Simmons, Benjamin | Slaughter, Robert | Stader, Ann | Sutzer, Frederick | Thorp, David | Tull, Frederick | Waide, Horatio | Watts, George | West, Isaac | Wiley, Thomas | Williams, John F. | Wisehart, George | Withers, William | Wood, Isaac | Wooley, Hanner | Wooley, William | Young, Adam
Fayette County was one of the original three counties created from the former Kentucky County, Virginia by the Virginia Act in 1780, along with Jefferson and Lincoln counties. Together they separated from Virginia in 1792 to become the state of Kentucky. Originally, Fayette County included land which makes up 37 present-day counties and portions of 7 others. It was reduced to its present boundaries in 1799. The county is named after Marquis de LaFayette who came to America to join the rebelling English colonies in the American Revolutionary War. On January 1, 1974, Fayette County merged its government with that of its county seat of Lexington, creating a consolidated city-county governed by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.
Fayette County Kentucky Probate Records available to members of Kentucky Pioneers
Pictured is the oldest court house in Kentucky in Greensburg. Green County was formed in 1792 from portions of Lincoln and Nelson counties and was named after General Nathaniel Greene, the famous hero of the southern campaigns during the Revolutionary War. Three courthouses have served Green County. In 1804, a brick building replaced an earlier structure, and while no longer operational, it stands in the Greensburg Historic District (downtown) and is the oldest court house building in Kentucky. The county seat is Greensburg, Kentucky.
Green County Probate Records available to members of Kentucky Pioneers
Daviess County was formed from part of Ohio County in 1815 and was named for Abraham Owen, a Colonel who was killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe. The borders of the county were altered in 1829 to form Hancock County in order to absorb a small area surrounding Whitesville, and again in 1854 to cede land to McLean County. Then, in 1860 it annexed forty-four square miles from Henderson County. The county seat is Owensboro.
Apparently there was a loss of records from about 1815 to 1842 when certain last wills and testaments were destroyed. Those listed below were recovered.
Daviess County Probate Records available to members of Kentucky Pioneers
Digital Images of Daviess County Wills and Estates, 1812 to 1872 - Destroyed documents refiled-
Testators: Allen, Robert | Allen, William | Anderson, Dangerfield | Ashby, Houston | Austin, Francis | Baird, William | Banks, C. R. | Barker, Elizabeth | Bassett, Abner | Beauchamp, William | Bell, Harvey | Bell, Richard | Bell, William | Bingham, Thomas | Brand, John | Bristow, Jasper | Brooks, Isham | Bunn, William | Burten, Bassett | Carr, William | Cassaday, Joseph | Chilton, Joseph | Clay, Thomas | Conway, F. F. | Cooms, William | Crabtree, Isaac | Curry, Peter | Curry, William | Dade, Lawson| Daniel, William | Davies, Baster | Davis, Baxter | Davis, Jacob | Davis, James | Decker, Christopher | Dulany, Eliza | Duncan, Benjamin | Duncan, Charles | Easter, Littleton | Faith, William | Fenwick, Ignatius | Flynn, Eugene | Foley, John | Ford, Jesse | Ford, John | Ford, Rachel | Griffith, Joshua | Griffith, Remus | Griffith, W. R. | Hagan, Silvester | Hansford, Stephen | Harris, William | Hawes, Albert | Hawes, Charles | Hawes, Richard | Hayden, Philip | Haynes, William | Head, Henry | Herd, George | Higdon, Thomas Sr. | Hobbs, Horatio | Howard, Groves | Howard, Mark | Howard, William | Huston, James | Huston, Mary | Huston, William | Jackson, George | Johnson, Archer | Johnson, James M. | Johnson, Susan | Jones, Hannah | Kelley, George | Kennady, Samuel Dyson | Kirkhead, Wesley | Knott, James | Knott, Mary | Lanham, William | Lashbrook, John | Lashbrook, Malinda | Law, William | Lee, John | Little, George | Little, Jonas | Lumpkin, Thomas | Lumpkin, William | Masser, Mary | May, John | McCormick, John | McCrury, Elijah | McDaniel, James | McFarlane, Franky | McFarlane, John | McFarlane, Lucy | Millay, James | Millay, Thomas | Miller, Nancy | Miller, William | Mitchell, Gideon | Montgomery, Thomas F. | Mosley, Samuel | Mosley, Thomas | Moyers, Abraham | Newlett, George | Newton, Benjamin Newton, William | Nunn, Richard | Overly, William | Owen, Preston | Payne, Cornelius | Payne, John | Peterson, John | Pitts, Jesse | Priest, Henry | Rafferty, James | Riley, Cynthia | Riley, George | Roberts, William | Scott, George | Sharpe, William | Shaunter, John | Shoemaker, Adam | Shoemaker, Price | Smathers, James | Smith, Peter | Stanley, Henry | Stowers, William | Talbutt, Joshua | Tapscott, William | Thomason, Martha | Thompson, Anthony | Turpin, William | Vanrysselburghe, James | Walker, John | Walston, William | Ware, John | Wedding, Thomas | Wells, Jacob | White, Henry | White, Rebeckah | Williams, Elisha | Williams, Raleigh | Worthington, William |
Cumberland County was created in 1798 from land in Green County and was named after the Cumberland River. The county seat is Burkesville.
Images of Wills, Estates, Appraisements, Inventories, Guardianships 1815-1831
Alexander, John | Akins, Joseph | Appleby, Robert | Armstrong, John | Armstrong, Stephen
Baker, John | Baker, John Jr. | Baker, Martin | Ball, William | Beck, Edward | Bickerstaff, Samuel | Bickerstaff, Samuel Sr. | Bickerstaff, Samuel Jr. | Blakey, William | Bledsoe, John | Blankenship, Abel | Bond, Hopkins | Bowman, Daniel | Bowman, Pleasant | Brummal, Chastian
Campbell, William | Cary, Wilson | Chamberlin, William | Chandler, John | Chandler, Thomas | Clarry, Samuel | Cory, Edward | Conner, Lawrence |Cowen, William | Craig, William | Creech, Jesse | Crouch, Elijah
Daning, James | Daugherty, Charles | Davis, John | de Graffenreid, Francis | de Graffenreid, Tabitha | Dougherty, Joseph
Elliott, Samuel | Elliott, Thomas | Ellison, Amos | Emerson, Francis | English, Benjamin | Evans, Leroy
Ferrill, William | Fletcher, Fanny | Flowers, Edward | Ford, William | Forsnaught, John | Frogg, William
Galbraith, Robert | Gee, James | Gee, Jesse | Goodson, William | Green, George | Groce, Henry | Guthery, Adam
Haggard, Rice | Hall, Joseph | Harvey, John | Haygood, Robert |Hays, William Sr. | Hibbits, William | Hill, Archibald | Hill, Barber |Hillis, John | Hix, Richard | Hopkins, Arthur | Hopkins, William | Howard, James | Howard, Reubin |Howard, Robert S. | Hunter, John
Irwin, John | Jacob, Patrick | Johnston, Joseph | Johnston, Michael | Johnston, Thomas
Keen, Samson | King, John E. | King, Milton | King, William | Lafferty, Alexander | Lafferty, Samuel | Lafferty, Sarah | Lloyd, Willis
Martin, David | Mays, William | Maxwell, N. | McColly, Cornelius | Miller, Richard A. | Millon, Christopher | Murphy, James
Newby, Martin | Noland, James | Norris, Zebulon | Pace, John | Page, John | Philpot, Zachariah | Pickens, Joseph | Pickens, Thomas
Ray, Nathaniel | Reynolds, George | Ritchey, Elizabeth | Robertson, Arhur | Robertson, Walthall | Robinson, George H. | Rowland, Elizabeth | Rowland, George | Rowland, Gilbert | Rowland, John | Rutledge, Joseph
Sackman, Thomas | Sandusky, Jacob | Sevier, Archibald | Simple, John |Simple, John W. | Simpson, Joseph | Simpson, Thomas | Smith, Nathaniel |Smith, William | Spearman, Susannah | Spearman, Thomas | Sprouell, James | Stanfield, John | Stephens, Delilah (now King) | Stephens, Peter | Stockton, Ichabod | Stockton, John | Stockton, Nancy | Stockton, Polly | Stockton, Robert | Strong, John
Talbott, Nicholas | Talley, Sally | Tally, Nathaniel | Taylor, Edmund | Taylor, Edward | Thurman, Nathan | Trice, Tandy H. | Vaner, Henry
Wade, Ballenger | Wash, Thomas | Welch, David | Whitlock, Thomas | Wilbourn, Thomas | Wiles, Susan, orphan | Willian, William | Wisdom, Francis | Wiseman, William | Wooley, Oliver | Young, James
Bell County was formed in 1867 from parts of Knox and Harlan Counties and was annexed from Knox County in 1872. It was named after Joshua Fry Bell ("Josh Bell"). The Wilderness Road was built through Bell County during the 1790s.There were court house fires in 1914 and again in 1918 and a flood in 1976 during which occurrences the records were destroyed. The records listed below are those which survived.
Bell County Probate Records available to members of Kentucky Pioneers
Digital Images of Bell County Wills and Estates, 1869 to 1879
Breckinridge County was established in 1799 from a portion of Hardin County. When Abraham Lincoln was seven years old, his father, Thomas Lincoln and his family spent a few weeks in Hardinsburg and occupied a small cabin near what is now the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Camp. The Lincolns left Kentucky by crossing the Ohio River at Cloverport on a log ferry operated by Jacob Weatherholt. The Confederate Army burned the local court being used by Union troops as barracks during the War Between the States. The third court house was burned in 1958. The county is known for its Victoria Coal Mines, named after Queen Victoria, when the Cloverport exported coal oil used to light Buckingham Palace.
Indexes to Probate Records
Wills, Estates, Inventories, Appraisements, Guardianships, Appraisements, Book No. 2, 1895 to 1935
Images of Wills, Estates, Inventories, Appraisements, Guardianships, Appraisements, Book 1, 1800 to 1893
Addison, Robert | Ader, David | Adkisson, William Sr. | Aiken, Courtney | Alexander, Charles | Alexander, Hardin | Alexander, Philip | Alexander, Thomas | Allen, Allen | Allen, Joseph | Allen, Jeremiah | Alvey, Thomas | Amen, William | Anderson, George | Ascott, Margaret
Baker, George C. P. | Barber, John | Barger, Andrew | Barlow, Samuel | Barnes, Edmund | Barr, Adam Jr. | Barr, George | Basham, Francis | Basham, Hannah | Basham, William | Bassett, James Bassham, Littleberry | Bates, Benjamin | Bates, Samuel H. | Beacham, Bartlett | Beale, Elizabeth | Beard, James Sr. | Beard, Nehemiah Bealcher, Fielding | Bealcher, William | Beauchamp, Alexander | Beavin, Henry | Benley, Christiann | Bennett, Edgar | Berren, Jacob | Best, Joseph | Betbell, Samuel | Bevin, Felix | Bevin, Rachael | Bevins, Samuel | Blain, Michael | Blain, William | Blanford, John | Blevins, Thomas | Board, Harrison L. | Board, Henderson | Board, James | Board, William | Bomour, George | Bonner, Robert | Bosinger, Jacob | Brack, James C. | Branfield, John | Brasher, Peter | Bratcher, Buford | Brown, Gideon | Brown, Mary | Bruce, Catharine | Bruce, Hiram | Bruce, William Bruner, John | Burbage, Elizabeth Ann Waltern | Burch, Henley | Burch, James F. | Burditt, Stephen | Burnett, John L. | Burton, Edward | Burton, George | Butler, James Butler, Margaret
Cannon, John H. | Carman, George H. | Carter, Merry | Carter, Richard F. | Carwile, David | Cashman, Martin | Chadman, Joshua | Chambliss, Robert | Chappell, James W. | Clark, Henry A. | Clark, Joseph | Clark, Simeon | Claycomb, Nicholas | Claycourt, Conrad | Combs, Ignatius | Compton, William | Connell, Thomas | Conner, Dade | Conner, Edward | Cook, Elizabeth | Coombs, Henry Cowheard, Elizabeth | Cox, Benjamin | Craig, Emeline | Critchlow, Joseph | Cross, Robert N. | Cunningham, James
Daniel, Vivion | Davis, Thomas P. | Deal, William | Dean, Henry P. | Dean, Howard | Deane, Mary | Dennard, Susan | Dent, William | Dickerson, Winfield | Dowck, Micajah | Dowck, Thomas | Driggins, James | Duggins, Benjamin | Duncan, George P. | Duncan, James | Duncan, Thomas | Dunnett, John | Durpin, James
Eaders, Peter | Eidson, Mildred | Elliott, J. C. | Elliott, William | Etherington, Richard | Evans, Samuel
Fackler, Joseph | Faith, Ruth | Febesgan, Samuel | Fentress, Valentine | Fisher, John | Fisher, William | Fitzhugh, William | Flakes, Michael | Foote, Edwin | Frank, Elizabeth | Frank, Martha J. | Fraze, John | French, James | Frymire, Mary
Galloway, John W. | Gannaway, William | Garret, David | Gentry, Keziah | Gibbons, Fielder | Gibson, William | Gilbert, Aquila | Gilbert, Aquilla | Gilbert, Jacob | Gillenwates, Joel | Gilmore, James | Glasscock, George | Glasscock, Gregory | Glasscock, John Sr. | Glasscock, Redmond | Glasscock, Sally | Glasscock, William | Godsey, Solomon | Grant, Daniel | Gray, James | Green, R. F. W. D. | Green, Thompson | Greenwell, Wilfred | Gregory, George W. | Gregory, John R. | Gregory, Thomas | Gross, Abraham | Guggins, James
Haddock, John | Haffey, James | Hair, Benjamin | Hale, Robert | Hall, David | Hall, Robert | Hall, Stephen | Hall, William | Hambleton, Willis | Hand, James | Hanning, Hilary | Hardaway, Richard B. | Hardin, Benjamin | Hardin, Henry | Hardin, William | Harne, John | Harshfield, Frederick | Hartfield, Henry | Harwood, John | Hawkins, George C. | Hay, Valentine | Hayden, Thomas | Haynes, Henry | Hays, Harvey | Hayes, Josh | Hays, Samuel | Heist, Kate A. | Heist, Spicy | Helm, Sallie | Henderson, Peyton | Hendrick, Robert | Hendrick, William | Hesike, J. W. | Heston, Isaiah | Hewitt, John | Hicks, Jesse | Hiff, William | Hinds, Benjamin | Hinter, B. W. | Hinton, Austin | Hite, Isaac | Hogg, Elizabeth | Holland, John | Holt, Rosina | Holt, W. D. | Hoskins, Harison | Hoskinson, Mary | Hott, Thomas | Howard, Christopher | Howard, WilliamHowell, Nehemiah | Hudson, Squire | Huffey, Cornelius | Huston, Margaret | Hutchison, Joseph | Hutt, Robert
Jacob, Tabitha | Jarrett, Wilson | Jenings, Jefferson | Jolly, Gideon | Jolly, Samuel | Jones, William | Jordan, Sashwell | Jordan, William
Kasey, Francis | Kendrick, Allen | Kinchelor, Jesse | Kinchelor, Thomas | King, Ann
Lacy, Thomas | Lay, John | Leaves, Thomas J. | Lester, George | Lewis, Charlie | Lester, James | Lewis, Jesse | Lewis, John | Lewis, Solomon | Long, William C. | Lucas, Ignatius | Lusthard, Herman | Lyddan, Nicholas | Lyon, John | Lyon, William | Lyons, Joseph
Madox, John W. | Maffett, Benjamin | Martin, Ezekiel Sr. | Matthews, Sallie | McCaner, John | McCans, Alexander Jr. | McCLain, William | McClelland, John | McCornish, Isaac | McCoy, Ammon | McCoy, John P. | McCoy, John R. | McDonnall, Joseph B. | McDowell, Littleberry | McGavock, Robert | McGee, James | McGill, Catharine | McGill, John | McGill, Joseph | McClothlan, Edward | McGlothlan, Lafayette | McGlothlan, Melvina | McGlothlan, William | McCone, William | McCoy, William | McGuffin, Thomas | Meador, M. H. | Meador, Nancy | Meadows, Riley | Meadows, Thomas | Mendell, James | Menthies, John M. | Mercer, Elmore | Meriwether, W. A. | Miller, G. W. | Miller, John | Miller, Matilda | Miller, Matthias | Minges, Peter | Minton, John | Monroe, James D. | Montague, William | Montgomery, Mary | Montgomery, Polly | Moorman, Andrew C. | Moorman, James | Moorman, Jesse | Moredock, Stephen | Moreland, Josiah | Moreman, Abraham | Moreman, James H. L. | Mork, Jacob | Morris, James | Morris, William | Morrison, James | Morriss, James | Morton, William | Mossman, Lewis | Munday, William | Murray, David | Murray, Elijah
Neff, Jacob | Newland, Mary | Newman, Obediah | Newman, Thomas V. | Nichols, John | Nolan, Nicholas | Norton, Isaac | Norton, James
Oglesby, Joseph | Osgood, Howell | Owen, Alford | Owen, Sally | Owens, Thomas
Parks, Seth | Pate, Benjamin | Pate, Mitton | Pate, Thomas | Payne, Moses | Perkins, Richard | Peyton, Francis | Peyton, Mary | Pierce, John | Pile, Edward | Pile, Henry G. | Pile, Isaiah | Pool, Benjamin | Pool, Bushrod | Pool, John | Pool, Letitia | Pool, Stephen | Pool, William P. | Powell, Edward Willis | Powers, Edward | Prather, William | Priest, John | Pullen, William | Pulliam, Elijah
Quiggins, Henry | Quiggins, James | Quiggins, James (2)
Ramsey, Isaac | Ray, Washington L. | Rhodus, John | Rhodes, Elias | Richardson, Joseph | Ritchie, Joseph | Robards, Alfred | Robards, Joseph | Robards, Nancy | Robbins, Josiah | Roberts, Daniel W. | Roberts, Josiah H. | Roberts, Thomas | Robertson, Andrew | Robertson, James | Robertson, Mary | Robertson, William | Rogers, James H. | Rollins, Sarah | Rollins, Stephen | Rooks, Fanny | Ross, David | Ross, Robert | Rowan, George | Rusher, Ephraim | Ryle, William
Sawyer, Jonathan | Scott, Minor | Scott, Thomas | Seaton, William K. | Sebastian, Benjamin | Sharp, Isham | Shaw, Jesse | Shelman, Martin | Shoemaker, John | Shrewsberry, Joel | Sinclair, George | Singleton, William | Skillman, Peter | Skillman, Richard | Skillman, William | Smiley, Edward | Smith, Charles | Smith, Francis | Smith, John | Snider, Mary | Smith, Nancy | Snelling, Samuel | Speak, Margaret | Spencer, John | Spencer, Robert | Squires, Thomas | Stephens, Morgan and Martha | Stephens, Richard | Squires, John | Steel, John | Stephens, Daniel J. | Stith, James | Stith, John | Stith, Richard | Stith, Thomas | Stith, William | Stuart, Charles
Tabor, Philip | Taylor, Abraham W. | Taylor, James | Thomas, William | Thurston, S. H. | Tilly, Joel | Tinkler, Weyman | Townsend, Robert | Tucker, John | Tucker, Susan | Tuttle, William
Walker, Henry | Wale, Martin | Wall, William | Wathen, Benedict, Dr. | Walters, Charles | Warren, Charles | Warren, Thomas | Wattingly, Richard | Watts, Benjamin | Watts, John W. | Weatherford, David | Webb, John | Wethington, Nathaniel | Wheeler, William | White, R. D. | White, William | Whitworth, William | Wigges, Charity | Wilkerson, Sarah | Williams, Ann | Williams, David | Williams, Hugh | Williamson, Alexander | Wilson, Milington | Wiseheart, William | Woods, John | Wright, Thomas N.
Adair County was formed on December 11, 1801 from sections of Green County at which time Columbia was chosen as the county seat. The county was named for John Adair, commander of the Kentucky troops in the Battle of New Orleans and Governor of Kentucky. The Adair family traces to ca 1300 and is found on Georgia Pioneers John Adair had a cousin relationship to the Adairs who settled in Atlanta and were entrepreneurs of real estate.
Adair County Probate Records available to members ofKentucky Pioneers
Miscellaneous Wills and Estates
Dyer, Richard Ewing, James Hall, Drury Haskins, Robert Hindman, Alexander Reaville, Charles Sample, Alexander
Hardin County was established in 1793 from land given by Nelson County and was named after Colonel John Hardin, an officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Courthouse fires destroyed county records in 1864 and again in 1932
Pictured is the oldest court house in Kentucky in Greensburg. Green County was formed in 1792 from portions of Lincoln and Nelson counties and was named after General Nathaniel Greene, the famous hero of the southern campaigns during the Revolutionary War. Three courthouses have served Green County. In 1804, a brick building replaced an earlier structure, and while no longer operational, it stands in the Greensburg Historic District (downtown) and is the oldest court house building in Kentucky. The county seat is Greensburg, Kentucky.
Daviess County was formed from part of Ohio County in 1815 and was named for Abraham Owen, a Colonel who was killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe. The borders of the county were altered in 1829 to form Hancock County in order to absorb a small area surrounding Whitesville, and again in 1854 to cede land to McLean County. Then, in 1860 it annexed forty-four square miles from Henderson County. The county seat is Owensboro.
Cumberland County was created in 1798 from land in Green County and was named after the Cumberland River. The county seat is Burkesville.
Bell County was formed in 1867 from parts of Knox and Harlan Counties and was annexed from Knox County in 1872. It was named after Joshua Fry Bell ("Josh Bell"). The Wilderness Road was built through Bell County during the 1790s.There were court house fires in 1914 and again in 1918 and a flood in 1976 during which occurrences the records were destroyed. The records listed below are those which survived.
Breckinridge County was established in 1799 from a portion of Hardin County. When Abraham Lincoln was seven years old, his father, Thomas Lincoln and his family spent a few weeks in Hardinsburg and occupied a small cabin near what is now the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Camp. The Lincolns left Kentucky by crossing the Ohio River at Cloverport on a log ferry operated by Jacob Weatherholt. The Confederate Army burned the local court being used by Union troops as barracks during the War Between the States. The third court house was burned in 1958. The county is known for its Victoria Coal Mines, named after Queen Victoria, when the Cloverport exported coal oil used to light Buckingham Palace.
