Muhlenberg County Probate Records
Become a member now!Pictured are lands in Vanceburg and Graham, Kentucky. Muhlenberg County was founded in 1798 and was named for General Peter Muhlenberg, of Revolutionary War fame. The county seat is Greenville, Kentucky.
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Images of Muhlenberg County Wills and Estates 1801 to 1814
- Abott, John
- Alcock, Richard Nelson
- Allison, William
- Anderson, Robert
- Bailey, Thomas
- Biggerstaff, Benjamin
- Bowman, Peter
- Butler, Gilbert
- Byrd, John
- Campbell, Patrick
- Campbell, William
- Cockrum, James
- Combs, Thomas
- Cooley, Susanna
- Davis, Henry
- Deboyn, Batten
- Deboyn, John
- Durall, Skinner
- Durelle, John
- Fisher, John
- Forker, Thomas
- Gish, Christian
- Goodman, Silvy
- Groves, Jonathan
- Harrison, Jesse
- Herrin, David
- Hunsinger, Mathias
- Hussley, Jacob
- Kinchelow, Lewis
- Lesley, Valentine
- Lewis, Charles
- McCartney, James
- McKinney, John
- McLane, John
- McNary, William
- Naught, George Sr.
- Noftzinger, Jacob
- Penrod, John
- Penrod, Tobias
- Perrel, John
- Prowse, Thomas
- Reno, Lewis
- Rhoades, Daniel
- Rhoades, Henry
- Rhoades, Joseph
- Rhoades orphans
- Rose, Lenox
- Sever, Frederick
- Smith, John
- Stom, Leonard
- Stump, Francis
- Talbert, John
- Tyler, Richard
- Vought, John
- Ward, Thomas
- Ward, William
- Ware, Thomas
- Wills, Francis
- Wilson, Elijah
- Wootton, Elijah
- Young, William Sr.
Mercer County was formed from Lincoln County in 1785 and was named for the Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer who was killed at the Battle of Princeton in 1777. The county seat is Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Some of the earliest settlers were: Abraham Bsnta, Alexander Bowling, Daniel and Cornelius Cozine, George Silvertooth, James Harrod, James Hornback, James Quigley, Thomas Freeman, Thomas Threlkeld, Patrick Lowry, Joseph Bohannon, John McMurtry, Harman Van Dyke, Benoni Swearengin and Matthew English. The Wills, Estates, Inventories, Orphans and Guardian Returns are all combined in the same books. A number of pages in these books were too faded and damaged to include. Effort was made by the State of Kentucky to restore some of the images, however, what you see is what you get.
Mason County was taken from Boubron County in 1788 and was named for George Mason, a Virginia delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. The county seat is Maysville, which is situated on the edge of the outer Bluegrass Region. The depositions regarding matters of land of the froniersmen Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone are found in the early records, copies of which are on this website.
Lincoln was one of the original three counties formed from a county in Virginia called "Kentucky County". Three counties were separated from Virginia to form the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1792; viz: Fayette, Jefferso and Lincoln Counties. The county seat is Stanford, Kentucky.
Jefferson County was organized in 1780 and one of the first three counties to be formed out Virginia at the time (the other two being Fayette and Lincoln). The county is named for Thomas Jefferson, who was governor of Virginia at the time.
The site where General Polk fortified a site along the Mississippi River against the Union forces during the War Between the States. For this reason the site was called the Gibralter of the West. Hickman County was founded in 1822 and named after Captain Paschal Hickman of the 1st Rifle Regiment, Kentucky Militia. While he was a resident of Franklin County, Kentucky he was wounded and captured at the Battle of Frenchtown in January of 1813 and killed by Indians in the Massacre of the River Raison. The first county seat was Columbus, Kentucky where a court house was built in 1823. In 1830 the county seat was removed to Clinton, Kentucky.
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