The Trail to Kentucky your Ancestors Took - Images of Shelby County KY Wills, Estates - #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

The Trail into Kentucky
By Jeannette Holland Austin

Religious persecution and the search for land motived Scotch-Irish and German immigrants to come to America. A popular trail was the port of Philadelphia and temporary settlement in Berks and Bucks counties. Then they followed the trail through the Shenandoah Valley, through Augusta and Frederick counties into the wilderness mountains (of West Virginia) to Kentucky, Sometimes they settled in Hampshire County Virginia (now West Virginia), Botetourt and Shenandoah Counties. The idea for the genealogist is to follow Wilderness Road.

Shelby County, Kentucky Wills, Estates, Deeds

Shelby County was formedn 1792 and was named for Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky. The county seat is Shelbyville.

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Indexes to Wills and Estates

• Book No. 1, 1796 to 1804
• Book No. 2, 1804 to 1811
• Book No. 3, 1812 to 1817

Wills and Estates Bk No. 1, 1792 to 1804

• Bagel, William | Bell, Henry | Boling, William | Boyd, William | Boyles, David | Bozwell, George | Breedon, Richard | Brice, James | Brown, James | Buckhannon, William | Burzan, Jesse | Butler, Elizabeth

• Clarke, John | Connely, John | Daniel, Robert | Dornas, Oliver | Dunn, John | Elam, Richard | Felly, John | Ford, John | Fullinwider, William

• Garrett, John | Gazway, Richard | Glover, Jonah | Green, Catherine | Green, Jonathan

• Hansbrough, Marias | Hansel, Phillip | Hartman, Anthony | Hill, Hardy | Hogland, Richard |
• Jacobs, Thomas | Johnston, Phillip

• Lane, Lambert | Lasley, Robert | Laurence, David | Leatherman, John | Lemaster, Richard | Lewis, John

• McCampbell, Samuel | McCLain, Samuel | McClure, Daniel | McClure, John | Meeke, Jesse | Metcalf, James | Newland, Isaac | Newland, Jacob | Owen, Brackett | Owens, George

• Pennington, Isaac | Perkins, William | Potts, John | Powell, William | Prewitt, Michael Sr. | Redding, William | Reid, James | Robins, William

• Shannon, Thomas | Shannon, William | Shields, Patrick | Shuck, Andrew | Sled, William | Smith, Jacob | Squires, John | Stout, James | Thompson, Thomas | Van Cleve, Ralph

• Walker, James | Walker, Joseph | Warford, David | Whitaker, Jesse | Whitaker, John | Williams, Elizabeth | Williams, John | Williams, William | Wilson, Samuel

• Young, Adam

Wills, Estates, Divisions, Inventories, Appraisements, Orphans, Guardianships, Bk 3, 1812 to 1817

• Abbey, Silas | Abraham, John | Adams, Ephraim and Solomon | Allen, Washington | Ashley, Sarah and Thompson | Allen, John | Allison, Robert | Anderson, Amos and John | Atherton, Margaret | Ballard, William | Bekill, Craig | Bell, John | Black, Elizabeth | Booker, Richard Samuel | Boyd, Jane | Boyd, John | Boyd orphans | Boyd, William Braigleck, James | Bryant, Rawleigh and orphans | Bryant, Thomas | Bull, Edward Bullard, William

• Carnes, Joseph | Carson, Robert | Chiles, Carr | Churchill, George and Richard | Clark, Godfrey | Clarke, John | Cook, William | Cooper, Benjamin and William | Craig, James | Crawford, James Crowley, William | Damaree, Samuel | Davis, Ezekiel | Davis, Thomas C. | Duncan, Nimrod

• Eakin, John | Eakins, John | Edwards, Elisha and Joseph Elliott, William | Ferguson, William | Finley, William | Frazier, Andrew | Frye, Benjamin | Gallinger, Solomon | Garner, Sally | Gilland, Daniel | Glen, Joseph | Goldman, Robert | Gooch, Thomas | Graham, Joseph | Green, James | Griffin, Elizabeth | Griffith, Benjamin

• Harding, Daniel and John | Harlan, Thomas | Harris, Burr | Hays, Peter | Hedden, Gilbert | Hinton, William | Huston, William | Johnston, Thomas and orphans | Jones, Richard and Walter

• Kester, William | Kinkead, John Kirkpatrick, Mathew | Kuykendall, Jacob and orphans | Lacewell, Elizabeth and orphans | Lang, James and Polly | Lemon, David and John | Lewis, Fielding and John | Littell, guardian | Logan, Benjamin and William | Long, James

• Mahurin, John | Marquis, William K. | McClelland, Haunce | McDowell, Alexander McGaughey, John | Mead, John Meeks, John | Middleton, William | Miller, Alexander | Mitchell, Joseph and Thomas | Mount, Elisha | Mullikin, James | Murry, Warren

• Newman, John | Oglesley, Nancy | Owen, Abraham } Owen, Jesse | Owen, Proctor | Ownsby, James | Perkins, Samuel | Perry, Rodrick | Pollard, William | Porter, Benjamin | Powell, William | Proctor, William

• Reddick, James | Redman, Milly | Reed, Thomas | Richmon, Peter | Ridgeway, Richard | Robinson, John F. | Rucker, Joshua | Russell, Daniel

• Sampler, Samuel | Sampson, William | Scoggin, Charles | Scott, James | Shanks, Thomas Jr. | Shannon, Samuel | Shoemaker, Peter | Simpson, Joseph | Smith, George and Robert | Stout, Peter

• Taylor, Phillip and William | Thatcher, Nancy | Theldkill, Moses | Thornton, Mitchel | Thurston, James and Plummer | Tilly, Lazarus | Tinsley, Jonathan and Samuel | Todd, John and William | Van Dyke, Peter | Venable, Henry and James

• Wallace, John | Webb, James | Wells, Carty and Hayden and Peggy | Wetherford, Elijah | Whitaker, Aquilla | Elisha | Jesse Williams, John | Williamson, John | Wood, James | Woodside, John Woodson, Jesse

Wills and Estates, Bk 2, 1804 to 1811

• Adams, Simon | Ashby, Silas

• Banta, Henry | Bell, Henry | Black, Charles | Booker, Richard M. | Booker, R. M. | Booker, orphans | Boone, George | Bouldman, Robert | Boyd, orphans | Boyle, David | Boyle, William | Bozel, Nancy | Bradshaw, William | Bright, Lewis | Bull, Edward | Butler, Daniel | Butler, Elizabeth

• Cannon, Tubman | Carr, Moses | Carson, Rolin | Casper, Elial | Childress, Susannah | Chiles, Walter | Churchhill, Richard | Clarke, James | Cravenstine, George | Crerenston, Rebekah

• Daniel, George S. | Daniel, George | Daniel, Martin | Dardeman, Peter | Davis, Ezekiel | Dugan, Hugh | Dumaree, Samuel

• Eakins, Robert | Elliott, Augustine | Elliott, Robert | Ellis, Jesse

• Findley, Sarah | Finley, William | Fulton, James

• Gash, Michael | Gillaspy, James | Graves, Davis Green, Katharine | Griffin, William

• Harman, Stephen | Hern, Owen | Hill, Hardy | Hirman, William | Hornsby, Joseph | Houghland, James

• Jewell, William Sr. | Johnston, Phil | Jones, Richard

• Lacefield, Patsy | Lastly, Robert | Lawrence, David | Lawrence, orphans | Lee, Daniel | Lee, William Sr. | Lewis, John | Link, Jacob | Lucas, Abraham

• Martin, John | Martin, Peter | Matthews, John | McCampbell, Samuel | McClain, David | McClain, John | McClaine, Samuel | McCrocklin, John | McDowell, Charles | McFalls, David | McFall, Letty | McKinney, John and Charles | McKinney, John | McLaughlin, John | McWade, Henry | McWade, Margaret | Meeks, John | Miles, Samuel | Mitchell, William | Moore, R. M.

• Neal, John | Owen, Abraham

• Pearcy, George | Pennington, Isaac | Perry, Roderick | Peyton, Charles | Pollard, Henry | Postlewait, Joseph | Prewitt, James | Prewitt, Michael | Radford, Richard | Redding, William | Reed, Susannah | Reid, James | Rennolds, William | Rennolds, orphans | Ridgway, Richard | Roberts, George | Robinson, James | Robinson, John | Rutledge, John

• Sharp, John | Simpson, Benjamin | Simpson, James | Simpson, Joseph | Snider, Peter | Stone, George | Straughan, John

• Talbot, Ezekiel | Threlkeld, Thomas | Thomason, Hyland | Triplett, Rodger | Utterback, Henry | Weaver, Myrtlett | Whitaker, John | White, Matthew | White, Sarah | Williams, Elizabeth | Williams, Isaiah | Williams, Jonah | Woods, John

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