The Wilderness Home in Kentucky
By Jeannette Holland Austin
As the cultivation of tobacco was too convenient a profit to ignore, the English were disappointed because they wanted the colonists to supply raw goods to the English markets and were looking forward to shipments of iron, timber, potash, hemp, silk and other commodities. However, the English authorities shot themselves in the foot by repressing every effort of the colonists to manufacture their own clothing and other necessities. Every coat worn by the planter, every dram of spirits consumed by him obtained by trading tobacco with Holland, diminished the value of the Virginia market for English goods. And, as the Europeans moved across the Shenandoah Valley into Kentucky, a different type of emigrant emerged on the landscape. He was the true adventurer. The energetic lifestyle of the hunter and trapper willing to form militias to protect the homestead against marauding Indians created its own forts, and economy. So it was that German immigrants and the Scotch-Irish during the early part of the 18th century took the wagon road out of Pennsylvania and crossed through the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Previously, head coverings were sewn with beaver fur sent to England for
working up, and then returned in the shape of hats to be sold or
bartered. But the Kentuckian explorer trapped beaver and other animals
for fur and used it to craft necessitities required in the wilderness
home. History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Philip Alexander
Bruce.
Bell County Wills, Estates, Deeds
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
- Arnet, Elias
- Arthur, Zack
- Campbell, Archibald
- Davis, Preston
- Goodin, Hardin
- Hutchins, John
- Lane, Samuel
- Lock, Alexander
- Parsons, John
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