Warren County Kentucky Probate Records
Pictured is Bowling Green, Kentucky. The history of Warren County dates
back to several Native American villages and burial mounds. General
Elijah Covington was one of the first land owners. McFaddens Station was
established as early as 1785 on the northern bank of the Barren River
at Cumberland Trae. by Andrew McFadden. Warren County was established
in 1796 and was named after General Joseph Warren of Revolutionary War
fame as haviing dispatched William Dawes and Paul Revere on the famous
midnight ride. Warren also fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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Miscellaneous Wills
- Armor, Thomas
- Briggs, Thompson
- Earnest, Peterson
- Fishback, James
- Gillarton, Thomas
- Robinson, Knox (LWT 1846)
- Skaggs, James
- Smith, Elizabeth
- Thompson, Peter
- Watts, William
- West, William
- Wingfield, Joseph and David
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Shelby County was formedn 1792 and was named for Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky. The county seat is Shelbyville.
Pictured is land near Ewing, Kentucky and the railroad yard.
Russell County was formed on December 14, 1825 from portions of Adair,
Cumberland and Wayne counties. It was named after Colonel William
Russell.
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.
Knox County was formed on December 19, 1799 from portions of Lincoln
County and was named for General Henry Knox, also appointed Secretary of
War during the War Between the States.
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.