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Liberty Hall in Frankfort

The famous Liberty Hall house was built by John Brown, a Kentucky lawyer, during the 1790s. Brown commenced construction in 1790 after he purchased four acres of land along a bend in the Kentucky River. The bricks were made and fired on the property and the nails were forged by a local blacksmith. John Brown served as a Congressman from 1787 to 1792 and a Member of the Virginia delegation. He was very much in favor of Kentucky splitting off from Virginia and becoming its own State. Brown moved from Liberty Hall in 1801. more Kentucky history 

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George Robertson, KY Jurist #history #kentuckypioneers

George Robertson, A Widely Quoted Kentucky Jurist
By Jeannette Holland Austin

George Robertson was born near Harrodsburg, Kentucky on November 18, 1790. He was educated in the arts and in law at Transylvania University and entered upon the practice of his profession at Lancaster, Kentucky, in 1809. "In 1816 Robertson was elected to Congress, where he remained for two terms. He drew up the bill for the establishment of Arkansaw territory; and he projected the system of cutting public lands into small lots, selling them to actual settlers for one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. He declined another term in the House, as well as the attorney-generalship of Kentucky, in order to devote his whole attention to the law. Robertson was elected against his desire to the Kentucky legislature, in 1822, and he was a member of that body for the next five years. This was the time of the struggle between the Old-Court and New-Court parties, which was one of the most bitter political fights ever seen in Kentucky. Robertson consistently and vigorously championed the cause of the Old-Court party, which finally won. That this disgusted him with political life in any dress, is shown by his subsequent declination of the governorship of Arkansaw, and the Columbian and Peruvian missions. In 1828 he was elected an associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and, in the following year, chief justice." This position was the desire of his heart. He hated politics with a never-dying hatred, the law and the bench being his earthly paradise." He was chief justice of Kentucky for fourteen years, when he resigned to return to the active practice of law. From 1834 to 1857 Judge Robertson was professor of law in Transylvania University at Lexington. He died at Lexington, May 16, 1874, generally regarded as the ablest jurist Kentucky has produced. He was also the author of four books: Introductory Lecture to the Transylvania Law Class (Lexington); Biographical Sketch of John Boyle (Frankfort, 1838); Scrap-Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times (Lexington, 1855), his best known book; and his very interesting and well-written autobiography, entitled An Outline of the Life of George Robertson, written by Himself (Lexington, 1876). Source:Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 (1784-1912) by John Wilson Townsend

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Mason County Kentucky Wills, Estates, Deeds

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.

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Allen, Nathaniel | Allen, Patrick, affidavits | Anderson, Abner | Anns, William | Arrowsmith, Samuel

Bailey, Samuel | Bartlett, William | Beall, Basil | Beeson, Mary | Berry, Baldwin | Boggs, Samuel,depositions | Boone, Daniel | Boone, Daniel, deed | Boone, Daniel, deposition | Botts, John

Campbell, James | Castleman, Stephen | Cochran, Robert | Cohn, Benjamin | Collier, Benjamin | Collins, Benjamin | Connell, William | Conway, Miles Withers | Cook, Payden | Crabb, John | Craig, Absalom

Darah, John | Davie, John | Dobyns, Edward | Dyal, John | Edwards, Jacob E. | Edwards, James

Farron, Joseph, deposition | Figard, Daniel | Fitzgerald, Bartholomew, deposition | Fox, Arthur | Fox, William | Frazer, John, deposition | Fulton, Elisha

Glazier, Abraham, Colonel | Glenn, William

Haines, Joseph | Han, John | Hokem, Plenay | Hughs, John

Jackman, Adam | Jackson, Richard | Jessup, Edward | Johnston, John | Johnston, Robert, James Young, Ben Netherland, depositions | Jones, Michael | Jones, Thomas | Journice, Joseph

Keith, Isaiah | Kilgore, Samuel | Kenton, Simon, depositions

Lecompt, Charles, depositions | Lee, Henry, deposition | Lee, Peter | Lee, Richard | Lee, Stephen | Lewis, Isaac | Lewis, James | Lowhead, James | Lyle, Ludwick | Lyon, Joseph

Mahan, Matthew | Masterson, Richard, depositions | Matslar, John | Maxwell, Thomas, improvements | McCleland, Alexander | McClure, Francis | McConnel, Francis, deposition | McConnell, William, improvements | McDormet, Francis, deposition | McDowell, Thomas | McIntire, Alexander | McKinley, James, improvement | Miller, Robert | Millrt, Thomas | Mills, Edward | Morton, Joseph

Oden, John | Parr, Samuel | Peak, James | Phillips, Gabriel | Pitzer, Christopher | Poindexer, Thomas, heirs of

Reaves, Benjamin | Richards, Elijah | Richards, Lucy | Richards, Reuben | Ritchie, David and Mary | Roberts, John | Rudolph, John | Rumph, John | Rurry, John, affidavit | Rust, Matthew | Sellars, Isaac | Shipley, Samuel | Smart, John | Stevens, John | Stockton, George | Stockton, William | Stucker, Jacob

Tandy, William | Tarpley, James, deposition | Thrailkill, Benjamin | Thomas, Levi | Thompson, William | Tibbs, Samuel, affidavit | Tillett, John | Triplett, William, depositions | Vance, John | Vance, John

Walls, William | Washburn, Jeremiah | Wells, Hayden, deposition | Wheatley, Francis | Whitaker, Hezekiah | White, William | Wiley, Robert | Wiley, William | Williams, John | Williams, John, depositions | Willson, John | Willson, Joseph, improvement | Willson, Joseph, deposition | Wood, Benjamin | Woodgerd, Henry | York, Jeremiah | Young, Thomas, deposition

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Allison, John | Armstrong, James | Askins, Thomas | Bell, John | Berry, Enoch | Botts, John | Botts, William, slaves of | Brooks, Jonathan | Brooks, Thomas | Brown, Richard | Browne, Robert | Bryant, George | Buckelow, Arthur | Buckalow, William | Burnett, Moses | Burns, Tarens | Burns, Zephaniah | Burwell, Peter | Busley, Charles | Byram, Peter | Byram, William

Caldwell, David | Campbell, John | Cannon, Abraham | Carrel, Dempsey | Carroll, Edward | Castleman, Stephen | Clark, William | Cleary, William | Cleneay, William | Cochran, Robert | Cornwell, Jane | Cornwell, Samuel | Corwin, John | Crabb, John | Crosby, William

Davis, Garrard | Davis, Nicholas | Dawson, George | Doggett, Elmore | Dougherty, Alexander | Downing, Ellis | Downing, Robert | Drake, Cornelius | Dunlavy, anthony Sr. | Duvall, John P. | Duvall, John Pierce | Dye, William | Edwards, Jacob | Ellis, James | Ficklen, John | Finch, John | Fox, Arthur | Gallagher, Edward | Grayham, Elizabeth

Hale, James | Hamilton, Alexander | Hanes, Joseph | Hanes, Samuel | Harrow, John | Hattabough, Isaac | Heald, James | Heflin, Simon | Hickman, Jesse | Hill, Joseph | Hollody, Richard | Hurst, Henry | Jackson, John | Journice, Joseph | Kent, John | Lee, Ann | Lee, Lewis | Leitch, David | Lewis, George | Lewis, James | Lounsdale, Thomas | Lyon, Joseph

Maddox, Notty | Marshall, Robert | Marshall, Thomas | Mattock, James | Mattocks, John | Matzler, John | McClung, James | McDonald, Francis | McDowell, Joseph | McFaden, John | McIlvane, William | McKinley, James | Mechin, Peter | Metcalf, John | Miller, Robert | Moke, James | Morris, David | Morris, Mary | Morton, Robert B. | Murphy, Timothy | Musgrove, Joshua

Nebs, George | Nicholas, Anne |Nichols, John | Nichols, Thomas | Nile, Ashberry | Owenfield, Abram | Owenfield, Paul | Phillips, Gabriel | Phillips, James | Phillips, John | Pollard, Benjamin | Pollett, Mary | Porter, John | Prater, Riquil | Proctor, Jeremiah | Proctor, William | Purcell, George

Reeves, James | Robinson, Ralph | Rogers, John | Rudolph, John | Runsdale, Margaret | Rush, William | Sanders, George | Sandridge, James | Scott, John | Shackleford, James | Sheppherd, George | Shockey, Isaac | Shurly, William | Small, Henry | Smith, Moses | Smith, William | Soward, Richard | Stableton, William | Standford, Acquila | Stith, John | Stoulcoup, John | Strong, Gilbert | Summers, George | Summers, Samuel

Tennison, Absalom | Tevis, Peter | Thomas, Jacob | Thom, Robert | Thomas, Joseph | Tillet, John | Van Schoiach, John | Von Sickle, William | Voshall, Daniel

Ward, Thomas | Washburn, Jeremiah | Waters, John | Watson, John | Weaver, Henry | Whaley, John | Wheatley, Francis | Whitaker, Hezekiah | Willson, James | Willson, John | Wilson, Nathaniel | Wood, George | Worthington, William

Wills, Inventories, Deeds, Affidavits 1809 to 1815

Adamson, John | Anderson, Abner | Anderson, Matthew | Applegate, Daniel | Bailey, James and William Waddell | Baker, Abner | Baker, Grafton | Baker, William | Barbour, James | Bayles, Daniel | Beasley, Charles | Beasley, Ezekiel | Bell, Rawleigh | Bell, Richard | Bennett, Titus | Berry, Enoch | Berry, George | Bigges, Mason | Boone, Levy | Bowden, Robert | Boyles, Davis | Bronough, William | Brooke, Humphrey | Brooks, George | Brooks, Jonathan | Brooks, Thomas | Brown, James | Brown, Robert | Burroughs, Benjamin | Bursett, Sarah

Calvin, Luther | Carly, Charles | Carrell, David | Carrell, Lawson | Cash, Thomas | Chambers, James | Clarke, John | Clarke, William | Clift, Mason | Clifton, Baldwin | Clury, William | Colvert, William | Corwin, Richard | Coryell, Joseph | Curtis, John

Daugherty, David A. | Davidson, Hugh | Davis, Joseph | Davison, Joseph | Dawson, Isaac | Doggatt, orphans | | Dougherty, John | Drake, Desire | Drake, John | Drake, Josiah | Drake, Ralph | Drummond, Samuel | Dufford, George | Dyal, Simon | Dye, William | Edwards, Jacob | Evans, Charles | Ficklin, John | Finch, John | Fitzgerald, Bartholomew | Foley, James | Fox, Arthur | Gibbons, Nehemiah | Glausbrener, John | Gordon, Amos | Gow, William | Gray, John

Harrah, John | Heath, John | Henderson, Andrew | Higgins, William | Higginwith, Priscilla | Howell, William | Hyatt, Elisha | Jackson, Samuel | Jessup, Edward | John, Eli | Jones, William | Kelsey, Thomas | Kent, John | Kiggin, Macon | Kilgore, Samuel

Lee, Ann | Lee, Stephen | Light, Ludwick | Marshall, Robert | Marshall, Thomas | Marshall, William | Martin, Edmund | Mattox, James | Mazlen, Benjamin | McClure, Sarah | McDowell, Joseph | McDuget, Francis | McGoyer, Hackey | McMichael, Margaret | Mitchell, Isaac | Mitchell, Sandford | Moke, James | Moore, John B. | Morris, James | Morris, Mary | Morris, William | Morrison, Edward | Morrison, Motley W.

Nichols, L. | Nichols, Simon | Owenfield, Abner | Perkins, Constant | Phillips, Gabriel | Phillips, Moses | Pitter, John | Proctor, William

Ravenscraft, John | Reeves, Benjamin | Reeves, Elizabeth | Reeves, James | Russell, Sarah | Sandridge, James | Scott, John | Shackleford, John | Shelton, William | Shipley, Samuel | Small, Henry | Smith, Samuel | Snyder, Christian | Stout, Daniel | Tidwell, Reuben | Triplett, Francis | Triplett, William

Wakefield, James | Washington, Thomas | Watson, John | Weaver, Harry | Whaley, John | White, James | Wiggins, Archibald | Wusiger, John K. | Young, Samuel

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Mays Lick in Kentucky #history #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

Mays Lick, Kentucky in 1800
By Jeannette Holland Austin

"Mayslick, although scarcely a village, was at once an emporium and capital for a tract of country six or eight miles in diameter, and embracing several hundred families, of which those in father's neighborhood were tolerably fair specimens. Uncle Abraham Drake kept a store, and Shotwell and Morris kept taverns; besides them there were a few poor mechanics. Uncle Cornelius Drake was a farmer merely, and lived a little out of the center of the station; the great men of which were the three I have just named. With this limited population, it seems, even down to this time, wonderful to me that such gatherings and such scenes should have been transacted there. They commenced within five years after its settlement, and increasing with the progress of surrounding population, continued in full vigor long after I left home for Cincinnati. It was the place for holding regimental militia musters, when all the boys and old men of the surrounding country, not less than those who stood enrolled, would assemble; and before dispersing at night, the training was quite eclipsed by a heterogeneous drama of foot racing, pony racing, wrestling, fighting, drunkenness and general uproar. It was also a place for political meetings and stump conflict by opposing candidates, and after intellectual performances there generally followed an epilogue of oaths, yells, loud blows, and gnashing of teeth. Singing-schools were likewise held at the same place in a room of Deacon Morris's tavern. I was never a scholar, which I regret, for it has always been a grief with me that I did not learn music in early life. I occasionally attended. As in all country singing-schools, sacred music only was taught, but in general there was not much display of sanctity. I have a distinct remembrance of one teacher only. He was a Yankee, without a family, between forty and fifty years of age, and wore a matted mass of thick hair over the place where men's ears are usually found. Thus protected, his were never seen, and after the opinion spread abroad that by some misfortune they had been cut off, he cut and run." The infant capital was, still further, the local seat of justice; and Saturday was for many years, at all times I might say, the regular term time. Instead of trying cases at home, two or three justices of the peace would come to the Lick on that day, and hold their separate courts. This, of course, brought thither all the litigants of the neighborhood with their friends and witnesses; all who wished to purchase at the store would postpone their visit to the same day; all who had to replenish their jugs of whiskey did the same thing; all who had business with others expected to meet them there, as our city merchants, at noon, expect to meet each other on change; finally, all who thirsted after drink, fun, frolic, or fighting, of course, were present. Thus Saturday was a day of largely suspended field labor, but devoted to public business, social pleasure, dissipation, and beastly drunkenness. You might suppose that the presence of civil magistrates would have repressed some of these vices, but it was not so. Each day provided a bill of fare for the next. A new trade in horses, another horse race, a cock-fight, or a dog-fight, a wrestling match, or a pitched battle between two bullies, who in fierce encounter would lie on the ground scratching, pulling hair, choking, gouging out each other's eyes, and biting off each other's noses, in the manner of bull-dogs, while a Roman circle of interested lookers-on would encourage the respective gladiators with shouts which a passing demon might have mistaken for those of hell. In the afternoon, the men and boys of business and sobriety would depart, and at nightfall the dissipated would follow them, often two on a horse, reeling and yelling as I saw drunken Indians do in the neighborhood of Fort Leavenworth, in the summer of 1844. But many would be too much intoxicated to mount their horses, and must therefore remain till Sunday morning. Source: Pioneer Life in Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1870) 

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Warren County Kentucky Wills, Estates, Deeds

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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• Armor, Thomas
• Briggs, Thompson
• Earnest, Peterson
• Fishback, James
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• Smith, Elizabeth
• Thompson, Peter
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The Cumberland Gap. Explorations. #history #kentuckypioneers

Notes on Kentucky in the Kentucky Gazette
By Jeannette Holland Austin

"This country was well known to the Indian traders many years before its settlement. They gave a description of it to Lewis Evans, who published his first map of it as early as 1752. In the year 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker, Colby Chew, Ambrose Powell and several others from the counties of Orange and Culpepper, in the state of Virginia, set out on an excursion to the Western Waters; they traveled down the Holstein river, and crossed over the Mountains into Powell's valley, thence across the Cumberland mountain at the gap where the road now crosses, proceeded on across what was formerly known by the name of the Wilderness until they arrived at the Hazlepath; here the company divided, Dr. Walker with a part continued north until they came to the Kentucky river which they named Louisa or Levisa river. After traveling down the excessive broken or hilly margin some distance they became dissatisfied and returned and continued up one of its branches to its head, and crossed over the mountains to New River at the place called Walker's Meadows." Concerning the 1750 explorations of Kentucky it is belive that the meadows were located in central Kentucky. The Loyal Land Company, organized in 1749, secured a land grant of some 800,000 acres to be located in what is now Kentucky. Walker set out from his home (Castle Hill) in Charlottesville, Virginia during 1750 and passed through Cumberland Gap in April. He called the steep cliff "Steep Ridge"

" In the year 1754 James McBride with some others, passed down the Ohio river in canoes, and landed at the mouth of the Kentucky river, where they marked on a tree the initials of their names, and the date of the year. These men passed through the country and were the first who gave a particular account of its beauty and richness of soil to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America. No further notice seems to have been taken of Kentucky until the year 1767, when John Finlay with others (whilst trading with the Indians) passed through a part of the rich lands of Kentucky. It was then called by the Indians in their language, the Dark and Bloody Grounds. Some difference took place between these traders and the Indians, and Finlay deemed it prudent to return to his residence in North Carolina, where he communicated his knowledge of the country to Colonel Daniel Boone and others. This seems to have been one of the most important events in the history of Kentucky, as it was the exciting cause which prompted Colonel Boone shortly afterwards to make his first visit to the Dark and Bloody Grounds." Sources: From the Kentucky Gazette (August 25, 1826); Kentucky's Last Frontier by Henry P. Scalf: History of Thomas Walker Explorations. 

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