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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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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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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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Mercer County, Kentucky Wills and Estates

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. 

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Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 1, 1786 to 1795


• Adams, William | Armstrong, Mary | Arnold, Stephen
• Banta, Abraham | Batten, William | Beaman, John | Berry, John | Bohannon, Joseph | Bowling, Alexander | Bowling, Henry | Brown, Daniel | Brumfield, Robert | Burn, James O.
• Campbell, James | Canaday, Rachel | Cooley, Rubin | Corbin, Robert | Cozine, Cornelius | Cozine, Daniel
• Davis, Joseph | Davis, Thomas | Dickens, Daniel | Downing, William
• English, Matthew | Estes, Abraham | Flanigan, Dominick | Foster, Isaiah | Freeman, Thomas
• Gill, John | Givens, Samuel | Gordon, John | Graham, Benjamin | Gricon, Samuel
• Hale, Jobe | Hale, Joseph | Harbeson, John | Harris, William | Harrod, James | Hartley, Thomas | Holland, Alexander | Holloway, George | Hornback, James
• James, Abraham | Jeffries, Matthew | Lapsley, Samuel | Little, John | Longly, Isaac | Lowry, Patrick | Lyons, Stephen
• McAfee, Robert | McBrayer, George | McKinny, Stephen | McMurtry, John | McPike, James | Miller, Hannah | Mitchell, John | Mitchell, Robert | Moun, James
• Neeld, Benjamin | Noell, Thomas | Overton, James | Prather, Thomas | Quigley, James
• Roberts, Robert | Robertson, James | Robertson, William | Ross, George
• Silvertooth, George | Smith, Adam | Stephens, George | Sutton, Robert
• Taylor, David | Telford, David | Thompson, John | Threlkeld, Moses | Threlkeld, Thomas
• Vancher, William | Wafe, Rebecca | Woods, David


Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 2, 1795 to 1803


• Adams, George | Alexander, Martha | Armstrong, John | Ashby, Henry | Ashby, Stephen
• Banta, Alexander | Barber, Thomas | Berry, John | Bottom, John | Branner, Peter | Brumfield, Job | Burton, Allen | Butt, Henry
• Cason, Seth | Clark, Francis | Corbin, Robert | Coburn, James | Coburn, Mary | Coburn orphans | Cosby, Charles | Coun, George | Cozine, Cornelius | Cozine, Daniel | Curry, Alexander | Curry, Andrew | Curry, John | Curry, William
• Daviss, Joseph | Derham, Jacob | Demott, Lawrence Sr. | Donahigh, William | Dunn, Samuel
• Gill, John | Gillispie, David | Givens, Samuel | Gordon, Ambrose | Guthrie, James
• Haines, William | Hale, Ann | Hale, Armstrong | Hale, Job | Hale, John | Harbison, Thomas | Harris, Overton | Harrison, John | Harrod, James | Harrod, John | Hale, Joseph | Hobson, Phineas
• Irvine, Abraham | James, Abraham | Jelp, Isaac | Jones, Gabriel
• Lapsley, Samuel | Laurence, James | Laurence, Robert | Lawrence, Joseph | Lawrence, Samuel | Lillard, Christopher | Lillard, Edward | Lillard, John | Lock, William | Locke, William
• MacCoun, John | McAfee, John | McAfee, Joseph | McAfee, Samuel | McBrayer, George | McClure, Alexander | McCoun, James | McDowell, Joseph | McGee, James | McKinney, Charles | McMurtry, John | Missender, Nancy | Mitchell, Robert | Moore, William | Moss, David | Munday, Edmund
• Neeld, Nathan | New, John W. | Pancake, Simon | Poss, George | Prather, Thomas
• Ragin, Robert | Robertson, James | Rogers, John | Ryan, John
• Shipley, Edward | Smith, Benjamin | Steen, John | Stone, Henry | Sutton, Robert | Swank, Henry | Swearingen, Benoni
• Telfair, Isaac | Telford, David | Telford, Jeremiah | Theckston, Thomas | Thompson, John | Threlkeld, John | Timmons, Live | Turpin, Thomas
• Vanarsdall, Simon | Van Cleave, William | Walker, Peter | Webster, Richard | Willheit, Nicholas | Willis, John | Wood, Archibald | Wood, David | Woods, James | Woods, Samuel


Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 3, 1803 to 1808


• Adams, George | Asberry, Thomas | Banner, John | Banta, Abraham | Barbee, John | Beasley, Daniel | Bottoms, John | Buchanan, Alexander | Bull, H.
• Caldwell, Robert | Cardwell, James | Chiles, John | Clark, Francis | Cole, Joseph | Combs, Charles | Cooney, John | Copeland, James | Cosby, Nelson | Cowan, Jared | Cozine, Cornelius | Crutchfield, William | Curry, William
• Davis, James | Doak, John | Donaghy, William | Fisher, Jeremiah | Freeman, Thomas
• Garswiler, Abraham | Garswiler, Joseph | Gills, John | Gordon, Ambrose | Graham, James | Green, Thomas
• Hale, John | Hale, Nancy | Hales, Hannah | Harmon, Michael | Harbison, Thomas | Hickston, Thomas | Holloway, James | Hunter, Nancy
• James, Abraham | Jones, Richard | Jordan, Peter
• Laurence, James | Little, John | Lock, Polly | Lucas, Richard | Lyons, Nancy
• McAfee, Samuel | McGinty, James | McKee, William | McKinney, Charles | Miles, John | Miller, Hannah | Miller, John | Moore, James | Moors, Samuel | Mosby, David
• Neald, Nathan | Neeld, Elias | Nichols, Julius | Noel, Bernard
• Peerson, Hale | Philips, Jeremiah | Pilcher, John | Plough, Abraham | Prather, Thomas
• Razor, John | Richardson, John | Riley, Jeremiah | Roberson, James | Roberts, Elizabeth | Robertson, Robert | Robinson, James | Robinson, Robert | Ryan, John
• Shepherd, William | Shields, James | Silvertooth, George | Smith, Jesse | Sneed, Thomas | Stone, Henry
• Taylor, John | Telford, Jeremiah | Thompson, Leonard | Thompson, William | Vankin, Isaac | Ver Bryle, Laurence
• Webster, Richard | Wilhite, Nicholas | Wilson, James | Woods, James | Woods, Samuel | Woodson, Jacob | Young, Leonard


Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 4, 1808 to 1813


• Adair, William | Adams, George | Anderson, Robert | Asberry, Thomas
• Banta, Abraham | Banta, Albert | Banta, Samuel | Barbee, John | Barnes, Fielden | Bavla, John | Bennett, Martha | Bottom, John | Bottom, Mary | Brewer, Peter | Bright, Jacob | Bryant, Jacob | Buchanan, Alexander | Buchanan, George | Buchanan, Nancy | Bunton, John | Burlins, Ambrose | Burton, Ambrose
• Caldwell, George | Campbell, Jonas | Cassady, Alexander | Casidy, Andrew | Chiles, John | Clarkson, John | Coghill, John | Copeland, James | Cotter, John | Coulter, John
• Davis, Azariah | Daugherty, James | Davis, Cyrus | Davis, John | Dean, Thomas
• Eastland, William | Evans, Amos | Ewing, Samuel | Fisher, Adam | Fisher, Simon | Freeman, David | Freeman, Thomas
• Gadberry, William | Garshwiler, Joseph | Gillispie, E. | Givins, Martha | Glazebook, Justin | Gordon, Ambrose | Graham, Samuel | Graves, Leonard | Grayham, Samuel, Capt/
• Hale, Jesse | Hale, Jobe | Haley, orphans | Haley, John | Harbert, John | Harbison, Rachel | Harlord, John | Harris, Charles | Harris, Josias | Hopkins, Samuel | Hughes, William H. | Hungate, John
James, George | Jarrel, David | Jaunt, John | Jones, Abraham | Kerr, David
• Laurence, orphans | Lawrence, James | Lawrence, Robert | Lawrence, Samuel | Lewis, Joseph | Lock, William, orphans | Logan, David | Lyon, guardian | Lyon, James
• Maggs, Thomas | McAfee, Charles | McAfee, James | McCarney, Robert | McCaslin, Richard | McClure, Alexander | McGee, John | McGinnis, William | McKamy, Robert | McKee, Lydia | McKee, William | McMurtrey, John | Minor, George | Moore, James | Moore, orphans | Moore, Samuel | Moore, Thomas | Mosby, David
• Neald, Elias | Neald, Sarah | Neale, Nathan | Noel, Bernard
• Parker, Betty | Patton, Thomas | Pearson, Joseph | Powel, Charles | Powel, George
• Roach, John | Robinson, Margaret | Rowland, Robert
• Shields, James | Shields, Nancy | Smith, Hannah | Smith, Horace | Smock, John | Speed, James | Stagg, John | Stephens, George | Strong, Walter E.
• Talbot, Walter | Taylor, John | Timmons, Samuel | Vanarsdal, Simon | Verbryke, Barnabas | Verbryke, Laurance
• West, Thomas | Williams, John | Willis, Joseph | Wilson, Vance | Young, Leonard


Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 5, 1813 to 1816


• Adams, Samuel | Albert, James | Armstrong, Robert
• Baird, William | Banta, Henry P. | Banta, Samuel | Bennett, estate | Bennett, Charles | Bennett, Martha, orphan | Biers, George | Bonnel, orphans | Bowers, Mathias | Bowey, Matthias | Brown, Priestly | Buchannon, Alexander | Buckhanan, George | Buckhannon, orphans | Bunton, John | Byars, George
• Caldwell, George | Caldwell, Isbel | Caldwell, Robert | Campbell, Josiah | Chelp, Isaac | Colvin, James | Cooney, Mary | Coulter, John | Cowan, Hannah | Curry, Martha | Curry, William
• Daniel, Benjamin | Daniel, guardians | Davis, Cyrus | Dawson, William | Dean, Thomas | Demott, John | Detsponet, Christopher | Dickinson, Edward | Dunn, James
• Eastland, William | Eccles, James | Edwards, Stanton | Edwards, Moreton | Elkins, Aylett | Ellis, Luke | Everly, John
• Fisher, Adam | Gaines, Richard | Givings, Mary | Gordon, Ambrose | Gordon, Averella | Gordon, Robert, orphans | Graham, Joseph | Graves, Leonard | Graves, Rice | Grayham, Samuel | Green, Henry | Green, Mary | Gregory, Richard
• Haley, orphans | Hanna, Stephen | Harbison, Andrew | Haines, Michael | Harlan, James | Hale, Jesse | Haley, John | Harris, Josiah | Horine, George | Humble, Noah M.
• Irvine, John | Irvine, Mary | Jefferies, John | Jemison, David | Jones, Gabriel | Jones, James | Keels, Asa | Kenner, Helen
• Latimer, John B. | Latimer, John | Lawrence, Samuel | Lillard, Ephraim | Lillard, John | Lyon, James | Lyon, orphans
• Martin, Peter | McCown, John | McGinnis, John | McKamy, Rosana | McKee, William | McKinny, John | McMurtry, John | McMurtry, Samuel | Minor, George | Minor, William | Moore, Elizabeth | Moore, James | Moore, Simeon | Morgan, Joseph | Mosby, John | Mosby, Martha | Mosby, Robert
• Neeld, Nathan | Neff, Betsy | Odel, Joseph
• Parkhill, Alexandria | Pateman, John B. | Poulta, Joseph | Prather, Thomas | Prewitt, Matthew
• Slaughter, Cadwaller | Smith, Zachariah | Smock, Jacob | Smock, Jarrel | Smock, John | Stephens, William | Stevinson, William
• Taylor, John | Thomas, John | Thompson, James | Thompson, Joseph | Trapnall, Vincent
• Vanaradall, Christopher | Van Dyke, Barnard | Van Dyke, Henry | Van Dyke, Jane, orphan | Verbryck, John | Verbryck, Lawrence
• Whittinghill, George | Wilson, James | Winn, John B. | Woods, Samuel


Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 6, 1816 to 1821


• Adams, William | Algood, Edmund | Allen, James
• Banta, Henry | Beagles, Elizabeth | Bell, James | Bennett, guardians | Bonnell, orphans | Bowen, Mathias | Boyce, James | Brewer, David | Brewer, Dilley | Brewer, Jared | Brumfield, Robert | Brumfield, Sarah | Brumfield, William | Buckhannon, Nancy | Buckhannon, orphans | Bunton, John | Burd, Pleasant | Burton, Elizabeth | Butler, James
• Caldwell, Margaret | Cates, William | Clark, Dorothy | Coghill, Nancy Davis | Collier, Joseph | Cowan, George C. | Cozine, George | Crutchfield, William | Curry, William
• Darnaby, Edward | Davis, Patsy | Davis, Robert, slaves | Demott, John, division | Demott, orphans | Demott, Sally | Deweese, Matthew | Dorland, Garret | Dougherty, James | Durham, John | Dye, Fauntleroy
• Eastland, William | Edwards, Stanton | Fisher, Stephen | Flournoy, Samuel
• Garr, Benjamin | Gashwiler, Joseph | Gaunt, John | Graham, Samuel, Captain | Graves, Leonard | Grayham, Samuel | Green, John, orphans
• Hains, Michael | Hale, Jesse | Hall, William | Hamilton, Alexander | Harbison, Rachel | Harlan, James | Henderson, James | Hicks, James | Hicks, Sarah | Horine, George | Hughes, John | Hughes, Stephen | Hungate, John | Hungate, division
• Lapsley, James T. | Latimore, John B. | Laurence, Joseph | Lillard, guardian | Logan, Thomas
• McAfee, George | McCormick, George | McDowell, Joseph | McDowell, Samuel | McGee, James | McGinnis, John | McKee, William | McMurtry, John | Mitchell, Robert
• Needs, Alexander | Nichols, Green | Orrick, Nicholas
• Page, Guinn | Page, orphans | Parenger, Leonard | Parmore, Augustine | Pearce, John | Phillips, Jacob | Prather, Thomas, settlement
• Roane, Fayette | Ryley, John | Rymerson, Barnet
• Shaw, Daniel | Shepherd, William | Simpson, John | Simpson, William | Smith, Ambrose | Smith, Elizabeth | Smith, Zachariah | Stephenson, William | Swearengin, Benoni
• Thompson, Elizabeth, dower | Thompson, Foster | Thompson, Joseph | Thompson, orphans | Trower, John
• Vandandale, James | Van Dyke, Harman | Van Dyke, Henry | Van Dyke, orphan | Vandandale, Simon | Vannays, Cornelius
• Walters, John | Warren, James | Whitehouse, James | Wickersham, Sampson | Wilhite, Barnett | Williams, Mary, dower | Willis, Joseph Sr. | Wilson, James | Woods, Mary


Images of Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Inventories, Appraisements, Bk 7, 1821 to 1824


• Adams, David Algood, Edmund
• Banta or Bants, Garrett | Bell, James | Bell, William | Bellsfell, Peter Sr. | Benham, Thomas | Bennett, orphans | Bilbo, William | Bingham, Thomas | Boice, Jacob | Bradshaw, Benjamin | Bradshaw, Shadrick | Briscoe, Jeremiah | Brown, James | Burton, Ambrose | Butler, Mary
• Caldwell, Jackson | Chaplin, Abraham | Chiles, William | Clark, Dorothy | Collier, Joseph | Cotton, David | Cowan, John | Crow, Jacob | Crutchfield, William
• Dainaby, Edward | Danagh, Hugh | Darland, Garrett | Davis, James | Dean, Levin | Demott, Dorothy | Disponet, Mary Ann
• Ellis, Philip | Everly, Jacob | Fisher, Barnet | Flournoy, Samuel | Garr, Benjamin | Gates, William | Graves, Leonard
• Hall, William | Hanna, John | Harlan, James | Herberger, Elizabeth | Higgins, Thomas | Hunter, Zachariah | Hurley, John
• Jones, James | Knox, David | Lapsley, James T. | Lillard, John Jr. | Lyon, Samuel
• Maginnis, Nancy | Mann, Beverly | Marrs, Henry | McGinnis, John | McMurtry, orphans | Moore, William
• Noel, Benjamin | Prather, Henry | Prewitt, Matthew
• Rasor, Isabella | Rogers, Nancy | Rynearson, Mark
• Samuel, James | Shields, John | Smith, Ambrose | Smock, orphans | Sneed, Alexander | Stepp, William
• Taylor, Peter | Taylor, William M. | Teachonau, Samson | Turhune, Garrett | Thompson, Foster | Thompson, Joseph | Thurman, John
• Vander, Peter | Walker, Philip | Walton, John | Whitewill, George | Wingate, Elias | Woods, Mary

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Harrod's Town KY #history #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

Harrod's Town

Fort Harrod. As far as we know, Kentucky was first explored by a British scouting party led by Dr. Thomas Walker and by Christopher Gist for the Ohio Company. This was a time when the terriroty was populated almost exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, Yuchi, Mosopelea, and several other tribes of Native Americans. The French lost any claims to the territory after they were defeated by the British in the French and Indian War. It was during the year of 1774 that Harrod's Town became the first permanent white settlement in Kentucky. The town was named for James Harrod who led an expedition to survey boundaries of land promised by the British crown to soldiers who served in the French and Indian War. Harrod and his party left Fort Redstone and traveled down the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers to the mouth of the Kentucky River, eventually crossing Salt River into what is today Mercer County where they divided the land between themselves and established the first pioneer settlement. On July 8, 1774, Shawnee attacked a small party of Harrod's in the Fontainbleau area and killed two men. The others escaped to the camp, some three miles. Meanwhile, Dunmore dispatched Daniel Boone to call them back from the frontier and into military service against some bands of Shawnee and Mingo in Lord Dunmore's War. Harrod enlisted in the militia, but arrived too late to participate in the war's only major battle, the Battle of Point Pleasant. 

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George Robertson of Kentucky #history #genealogy #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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John Filson of KY #history #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

John Filson Seceded John McKinney

John Filson, an early historian to Kentucky, was born in Pennsylvania in 1747. Filson was provided the typical common school and academic education but afterwards was lured into the beautiful mountains of Kentucky. Filson reached Lexington in 1782. Here he succeeded "Wildcat McKinney" as the second teacher. It was Filson who wrote the first history of Kentucky and the first authentic account of that vast, transmontane wilderness as well. In 1784, he gave his book, " Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucky" which contained the first map ever drawn of this state, showing the three original counties of Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. All of this was accomplished before there were any printing presses in Kentucky, so Filson carried his map to Philadelphia and his manuscript to Wilmington, Delaware. This little book of one hundred and eighteen pages was deemed of such consequence that one year after its appearance, it was translated into French and published by M. Parraud at Paris. Three editions were printed in England by Gilbert Imlay, Kentucky's first novelist, who incorporated it in his "Topographical Description of the Western Territory." Filson led a restless, strenuous life. Soon after his first visit to Kentucky he was back on his native heath, again in the state of his adoption, next in the Illinois country gathering data for a history of that section, the manuscripts of which are now the property of the Wisconsin Historical Society. In 1788 Filson was associated with Mathias Denman and Robert Patterson, the founder of Lexington, in the purchase of a tract of eight hundred acres opposite the mouth of the Licking River, where they planned a town, now the city of Cincinnati, but named by Filson, Losantiville,the "city opposite the mouth of the Licking." But Filson ventured out once again, this time never to be seen again. He had just surveyed the Great Miami. His friends supposed he was killed by the Indians. 

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Kentucky Long Rifle #kentuckypioneers

The Kentucky Long Rifle

Daniel Boone was known for his expertize with the Kentucky Long Rifle.

While Virginia settlers thought of themselves as living more splendidly than their families in England, Kentuckians were true explorers and adventurers. Their success weighed heavily upon their personal ability to survive in a wilderness country setting laced with hardship and Indian tribes. Yet, such primitive conditions actually carved the trail which led further Westward. First, people came down out of Pennsylvania and crossed the Shenandoah Valley treking through the Blue Ridge Mountains and settled in remote regions dominated by various Indian tribes. By the time that Daniel Boone and other explorers began surveying this country, there were already families of Scotch-Irish and German immigrants who had traveled the trail together and created little communities. The longrifle which was used by Daniel Boone is an early example of a firearm which used rifling (spiral grooves in the bore). This gave the projectile (a round lead ball) a spiraling motion to help increase the stability of the trajectory. Rifled firearms saw their first major combat use in the American colonies during the Seven Years war, and later the American Revolution in the eighteenth century. The disadvantage of a long rifle to a musket was a slower reload time due to a tighter fitting lead ball and greater susceptibility to the fouling of the bore after prolonged use. When the minie ball was developed, the rifle replaced the musket. 

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Wayne Co. KY Wills, Estates, Marriages #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

Wayne County Wills, Estates, Deeds

Wayne County was formed December 13, 1800 from Pulaski and Cumberland Counties. It was named after General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, a hero of the American Revolutionary War as well as the Northwest Indian War. It was his victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers which ended the Indian threat against Kentucky settlers. The Americans lost 33 soldiers during this battle, while the Indians lost twice as many with a retreat to the British-built fort of Miamis on the Maumee River. Wayne County fought for the Confederates during the War Between the States and in 1861, the Confederate Government of Kentucky passed an Act to rename Wayne County to Zollicoffer County in honor of Felix Zollicoffer who died at the Battle of Mill Springs. 

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Marriages

• Miscellaneous Marriages between 1815 and 1817 Digital Images of Wayne County Wills and Estates 1802 to 1807
  • Bartleson, Zachariah
  • Bustard, Charles
  • Denny, Samuel
  • Ingram, Samuel
  • Hunter, Edward
  • Kerly, Benjamin
  • Mullins, Isaac
  • Norton, Mercer
  • Perryhouse, John
  • Smilie, Anne
  • Smiley, George

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Images of Hardin Co. KY Wills, Estates, Genealogy #kentuckypioneers

Hardin County Kentucky Wills, Estates

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 

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Digital Images of Hardin County Wills and Estates, Book B, 1810 to 1816

Testators: Arnet, Jonathan | Attaberry, Richard | Baird, James | Barlow, Michael | Blesett, Francis | Bradshaw, Benjamin | Brady, Morris | Brown, Frederick | Bruce, Mary | Burris, Joseph | Bush, Christopher | Caldhoon, Hugh | Camron, Hannah | Cannon, Angus | Carter, Dannell | Carter, Samuel | Chastain, Lewis | Coombs, Samuel | Courts, Charles | Cozart, William | Daugherty, Christopher | Deavon, Henry | Dodge, Josiah| Dodson, William | Farguson, Usher | French, James | Furguson, John | Ganterman, Margaret | Gardner, Jonathan | Georgehegan, Thomas | German, John | Gilliland, Thomas | Goodin, Samuel Sr. | Gray, Joseph | Grayham, Andrew | Greenawatt, Lewis | Hare, Joseph | Harris, Samuel | Hart, Richard | Helm, Thomas | Hill, Thomas | Humphrey, John | Hunter, Robert | Jones, Isaac | Joseph, Jonathan | Kennedy, Daniel | Kuydendall, Jacob | Larkin, William | Larue, John | Linder, Isaac | McCullum, William | McDaniel, Daniel | McIntire, Moses | McLean, Leonard | MacMahon, William | Melton, John | Miller, Alexander | Miller, Peter | Morris, John | Murphy, James | Nevitt, Joseph | Pearpoint, Francis | Pearpoint, Mary | Pickerell, Samuel | Potter, Daniel | Price, Richard | Reid, John | Roof, Nicholas Sr. | Sanders, Azariah | Shaggs, James | Simmons, Benjamin | Slaughter, Robert | Stader, Ann | Sutzer, Frederick | Thorp, David | Tull, Frederick | Waide, Horatio | Watts, George | West, Isaac | Wiley, Thomas | Williams, John F. | Wisehart, George | Withers, William | Wood, Isaac | Wooley, Hanner | Wooley, William | Young, Adam 

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