Shelby County, Kentucky Wills and Estates
Shelby County was formedn 1792 and was named for Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky. The county seat is Shelbyville. Genealogy Records available to members ofKentucky Pioneers
Indexes to Wills and Estates
- Book No. 1, 1796 to 1804
- Book No. 2, 1804 to 1811
- Book No. 3, 1812 to 1817
- 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
- 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
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Cumberland and Wayne counties. It was named after Colonel William
Russell.
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are lands in Vanceburg and Graham, Kentucky. Muhlenberg County was
founded in 1798 and was named for General Peter Muhlenberg, of
Revolutionary War fame. The county seat is Greenville, Kentucky.
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.
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.