Mason County Genealogy Records
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.
Indexes to Probate RecordsImages of Wills, Inventories, Deeds, Affidavits 1791 to 1798
- Wills, Inventories, Deeds, Affidavits 1791 to 1798
- Wills, Inventories, Deeds, Affidavits 1798 to 1809
- Wills, Inventories, Deeds, Affidavits 1809 to 1815
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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Jefferson County was organized in 1780 and one of the first three
counties to be formed out Virginia at the time (the other two being
Fayette and Lincoln). The county is named for Thomas Jefferson, who was
governor of Virginia at the time.
The site where General Polk fortified a site along the Mississippi River
against the Union forces during the War Between the States. For this
reason the site was called the Gibralter of the West. Hickman County
was founded in 1822 and named after Captain Paschal Hickman of the 1st
Rifle Regiment, Kentucky Militia. While he was a resident of Franklin
County, Kentucky he was wounded and captured at the Battle of Frenchtown
in January of 1813 and killed by Indians in the Massacre of the River
Raison. The first county seat was Columbus, Kentucky where a court house
was built in 1823. In 1830 the county seat was removed to Clinton,
Kentucky.
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
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.
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.