Where We Walk #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

Where We Walk

Do you ever watch where you step? Over an old grave or historic city? Because it could be that almost everywhere that we walk underneath the ground is an old Indian village or evidence of a past civilization. As the motivation to discover our past accelerates into the diggings of archeologists, the thought crosses my mind - Were these the bones of myancestors? Intriguing thought, that the past is some number of feet under the ground and that actual cities have been discovered. Nothing seems to get lost. Think about it. If you believe that we all stem from one human couple, Adam and Eve, then a strapulation of numbers and generations will blow your mind. I have traced some of my ancestors to the 25th cousin to medieval times. This task was enlightening as I saw the same persons again and again woven throughout my lineage. Once the tracing had been made to the nobility, you discover relationships to kings, queens and practically all of European nobility. With this in mind, then, an archelogical site might well apply to you. An excellent beginning is with actual records in the court house, visits to local cemeteries, searching for old bibles, and Kentucky Pioneers. 

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1870 Bridge in Louisville #history #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

The 1870 Bridge in Louisville



Albert Fink was born in Lauterbach, Germany, educated at the Polytechnic School of Darmstadt and immigrated to the United States in 1849. He studied architecture and engineeriing and was employed by the B&O Railroad as well as the L&N Railroad where he was chief engineer. During the War Between the States, Fink repaired damage done to the L&N line by Confederate raiders. He designed and superintended the construction of the first bridge across the Ohio River at Louisville, which opened in 1870. Ultimately he became a vice-president of the L&N.

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Fayette County Wills, Estates, Deeds, Marriages, Paymaster Records

Fayette County was one of the original three counties created from the former Kentucky County, Virginia by the Virginia Act in 1780, along with Jefferson and Lincoln counties. Together they separated from Virginia in 1792 to become the state of Kentucky. Originally, Fayette County included land which makes up 37 present-day counties and portions of 7 others. It was reduced to its present boundaries in 1799. The county is named after Marquis de LaFayette who came to America to join the rebelling English colonies in the American Revolutionary War. On January 1, 1974, Fayette County merged its government with that of its county seat of Lexington, creating a consolidated city-county governed by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. 

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Paymaster Records from the War of 1812

• 42nd Regiment Militia of 1811
• 42nd Regiment Militia of 1813

Marriages

• Recorded in Book 1, 1795 to 1801
• Recorded in Bond Box, 1803 to 1850
• Miscellaneous 1820 to 1841

Indexes of Probate Records

• Wills and Estates 1793 to 1808
• Wills and Estates 1809 to 1813

Images of Wills, Estates, Inventories, Book A, 1793 to 1808

Testators: Adams, Alexander;Applegate, James;Barker, Nathaniel;Bartlett, Henry;Beard, Sarah; Beasley, Augustine; Bell, John; Boulware, William;Bradshaw, Jane' Bradshaw, John;Breckinridge, John; Bright, Nicholas;Bruce, George; Bryant, Morgan" Cade, Charles; Caldwell, John; Camper, Henry; Capell, Martin; Chinn, Milly; Clark, John; Clark, William; Clarke, John; Clugett, Ninion; Crawford, James; Crockett, Winder; Curry, Nicholas; Davis, Samuel; Denchman, Jacob; Ellis, William; Epperson, Richard; Epperson, Susannah; Erwin, James; Ferguson, Jonah; Fitzgerald, William; Franks, Elizabeth; Frye, William; Fullerton, William; Gardner, Alexander; George, January; George, Morris; Gillispie, David; Goodin, Martin; Grant, Rebecca; Grant, William; Graves, Thomas; Gwyn, Morris; Haley, William; Hammond, James; Harrison, Hugh; Harrison, Thomas; Hart, Thomas; Henderson, John; Herndon, Thomas; Higgins, Joel; Hill, James; Hillock, Henry; Holder, Sophia; Hollyman, William; Hufford, Ann; Hunter, George; Irvin, James; January, Peter; Jenkins, William; Johnson, John; Kelly, Katherine; Kersner, Casper; Laughlin, Peter; Lingerfelter, Bernard; Lowry, James; Lowry, Stephen; Lucas, Susannah; Luggett, James; Lyle, Robert; MacFarlane, George; Marshall, Henry; Mason, Edmond; Maxfield, George; McCann, Joseph; McConnell, Elizabeth; McCrosky, Samuel; McCullough, Patrick; McDaniel, Reuben; McMurtry, Joseph; McNair, John; Megowan, Robert; Metter, William; Miller, John; Miller, William; Mitchell, William; Moffett, Walter; Montgomery, James; Moon, Archibald; Moore, William; Morris, Daniel; Murphy, Nancy; Nance, John; Nance, Joseph; Neal, Charles; Noe, Randell; Nuttle, Elijah; Parker, James; Parker, Robert; Parrish, John; Parrish, William; Parish, Patsy; Payne, Edward; Payne, Sanford; Pool, Thomas; Prather, Jeremiah; Rankin, Jeremiah; Redman, Benjamin; Reyburk, Adam; Rice, Elizabeth; Robinson, David; Rogers, Bird; Scott, Andrew; Scott, Elizabeth; Scott, William; Sertz, John; Shaw, Nathaniel; Sidenor, Martin; Simpson, Samuel; Smith, Benjamin; Smith, Guy; Smith, James; Smith, Jane; Smith, Mary; Smith, William; Springer, Edward; Spurr, Richard; Steele, Andrew; Stevens, John; Stuart, William; Telford, Joseph; Todd, John; Todd, Levi; Todd, Mary; Turner, Catharine; Vance, John; Vanlindingham, James; Vanlendengham, Richard; Vivion, John; Vonphul, Catharine; Ward, William; Webb, Charles; Webb, John; Webster, John; Webster (estate); Whiteside, William; Whitley, William; Wilgins, John; Williams, John; Wilson, Nancy; Winn, Benjamin; Winn, George; Winn, Owen; Woods, Andrew; Young, George Sr.; Young, John; Young, William 

Images of Wills, Inventories and Estates, Book B, 1809 to 1813 

Testators: Alexander, John; Allen, Benjamin; Applegate, James; Arthur, John; Ashby, Nathaniel; Atwood, Elizabeth; Bacon, William; Bartholomew, Joseph; Bass, Elizabeth; Baxter, German; Baynes, M. C.; Bell, John; Berryman, James; Bindtell, John; Blanton, Carter; Blanton, Richard; Blest, Anthony; Boyce, William; Brandon, John; Breckinridge, John; Brown, Henry; Brumbarger, Frederick; Buice, George; Bullock, James; Cade, Charles; Caldwell, George; Campbell, Charles; Campbell, Robert; Camper, Lettice; Carter, Job; Carter, John; Ceander, John; Chim, William; Clark, Thomas; Clark, William; Clarke, James; Clarke, James L.; Cockwell, John; Comer, Francis; Comer, James; Curry, Nicholas; Daingerfield, William; Daviess, Joseph Hamilton; Davis, Samuel; Delisle, John; Dickey, William; Donaldson, George; Downing, James; Easter, John; Edmiston, John, Capt.; Ellis, Hezekiah; Ellis, William; Elroad, Robert; Emmons, Elias; Estes, John; Fair, Edmund; Franks, Elizabeth; Franks, John; Frey, Joseph; Frye, Jacob; Gillespie, David; Gilliam, Starke; Goodloe, Thomas; Grant, Rebecca; Grimes, Phillip; Harden, Charles; Harper, Peter; Harrison, Hezekiah; Hart, N. G. S;. Hart, Thomas; Hayden, Jeremiah; Henderson, David; Higgins, Azariah; Hill, James; Hollyman, William; Holmes, Jonathan; Humphree, John; Hunt, Robert; Johnson, Mathew; Johnson, Nathan; Jones, H.; Kay, John; Kertly, Larkin; Lay, Abraham; Legrand, John; Legrand, Peter; Lewis, Thomas; Lingenfelder, Bernard; Low, Charles; Lowry, James; Mansell, George; Martin, orphans; Mason, Charles; Matthews, John; McCann, Abediance; McCann, Joseph; McCord, John; McCoy, Kenneth; McCullough, Patrick; McDaniel, John; McMurty, George; McMurtry, Joseph; McQuiney, Thomas; Meglone, Hugh; Nicholas, George; Nichols, George; Noe, Randall; Parker, Robert; Parrish, William; Payne, Daniel McCarty; Payne, Edward; Payne, Henry; Payne, Sanford; Payne, Silas; Pemberton, William; Perry, David; Pettit, Nathaniel; Pilcher, Joshua; Prather, Baruch; Price, Christiana; Price, Philemon; Randall, Nancy; Rice, Elizabeth; Robinson, David; Roffe, Rebecca; Roffe, William; Ross, William; Rose, James; Scott, Andrew; Smith, Benjamin and Mary; Smith, Benjamin; Smith, Dorcas; Smith, Elijah; Smith, Jane; Smith, Martin; Smith, Mary; Spencer, Daniel; Springle, John; Steele, Richard; Stone, John; Statham, Charles; Taylor, Asa; Taylor, Ignatius; Taylor, Phillip; Tegarden, George; Thompson, Hugh; Thompson, James; Tilford, Joseph; Todd, John; Todd, William; Tomlinson, Elijah; Tomlinson, William; Tracy, Anthony; Tundy, William; Turner, Catharine; Vance, Joseph; Vance, Robert; Vaughn, Lewis; Wallace, James; Wasson, James; Welsh, Benjamin; West, Elizabeth; Whiteside, William; Wingate, Camrod; Wood, Andrew; Young, George; Young, Richard Sr.; Young, orphans 

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Jurist, 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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Jefferson County Wills, Estates

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 county seat is Louisville, Kentucky.

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Digital Images of Jefferson County Wills (1783 to 1813)

Testators: Askew, James; Askew, James (2) ; Bacon, Nathaniel, Captain ; Bates, Susan ; Bates, Susanna ; Beard, Charles ; Beard, Sarah ; Blankenbecker, Jacob; Bostwick, Trueman ; Brashear, William Sr. ; Breckinridge, Alexander ; Brendlinger, Conrad ; Brenham, Daniel ; Brinley, Jacob ; Bryan, Joseph; Cecil, Thomas ; Christian, John ; Churchill, Jamesstead ; Clark, Andrew ; Cornelius, William ; Coverton, Priscilla ; Cowen, John ; Crawford, David ; Cummins, William ; Danley, William ; Dickenson, Richard ; Endres, Valentine ; Fleming, Margaret ; Galloway, George ; Gatewood, John ; Geiger, George ; Gobin, Joseph ; Grigg, John ; Haneyman, Charles ; Harding, Henry ; Hawkins, David ; Hite, Abraham ; Hite, Rebecca ; Hodge, William; Hollis, William ; Holt, John ; Hume, John ; Humphries, Joshua ; Hunter, Joseph; Johnston, Dorothy ; Joyes, Patrick ; Kennison, Stephen W. ; Kirby, Samuel ; Leatherman, Frederick ; Lernes, Simeon ; Linn, Ashahel ; Lock, Catherine ; Martin, Rowley ; Mason, Thomas ; McMichael, James ; Meriwether, David Wood ; Meriwether, Patrick ; Meriwether, William Sr. ; Moore, James Francis ; Morgan, David ; Morgan, Elizabeth ; Mundle, John ; Nicholas, John ; Oglesby, Richard ; Oldham, William ; Osborn, William ; Parish, John ; Paul, Peter ;Penn, Chloe ; Peter, Hans ; Plummer, Jeremiah ; Quarterman, James ; Reed, Henry; Rhodes, William ; Seaten, K. B. ; Shake, Christopher; Stewart, James; Stewart, John ; Stewart, Stephen; Stroud, ; Taylor, James ; Thompson, Benajah; Todd, Samuel ; Vaughan, Andrew ; Vaughan, John ; Watson, William ; Watts, James ; Wells, William ; Wright, Samuel; Yenowine, Leonard

Digital Images of Jefferson County Wills (1813 to 1833)

Testators: Abernathy, John; Adams, Isabella; Applegate, Joseph; Arnold, Adam; Arteburn, William; Atcheson, Branham; Augustus, Springer; Austin, Mary ;Ballard, Levin ;Banks, John; Barbour, Thomas ;Beckwith, Upton; Bell, Joseph; Berthoud, James; Blake, James; Blankenbaker, Samuel ; Blankenbaker, Samuel (2) ; Bohannon, Richard ; Bradshaw, John ; Breckinridge, Robert ; Brentlinger, Susanna ; Briscoe, Robert ; Brookhart, Catharine; Brooks, Squire ;Brown, Everington ;Brown, Preston; Brown, Thomas ;Buckner, Ambrose ;Buckner, Haley ;Bucksby, Jacob; Bullitt, Alexander Scott ; Bullitt, Cuthbert ;Bullitt, Mary ;Burks, John ;Burton, Jeremiah; Byers, Nathan ;Calloway, Charles; Cannon, Anna, inventory ;Cavitt, Andrew ;Cawley, James M. ;Cawley, Joshua ;Coleman, Betty ;Coleman, Robert ;Collins, John ;Cox, John ;Crawford, Martha; Croghan, Nicholas ;Croghan, William ;Dawson, James; Delany, Michael ;Denwood, Mary ;Dorsey, Jerusha; Dorsey, Kezin ;Dougherty, William; Duffay, Michael; Dumarsellay, Andrew; Dye, Stephen ;Eastin, Ann ;Edwards, Frederick ;Ellingworth, Thomas ;Elston, Jonathan ;Erickson, James; Farnsby, David ;Farnsby, James; Fenley, Richard; Ferguson, Samuel ;Field, Abner ;Field, Reuben ;Fine, Jacob ;Fitzhugh, D. ;Fitzhugh, Elizabeth; Fontaine, Aaron; Foxwood, William; Frederick, Andrew ;Frederick, Augustus Sr. ;Freeman, Walter ;Fry, Susan; Funk, Jacob ;Gailbreath, Elizabeth, inventory ;Gailbreath, Joseph; Gamble, William ;Garason, John Anthony ;Garay, Bennett ;Gardener, Silas ;Garret, Silas ;Gay, George ;Geiger, Fred, Colonel ;Gill, Thomas; Glass, Sarah ;Godsinger, John ;Grayson, Frederick W. ;Grigg, Thomas; Griggs, William Sr. ;Guger, Frederick; Hall, E. ;Hammond, Login ;Hampton, Ephraim ;Harden, Henry; Harding, Ann ;Harding, Josiah ;Harding, Rebecca ;Harrison, John ;Hart, Jacob ;Hawse, Peter ;Hayse, George ;Headington, Joshua; Henderson, James; Hightower, Abraham; Hikes, Andrew, inventory; Hikes, George ;Hite, Abraham ;Hite, Joseph; Hite, Patsy ;Hoke, George Sr.; Hoke, Leonard ;Hollis, Isabella; Hollis, John; Hollis, Nancy; Holmes, Moses ;;Houston, EliHouston, William;Hundley, John; Jagerlehner, Niklaus; Johnston, Gabriel ;Johnston, John; Jones, Alice ; Jones, Sally; Kalfers, Henry Frederick; Kaye, Frederick Augustus; Kearney, William; Keen, Thomas F. ; Kellar, Joseph; Kellar, Sarah; Keller, William ; Kenneday, Patrick ; Kimmeerhorn, Ann ; King, Thomas; Lampton, Mark; Laurence, Benjamin ;Levey, Samuel Jr. ;Lewellen, Richard ;Lewellen, Samuel; Lewis, George; Love, Mathew ; Love, Nathan ; Luckett, Elizabeth ;Luckett, Molly Ann ;Maple, John ;Markwell, George Sr. ;Marrs, Agnes ;Marrse, John ;Martin, John ;Massie, Henry ;Massie, Nancy ;Masterson, John ;Mathes, James; Maupin, Matilda ; McCahlan, John ; McClanahan, Thomas ;McColloch, Christopher ;McCollum, Barney ;McConnel, James; McConnell, Mary ; McKeown, Morgan; McKinne, Terence ; McMullin, John ; Mercer, Hugh ;Meriwether, E. W. ;Meriwether, James; Miller, Anthony ; Miller, John ;Morris, Patrick ;Morris, Richard ;Newman, Martha ; Norton, Matthew ; Oldham, Samuel ;Oldham, William ;Paldridge, John ;Patten, James; Patterson, John L. ;Payne, Bennet ;Pearce, James; Pendergrast, Mary ;Pets, Catherine, inventory and appraisement ;Phillips, David ;Phillips, Jenkin ;Phillips, Richard ;Pitts, Robert ;Pluckett, Samuel; Pomeroy, Francis ;Pope, Alexander; Pope, John Jr. ;Pope, William ;Porter, William ;Prentice, David ;Preston, William ; Preston, William (2) ;Procter, David M. ;Pryer, James; Puryear, Hezekiah ; Quarterman, Elizabeth ; Quick, Jacob ;Ramsey, Margaret T. ;Ray, David ;Read, James; Reaugh, John ;Reese, Francis ;Reynolds, Charles ;Reynolds, Richard; Rice, Edmund Sr. ;Rice, John; Richards, Samuel ;Richardson, Thomas ;Richardson, William ;Roberts, Thomas ;Rush, Conrad ;Russell, Levi; Sale, Edmund ;Sanyser, Jacob ;Scott, William ;Seabolt, George ;Seaton, James; Settles, Abraham; Shaw, Samuel ;Sherman, Charles ;Shipp, Edmund; Shipp, Edmund Sr.; Shippen, Edward ; Shirley, John ;Shively, Christian ;Shutt, Frederick ;Sisson, Abner ; Skidmore, Paul ; Smith, Daniel ;Smith, John ;Smith, Pleasant ;Sneel, Alexander ;Snell, Christian ; Sparks, William ;Spradling, William ;Stafford, Thomas ;Standiford, James ; Standiford, Nathan ;Steel, Samuel ;Stewart, Mathew ;Stokes, John, inventory ; Stowers, Nicholas ;Stringham, John ;Sullivan, Sarah ;Taylor, Benjamin ;Taylor, Reuben ;Taylor, Richard ;Theobalds, Thomas ;Thompson, John ;Tompkins, Robert ; Tuley, Elizabeth ;Tunstall, James M. ;Tunstall, John ;Turner, Robert ;Tyler, Absalom; Tyler, Edward ;Vance, James; Waggoner, James; Waters, R. J. ;Waters, Richard Jones ; Watson, William ;Weatheringill, John; Weems, John; Weir, Andrew ;Welch, Samuel ;Wells, Samuel ;Welsh, Joseph; Welsh, Mary ;Wheeler, John; Wheeler, John Henson; Whips, Denton ;Whips, George ; White, George ; White, Lee ;White, Mary ;Whitlock, George ;Wilcks, Samuel ;Wilhite, John; Williams, Jeremiah ; Wills, Samuel ;Wilson, Daniel ;Wise, Peter ; Withers, Charles ; Withers, John; Withers, Mary ;Woolfolk, William ;Yewett, Levi ;Zaring, Henry

Miscellaneous

• John Rowan Sr., LWT, (1840)

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Harrod's Town KY #genealogy #history #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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The Rough River in Kentucky #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

The Rough River



The Rough River in Kentucky forms a boundary between Breckinridge and Grayson Counties and is a tributary of the Green River. As early as 1810 the Kentucky Legislature declared that the Rough River was navigable and later approved the first bridge over the river at Hartford in Ohio County. Thus, Hartford became the center of navigation and passage. During 1900 the river peaked in the shipping of timber products. 

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The Rough River in Kentucky #genealogy #kentuckypioneers

The Rough River



The Rough River in Kentucky forms a boundary between Breckinridge and Grayson Counties and is a tributary of the Green River. As early as 1810 the Kentucky Legislature declared that the Rough River was navigable and later approved the first bridge over the river at Hartford in Ohio County. Thus, Hartford became the center of navigation and passage. During 1900 the river peaked in the shipping of timber products. 

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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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