Franklin Co. KY Wills, estates added to #kentuckypioneers 3genealogy - 1795 to 1880

Images of Franklin County Wills, Appraisements, Estates, Annual Returns, Inventories

Franklin County was created 7 December 1794 from Woodford, Mercer, and Shelby Counties. In 1800, Franklin County included part of Anderson and Owen Counties. A section of Franklin County was included in Shelby County. In 1820, a small section of Franklin County was located in Henry County. The county seat is Frankfort. 

Indexes

• Wills 1795 to 1823
• Appraisements, Inventories, etc. 1794 to 1823
• Wills, Appraisements, Inventories, etc., 1824 to 1854 Wills, Appraisements, Inventories, etc., 1855 to 1880

Images of Wills, Appraisements, Inventories, Appraisements, 1855 to 1880 

Allen, William	Allison, William	Arnold, H. J.	Arnold, Beverly	Aynes, James
Bacon, R. R.	Bass, Susan	Bassett, Burwell	Bates, John	Beasley, Jerry
Berry, Thomas	Blakemore, Thomas	Brawner, John	Brewer, Lucy	Brink, Phillip
Brown, Jesse	Brown, Mason	Brown, Mason P.	Brown, Octavia	Brown, Orlando
Buckley, Michael	Burchfield, Henry	Burchfield, John	Burnham, Harriett	Callaghan, Cornelius
Carr, Walter	Carter, John	Chambers, J. M.	Church, James	Church, William
Clark, Daniel	Clark, Josephine	Clarke, Mary	Clayton, Jasper	Collins, Francis
Collins, Robert	Connell, Mary	Corneal, Thomas	Cox, Austin	Cox, Sarah
Critchen, Lewis	Crittenden, J. J.	Crockett, Samuel	Crutchen, Nancy	Crutchen, Sarah
Crutcher, E. N.	Crutcher, E. R.	Cullery, William	Dale, Edward	Darley, Thomas
Dillon, Ann Mary	Dillon, Virginia	Dixon, George	Dixon, William W.	Dooley, Aron
Dover, R. L.	Dudley, Maria	Dudley, Peter	Duvall, Benjamin	Duvall, Joseph
Ellis, Nancy	Elliston, Thomas	Evans, Mary	Farmer, Mary	Farrow, J. B.
Farsan, John	Featherstone, James	Fleming, Charles	Fletcher, Charlotte	Fletcher, Robert
Flynn, Patrick	Flynn, William	Franklin, William	Frazer, E. E.	Freeman, D. C.
French, William	Freeze, Mary	Gaines, James	Garrard, James	Gayle, W.
Gibbs, John	Goins, Joseph	Gordon, Lawrence	Gore, Mary	Gower, Allen
Graham, George	Hall, S. M.	Hall, Thomas	Hall, Thomas May	Hanna, John
Hanna, Mary	Harden, Thomas	Harris, Thomas	Hawkins, Hannah	Hawkins, H.
Hawkins, Moses	Heffin, Nelson	Henry, Samuel	Hensley, Prudence	Herndon, John
Herndon, W. T.	Hockersmith, Henry	Hodges, L. Y.	Hodges, William	Hoover, Thomas
Hotton, John	Howard, Peter	Hunt, William	Hunt, William E.	Hunt, William, continued
Jackson, Juliet	Jackson, Moses	Jett, George	Jett, Lurinda	Johnson, Margaret
Johnson, Thomas	Jones, Mary	Kirk, Richard	Lea, Elijah	Lindsey, Thomas
Long, Bathsheba	Loomes, W. P.	Luthemuer, Joseph	Lyme, Henry	Lynn, Mary
Macklen, Alexander	Major, Samuel	Mayhall, William	McCaslin, Mary	McGrath, Daniel
McIntosh, James	McMillan, William	McMullen, Mary	McRee, Catharine	Merchant, Benjamin
Middleton, John	Milam, James	Miller, Hayes	Miller, John	Miller, Lewis
Monroe, Maria	Moore, William	Morris, Charles	Morris, John	Moss, Francis
Mullin, John	Murray, Louisa	Noel, M. W.	Nolds, Frank	Nowse, John
Onan, Benjamin	Page, John	Patterson, Laura	Paxton, Mary	Penn, Charles Riley
Penn, George	Pierce, Sarah	Poage, H. A.	Polegrove, Jacob	Pruett, Ama Willis
Pullium, William	Quarles, Elizabeth	Quire, James	Quire, William	Red, Nicholas
Reed, Andrew	Revel, Rankin	River, John	Rodgers, Eli	Rodgers, James (best copy)
Rodgers, Nicholas	Russell, John	Sayre, Mildred	Scarce, Emily	Scarrland, John
Scofield, Samuel	Scott, Catherine	Scott, William	Shannon, James	Sharp, James
Shelton, Elizabeth	Simpson, Basil	Sneed, Reuben	Sobree, Martin	Steadman, Mary
Stevens, B. F.	Stout, David	Strobridge, Effie	Stubbs, Elizabeth	Sullivan, James
Sullivan, Matthew	Surgent, J.	Sutton, Sallie	Talbot, Priscilla	Taylor, Lucy
Temple, Eleanor	Theobald, Sarah	Thomas, George	Timple, Eleanor	Tinsley, Charles
Todd, Samuel	Tracy, Jeremiah	Triplett, Elmira	Trotter, Rachel	Trout, Mary
Vinegar, Joshua	Voris, John	Wallace, Agnes	Ward, Mary	Warfield, John
Warren, Thomas	Watkins, Wesley	Watts, David	Whitehead, Isabella	Whittington, William
Wigginton, William	Wilkerson, Sneling	Wilkins, John	Williamson, Mary	Willison, David
Wingate, Henry	Wingate, Isaac	Wise, John	Wise, William	Wright, Kate
Yates, S. J.	Wyattwood, Richard	Young, Stephen

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Gallatin County Wills, Estates, Inventories, Distributions, Guardianships

Gallatin was founded in 1798 and named for Albert Gallatin, the Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson. It was derived from parts of Franklin and Shelby counties. Later, parts of the county were pared off to create three additional counties, viz: Owen in 1819, Trimble in 1836 and Carroll in 1838. 

Indexes to Wills, Estates, Guardianships, Distributions, Inventories

• 1800 to 1819
• 1817 to 1823

Images of Will Book A, 1800 to 1819 

Note: This Will Book has been restored; however, most images remain unreadable. In addition to these images, please use the index to determine if your ancestor had an estate, then contact the county court house for copies. 

• Calnut, Phillip
• Campbell, Archibald
• Campbell, John
• Colen, Jacob
• Crawford, John
• Davis, John
• Edmondson, Philip
• Edmondson, Robert
• Gaunt, Sarah
• Gray, Radford
• Holiday, Joseph
• James, John
• Jordan, John
• Kelley, M.
• King, William
• Landers, John
• McNair, Charles
• Metter, James
• Neely, Samuel
• Sayres, Thomas
• Smith, George
• Smith, James
• Smith, Jonathan
• Smith, Josiah
• Sneed, Benjamin
• Spruell, James Sr.
• Stafford, Henry
• Stafford, orphans
• Taylor, Abraham
• Whitehead, Richard
• Whitehead, William
• Williams, William
• Williamson, Joseph

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Christian County Kentucky Wills and Estates 1797 to 1826 #kentuckypioneers #genealogy

Images of Christian County Wills, Estates, Annual Returns, Inventories

Christian County was formed in 1797 and was for Colonel William Christian, a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and a veteran of the Revolutionary War who settled near Louisville, Kentucky in 1785, and was killed by Native Americans in southern Indiana in 1786. The county seat is Hopkinsville. 

Miscellaneous Resource to Find Estates, etc.

• 1797ActofAssembly.pdf">1797 Acts of Assembly
• 1798ActofAssembly.pdf">1798 Acts of Assembly

Indexes to Wills

• Book A, 1797 to 1811
• Book C, 1816 to 1823
• Book D, 1823 to 1826

Will Book D, 1823 to 1826 

Adams, Abram	Blakey, Constance	Blakey, Thomas	Booker, Thomas
Boyd, Edward	Bradley, Benjamin	Bradley, Samuel	Broaddus, E.
Bryant, Abner	Burden, Samuel D.	Callaway, Edmund	Collins, Thomas
Cocke, Thomas	Cook, Mordecai	Crowder, Thomas	Dallam, Francis
Davis, Jane	Deaver, William	Dickerson, Sylvanus	Dorsey, Alexander
Dover, William	Edward, John	Faulkner, Sarah	Finley, William
Foster, Jeremiah	Harrison, Josiah	Hay, Peter	Hay (or Kay), Robert
Henry, Daniel	Henry, William	Jacobs, Benjamin	Jones, Anthony D.
Lander, Henry	Lewis, Andres	Loffters, George	Lookwood, Sylvanus
Loving, William	Mallory, John	Martin, Elizabeth	McCarroll, Thomas
McCarty, John	McLaughlin, Thomas	McMahan, John	MNeill, Dorothy
Meacham, John	Meases, William	Miller, Samuel A.	Neill, Henry W.
Parrish, Matthew	Patton, Benjamin	Payne, James	Porter, Jesse
Price, Archibald	Ramsey, Edward	Rily, Isaac	Rodgers, Robert
Smith, Barnett	Smith, Charles	Smith, Elijah	Steele, Archidald
Steele, Moses	Stephenson, Moses	Stevenson, Sara	Talbot, Richard
West, Claiborne	Wood, Sally	Woodson, Obadiah	York, Benjamin

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Knox County Kentucky Genealogies and Histories #kentuckypioneers

Knox County Tax Digests and Quarter Session Records

Knox County was formed on December 19, 1799 from portions of Lincoln County and was named for General Henry Knox, also appointed Secretary of War during the War Between the States. 

Knox County Probate Records available to members of Kentucky Pioneers

Tax Digests

1816 Tax List
1826 Delinquent Tax Returns
1800 Quarter Sessions Court

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Kentucky Wills, Estates, Guardianships etc. scanned and coming available #kentuckypioneers

Christian and Gallatin Counties, Kentucky wills, estates, guardianships, etc. are scanned and will be available to members of kentuckypioneers in about one week.


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Jefferson County Kentucky Genealogies and Histories #kentuckypioneers

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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Hickman County Kentucky Genealogies and Histories #kentuckypioneers

Hickman County Wills, Estates, Deeds

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. 

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Miscellaneous Wills and Estates 

Baker, Benjamin 
Baker, Glover 
Barner, Francis 
Brown, Joseph 
Bucklar, Cornelius 
Crafton, Robert 
Gamble, Joseph 
Gregory, Jeremiah 
Hargraves, Thomas 
Irvine, Caleb 
Masters, Abner 
McGuffin, Joseph 
Morris, Thomas 
Ray, Joseph 
Robinson, Smith 
Shields, Samuel Virteyard, John 

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Calloway Family of Virginia and Kentucky Traced #kentuckypioneers

The Calloway Families traced and added to #kentuckypioneers

Index to Traced Kentucky Families

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Hardin County Kentucky Genealogies and Histories #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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