Ardery, Mrs. William. Kentucky Records: Early Wills & Marriages, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981.Fayette County:
J.H. Runyan - Will Book B, Page 236, names brother Francis Runyan. Written April 27, 1914 [sic]. Probated July 1811. Witnesses - Thos. H. Burbridge, Richard Baird, Benjamin Atkinson.Shelby County:
Richard Breeding - Proven 20 March, 1798 - Ex., Frances Breeding, widow. Sec., Wm. McCory, Isaac Whitaker. Ap., Peter Bailea, Elijah Whitaker, Thos. Johnston, Wm. Brodie. Wife Frances; son, William Breeding; son, Paul Breeding; daughter, Elizabeth Breeding.
Wm. Breeding married 6/4/1798; Polly Breeding - ; Paul Breeding married 8/19/1799; Elizabeth Stanley, daughter of Joseph.Madison County:
James Stout - August, 1790 - Noncupative Will - Brother, Samuel Stout only legatee. Deed from Joseph Simpson to Saml. and Jas. Stout, August, 1797.
James Cloy/Cloyd Will Book AMason County:
Samuel Cloyd Will Book A - of Montgomery Co., VA. Wife, Elizabeth and at her death to Nenyan Cloyd's son, Thomas. Extrs.: wife, Joseph Cloyd. Written Feb. 28, 1789. Witness: G. Cloyd, Jas. Cloyd, Thos. Cloyd. Probated May 5, 1795.
William Morehead - Wife, Achsah; her two daus. together with Rebeccah Howell; son, John at his death, to Mary Collier and Ashsah E ----- ?, together with granddau. Rebeccah Howell; son, John to collect money in hands of Col. Thos. Humphries in Loudoun Co., VA., his two sisters, Mary and Achsah (or Achsel). Extrs.: Joseph Glenn, Jas. McCormick. Wts. Samuel Montgomery, Daniel Barycraft, Martin Glenn. Probated Jan. 17, 1802.
George Shepherd, 1798 EstateShelby County:
Jas. Stout Will Book 1, 1794-1905Fleming County:
John Hunt, Sr. - of Montgomery Co., appoints Jno. Hunt, Jr. of Fleming, atty., to recover debts due from Jacob Myers, July 8, 1799.
Jeremiah Foster - who intermarried with Joanna Neale (one of the legatees of Joseph Neale, late of Fauquier Co., VA., decd.) and sd. Joanna, and Geo. b. Maddux, who intermarried with Judith Neale (one of the legatees of sd. Joseph Neale, decd.) and sd. Judith, of Fleming Co., to Benjamin Neale of county of Hampshire, Va., whereas sd. Joseph died possessed of 1000 acres patented in name of sd. Joseph located n Bullett Co., Ky., and whereas sd. Joseph left will in Fauquier Co., VA., devising said tract to five daughters, Sarah, Ann, Polly, Judith and Joanna, parties of the first part deed sd. tract. Aug. 4, 1803.
Harrison County:
Boswell Hunt of Fleming Co., on account of self and as attorney for John Hunt, Reuben Hunt, Absolom Hunt, Joseph Denton & Dradena Denton, his wife, heirs of John Hunt, deceased, deed to Joseph Ingles, located in Harrison County. Book 5 page 364, Aug. 1817.
Bath County:
Richard Lynam md. Sarah Hunt, Feb. 16, 1812
Cook, Michael & Bettie Cook. Fincastle & Kentucky County, Va. - Ky. Records & History, Vol. 1, Evansville, IN: Cook Publications, nd.
Licking River, North Fork, William Fitzgerald, 6/24/1780, 1000 acres, A146
Licking River, North Fork, William Fitzgerald, 5/25/1780, 500 acres, A98
Stoners Fork, Charles Morgan, heir, 6/1/1780, 1000 acres, A119
William Fitzgerald, vs. Anthony Bledsoe, on case. Defendant asked to testify next court.
Ellsberry, Elizabeth. Will & Probate Records Mason County, Kentucky, 1790-1801, Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Ellsberry, nd.
Inventory of Estate of Abraham Colglavzier, Dec. 1797, appraisers Benjamin Sutton, Richard Seward, George Harrison
Will Book A, pp. 365-368
Inventory and appraisment of the Estate of Abraham Colglazier Deceased was returned as follows (to wit) An Inventory of the Goods and chattles of the Estate of Abraham Colglazier Deceased appraised by Richards Sewards, Benjamin Sutton and George Harrison appraisers by order of Court Mason County, Kentucky, appraised October 28, 1797.
One Receipt of Daniel Walls for the receiving
five bonds against - for payment
of one hundred pounds Pennsylvania Currency to each
bond first bond due in the year 1797 second due
ini 1798, third due in 1799, fourth due in 1800 fifth
due in 1801 carried out in Kentucky currency
[total] £400
one note against George Mefford £3.17.5
one note against Peter Strecktetts £0.14.10
One note against Peter Light £18.8.5
One note against John Taylor £1.8.6
In money £4.15
One slate and one pair stirups (?) £0.2
One foot adds and augur £0.6.6
One post axe and pine (?) of Iron £0.5
One knife and scabbard £0.1.6
One pen knife 1/ One dozen pipes 1/ £0.2
One square four Augurs & 2 Chissels £0.12
Two pr. wool sheers 4/ Two Hatchets £1:4/ £1.8
One hand saw 12/ one do. 3/ £0.15
One razor case & glass 3/ Two sugar boxes 2/ £0.5
One pair wool cards & handkerchief £0.1
One Tea kettle 12/ one sett of spools 4/ £0.16
One Lantern and Composes [compasses] £0.3
Two Lamps 1/6 one log chain 12/ £0.13.6
One Trammel 9/ Two candlesticks 1/ £0.10
Three Riders 6/ Clover seed and Conk (?) 4/ £0.10
Two bells & bell collar 3/ Mountings for a Table 1/6 £0.4.6
Parcel of Books 6/ Parcel of German do 3/ £0.9
One pair of Stilliards 6/ Rosin 1/ £0.7
Two pair of Seissors [Scissors] 1/ one pair Flat Irons 6/ £0/7
One wetting ladle 1/ one reel 6/ £0.7
One Tray and crock 1/6 Two dishes one hammer and branding iron £0.5.6
One Tub 1/ Four Sheep £1:16 £1.17
One Griddle 5/ two Iron wedges 5/ £0.10
One Five (?) 4/ Loose Lumber 3/ £0.7
two bells and one Driping pan £0.9
One Watering pot 1/6 one maltor 5/ £0.6.6
Two wheels 3/ 100 # of lead @ 6 d per # 50/ £2.13
Two Hammers 4/ one Iron Kettle 35/ £1.19
One Iron Kettle 20/ One oven 9/ £1.9
One Brew'g Tub 6/ one tub 1/ £0.7
Three Barrels & one plank 2/ one bridle 2/6 £0.4.6
Two Blind Bridles 10/ one saddle 13/ £1.8
One chest 12/ One Barrel with Flower [Flour] 7/6 £0.19.6
One Rifle & Shot pouch £5
One Mare £13:10 One Horse £10:0.0 £23.10
Four Milk cows £12.0 Two heifers £5:10:0 £17.10
One steer & calf £2:5:0 Fife [five] Hogs £1:10 £3.15
One wagganon £12 one pr. Breech bands 9/ £12.9
To pr Haims [hames] Chains & Colours [collars] £1.19
One pair of doubletrees 3/ 200 bushels of corn £18.10 £12.13
One Stack of Oaths [oats] £1:5 One do of Flax £1:10 £2.15
One Bareel 3/ One Stove £3:0:0 £3:3
One set of plow Irons £1:5 one plough with do 2/ £2.5
One cutting knife & rake £0.7.6
One steel for cuting box 5/ two hay forks 4/ £0.9
Two Sythes and cuting knife £0.10
One Tub of Iron lumber (?) 9/ two clevises 5/ £0.14
One grindstone 3/ two drawing knives 6/ £0.9
One spade 3/ One Broad axe 12/ £0.15
One pair Hobbles 3/ one axe 6/ £0.9
Two axes 12/ two hoes 9/ £1.1
Dresser and Furniture 72/ Cupboard 30/ £5.2
Two bottles 3/ one oven 10/ six chairs 12/ £1.5
One pot 6/ one churn and three buckets 6/ £0.12
Two Bags & Flax seed 6/ three bags 6/ £0.12
Twenty-two & half bushels of wheat £4.8
Seven Flower Barrels 7/ One chest 20/ £1.7
Two pots and one skellet 12/ twenty crocks 20/ £1.13
One hundred # hemp 24/ £1.4
One bed and Beding 36/ £1.16
One ditto beading & Bedstead £5
One bag of blue wool 8/ one bag of wool do 6/ £0.14
One womans saddle 7/6 one wheel 4/6 £0.12
One basket with sundries 2/ three dressed deer skins 9/ £0.11
Toe yarn 3/ wearing apperal 22/ £11.3
Two beds bedsteads & Furniture £11.0.0
Twenty-two & 1/ yard linnen £2.5
Total £589.11.8 1/2
We the aforesaid appraisers do hereby certify that the foregoing paradign or schedule is a true statement of the goods and chattles of the Estate of Abraham Colglaizer Deceased and appraised to the Amount of five hundred and eightynine pounds Eleven shillings and eight pence half penny as before annumerated by the Statement of each article. In witness whereof we the appraisors have hereunto set our hand this Twenty-fifth day of December 1797.
Benj. Sutton
Richard Seward
George Harrison
Mason County Sct. December Court 1797
This Inventory and appraisment of the Estate of Abraham Colglazier Deceased was returned and ordered to be recorded.
Teste.
Thomas Marshall Jr. CMC
Franklin, Charles. Fayette County, Kentucky Wills & Estates 1788-1822, Indianapolis, IN: Heritage House, 1984.
Runyan, John H., Will Book B, p. 236, Dated 27 April 1811, Recorded July, 1811, mentions his brother Francis. Witnessed by Thomas Burbridge, Richard Baird and Benjamin Atkinson.
Hall, Mitchel. Jenny Wiley Country, C. Mitchel Hall, 1985.
Map of Pioneer Trails to the Big Sandy Valley
List of Taxpayers Within the District of Wm. Lamb, No. 2, Commissioner in the County of Mason for the Year 1793:
Joseph Hopkins
John Shepherd Jr.
John Shepherd Sr.
John W. Shepherd
Solomon Shepherd
William Shepherd
Map of Kentucky Containing the Three Original Counties of Jefferson, Fayette & Lincoln
Mason County - established in 1788 by the Legislature of Virginia, and named after George Mason, one of her most eminent lawyers and statesmen - was the eighth formed, of the nine which existed in 1792, when Kentucky was separated from the mother state and admitted into the Union. It was formed out of all that part of the then county of Bourbon which lay to the northeast of Licking River, from its mouth to the source; thence, by a direct line to the nearest point on the Virginia State line and county of Russell; thence along said line to Big Sandy River, down that river to the Ohio, and down the Ohio to the mouth of the Licking - embracing all the territory out of which have been formed the following counties: Part of Campbell in 1794, Bracken in 1796, Fleming and part of Pendelton in 1798, part of floyd and part of Nicholas in 1799, Greenup in 1803, Lewis in 1806, Lawrence and part of Pike in 1821, part of Morgan in 1822, Carter in 1838, Johnson in 1843, Rowan in 1856, Boyd and Magoffin in 1860, Robertson in 1867, Elliott in 1869, and martin in 1870 - nineteen in all.
Fleming County Formed - An act for the division of Mason County. Approved February 10, 1798.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that from and after the first day of March next, all that part of the County of Mason included within the following bounds, to-wit: run a line south from the courthouse of Mason County to the North Fork of Licking, thence up the North Fork nine miles, when reduced to a straight line; at this point make the beginning; thence a straight line to the mouth of the Flat Fork of Johnston; thence to the mouth of Fleming a straight line, unless it strke Fleming, in that case, down Fleming to the mouth, and up Licking to the head thereof, and with the line of Montgomery County to the Virginia line; thence with the said line to that branch of Sandy which divides this state from the state of Virginia; thence down the said branch till it intersects a line drawn from the beginning as follows, to-wit: from the beginning up the North Fork to the head of the South Fork thereof; thence with the dividing ridge between the waters of Licking and the Ohio, until it strikes the waters of Sandy, thence down such branch, east, to Sandy; to be called and known by the name of Fleming.
The following is a list of Revolutionary Soldiers as taken from the official order books of Mason, Floyd and Johnson Counties.
William Fitzgerald
McCracken, Marilyn. Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Marriages 1799-1836, McDowell Publications, 1987.
Michael Goodnight & Charlotte Dural - Jan. 1805
Peter Goodnight & Nancy Forehand - July 1804
Archibald Baggs & Nancy Morgan - Dec. 1799
Robert Baggs & Percillah Morgan - Sep. 1804
John Morgan & Elizabeth Garrard - Sep. 1804
Frederick Miller & Mary Durell - March 20, 1808
Philip Miller? & Polly Hanes - Feb. 16, 1809
Robert Patton & Catherine Miller - Sep. 24, 1812
Henry Woolf & Lucy Grigsby - Sep. 29, 1812
John S. Hughes & Polly Morehead - Oct. 19, 1815
Jesse Jones & Martha Durall - April 9, 1816
Lewis Watkins & Susan Morehead - Aug. 1, 1816
William Morgan & Sarah Grigsby - Sep. 9, 1817
John M. Evans & Rhoda Durall - June 12, 1817
James Hopkins & Sally Ann Dozier - May 1, 1821
Charles Morehead & Mary Reno - Aug. 19, 1821
John Keath & Martha Dural - Dec. 10, 1820
George Edwards & Julia Morehead - Aug. 27, 1822
Alfred Morehead & Elizabeth Dural - April 1, 1824
John Morehead & Nancy W. Branscomb - Sep. 23, 1824
John Dural, Jr. [younger] & Sally Jarvis - May 12, 1825
John Wright & Polly Goodnight - Feb. 26, 1828
Ephraim Durell & Sally Vought - Dec. 18, 1828
John Gilbert & Catharine Goodnight - Dec. 2, 1832
Henry Morehead & Tabitha Sullivan - Dec. 30, 1833
Mason County Kentucky Records #1, Marriages 1786-1850, Researchers Publication, nd
John Cornwell md. Jemima Dexter, 29 Sep. 1790
Moses Fitzgerald md. Nancy Henderson 28 Dec 1811
Samuel Fitzgerald md. Nancy Ryan 11 Feb. 1828
George Galbreath md. Mary White 8 Dec. 1829
Hiram Galbreath md. Elizabeth Rankin 31 Aug. 1822
Thomas Galbreath md. Sempty Owens 8 Feb. 1843
William Galbreath md. Catherine Bettis 1 Feb. 1837
Asa R. Runyan md. Mary C. Gilman 27 Aug. 1836
Asa R. Runyan md. Mary Morris 16 Feb. 1814
James M. Runyan md. Charity Johnson 22 Jan. 1834
James R. Runyan md. Lydia Chinn 11 April 1837
Peter Runyan md. Sarah Fitzgerald 5 Oct 1815
Daniel R. Runyon md. Jane Marshall 22 Jan. 1827
David M. Runyon md. Mary E. Warder 25 Jan. 1843
Jas. M. Runyon md. Mary M. Johnson 1 Dec. 1817
John Stott md. Jane Grant 10 Sep 1816
Jefferson Stout md. Harriet Hord 23 Dec. 1831
John Stout md. Elizabeth S. Arms 11 Nov. 1815
Lawson Stout md. Chloe Buriah Davis 5 Mar. 1838
Platt Stout md. Margaret Chambers 24 Mar. 1819
Samuel Stout md. Sarah Corwine 2 Aug. 1815
Thomas Stout md. Margaret Colvin 16 Nov. 1799
Thomas Stout md. Margaret Colvin 16 Nov. 1789
William P. Stout md. Mary Willoughby 21 Oct. 1823
Zebulon Stout md. Hulday Daniel 27 Nov. 1792
Augustus Wilson md. Caroline Woodson 27 Feb. 1811
Ephraim Wilson md. Nancy Wheatley 28 Dec. 1811
George Wilson md. Saphire Evans 24 Sept. 1797
James Wilson md. Hannah Bailey 4 Dec. 1799
Jesse Wilson md. Mary Pinkerman 23 May 1810
John Wilson md. Sarah Tilson 30 Apr. 1810
John Wilson md. Nancy Boyd, 16 Apr. 1803
John Wilson md. Polly Smoot 7 Feb. 1797
Robert Wilson md. Lydia Lucas 18 Aug. 1810
Robert Wilson md. Elizabeth Harris 22 Mar. 1803
Robert Wilson md. Margaret McCoy 7 May 1805
Samuel Wilson md. Susanna Linn 9 Nov. 1804
Thornton Wilson md. Elizabeth G. Fife 23 Dec. 1799
William Wilson md. Judah Henley 29 July 1802
To get married in early Kentucky required at least three records be entered at the county clerk's office. These were the marriage bond, the license and the minister's return.
The marriage bond - to obtain a marriage bond required the signatures of two persons. A bond was a statement that both of the persons proposing to be married were legally free to be married. The bondmen were frequently close relatives. In all cases, it was someone who had known the groom or bride for a period of time previously. Sometimes the groom signed the bond for himself.
The marriage license - the next step was to obtain a marriage license - the next step was to obtain a marriage license. This was usually done at the same time as the bond, but not necessarily. The couple both had to be present to obtain a license. If either party was under the age of 21, the consent of a parent or guardian was required. For persons who were over 21 years of age, a consent was not required. At this point, the couple were free to take their license to a justice of the peace or a minister and be married.
The marriage return - actually the marriage return is the only proof that a marriage took place. It is a statement by the person who performed the ceremony that the marriage actually took place and that they are now man and wife.
The ideal situation is that the bond and the license were obtained in the same courthouse at the same time, and the couple were married that same day and the return was properly made to that same courthouse. The other extreme is that the groom and the bride's father obtained the bond while they were getting the family's food in one county seat and the couple went to another county seat to get the license because the circuit rider minister was coming to their church the next Sunday. After marrying a few couples on that Sunday, the minister went on to the next church on his circuit. the next time he was in a county clerk's office in a county 100 miles away, he tried to remember everyone that he had married in the last three months and file all the returns. "Let's see, what was that young girl's name?" Therefore all of the documents to support a given marriage may be spread over three counties. The return is the least likely to be on record of the three documents.
Discrepancies occur everywhere. One county only recorded the groom's name as he was the one paying for the license. The bride's name was never given. Missing names and dates are common.
Scott, Hattie. Scott's Papers Kentucky Court & Other Records, Frankfort, KY: The Kentucky Historical Society, 1953.
Stout, (Franklin Co., Ky. Ct. records) Daniel Stout & Eliz. deed to John Payne of Mercer Co., 45 1/2 acres where Daniel Stout lives, Oct. 19, 1810. Same sells Mar. 8, 1813, 100 acres - Hammonds Cr. (D-207).
Amos Stout sells lot 112, Frankfort, May 21, 1821 (I-164)
Rich. Stott of Jenings Co., Ind. to Thos. Stott, (I-198)
David Stout of Port William, Nov. 17, 1795 buys 2 lots of Cave Johnson (A-51).
Jonathan Stout, March 25, 1808 from Sam'l. Hutton, 37 1/2 acres on Hammonds Creek, Franklin Co., Daniel Stout and John Arbuckle, wts. (B-308).
Daniel Stout buys (Jan. 20, 1808) 100 acres Hez. Stout and Jonathan Hutton witnesses (B-310)
Jonathan Stout & wife Agnes, March 1, 1809 of Franklin Co. to Jos. Everett 37 1/2 acres on Hammonds Creek. Daniel Stout Sr. and Jr. witnesses (C-133).
Talley, William. Talley's Northeastern Kentucky Papers, Kentucky: American Reference Publishers, 1971.
Jonathan Elston b. 10/24/1803, d. 1/21/1854 buried Stockton Graveyard, Fleming Co., KY
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