Notebooks - Kentucky #7

Brookes-Smith Joan. Index for Old Kentucky Surveys & Grants, no imprint, ca. 1974

It was on 16 June, 1774, when James Harrod and his party of pioneer settlers reached the plateau between the Salt and Kentucky Rivers in the heart of a land that would one day be called Kentucky. Physically exhausted from their long trip down the Ohio and up the Kentucky River and fearful of the ever present danger from roving bands of Indians, they gave no thought to the restless discontent of their counterparts who lived along the Eastern seaboard. Uppermost in their minds was survival.

Acutely aware that they had penetrated deep within enemy territory, they immediately set about laying out Harrod's Town. . . . 

They were followed shortly by Daniel Boone, Benjamin Logan, John Floyd, Simon Kenton and numerous other pioneer leaders. Their greatest enemy, or so they believed was the Indian. They could not have known that Fate was already laying the groundwork that would lead the Eastern seaboard revolutionary and the Western pioneer to a common goal, a goal to establish a permanent home which was destined to erupt into a long and vicious legal war. 

Unfortunately, many of the earliest settlers believing that just to settle the land was all that was necessary for ownership delayed too long the registration of their surveys and claims. Apparently

they though this was a relatively small item to be taken care of only after the more demanding responsibilities of their rugged existence had been met. They were mistaken. Even before these soldiers of the American Revolution were rewarded with generous land grants in the Western wilderness, large companies and private speculators were sending surveyors into the choice Bluegrass lands to record, in orderly process landmarks and boundaries were overlapping the earlier settlers' claims.

When the news of the first preemption reached the original settlers, the shock reverberated from fort to fort and cabin to cabin. In utter disbelief and dismay, frontier giants were forced to stand aside while their beloved lands, so hard won by blood, sweat and tears, passed irrevocably into the eager hands of Eastern speculators and newcomers. . . . 

An historical phenomena that was to affect Kentucky for generations arose from this sad situation as it attracted the greatest legal talent known from Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and even the eastern seaboard. They came to Kentucky to practice their profession and in doing so helped establish a workable solution out of organized chaos. They accomplished this by compromise, oration, their knowledge of land and, in some instances, by personal ability to successfully arbitrate. Some of the outstanding people were Henry Clay, James Taylor, Ben Hardin, George Robertson, James Harlan, John Breckinridge, Humphrey Marshall, Alexander Scott Bullitt, George Nicholas, Benjamin Sebastian, Harry Innes, Joseph Hamilton Daviess, Caleb Wallace, Christopher Greenup and many others too numerous to mention. . . . 

After 1792, when Kentucky became a state, land claims were filed in the various county court houses and later placed in the Secretary of State's Office. Although they were always available to the public, the disorderly collation of pages made them practically useless. It was not unusual to find a missing survey or grant supposedly found on a certain page of Volume I resting snugly within the hard bound covers of Volume IV. . . . 

Procedure to Play the Old Kentucky Surveys & Grants - First, obtain the Index of Topographic Maps of Kentucky prepared by the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, suggested scale of 7.5 minute quadrangles (Scale 1:24,000 one inch equals 2000 feet).   . . . 

After the quads of the area to be reconstructed are secured, they should be placed together. Preferably, one should [print] duplicates of the quads so that one copy can be used as a work sheet. It is well to use a pencil on the first draft so that errors can be erased easily. It is also helpful to use different colors of ink to denote various types of grants and surveys, treasury warrants, military warrants, head-right, pre-emption, and such on your final product. 

The second step in reconstruction is to reduce the actual Kentucky surveys to a scale that will correspond to the scale of the topo or quad sheet so that the reconstruction will be joined accurately.  

The surveys of Kentucky lands are described in 'metes and bounds,' such as: "Beginning at a Big Sulphur Lick, running on the creek and binding thereon West 34 poles S 82 W 34 poles N 78 W 40 poles . . . " The distance in each 'call' of a survey or deed is expressed in 'poles' (one pole equals 16 1/2 feet). To convert poles to feet on a reduced scale to place onto the US topo or quad sheet merely multiply the number of poles in each call by the number of feet. . . . 

Natural markers and monuments such as trees, streams, cliffs, ridges, or anything which occurs in nature and which is described in the survey or deed takes precedence over the calls themselves. For example, should a survey call for a given line to run from the mouth of Beaver Creek to the mouth of Boyd's Creek 700 poles, the law provides the line must run from creek to creek regardless of whether the distance mentioned is shorter or longer. This last call instructs the draftsman to proceed 'to the beginning.' The law provides in this manner so that the boundary lines of each survey will close. 

In the process of reconstruction it is important to place inside the boundaries each survey recomposed onto the quad, or in a footnote, the type of land grant under which the survey was authorized, the number of the warrant, original owner, assignees, date of entries, date of survey, principal surveyor, county of location, name of deputy surveyor, his crewmen such as chain carriers and the marker; and in some instances, the 'housekeeper' which was required to prove the bona-fide residency, acreage, book and page of recordation, and whether the land was 'caveated' (claimed by another), the natural markers and monuments, adjoining and/or former owners.

 For such purposes as mentioned above, the draftsman may want to develop his own code for abbreviations, such as: TW for Treasury Warrant, MW for Military Warrant, or S for Survey, CC for chain carriers, M for the marker of the trees, PS for principal surveyor who had to approve the original survey, DS for deputy surveyor, and so on. Also, as the draftsman composes his work, he should record on the new map the names of old forts and stations, trails and traces, salt licks, buffalo trails, and other notations such as 'where the British camped,' 'old encampment,' 'old Indian village,' to mention a few examples. 

The reduction of the actual description in Kentucky surveys and grants can be accomplished easily by the use of a surveyor's protractor which gives the 'bearing angle' off of North or South. Should the angle in the call vary from the natural marker or monument, the latter control so that by law the survey will close. To scale the distance called for in the description along the bearing angle mentioned, use the protractor and with a pencil lightly mark each end of the angle, then proceed with an engineer's scale which is graduated on inch equals 2000 feet to mark the final line, thus obtaining the accurate reduction to the scale of the topo sheet. Local surveyors are most helpful in advising on mapping procedure. . . .

Genealogists can derive much information from reconstructed maps. For this reason, it is most important that each marker and monument, trails and traces, and each feature of nature mentioned as such in the survey, whether in the identity location preface to the actual description or within the description be annotated upon the newly composed map.

The salt licks are very important. Here the buffalo made the traces to each lick. Some of these licks endure even today evidencing many factors important to geologists. . . . 

Additional information concerning various individuals and their land claims may be found in A Report of the Causes Determined by the Late Supreme Court for the District of Kentucky, and by the Court of Appeals, in Which the Titles to Land were in Dispute, by James Hughes, Publication date - 1803.  

• Ammons, Thomas against George Spears, p. 6 
• Dryden, William & Charles Morgan, p. 8

Additional information concerning various individuals & their land claims may be found in A Report of the Causes Determined by the Late Supreme Court for the District of Kentucky, & by the Court of Appeals, in Which the Titles to Land were in Dispute, by James Hughes; second edition, publication date, 1869. 

• Ammons vs. Spears, p. 10
• Dryden ads. Morgan, p. 15
• Morgan vs. Pennybaker, p. 1
• Morgan vs. Dryden p. 15
• McKee ads. Young p. 68
• M'Kee, William & William Young p. 35
• Morgan, Simon against Peter Pennybaker p. 1
• Morgan, Charles against William Dryden, p. 8

General Index for Tellico Warrants, Surveys & Grants

• Warrant #97 Beasley, James, 10/28/1802, Survey #190, 30 acres, Wayne Co., East Fork Beaver, surveyed 1/29/1804, page 98, granted 10/23/1805, page 107
• Warrant #28 Butler, Thomas 12/18/1801 Survey #2 50 acres, Logan Co., Red River, surveyed 3/4/1802, page 1, granted 9/11/1802, page 490
• Warrant #289 Butler, Thomas, 12/30/1803, Survey #173, 150 acres Logan Co., Red River, surveyed 3/27/1804, p. 90, granted 12/19/1804, page 73
• Certificate #27 Butler, William, 7/?/1812 page 476, surveyed in Robert Livingston's name, 106 acres, Wayne Co., Little South Fork, surveyed 10/10/1814, pp. 280-281, grantee Robert Livingston & Heirs, granted 7/7/1818, pp. 598-99

• KHS Vol. #3, survey #673 Butler, Joseph, 583 acres, Washington Co., Beech Fork & Pleasant Run surveyed 7/12/1794, Bk. 1, pp. 439-440, granted 1/23/1795, Bk. 4, pp. 94a-95
• KHS Vol. #6 survey #1437 Butler, Joseph 1000 acres, Nelson Co., Linn Camp Creek, surveyed 11/16/1789, Bk. 3, p. 253, granted 6/24/1796, Bk. 6, p. 105
• KHS Vol. #8, survey #1839, Butler, Peter 400 acres, Mercer Co. Salt River, surveyed 10/24/1792, Bk. 3, pp. 491-92, granted 5/6/1797, Bk. 7, p. 183
• KHS Vol. #8, survey #1840 Butler, Peter, 1000 acres Mercer Co., Salt River, surveyed 11/3/1792, Bk. 3, p. 492, granted 5/6/1787 Bk. 7, p. 184
• KHS Vol. #25 survey #5507, Butler, William, 100 acres, military, Cumberland River, surveyed 9/23/1798 Bk. 8, p. 31, no grant located
• KHS Vol. #7, survey #1670 Cloud, Peter, 100 acres military, Naked Fork, Gasper River, surveyed 4/25/1792, Bk. 3, p. 402, grantee Samuel Cox & heirs, granted 12/19/1796, Bk. 7, p. 16
• KHS Vol. #15, survey #3505, Cloyd, James, 51 acres, Washington Co., Rolling Fork, Salt River, 9/20/1798, Bk. 5, p. 373, grantee Benedict Spalding & heirs, granted 6/26/1799, Bk. 11, p. 470
• KHS Vol. #15, survey #3506, Cloyd, James, 68 acres, Washington Co., Rolling Fork, Salt River, surveyed 9/20/1798 Bk. 5, p. 374, grantee Benedict Spalding & heirs, granted 6/27/1799 Bk. 11, pp. 472-73
• KHS Vol. #4, survey #829 Cloyd, Joseph 2,176 1/2 acres, Washington Co., Rolling Fork, surveyed 11/4/1792 Bk. 2, p. 39 granted 5/27/1795, Bk. 5, pp. 46-47
• KHS Vol. #8, survey #1766, Doggett, George, see 1766 Morgan, Charles & George Doggett
• KHS Vol. #19 survey #4306 Dove, Francis, 196 1/2 acres, Lincoln Co., no watercourse, surveyed 7/19/1797, Bk. 6, p. 368, granted 5/5/1800, Bk. 13, pp. 485-86
• KHS Vol. #19 survey #4307 Dove, Francis, 74 acres Lincoln Co., surveyed 7/18/1797 Bk. 6, p. 369, granted 5/5/1800, Bk. 13, pp. 486-87
• KHS Vol. #19 survey #4308 Dove, Francis 50 acres Lincoln Co., Drake Creek, surveyed 7/18/1797, Bk. 6, p. 370, granted 5/5/1800, Bk. 12, pp. 537-38
• KHS Vol. #2, survey #405 Fishback, Jacob & Charles Morgan, 35,570 acres, Fayette Co., Ohio River & Big Bone Lick Creek, surveyed 6/14/1785, Bk 1, p. 262, granted 2/10/1794, Bk. 3, pp. 420-21
• KHS Vol. #32, survey #7197 Fishback, Jacob & Charles Morgan, 4430 acres Scott Co., Eagle Creek, surveyed 7/19/1817, Bk. 10, pp. 358-60, grantee Achilles Sneed & Samuel D. Fishback & heirs, granted 10/10/1818, Bk. 19, pp. 211-13
• KHS Vol. 9, survey #2322 Goodnight, John 392 acres Bourbon Co. Townsend Run, surveyed 6/15/1796 Bk. 4, pp. 324-25, grantee Thomas Jones, Jr. & James McCrory & heirs, granted 6/23/1798 Bk. 8, p. 185
• KHS Vol. #14, survey #3415 Hopkins, Jerrard, 2000 acres Bourbon Co., Holder Creek, surveyed 9/24/1798, Bk 5, p. 310, granted 6/21/1799, Bk. 11, p. 400-401
• KHS Vol. 27 surveyed #5878 Hopkins, John, 246 acres Lincoln Co. South Fork Rolling Fork, surveyed 8/28/1798, Bk. 8 pp. 422-23, no grant located
• KHS Vol. 2, surveyed #463 Hopkins, Thomas, 400 acres military, Big Barren River surveyed 11/11/1791 Bk. 1, p. 291 granted 2/24/1794 Bk. 3, pp. 506-07
• KHS Vol. 4 survey #967 Mauldin, Richard 100 acres, military, Middle Fork Little Whipperwill, surveyed 7/15/1793, Bk. 2, pp. 132-33, granted 9/23/1795, Bk. 5, p. 186
• KHS Vol. 4, survey #968 Mauldin, Richard, 100 acres, military Big Muddy Creek, surveyed 6/9/1792, Bk. 2, p. 133, granted 9/23/1795, Bk. 5, p. 187
• KHS Vol. 1 survey #21 Morgan, Charles - see 21 Ford, Edward & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 1 survey #43 Morgan, Charles - see 43 Obanion, John & others
• KHS Vol. 1 survey #72 Morgan, Charles 445 acres Fayette Co., Lower Howard Creek, surveyed 9/20/1784, Bk. 2c p. 15, granted 11/10/1797 Bk. 2, p. 25
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #348 Morgan, Charles see 348 Montgomery, James & others
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #349 Morgan, Charles, see 349 Robinson, William & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #386 Morgan, Charles see 386 Hunter, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #387 Morgan, Charles see 386 Blackburn, Edward & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #388 Morgan, Charles see 388 Boyd, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #389 Morgan, Charles see 389 Barker, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #398 Morgan, Charles see 398 Halbert, Isaac & others
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #405 Morgan, Charles see 405 Fishback, Jacob & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #409 Morgan, Charles see 409 Piper, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #410 Morgan, Charles see 410 Piper, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #411 Morgan, Charles see 411 Bradford, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #445 Morgan, Charles see 445 Fields, Ezekiel & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 3 survey #593 Morgan, Charles see 593 Walton, Matthew & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 3 survey #648 Morgan, Charles see 748 Craddock, Charles & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 4 survey #802 Morgan, Charles, see 802 Jacobs, Francis & others
• KHS Vol. 6 survey #1327 Morgan, Charles 400 acres Hardin Co., Rolling Fork, surveyed 9/20/1795, Bk. 3, p. 184, granted 4/6/1796 Bk. 5, p. 551
• KHS Vol. 7 survey #1765 Morgan, Charles 4840 acres Mason Co., Licking surveyed 9/14/1795 Bk. 3 p. 449, granted 3/8/1797 Bk. 7, p. 109
• KHS Vol. 11 survey #2669 Morgan, Charles see 2669 Churchill, Armistead & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 11 survey #2670 Morgan, Charles see 2670 Parker, Richard & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 12 survey #2958 Morgan, Charles see 2958 Keith, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 18 survey #4122 #1 Morgan, Charles 4014 acres Clark Co., Kentucky River surveyed 10/12/1797 Bk. 6, pp. 229-30 grantees same, Charles Spilman & Bartlett Searcy & heirs, granted 2/26/1800 Bk. 12, pp. 383-84
• KHS Vol. 18 survey #4122 #2 Morgan, Charles 1186 acres Clark Co., Kentucky River surveyed 10/12/1797, Bk. 6, pp. 229-30, grantees same Charles Spilman & Bartlett Searcy & heirs, granted 2/26/1800 Bk. 12, pp. 384-85
• KHS Vol. 18, survey #4157 Morgan, Charles 60 acres, Fayette Co., Boone Creek, surveyed 11/14/1797 Bk. 6, p. 255, granted 3/11/1800, Bk. 12, pp. 409-10
• KHS Vol. 21 survey #4831 Morgan, Charles 256 acres Fayette Co., Boone Creek surveyed 11/12/1787 Bk. 7 pp. 127-128 grantee same & Thomas Bodley & heirs granted 2/6/1801 Bk. 14, pp. 244-45
• KHS Vol. 30 survey #6572 Morgan, Charles 308 acres, Clark Co., Lower Howard Creek surveyed 12/14/1810 Bk. 9, p. 444 granted 8/6/1812 Bk. 18, p. 6
• KHS Vol. 32 survey #7057 Morgan, Charles, see 7057 Bennett, Daniel & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 32 survey #7149 Morgan, Charles see 7149 Crimm, John & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 32 survey #7197 Morgan, Charles see 7197 Fishback, Jacob & Charles Morgan
• KHS Vol. 8 survey #1766 Morgan, Charles & George Doggett 1000 acres Mason Co., Triplett Creek, surveyed 9/15/1795 Bk. 3, p. 450 grantee George Doggett & heirs, granted 3/8/1797 Bk. 7, p. 110
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #406 Morgan, William see 406 Ash, Francis & others
• KHS Vol. 31, Survey #6924 Morgan, William, 640 acres Knox Co., Cumberland River surveyed 9/14/1814 Bk. 10, p. 149 granted 10/26/1815 Bk. 18 pp. 474-75
• KHS Vol. 3 survey #651 Spear, George 335 acres Jefferson Co., Fern Creek 1/2/1783 Bk. 1, pp. 423-24 granted 12/21/1794 Bk. 4, p. 73
• KHS Vol. 17, survey #4045 Spear, Henry 800 acres Nelson Co., Rolling Fork, surveyed 9/11/1798 Bk. 6, p. 161, granted 2/2/1800 Bk. 12, pp 244-45
• KHS Vol. 17, survey #4043 Spear, Henry, heirs of 400 acres, Hardin Co., Mill Creek, surveyed 8/3/1798, Book 6, p. 159, granted 2/2/1800, Book 12, pp. 242-43
• KHS Vol. 17, survey #4044 Spear, Henry, heirs of 400 acres Hardin Co., Mill Creek, surveyed 7/25/1798 Bk. 6, p. 160, granted 2/2/1800, Bk. 12, pp. 243-44
• KHS Vol. 3 survey # 652 Spear, Jacob 400 acres Jefferson Co., Fern Creek, surveyed 1/2/1783 Bk. 1 p. 424 granted 12/21/1794 Bk. 4, p. 74
• KHS Vol. 1 survey #47 Spears, George, 60 acres Lincoln Co., Hanging Fork, surveyed 6/1/1791 Bk. 2A, p. 30, granted 2/18/1793, Bk 1, p. 98
• KHS Vol. 19 survey #4372 Spears, George 745 acres Lincoln Co., Hanging Fork, surveyed 10/16/1799, Bk. 6 pp. 427-28, granted 5/15/1800 Bk. 13, pp. 551-53
• KHS Vol. 26, survey #5691 Spears, George 351 acres Lincoln Co., Hanging Fork of Dick's River, surveyed 2/25/1785 Bk. 8 pp. 261-62, granted 12/17/1805 Bk. 16 p. 185
• KHS Vol. 16 survey #3784 Spears, Jacob, heirs of 325 acres Hardin Co., Rolling Fork, surveyed 11/18/1676 Bk 5, p. 593, grantees Alexander Frakes & heirs, granted 10/9/1804 Bk. 15, pp. 642-43
• KHS Vol. 16 survey #3785 Spears, Jacob heirs of 448 acres Hardin Co., Rolling Fork, surveyed 11/18/1797 Bk. 5, p. 594 grantees William Hack & heirs, granted 10/9/1804, Bk. 15, pp. 643-44
• KHS Vol. 16, survey #3738 Spears, Philip 400 acres Jefferson Co., Cedar Creek, surveyed 11/4/1797, Bk. 5, p. 558, granted 7/22/1799 Bk. 13, pp. 136-37
• KHS Vol. 12 survey #2827 Willson, William 600 acres military Beaver Dam, surveyed 5/19/1785 Bk. 4, pp. 629-30, granted 12/28/1798 Bk 10, pp. 148-49
• KHS Vol. 21 survey #4690 Willson, Willis 1,000 acres military Cumberland River, surveyed 7/10/1798 Bk. 7 p. 27 grantees William Radford & heirs granted 5/11/1801 Bk. 14, pp. 294-95
• KHS Vol. 13 #3010 Wilson, Edward, 1000 acres Mason Co., Fox Creek, surveyed 11/26/1797 Bk. 5, p. 65, granted 4/7/1799 Bk. 11, p. 18
• KHS Vol. 18 survey #4081 Wilson, Edward 528 acres Clark Co., Two Mile Run, surveyed 8/8/1798 Bk. 6, pp. 195-96 granted 2/10/1800 Bk. 12, pp. 362-63
• KHS Vol. 13, survey #3009 Wilson, Edward & James Duncan 500 acres Mason Co., Fleming Creek, surveyed 11/27/1797, Bk. 5, p. 65, granted 4/7/1799 Bk. 11 pp. 16-17
• KHS Vol. 1, survey #122 Wilson, George 271 1/2 acres Jefferson no watercourse, surveyed 11/5/1792, Bk. 1 p. 79, granted 5/10/1793 Bk. 3, p. 119
• KHS Vol. 1, survey #123 Wilson, George 124 acres Jefferson Co.  Fish Poole Creek, surveyed 5/18/1785, Bk. 1 pp. 79-80 granted 5/10/1793 Bk. 3, p. 120
• KHS Vol. 6, survey #1221 Wilson, George, 9,725 acres Lincoln Co., Richland, Laurel River & Goose Creek, surveyed 6/29/1795 Bk. 3, pp. 119-120 grantees James Kincaid & heirs, granted 2/2/1796 Bk. 5, p. 445
• KHS Vol. 7, survey #1622 Wilson, George 5000 acres Nelson Co., Rolling Fork, surveyed 4/29/1788 Bk 3 pp. 372-73, granted 11/20/1796 Bk. 6, p. 330
• KHS Vol. 8 survey #1822 #1, Wilson, George 60 acres Mercer Co., Salt River, surveyed 2/5/1795, Bk. 3 p. 480 grantees Andrew Jemison & heirs, granted 4/3/1797 Bk. 7, p. 165
• KHS Vol. 24 survey #5363 Wilson, George, 100 acres Jefferson Co., no watercourse, surveyed 6/20/1786 Bk. 7, p. 524, granted 2/26/1803 Bk. 14, p. 617
• KHS Vol. 25 survey #5639 Wilson, George, 8,620 acres Hardin Co., Ohio River, surveyed 11/28/1797 Bk. 8 pp. 202-03, grantees John Handley & heirs, granted 5/22/1805, Bk. 16, p. 184
• KHS Vol. 32 survey #6946 Wilson, Henry 500 acres Nelson Co., Bush Fork, surveyed 12/15/1789, Bk. 10, p. 164, granted 1/4/1816 Bk. 18, pp. 500-01
• KHS Vol. 1, survey #105 Wilson, John 400 acres Jefferson Co., Crooked Creek, surveyed 11/2/1792 Bk. 1, p. 67 grantees John Warford & heirs, granted 5/7/1793 Bk. 3, p. 102
• KHS Vol. 2, survey #442 Wilson, John 346 acres military, Blue Lick Fork Pond River, surveyed 6/13/1792 Bk. 1, pp. 274-75 granted 3/4/1794 Bk. 3, pp. 474-76
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #443 Wilson, John 800 acres military Little Muddy Creek, surveyed 5/10/1792 Bk. 1, p. 275, granted 3/4/1794 Bk. 3, pp. 476-77
• KHS Vol. 13 survey #3121 Wilson, John 987 1/3 acres military Blue Lick Fork Pond River, surveyed 6/11/1797 Bk. 5, p. 126 granted 5/8/1799 Bk. 11, pp. 132-33
• KHS Vol. 3 survey #737 Wilson, John heir, 533 1/3 acres military, Little Muddy Creek, surveyed 5/20/1793 Bk. 1, p. 483 granted 3/18/1795 Bk. 4, pp. 171-72
• KHS Vol. 1, survey #14 Wilson, Joseph 200 acres military, Beaver Dam, surveyed 5/19/1785 granted 2/5/1793 Bk. 1, p. 66
• KHS Vol. 7 survey #1666 Wilson, Richard, 200 acres military, Gasper River, surveyed 11/15/1793 Bk. 3, p. 400 granted 12/19/1796 Bk. 7, p. 12
• KHS Vol. 2, survey #362 Wilson, Thomas - see Rogers, Edmond & others
• KHS Vol. 2 Survey #368 Wilson, Thomas 460 acres military, South Fork Little Barren River, surveyed 4/27/1792, Bk. 1, p. 231 grantees Edmund Rogers & heirs, granted 1/14/1794 Bk. 3, pp. 370-71
• KHS Vol. 2 survey #369 Wilson, Thomas 1,206 2/3 acres military Glover Creek, surveyed 4/27/1792 Bk. 1, pp. 231-32 grantees Edmund Rogers & heirs, granted 1/14/1794 Bk. 3, pp. 372-73.
• KHS Vol. 6 survey #1269 Wilson, Thomas, 200 acres military Skegg Creek, surveyed 11/6/1793, Bk. 3, p. 151 grantees Edmund Rogers & heirs, granted 3/6/1796 Bk. 5 pp. 494-95
• KHS Vol. 28 survey #6260 Wilson, William 920 acres Montgomery Co., Indian Creek, surveyed 3/21/1798, Bk 9 pp. 197-98, granted 9/1/1810 Bk. 17, pp. 144-45
• KHS Vol. 8, survey #1965 Wilson, Rev. William 4250 acres, Campbell Co., Licking River, surveyed 11/15/1796, Bk. 4, p. 13, granted 7/11/1797, Bk. 7, p. 300
• KHS Vol. 9 survey #2188 Wilson, Willis, 600 acres military, Skegg Beaver Creek, surveyed 8/10, 1791, Bk. 4, p. 156 grantees William Radford & heirs granted 4/23/1798 Bk. 8 pp. 56-57
• KHS Vol. 10 survey #2417 Wilson, Willis, 400 military Beaver Creek, surveyed 5/4/1797 Bk. 4, p. 375, grantees William Radford & heirs, granted 7/14/1798 Bk. 8, p. 274. 
• KHS Vol. 9 survey #2250 Young, James 200 military Marrowbone Creek, surveyed 9/15/1791 Bk. 4, p. 189, granted 5/24/1798 Bk. 8, pp. 112-13
• KHS Vol. 14 survey #3271 Young, James & Joseph 200 acres military & Lincoln Co., Dick's River, surveyed 11/28/1797, Bk. 5, pp. 216-217 grantees William McDowell & heirs granted 6/10/1799 Bk. 12, pp. 17-18
• KHS Vol. 6 survey #1365 Young, John, see 1365 Phillips, John & John Young
• KHS Vol. 9 survey #2302 Young, John 1,000 acres, Franklin Co., Salt River & Hammon Creek, surveyed 10/31/1797, Bk. 4, p. 314, granted 6/16/1798 Bk. 8, p. 165
• KHS Vol. 10 survey #2418 Young, John 325 acres Hardin Co., Round Stone, surveyed 9/28/1795 Bk. 4, pp. 375-76, granted 7/15/1798 Bk. 8, p. 275
• KHS Vol. 24 survey #5445 Young, John & John Philips 2500 acres Scott Co., Eagle Creek, surveyed 9/25/1798 Bk. 7, p. 611 no grant issued, defective survey
• KHS Vol. 24 survey #5446 Young, John & John Philips 6500 acres Scott & Harrison Co., Eagle Creek & Licking surveyed 2/9/1798 Bk. 7, pp. 611-12 no grant issued, defective survey
• KHS Vol. 15 survey #3532 Young, Reuben 500 acres Fayette Co., Elkhorn Creek, surveyed 12/27/1785 Bk. 5, p. 394 granted 6/27/1799 Bk. 11, p. 491

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Pulaski County Historical Society. Pulaski County, Kentucky Tax List Index 1799-1829, Somerset, KY: Pulaski County Historical Society, nd

• Butler, Edward, 1800 part 3
• Beasley, John, 1801 part 1 B---ley [Beasley?], John 1803, Beasley, John 1804
• Hunt, Abraham 1801-1805
• Hunt; Robert 1801-1805
• Meek, Bazel 1801, 1808
• Meek, Jeremiah 1801, 1808
• Hunt, Ralph 1801 part 2
• Fitzjarril, John 1802-1803; Fitzgerald 1804; Fitzgerrel 1805; Fitzjarrel 1806; Fitzgerald, 1811; 1815; Fitzjerald 1820; Fitzgerrold 1829
• Fitzjarril, Lewis 1803-1804, Fitzjarrel 1806
• Hunt, William 1803-1805
• Fitzgerrel, Levi 1805 [is this Lewis?]
• Cloyd, Jesse 1806, 1810-1814; 1816-1825; 1828-1829
• Fitzjerrel, Elijah 1808-1809-1810; Fitzgerald 1813-1814
• Hunt, Abram 1808 
• Meek, David 1808
• Meek, Nathan 1808
• Meek, Nathan Sr. 1808
• Meek, Samuel 1808
• Rainwater, Abram 1808-1815
• Rainwater, Asa 1808
• Spears, Wm. 1808 
• Wilson, John 1808
• Wilson, Nathaniel 1808
• Dove, James 1809-1814; 1816-1819
• Dove, John 1809-1810; 1812; 1814-1816; 1818-1819; 1825; 1827-1829
• Dove, David 1809-1810; 1812-1817; 1819-1820
• Dove, Henry 1809-1825; 1827-1829
• Denny, Sarah 1810
• Denny, Zachariah 1810; Zack 1813; Zachriah 1814; Zachariah 1815; Zack 1816
• Denton, Joseph 1810; 1813-1814-1815-1816-1817-1818
• Coomer, Wm. 1811 
• Croomer [Coomer(?)], John 1811
• Dove, Richard 1815-1816 Mich [Rich?] 1817; Richard 1818-1819
• Fitzgerald, Elizabeth 1815
• Denney, Jeremiah 1818-1819-1820-1821
• Fitzjerald, James 1820
• Fitzjerald, William 1820
• Wilson, Alexander 1823; 1829
• Wilson, James 1823; 1825
• Wilson, John 1823; 1825; 1829
• Wilson, Jonas 1823
• Wilson, Joshua 1823
• Wilson, Micajah 1823; 1825
• Wilson, William Jr. 1823
• Wilson, William Sr. 1823
• Young, Godfrey 1823; 1829
• Young, Jane 1823
• Young, John 1823; 1829
• Young, Solomon 1823; Sollomon 1829
• Denny, Levi 1824-1825
• Denton, Benjamin 1825
• Slavins, James 1825
• Slavins, William 1825
• Slavins, William Jr. 1825
• Wilson, Henry 1825
• Wilson, John 1825
• Wilson, Neely 1825
• Wilson, Rebecca 1825
• Wilson, Robert 1825
• Wilson, Thomas 1825; 1829
• Wilson, Vianna 1825
• Wolf, Jacob 1825
• Cloyd, Jepa 1827
• Fitzgerald, James 1828; Fitzgerrold 1829
• Fitzgurald, Johnathan 1828
• Hunt, John Jr. 1829
• Hunt, Stephen 1829
• Wilson, Joseph 1829

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Taylor, Philip. A Calendar of the Warrants for Land in Kentucky, Granted for Service in the French & Indian War, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1975

It is stated by Collins, and other historians, that the first surveys made in what is now Kentucky were made by a party under Captain Thomas Bullitt, at the mouth of Beargrass Creek, in July 1773, who was immediately followed by other Deputy Surveyors working under Col. William Preston, Surveyor of Fincastle County, Virginia. 

At that time Fincastle County comprised all of what is now the State of Kentucky with the exception of the eight counties lying west of the Tennessee River, embracing what was later the Jackson Purchase, bought from the Indians in 1818. 

The name of Fincastle County was retained until December 31, 1776, when Kentucky County was formed from a part of Fincastle. 

November 1, 1780, Kentucky County was divided into three counties: Fayette included "all that territory beginning at the mouth of the Kentucky River, and extending up its middle fork to the head, and embracing the norther and eastern portion of the present State."

Jefferson then embraced "that part of the south side of the Kentucky River which lies west and north of a line beginning at the mouth of Benson's big creek, and running up the same and its main fork to the head; thence south to the nearest waters of Hammond's Creek, and down the same to its junction with the Town Fork of Salt River; thence south to Green River and down the same to its junction with the Ohio. 

Lincoln County included the rest of the State south of the middle fork of the Kentucky and east of the Jefferson line. . . . 

Dr. H.R. McIlvaine, Librarian of the State of Virginia, states that about the time Kentucky entered the Union as a sovereign State, June 1, 1792, that "Virginia passed a law giving to Kentucky all the original papers - plats and applicant's descriptions - affecting land in Kentucky, and, so far as the land books are concerned, there are copies in Frankfort of the parts of them concerning Kentucky lands, and only in Frankfort are to be found the original papers, these having been given by Virginia to Kentucky." 

The surveys, which were sent by Virginia to Kentucky, are all contained in one cabinet, of ninety metal file cases, containing about sixteen thousand plats and surveys. These papers were evidently boxed up and badly mixed in the shipping, and when received, were indexed just as they were, without being sorted in any manner before indexing; then indexed only in the name of the person for whom the survey was made, disregarding the name of the person to whom the original warrant was issued. 

The large majority of surveys were made on Land Office Treasury Warrants, on Pre-emption Warrants and on Settlement Warrants, and while it is known that surveys were made in 1773, none have been found bearing date earlier than March 14, 1774, nor later than May 28, 1789, though these may still be found. . . . 

Earliest Surveys of Land in Kentucky, made as in Fincastle Co., Kentucke Co., Fayette Co., Jefferson Co., and Lincoln Co., Virginia. Principally "By Virtue of the Governor's Warrant Under His Majesty's Proclamation of October 7, 1763." "For Service in the Late War Between France and Great Britain."   From Original Surveys & Plats in the Kentucky Land Office. Catalogued by Philip Fall Taylor, State Archivist of Kentucky. 

Columns: Bundle, No., Name, Rank, Acres Surveyed, Survey Date, Description

• Bundles 1-2-3, 58, James McDowell, dec'd., no rank, 1000 acres June 14, 1775 by Jno. Floyd, Fincastle Co., on south fork of Licking Creek - Hugart's land.  
• Bundles10-11 380, James Fitzgerald, Sergt. Byrds Regt. 200 acres Dec. 17, 1781 by Wm. Montgomery, Lincoln Co., on a branch of Green River, corner Cornelius Yeager - to Benj. Pettit's line. Ass'd. to William C. Smith [Warrant #1156]. 
• Bundles 24-28, 32 Joseph Shepherd, soldier 2nd VA, 50 acres Jan. 2, 1782 by A. Eastin, Fayette Co., on north side of north fork of Cooper's Run - corner James Heath. All ass'd. to Benjamin Bowles & Augustin Eastin. 
• Bundles 39-40 1209 George Taylor ensign 1000 acres Dec. 9, 1783 by Alex'r Breckenridge, Jefferson Co., near the Ohio - corner to Edmund Taylor. To James Taylor, heir-at law of George Taylor, dec'd. "For military service in the Va. service in the late war. Certificate of which hath been duly certified under the hand and seal of Dunmore."
• Bundle 94, no warrant, Thomas Gist, no rank, 2000 acres June 1775 by James Douglas, Fincastle Co., on Gist's Creek
• Bundle 94, no warrant, Christopher Gist, no rank, 3000 acres June 1775 by James Douglas, Fincastle Co., on north side of Kentucky River on Gist's Creek, a branch of the Licking. Survey to Thomas Gist. "Let the patent issue in the name of Nathaniel Gist, who is oldest son and heir-at-law of Christopher Gist (signed) Wm. Preston, SFC." 
• Bundle 94 no warrant, John Draper, officer 1000 acres, June 6, 1774 by Jno. Floyd, Fincastle Co., on waters Bear Grass, about 3 or 4 miles from Falls, by a Buffaloe trace crossing Creek. Ass'd. to John Floyd. 
• Bundle 94 no warrant, William Henry, Lieut. 1000 acres July 9, 1774 by Jno. Floyd, Fincastle Co., on waters of Elk Horn; corner to Jno. Floyd; corner to Patrick Henry; Ass'd. to John Sutton. 
• Bundle 94 no warrant, Samuel McDowell no rank, 2000 acres July 11, 1775 by Jno. Floyd, Fincastle Co., on waters of Elk Horn. 
• Bundle 94 no warrant, James McDowell, dec'd. no rank 1000 acres June 14, 1775 by Jno. Floyd, Fincastle Co., on a south fork of Licking Creek; to James McDowell heir-at-law. 
• Bundle 94 no warrant, Nathaniel Gist no rank 3000 acres June 1775 by James Douglas, Fincastle Co., on north side Kentucky River on Gist's Creek to Thomas Gist, representative
• Bundle 98, 513, Nathaniel Gist, captain, 3000 acres Sept. 26, 1783 by Benjamin Field, Jeffeson Co., on Panther Creek. Ass'd. to John Smith. To Nathaniel Gist, on and heir; ass'd. to John Smith
• Bundle 98 514, Nathaniel Gist captain 3000 acres see #513
• Bundle 98 515 Nathaniel Gist captain 3000 acres see #513
• Bundle 98 516 Christopher Gist captain 3000 acres see #513
• Bundle 195 641 James Taylor Sub. Hogg's Company, 2000 acres June 24, 1785 by Arch'd Campbell, Fayette Co., on Boon's Creek, adj. David Robinson; crossing, Floyd's Fork, a branch of Boon's Creek; Ass'd. to John Floyd by Edmund Taylor, Att'y. April 29, 1780.