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Search for the Ladies at the BLM Site

Don’t forget to search for your female ancestors at the BLM site http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. They may have applied for bounty land as a widow or filed a federal land claim in their own name. Don’t forget the female half of your ancestry.

Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds: a Complete Index to All of the Earliest Land Entries, Military Warrants, Deeds and Wills of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds: a Complete Index to All of the Earliest Land Entries, Military Warrants, Deeds and Wills of the Commonwealth of Kentucky – by Willard Rouse Jillson, Sc.D.

Review published November 2011

About the book & Its Table of Contents

~ from Foreword “This volume is … a complete index to these old manuscript records and is designed as a source book for the use of historical workers generally, land title attorneys, abstract clerks, genealogists and others who may find interest in the first documents pertaining to the land in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.” Willard Rouse Jillson Old State Capital Frankfort, Kentucky February 1, 1926	I	Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds
	II	Lincoln Entries (1779-1787
	III	Fayette Entries (1782-1794)
	IV	Jefferson Entries (1779-1785
	V	Military Warrants (1782-1793
	VI	Military Entries (1784-1797
	VII	Court of Appeals, Deeds – Grantee (1783-1846)
	VIII	Court of Appeals, Deeds – Grantee (1783-1846)
	IX	Court of Appeals, Deeds – Wills (1769-1850)
	X	Court of Appeals, Deeds – Attorneys (1781-1853)

Example: Data from Chapter IV, Jefferson Entries, page 269.

Name	Acres	Book	Page	Entry Date	Watercourses	Notes
Pearman, Samuel, heirs	1,000	A	104	5-27-1780	Dicks R	Withdrawn
Pearman, Samuel, heirs	1,000	A	348	3-27-1784	Salts R
Pearman, Samuel, heirs	1,000	A	348	3-27-1784	Wilsons Cr.	Surveyed

Example: Data from Chapter V, Military Warrants, page 353.

Name	Acres	Warrant	Service	Date
Pearman, Harrison	200	1658	During war soldier Virginia line	8-23-1783
Pearman, Thomas	200	2595	End of war soldier Virginia line	2-23-1784

The edition at the Nichols Memorial Library is a 1969 reprint of the 1926 original. The 1969 edition was published by the Genealogical Publishing Company.

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