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 by Lynda Peach
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Withdrawn |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.
This book and many others like it are available for you to research onsite at the Nichols Memorial Library.
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