- The Kentucky Land
Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State
Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924
Usually the first book used by anyone researching Kentucky ancestors, this
standard two-volume reference work contains abstracts of approximately 150,000
Kentucky land grants. Arranged alphabetically according to the type of grant,
it provides the full name of the grantee, number of acres, date of survey,
name of county, watercourse, and the volume and page number of the original
entry.
- Early Kentucky
Landholders, 1787-1811
This volume lists 17,000 landholders, individuals who claimed land but did
not necessarily occupy land, whose names appeared in the annual tax lists
for Lincoln County, Kentucky, between 1787 and 1811. Information includes
the date of the tax list, the number of the tax book, the page number of the
original entry, the amount of acreage, the nearest watercourse, and the name
of the prior assignee.
- A Calendar of the
Warrants for Land in Kentucky, Granted for Service in the French and Indian
War
This is a complete list of the land surveys made in Kentucky, at the time
still a part of the Virginia Colony, on behalf of men who fought in the French
and Indian War. Each entry gives the name of the soldier, his rank, acreage,
date of the survey, and various notes by the surveyor indicating where the
land was situated and, when available, to whom it was subsequently assigned.
- 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
For a grantee listed in this index, you can learn the number of acres granted,
dates, locations, and references to the pages in the original records (held
in the Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky). The 45,000+ entries are concentrated
in Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson Counties. The volume also includes information
on military warrants (1782-1793), Court of Appeals deeds-grantees (1783-1846),
grantors (1783-1846), wills (1769-1850), and attorneys (1781-1853).
|
Number
of acres held 
Instant access through an online subscription to Genealogy Library. 
