The five volumes reproduced
in this data set were originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company
and include information on the landholdings of approximately 100,000 individuals.
You may find information such as the number of acres held, entry date of the
record, landholder's residence, and the nearest watercourse to the landholding.
For those individuals who were granted land based upon their service in the
Revolutionary or French and Indian Wars, it includes information about their
military service. The volumes include information on landholdings prior to and
after statehood.
Books Included in this
Data Set
The following volumes, provided
by the Genealogical Publishing Company, are included in this data set:
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).
