Early Kentucky Settlers: The Records of Jefferson County,
Kentucky Early Kentucky Settlers: The Records of Jefferson
County, Kentucky, from the Filson Club History Quarterly. .
(1988) In 1780 Kentucky County, Virginia, was divided into three
Kentucky counties--Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson. The
importance of Jefferson County to genealogists lies in the fact
that, along with the other two counties, it was one of the
parents of Kentucky's present 120 counties. So Jefferson
County's records will be of interest to a wide audience of
genealogists. Excerpted from the important Filson Club History
Quarterly, this work has transcripts of the earliest Jefferson
County, Kentucky records known to exist--wills, deeds, surveys,
administrations, inventories, and poll lists. These records are
a unique body of information on early Jefferson County and its
people--ordinary people for the most part--seen here in court
records, swearing and fighting, trading with Indians, surveying
land, registering the deeds to their propert