Pendleton County was the 28th KY county, formed from Bracken and
Campbell Counties and named for Judge Edmund Pendleton, a member
of the Virginia House of Burgesses & the Continental Congress.
(ref: "The Kentucky Encyclopedia") The Act to create Pendleton
County was approved on 13 December 1798 and became effective 10
May 1799. Text of Act Creating New County: An ACT for erecting a
new County out of the Counties of Campbell and Bracken. Approved
December 13, 1798. SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly, that from and after the tenth day of May next, all
that part of the Counties of Bracken and Campbell within the
following Bounds, viz: Beginning on the Ohio River two miles
below the mouth of Big Stepstone Creek, thence a direct line
across main Licking as far below the main forks of Licking as it
is from that place to the mouth of the north fork of Licking
above the said Forks, to continue the said line south seventy
six degrees west until it shall strike the Scott and Franklin
lines, thence with th