Link – https://a.co/d/9TPBoBT

Early Kentucky Marriages 1785-1800 is ready for purchase in paperback form.  Included are 5,849 marriages, divided by county, then listed alphabetically by groom and then alphabetically by bride.  A sample –

Gallatin County, Kentucky

Grooms

Gallatin County, Kentucky

Brides

Gallatin County was formed from portions of Franklin and Shelby counties December 14, 1798, with an effective date of May 13, 1799.  Hence the few marriages through 1800.

Other marriages in this book are from the following counties:

Fayette County – May 1, 1780 – One of the three original counties.

Jefferson County – May 1, 1780 – One of the three original counties.

Nelson County – October 18, 1784 – In 1784 Nelson County has the distinction of being the first county taken from the three original counties and included the majority of what had been Jefferson County.

 Bourbon County – October 17, 1785 – Bourbon County was formed from Fayette County.  This included about five times the amount of land left as Fayette, and from which most of the eastern and southeastern counties were formed.

Mercer County – October 17, 1785 – Mercer was formed from a portion of Lincoln County (which will be discussed in Volume 2), almost a triangular portion, the top of which reached Jefferson County, with the two sides bordering Nelson and Fayette, with Lincoln on the southern border.

Woodford County – November 12, 1788 – was given the top portion of Fayette County, to the boundary of the Ohio River.

Scott County – June 22, 1792 – was taken from the eastern portion of Woodford.

Washington County – June 22, 1792 – was taken from the eastern portion of Nelson.

Shelby County – June 23, 1792 – was taken from the eastern portion of Jefferson.

Harrison County – December 21, 1793 – was taken from the southeastern portion of Scott.

Franklin County – December 7, 1794 – was taken from parts of Woodford and Mercer.

Campbell County – December 17, 1794 – was taken from parts of Harrison, Mason and Shelby.

Bracken County – December 14, 1796 – was taken from extreme southeast Campbell and the northerly tip of Mason.

Bullitt County – 1796 – was taken from southern Jefferson.

Pendleton County – December 4, 1798 – was taken from southern Campbell.

Boone County – December 13, 1798 – was taken from the northwest portion of Campbell.

Henry County – December 14, 1798 – was taken from northern Shelby.

Jessamine County – December 19, 1798 – was taken from southern Fayette.

Nicholas County – December 18, 1799 – was taken from western Bourbon and eastern Mason.

In Volume II, marriages from the counties of Barren, Breckinridge, Christian, Clark, Cumberland, Fleming, Floyd, Garrard, Green, Henderson, Hardin, Knox, Lincoln, Livingston, Logan, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Pulaski, Wayne and Warren will be  included.

Link – https://a.co/d/0K1TB0N

Washington County Will Books Index, 1792-1902 includes an alphabetical list of 9,474 entries.  Other than the name a description of the entry – Will, Inventory, List of Sales, Administrative Settlement, Allot Dower, Executors Settlement, Division of Estate, Guardian Settlement, Appraisement, List of Slaves, Agreement, etc. – will book and the page number. 

A sample from the book –

Both my parents were born in Washington County and their ancestors came to the county as early as 1785, the latest coming in 1860.  That is a tremendous amount of information centered in one county.

Link – https://a.co/d/d4krjOV

And the third book is Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church Cemetery List – which is exactly what it is – an alphabetical listing of those buried there – a total of 849 individuals.  Ritchey and I have taken photos of every gravestone in the cemetery, except for the few burials since that date.  This project is dear to me because my fifth great-grandfather, Captain John Linton, helped build this church.  Many of my Linton, Moran and Edwards family members are buried here.  Also, many of the early settlers of Washington County were laid to rest here.  In a more modern happenstance, my husband’s father, Rex Edwin Brown, was minister of this church in the early 1960’s.  Who knew we would share this common piece of history?

A sample from the book –

I hope these books help with your research!