Nelson County Records

in the Library of Virginia

Bonds/Commissions/Oaths:

Reel No.	Title
0001	Bonds, 1794-1802

County Court:

Reel No.	Title
0002-0003	Chancery Papers, 1780-1807 (includes District Court of Chancery and Court of Quarter Sessions)
0004	Clerks' Fee Book, 1793, index, 71 p.
0004	Clerks' Fee Book, 1794, index, 54 p.
0004	Clerks' Fee Book, 1803-1804, index, 151 p.
0004	Clerks' Fee Book, 1806-1807, unpaged.
0004	Clerks' Fee Book, 1807-1808, unpaged.
0004	Clerks' Fee Book, 1809-1812, unpaged.
0004	Clerks' Fee Book, 1814-1815, unpaged.
0005	Issue Docket, 1795-1802, unpaged.
0005	Issue Docket, 1797-1802, unpaged.
0005	Issue Docket, 1810 (October), unpaged.
0005	Issue Docket, 1810, unpaged.
0005	Issue Docket, 1810-1811, unpaged.
0005	Issue Docket, 1815, unpaged.
0005	Issue Docket, 1816-1817, unpaged.
0006	Judgments, 178-1786
0007	Order Book, 1790-1791, 567 p.
0008	Writs of Ad Quod Danum re: Mill Sites, 1789-1847

Court of Quarter Sessions:

Reel No.	Title
0009	Order Book, 1802, index, 46 p.

Supreme Court (Bardstown District)

Reel No.	Title
0009	Order Book, 1796-1799, index, 402 p.

Land Records

Reel No.	Title
0011	Deed Book 4, 1790-1795, index, 930 p.
0012	Deed Book 5, 1795-1801, index, 738 p.
0010	Deed Books 1-3, 1784-1795 (in one volume)
0015	Depositions to Establish Land Entries, 1795-1810
0013	General Index to Deeds #1, 1786-1875
0014	General Index to Deeds #2, 1875-1893
0014	General Index to Deeds #3, 1893-1919
0013	General Index to Deeds, 1786-1818 (Grantors)

Marriage Records and Vital Statistics

Reel No.	Title
0016	Marriage Register 1, 1785-1859
0016	Marriage Register 1-A, 1851-1881
0016	Marriage Register 2, 1860-1951

Miscellaneous Records

Reel No.	Title
0024	Bardstown Charter and Ordinances, 1878, (published) 48 p.
0024	Bardstown Trustees Minute Book, 1789-1827, (Newspaper clippings of transcription which appeared in the "Kentucky Standard")
0025	Estray Book, 1799-1807

Tax and Fiscal Records

Reel No.	Title
0017	Insolvent Debtors Papers, 1799-1801
0018	Land and Personal Property Tax Books, 1792-1810
0019	Lists of Tithables, 1785-1791

Wills

Reel No.	Title
0023	D.A.R. Will Abstracts, 1784-1851, Mercer County Will Books 1, 2 & 3, Montgomery County Will Book E, Nelson County, Pulaski County Will Book 2, Washington County
0022	General Index to Wills, 1785-1962 (A-I)
0022	General Index to Wills, 1785-1962 (J-Z)
0020	Will Book 1, 1785-1790, index, 77 p.
0020	Will Book A, 1786-1807, index, 1027 p.
0020	Will Book B, 1808-1828, index, 346 p.
0020	Will Book C-1, 1811-1814, index, 280 p.
0020	Will Book C-2, 1814-1817, 548 p.
0021	Will Book D, 1818-1823, index, 559 p.
0021	Will Book E (Pt. 1), 1823-1825, index, 335 p.
0021	Will Book E (Pt. 3), 1828-1830, index, 62 p., index