Found at this site are three Volumes of Augusta County, VA court records.When you go to
each volume at the bottom is an icon marked index clicking this gives an index by first
and last name, very helpful.
I have copied part of the forward from Vol. I so you can see how it applies to KY.
Dave
http://www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/index.htm
In the year 1745, all that portion of the Colony of Virginia which lay west of the Blue
Ridge Mountains was erected into a County which was named Augusta. In December of that
year, the County Court was organized and held its first sitting. Prior to that time it had
become the refuge and abiding place of a strong body of Scotch-Irish immigrants. The
bounds of the new County were limited on the north by Fairfax's Northern Neck Grant
and the boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania to the westward of Fairfax; on the east by
the Blue Ridge mountains; on the south by the Caroline line. On the west its territory
embraced all the soil held by the British without limit of extent. For about twelve years
the County Court of Augusta was the only Court and repository of records within that
district. From the end of that period, at frequent intervals, its jurisdiction was
restricted by the erection of other Counties as the demands of the settlers required. Its
original constitution embrac!
ed all Virginia west of the Blue Ridge (with the exception of the Northern Neck Grant,
whose southern boundary was in the present County of Shenandoah, and western, through the
Counties of Hardy, Hampshire, and northward to the Potomac); the whole of the present
state of West Virginia; a portion of the present Western Pennsylvania, including
Pittsburgh, which was, at times, the seat of the County Court; and the lands on the waters
of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers