Mappy Monday: Map of Kentucke, 1784

Map of Kentucke. From The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, by John Filson (1784). Public domain. Available from DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln and  Wikimedia Commons.

This 1784 map by John Filson is the first known map of Kentucky. Filson dedicated the map to the United States Congress and to George Washington.

My Hardgrave ancestors came to Lincoln County, Kentucky around 1795. My 5th-great-grandparents Hannah Hardgrave and Andrew Russell married in Lincoln County in 1799, and afterward lived in Pulaski County, which was created out of Lincoln and Green Counties.