By: Thomas A Hays, Pub. 1985, Reprinted 2017, 272 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-472-3. Hardin county was formed in 1819. The entries found in this book cover the appointments of the administrators and guardians; indentured applications; reports of inquests juries; releasements, removals, and insolvencies from the tax lists; wills; inventory of administrator and guardian settlements the requests of free blacks; survey of occupant claims; petitioner of widows' dowers; acknowledgement of bills of sale for slaves; certificates of deeds of conveyance; and pertinent records.