This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2AB.2ACI/5168.1.1.1.3.1 Message Board Post: I did a quick google search and here are some things I found - maybe you'll see something that helps: http://members.aol.com/oregontr/OregonTr/newpage19.htm The following sources provide a short history and location of Little York Township. Further information is needed regarding any survival of records of Little York. Source: "Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin Co. "Little York was the first county seat of Meade Co., Ky., formed in 1823 from Hardin Co. ( which explains why it was listed as Hardin Co. in the 1810 and 1820 census). It was located on Doe Run Creek which is about midway between Brandenburg and Ft. Knox." Source: "Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin Co.", Chapter B-4, p. 217, quoted from section titled "Early Days In That Part Of Hardin County Which Is Now Meade County", by Daniel E. McClure Jr. "At the time Meade County was established, and county officials appointed, legal business was transacted at the little community called Little York, in the Doe Run section of the county. Squire Boone and an associate are said to have discovered the stream in 1778 and named it Doe Run, based on the large number of deer found there. Boone acquired title to the land thereabout in 1786." "About the year 1800 a large stone building was erected on Doe Run Creek and used as a mill for about a century following. Thomas Lincoln, who would be the father of President Abraham Lincoln, was at that date a young stone mason living at Elizabethtown, and is said to have worked on the Doe Run mill building, which today is likely the oldest building in the county. It was used first as a woolen mill, then as a grist mill, later it became a flour and grain mill. Today it is known as the Doe Run Inn, catering to overnight guests and serving "Southern-style food." Many valuable pieces of old furniture are on display." "While Little York was the county seat of Meade County, court sessions and other legal functions were transacted in the homes of the county officers, who lived at Little York. A few years later the county seat was moved to Brandenburg, which was incorporated in 1825. The town took its name from Captain Solomon Brandenburg, proprietor of the town. Within a short period the public officials had moved to Brandenburg and established their residence there." Source: "The History of Meade County, Kentucky 1824 - 1991", compiled by Laura Young Brown and Marie Coleman. "Most of the early communities including Wolf Creek and Concordia survive today. But many other settlements like Booneport, Meadville, Little York, Garnettsville, Stapleton and Grahamton have faded from existence, leaving behind cemeteries filled with the graves of these pioneers who struggled to tame the wilderness." "In 1778, Squire Boone, Daniel's brother, and John McKinney discovered the stream that now bears the name Doe Run. Boone claimed title to a tract of land, including the head of Doe Run Creek, in 1786. The deed was signed by Patrick Henry, then Governor of Virginia. The community was first called Little York, Va." "Postal service in what is now Meade County began on December 21, 1819, with the establishment of an office at Little York in Hardin County, Kentucky." http://www.kentuckygenealogy.org/meade/brandenburg2.htm Of the family's removal to Meade County and to Brandenburg, James Larue Fairleigh, a son of William and Elizabeth Fairleigh, leaves the following account, written July 10, 1880. "At the first courts my father was appointed clerk of each court (county and circuit) and of course had to move to the county. As young as I was, (not four years old) I remember incidents in the moving, very distinctly, the stalling of one of the wagons on the road and the arrival at Little York, the place of our destination. I remember very well Ma was troubled about the appearance of things at the hotel where we stopped, and then, the house where we were to occupy had been occupied by stock. This had to be scraped, scrubbed, washed and cleaned, but she made the best of it she could, and it was not long till things assumed a better aspect. At that day Little York was quite a village with its two grist mills, saw mill, a store or two, blacksmith and other shops. There was also quite a settlement along Doe Run of mostly Eastern people from the state of New York but they have long since, mostly, left the state.