Table of Contents
- March Court Term 1822
- April Court Term 1822
- June 1822, the First Permanent Location of the Pike County Courthouse Advertised in the Fleming County Star.
March Court Term 1822
Be it remember that at the house of Spencer Adkins on Monday the forth day of March in the years of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two( It being the first Monday in said month of March ). * The very first records of the newly formed Pike County Court, held its very first court session inside the home of its newly appointed Clerk of the Court, Pike County; And new here at a Court held agreeable to the act of assembly establishing the County of Pike approved the nineteenth day of December one thousand Eight hundred and twenty one, at the house of Spencer Adkins on March 4th, 1822. The thirteens year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
[ Pike County Court Orders Book A, pages 1 & 2]
April Court Term 1822
Pursuant of an act of Assembly, we the undersigned Commissioners appointed by the act for said shall me at the house of Spencer Adkins, on Monday the Twenty Fifth Day of March in the year one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two, and after Exploring the County and gathering from the people of said County what information we could and making the necessary Examination we have seated the place for the County of said County in Payton Justice Bottom about one mile and a half below the Forks of the Levisa Fork of the Sandy River and the condemned one Acre of Land for the public square marked of f beginning at a white walnut stake placed by Commissioners Running forty Eight steps to a another stake in a direction towards the hill thence Running with the Calls of the bonds Executed by said Justice of the Court or their agent or the County Aforesaid we do further Certify that the said Justice has gifted by Bond to the County Court or agent Two Acres of Land together with the necessary streets and Alleys necessary for the publication of a Town and a number of inhabitants of this County Met and Consented that the County Town should be Named Liberty Given Under our hands this day and date above written.
Mason Williams
Edward Wells
William Prater
Holleway Powell
Thomas Patrick
[transcribes from Pike Count Order Book A, page 18 & 19, 1822]
June 1822, the First Permanent Location of the Pike County Courthouse Advertised in the Fleming County Star.
Pike County’s first official open court were held at the home of Spencer Adkins. The Liberty Courthouse location that was advertised in the Fleming County Star publication was built on Peyton Justice’s property located between Red Creek and Peyton’s Creek.
