Kate’s notes: What is curious about these records is that we have two land forfeitures in Green County recorded for a Samuel Gilleland, though they are some sixty-five years apart. Also appearing at an early date in Green County was a Thomas Gilleland, whose name appears on the “List of Letters” of the Kentucky Gazette as early as 1811.

Land records for Samuel Gilleland of Greene County, Kentucky

Published in the Kentucky Gazette, Lexington, Kentucky, on September 26th and October 3rd, 1789:

A LIST of non-residents land returned by the auditor, as lying in Greene county, and will be sold for the tax and interest due thereon, on the third Tuesday in October next, at the court-house in Greeneburgh.
(There was a very long list of names that followed, of which I have omitted all but the pertinent entry. The numbers following the name indicate the acreage involved.)
Saml. Gilleland, 469 1-2.

Published in the Daily Commonwealth, Frankfort, Kentucky, from January through March, 1854

IF the taxes, interest and cost is not paid on the lands named in the following list, the same will be forfeited to the Commonwealth of Kentucky on the 10th day of February, 1854, viz:
(There was another very long list of names that followed, of which I have omitted all but the pertinent entry. The numbers following the name indicate the acreage involved.)
No. 1031. Samuel Gilleland, 374 acres; Green county, on Casey’s creek; entered and surveyed to S. Gilleland; taxes due for 1850, ’51, ’52; amount, $1 91.*

*$1.91. Decimals were not used by the newspaper.

                                                                                             -transcriptions by Kate Maynard, 2013