By: William D. Patterson, Pub. 1895, reprinted 2025, 458 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-665-9. Lincoln County was created in 1760 from York County. Its land mass covered 3/5's of the state and 13 counties were later carved from it. Probate records are a wonderful source of genealogical information due to the wide variety of family members being mentioned within them. The Index mentions over 5,200 individuals.