Nansemond County, Virginia Genealogy
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Nansemond County, Virginia genealogy and family history research page. Guide to Nansemond County (established 1637) genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, Revolutionary War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.
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| Founded | 1637 |
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County Courthouse
Because the county is extinct, there is no existing Nansemond County Courthouse. Records are held at the Independent City Courthouse in Suffolk.
| Birth | Marriage | Death | Census | Land | Probate |
| 1853 | 1853 | 1853 | 1820 | 1868 | 1866 |
History
The county was named after a local Indian tribe. The county is now extinct.
Parent County
Established in 1637 as Upper Norfolk County and the name Nansemond was adopted in 1646. It became the independent city of Nansemond in 1972 and merged with the independent city of Suffolk in 1974. The entire area is now known as Suffolk.
- County Seat: Suffolk
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
- Lost censuses: 1790, 1800, 1810, 1890
Visit the Library of Virginia's website to determine exactly what records have been lost and their Lost Records Localities Database to find additional resources.
For suggestions about research in places that suffered historic record losses, see:
- Burned Counties. By Michael John Neill at 24-7 Family History Circle.
- When the Records are Gone. By Arlene Eakle at Arlene Eakle's Tennessee Blog.
- Burned Counties Research in the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
- List of counties in the United States with Record Loss
Places/Localities
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
Resources
Getting Started
Finding records about historic Nansemond County on the FamilySearch Catalog can be confusing. Most appear under the Place Search "Suffolk (Independent City), Virginia."
Research Guides
African American
From 1790 to 1860, Nansemond County had one of the largest free colored populations in the state (480 in 1790; 2480 in 1860).[2]
- Fouts, Raymond Parker. Registration of Slaves to Work in the Great Dismal Swamp, Gates County, North Carolina, 1847-1861. Cocoa, Fla.: GenRec Books, 1995. The majority of these workers (which included free people of color and Native Americans) came from Nansemond County, Virginia.[3]
- Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware. 2005-present. - free online book. Documents the Alman, Ashe, Boon, Bowser, Burkett, Churchwell, Copeland, Curtis, Davis, Demery, Elliott, Elmore, Milton, Newby, Parker, Pierce, Powell, Pugh, Read, Reynolds, Robinson, Shepherd, Teamer, Young of pre-1820 Nansemond County.
- Search the Library of Virginia's Virginia Untold collection for digitized records related to African Americans of Nansemond County.
Bible Records
Images of the Virginia Historical Society's family Bible collection have been digitized:
- Bible Records of Suffolk & Nansemond County, Virginia: Together With Other .... By Fillmore Norfleet. Online at Ancestry ($).
Cemeteries
Census
For tips on accessing Nansemond County, Virginia Genealogy census records online, see: Virginia Census.
| Historical populations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± |
| 1790 | 9,010 | — |
| 1800 | 11,127 | 23.5% |
| 1810 | 10,324 | −7.2% |
| 1820 | 10,494 | 1.6% |
| 1830 | 11,784 | 12.3% |
| 1840 | 10,795 | −8.4% |
| 1850 | 12,283 | 13.8% |
| 1860 | 13,693 | 11.5% |
| 1870 | 11,576 | −15.5% |
| 1880 | 15,903 | 37.4% |
| 1890 | 19,692 | 23.8% |
| 1900 | 23,078 | 17.2% |
| 1910 | 26,886 | 16.5% |
| 1920 | 20,199 | −24.9% |
| 1930 | 22,530 | 11.5% |
| 1940 | 22,771 | 1.1% |
| 1950 | 25,238 | 10.8% |
| 1960 | 31,366 | 24.3% |
| 1970 | 35,166 | 12.1% |
| Source: "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. | ||
1783 Enumeration
- Nansemond County Heads of Families - 1783 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 56.
1784 Enumeration
- Nansemond County Heads of Families - 1784 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 72.
1785 Enumeration
- Nansemond County Heads of Families - 1785 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 92.
1790 - Lost, but a substitute is available, see Taxation.
1800 - Lost, but a substitute is available, see Taxation.
1810 - Lost, but a substitute is available, see Taxation.
1890 Union Veterans
- Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. FS Library Collection. Online at: Ancestry ($).
Church
List of Churches and Church Parishes
Baptist
Early Baptist churches (with years constituted):
- Shoulder's Hill (1785)Robert Baylor Semple and George William Beale, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia (1810; reprint, Richmond, Va.: Pitt and Dickinson, 1894), 442-443. Online at FamilySearch Digital Library, Internet Archive.
- Western Branch (1779)
- South Quay. Birth records (1758-1799) were published in the Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan. 1968), which is available online at Ancestry ($). An early membership list (no date) was published in the Portsmouth Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jul. 1997) FS Library Book 975.5522 D25n v. 5-10 (1993-1999).
- 1776 Petition of Baptists (10,000 names!) and sympathizers from all over Virginia, dated 16 October 1776, asking for an end to persecution of Baptists by the established church. After locating your ancestor, view the digital copies.
– Digital copies at Library of Congress; also at Library of Virginia
– Hall, Jean Pickett. "Legislative Petitions: the 10,000 name petition" transcription in the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vols. 35-38, with annotations in Vol. 39, (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1983-) online at Ancestry ($) and in book form at various libraries.
Nansemond County fell within the bounds of the Portsmouth Association.
Christian
- College of William and Mary. Earl Gregg Swem Library and Liberty Spring Christian Church. County Collections: Nansemond County. MSS., Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia; also available at FS Library. List of members (no date, 2 p.) from the Historical Sketch of Liberty Spring Christian Church, 1869-1931.
Church of England
Also known as Anglican and Protestant Episcopal.
Colonial Parishes[4]
| Chuckatuck | South |
| East | Suffolk |
| Elizabeth River | Upper |
| Lower | Upper Suffolk |
| Lower Suffolk | West |
Meade's 1861 history of parishes in Nansemond County is available online.[5]
- Hall, Wilmer Lee. The Vestry Book of the Upper Parish, Nansemond County, Virginia, 1743 - 1793. Richmond [Virginia]: Commonwealth of Virginia, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1949. Available at FS Library US/CAN Book 975.553 K2h and US/CAN Film 973095 Item 2. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- Hopkins, William Lindsay. Suffolk Parish Vestry Book, 1749-1784, Nansemond County, Virginia, and Newport Parish Vestry Book, 1724-1772, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: W.L. Hopkins, 1988. Available at FS Library.
- Mason, George Carrington. Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1945. Available at FS Library; digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
Quaker
Early monthly meetings (with years of existence):
- Chuckatuck Monthly Meeting, Suffolk, Va. (begun 1672). Later names: Western Branch Monthly Meeting and Somerton Monthly Meeting. The Library of Virginia holds records from this meeting (1678-1755). Microfilm copy: FS Library Film 30825. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania also holds records (1651-1755). Microfilm copy: FS Library Film 441485 Item 1. Minutes and a register (1651-1754, 1767-1771) have been published: FS Library Book 975.5 K2qu.[6] Hinshaw also published the early records: FS Library Book 973 D2he 1993 v. 6.[7]
- Chuckatuck Meeting of Quakers (1722-1788) List of Quaker Women Virginia Pioneers ($)
- Lower Virginia Monthly Meeting (by 1673). Early records (1673-1756) have been published: FS Library Film 850091 Item 9.
- Murdaugh's Monthly Meeting, Suffolk, Va. (1710-1766) aka Marshy Creek[8]
- Nansemond Monthly Meeting (1677-1730) aka Southern Branch
- Pagan Creek Meeting of Quakers (1722-1788) List of Quaker Women Virginia Pioneers ($)
- Western Branch Meeting of Quakers (1722-1788) List of Quaker Women Virginia Pioneers ($)
- White, Miles. "Early Quaker Records in Virginia," Publications of the Southern History Association, Vol. 6, No. 3 (May 1902):220-231; Vol. 6, No. 4 (Jul. 1902):304-313; Vol. 7, No. 1 (May 1903):17-24; Vol. 7, No. 2 (Mar. 1903):96-105; Vol. 7, No. 3 (May 1903):207-213. Digitized by Internet Archive - free. Reprint: FS Library Book 975.5 A1 no. 82.
Court
- Nansemond County Fee Book (abstracts) 1789 to 1800 Virginia Pioneers
- Library of Virginia's Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index can be used to search Nansemond County chancery records for the years 1866-1944. Digital images are available for 1866-1933. Indexed information and original images available through 1944 - see online catalog or contact Archives Research Services for availability.
- Post-1913 chancery records may be available from the Circuit Court Clerk's Office.
Genealogy
More than 275 genealogies have been published about Nansemond County families. To view a list, visit Nansemond County, Virginia Genealogy.
History
- Dunn, Joseph Bragg. The History of Nansemond County, Virginia. 1907. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
Immigration
Suffolk has been a port since colonial times. Unfortunately, no official passenger lists survive for the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.
Headright grants identify many Nansemond County, Virginia Genealogy immigrants who arrived before 1720.[9] The Virginia Immigration article provides tips about using this source.
Additional resources include:
- Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of Nansemond River and Nansemond County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]
- List of imported servants and transported convicts from Europe who served labor terms in Colonial Virginia are online at: Immigrant Servants Database.
Land
- 1704 - Quit Rents at Virginia Pioneers ($)
Grants and Patents
Land patents (pre-1779), land grants (after 1779) and surveys are available online at the Library of Virginia website. For step-by-step instructions on retrieving these records, read the Virginia Land and Property article.
- Hudgins. 882 patents dated 1638-1749 in what is now Suffolk City (previously Nansemond County), Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper, 2003. [Names of those who received land patents, dates, land descriptions, and references may be viewed free of charge (click "Index" next to the county listing); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's DeedMapper product.]
- Joyner, Ulysses P. They Crossed the Blackwater: The First Settlers of Southhampton County Virginia. Orange, Virginia: U.P. Joyner, c2001/2003. Available at FS Library. [Index to land patents (1700-1749) south of the Blackwater River in that part of Nansemond County added to Southampton in 1786.]
- Nugent, Nell Marion. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666. Vol. I (1934; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991). Available at FS Library; online at: Hathitrust, Ancestry ($). Includes Nansemond County.
Local Histories
Maps
- FamilySearch Places: Cities and Towns in this county - How to Use FS Places
Migration
Early migration routes to and from Nansemond County for European settlers included:[10]
- Atlantic Ocean
- King's Highway about 1704
- Secondary Coast Road late 1730s
Military
Colonial Militia
- Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FS Library. Online at: Ancestry ($). Identifies some Nansemond County militia officers and/or soldiers; see place name index.
- Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at FS Library; digital book at Ancestry ($). Identifies some Nansemond County militia officers; see place name index.
French and Indian War
- Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FS Library. Online at: Ancestry ($). Identifies some Nansemond County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.
- Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. Available at FS Library; online at Internet Archive. Includes a chapter titled "Legislative Enactments connecting the preceding historic sketch (French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War) with the adjudication of the resulting accounts that follow; with the list of officers, soldiers and civilians entitled to compensation for military and other services rendered." For Nansemond County, see pp. 95, 112.
- Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at FS Library; digital book at Ancestry ($). Identifies some Nansemond County militia officers; see place name index.
Revolutionary War
Regiments. Service men in Nansemond County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Nansemond County supplied soldiers for the:
- - 4th Virginia Regiment (10th Company)[11]
- - 15th Virginia Regiment (1st Company)[12]
Additional resources:
The British burned Suffolk during the Revolutionary War.[13]
- A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841. Online at FamilySearch Digital Library, Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). 1967 reprint: FS Catalog Collection 973 X2pc 1840. See Virginia, Eastern District, Nansemond County on page 132.
- Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." FS Library Book 973 M24ur; digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.
War of 1812
Nansemond County men served in the 59th Regiment.[14]
- List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. FS Catalog Collection 973 M2Lp v. 5; online at Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). See Vol. 5, Virginia, Nansemond County, p. 91. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.
Civil War
Regiments. Service men in Nansemond County, Virginia Genealogy served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Nansemond County, Virginia Genealogy:
- - 3rd Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company F (Nansemond Rangers).[15]
- - 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (12 months, 1861-62) (Mullins') (Confederate).[16]
- - 13th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (12th Months, 1861-62) (Confederate). Company C (Randolph's Dragoons) and Company I (The Nansemond Cavalry).[17]
Native Americans
The Nansemond Tribe lived in the area in the late 1600s.[18]
- Bell, Albert D. Nansemond Indian Ancestry of Bass Familes. 1961?. Available at FS Library.
- Egloff, Keith and Deborah Woodward. First People: The Early Indians of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Department of Historic Resources, 1992. Available at FS Library. [History concerning the Indian tribes in Virginia, notably the Mattaponi, Chickahominy, Monacan, Nansemond, Pamunjey and Rappahannock.]
- Floyd, Donald. The Elusive Floyds: And Many More Related Families Including - Bagley, Bass, Basse, Bushier, Clerke, Goodson, Griggs, Jordan, Justice, Ledbetter, Lister, Nansemond Indian, Pritchett, Sandiford, Strickland. Griffin, Georgia: D. Floyd, 2006?. Available at FS Library.
- Fouts, Raymond Parker. Registration of Slaves to Work in the Great Dismal Swamp, Gates County, North Carolina, 1847-1861. Cocoa, Fla.: GenRec Books, 1995. The majority of these workers (which included free people of color and Native Americans) came from Nansemond County, Virginia.
- Houck, Peter W. Indian Island in Amherst County (Virginia). Progress Printing Co., Inc., 1984. Available at FS Library.
Newspapers
Private Papers
- Norfleet, Fillmore. Bible Records of Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia: Together with Other Statistical Data. Baltimore, MD: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co., 1996, 2001. Available at FS Library. Digital versions at Ancestry ($).
- [Campbell] Family Bible Record of Robert and Mary Campbell. MSS., Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight Library in Smithfield, Virginia. Available at FS Library.
- [Langley] Hargroves, Abigail Langley Granbery, Julian Hastings Granbery, and Alice Granbery Walter. The Journal of Abigail Langley of Nansemond County, Virginia: So-called in the Family, but Properly "John Granbery, Junior, His Book, 1708." [Virginia Beach, Virginia : A.G. Walter, 1963?]. Available at FS Library.
- [Lawrence] Family Bible Records of George Lawrence. MSS., Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight Library in Smithfield, Virginia. Available at FS Library.
- [Scull] Scull: Bible Records Transcript, 1755-1835. MSS., available at FS Library.
Probate
Local Court
- Hopkins, William Lindsay. Some Wills from the Burned Counties of Virginia and Other Wills Not Listed in Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800. Richmond, Virginia: W.L. Hopkins, 1987. Available at FS Library. [Includes Nansemond County.]
- 1676-1824 - Images of (recovered wills) refiled in Will Bk 1909-1919) at Virginia Pioneers ($)
- 1722-1788 - Deeds at Virginia Pioneers ($).
- 1789-1800 - Fee Books at Virginia Pioneers ($).
- 1863-1865 - Images of Fiduciary Settlements (Orphans), Bk O, at Virginia Pioneers ($).
- 1866-1872 - Images of Wills at Virginia Pioneers ($).
- 1909-1919 - Images of Wills at Virginia Pioneers ($)
London Courts
- Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of Nansemond River and Nansemond County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]
- Will of James Montgomery, "of James River in Nantzimum in the Island of Virginia," dated 25 August 1697, proved 24 December 1697, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Pyne, 290, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 39 (1885):333-334. Online at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
North Carolina Courts
- Livingston, Virginia Pope. "Some Virginia Wills Recorded in North Carolina," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1967):30-34. Available at FS Library; digital version at New England Ancestors by NEHGS ($). Includes abstracts of wills of the following Nansemond County testators: John Lear (dated 1695), John Hamilton (dated 1706/7), and Rev. John McKinzie (dated 1754).
Taxation
How can Virginia tax lists help me?
- 1704 "Virginia Quit Rent Rolls, 1704," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 28 (1920):207-218, 328-339; Vol. 29 (1921):18-28, 337-343, 402-412; Vol. 30 (1922):21-30, 280-285, 341-347; Vol. 31 (1923):70-75, 153-163, 215-231, 314-318; Vol. 32 (1924):69-75, 144-158, 281-287, 338-343; Vol. 33 (1925):47-50, 359-370; Vol. 34 (1926):113-119, 252-258, 313, 321. FS Catalog 975.5 B2v v. 29 (1921); reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983. FS Catalog 975.5 R4v; digital version of VMHB at JSTOR ($). Nansemond County appears in 29:402-412.
- 1782-1861 Land Tax Lists of Nansemond County [Suffolk, Virginia] 1782-1861. FS Library films 29950-29953 - images.
- 1815-1925 Personal Property Tax List. Available on microfilm at Library of Virginia.
- 1785 Insolvents, 1785, Southside Virginian, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jul. 1988); Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct. 1998). FS Catalog 975.5 D25s v. 6 (1988); available online.
- 1786-1788 Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 & 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 & Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle & Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. FS Catalog 975.5 R4sn v. 2. Source for this publication are the 1787/88 land tax lists, three petitions dated 1786/87, and the 1786 insolvent list. Nansemond County is included in Vol. 2.
- 1786 Residents on Southampton Co. Land Tax List, 1786, Southside Virginian, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Jan. 1984). FS Catalog 975.5 D25s v. 1-2 (1982-1983); available online.
- 1800 Tax List, 1800, Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jul. 1999); Vol. 43, No. 4 (Oct. 1999). FS Catalog 975.5 B2vg v. 43 (1999)
- 1810 Schreiner-Yates, Netti. A Supplement to the 1810 Census of Virginia: Tax Lists of the Counties for which the Census is Missing. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1971. FS Catalog 975.5 R4s. The source for this publication is the 1810 personal property tax list. Nansemond County is included because the 1810 Census for that county has been destroyed.
- 1810, 1815 Schreiner-Yantis, Netti. Nansemond County, Virginia, 1815 Tax List. FS Catalog 975.553 R4s. The source for this publication is the 1815 personal property tax list; includes 1810 land tax list.
- 1815 Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. FS Catalog 975 E4w v. 3. The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax list. Nansemond County is included in Vol. 3.
Vital Records
Marriage
- 1660-1800 Virginia Marriages 1660-1800 (Ancestry) ($).
- 1740-1850 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (Ancestry) ($).
- 1783-1877 - Nansemond Marriages in Gates County, North Carolina at Virginia Pioneers ($).
Vital Record Substitutes
The Virginia Historical Society's Marriage and Obituary Index, 1736-1820 (newspaper abstracts) is available at FamilySearch. Images of the original index cards are browseable, arranged alphabetically by surname.
- Norfleet, Fillmore. Bible Records of Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia: Together with Other Statistical Data. Baltimore, MD: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co., 1996, 2001. Available at FS Library. Digital version at Ancestry($).
Societies and Libraries
FamilySearch Centers
FamilySearch Center and Affiliate Library Locator map - search for local FamilySearch Centers or Affiliate Libraries
- FamilySearch Centers provide one-on-one assistance, free access to center-only databases, and to premium genealogical websites.
- FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries have access to most center-only databases, but may not always have full services normally provided by a FamilySearch center.
Local Centers and Affiliate Libraries
Websites
- Nansemond County, VAGenWeb - free genealogy resources; part of the USGenWeb Project
- FamilySearch Catalog
- Glebe Church Marker, Suffolk, Va., The Historical Marker Database
- Cyndi's List
- Virginia Pioneers
References
- ↑ Lost Records Localities: Counties and Cities with Missing Records, 3, in Library of Virginia (accessed 4 April 2014).
- ↑ Ninth Census of the United States: Statistics of Population, Tables I to VIII Inclusive (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872), 70. Digital version at Internet Archive; FS Library Book 973 X2pcu.
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, "Review of Registration of Slaves to Work in the Great Dismal Swamp, Gates County, North Carolina, 1847-1861," in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1995):227-237.
- ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," Virginia GenWeb, https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~grannyapple/genealogy/HANCOCK/VA%20Colonial%20Parishes.html, accessed 3 February 2010.
- ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.
- ↑ Martha A. Putnam, Quaker Records of Southeast Virginia (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1996). FS Library Book 975.5 K2qu.
- ↑ William Wade Hinshaw, Thomas W. Marshall and John Cox, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Bros., 1950). Vol. 6. FS Library film 432606.
- ↑ Jay Worrall, The Friendly Virginians: America's First Quakers (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Company, 1994), 537-539. FS Library Book 975.5 K2wj.
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, "Review of Cavaliers and Pioneers," in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1980):221. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FS Library Book 975.5 B2vg v. 24 (1980)
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 847-61. (FS Library Book 973 D27e 2002) WorldCat entry., and William E. Myer, Indian Trails of the Southeast. (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 12-14, and the book's pocket map "The Trail System of the Southeastern United States in the early Colonial Period" (1923). (FS Library Book 970.1 M992i) WorldCat entry.
- ↑ E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra, A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787 (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1978), 43. FS Library Book 975.5 M2s.
- ↑ E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra, A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787 (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1978), 72. FS Library Book 975.5 M2s.
- ↑ David Lee Russell, The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies (McFarland, 2000), 127-128.
- ↑ Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812 (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1988), 146. FS Library Book 975.5 M2bs.
- ↑ Lee A. Wallace, 3rd Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, c1986). FS Library Book 975.5 M2vr v. 22.
- ↑ Robert J. Driver, 5th Virginia Cavalry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1997). FS Library Book 975.5 M2vr v. 127.
- ↑ Daniel T. Balfour, 13th Virginia Cavalry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, c1986). FS Library Book 975.5 M2vr v. 26.
- ↑ Charles Campbell, History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia (Philadelphia, Pa.: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1860), 267-268. Digitized by Internet Archive.