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==Online Records==
*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61473/ Virginia Colonial Records, 1607-1853] at Ancestry ($).
*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48412/ English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records] at Ancestry ($).
==History==
The first permanent European settlement in Virginia was Jamestown in 1607. These settlers were called the Virginia Company of London, and in 1609 received a charter. In 1624, the Virginia Company was dissolved when it became a royal colony. French Huguenot and German settlers arrived in Virginia by the mid-18th century. Virginia was one of the originial 13 colonies of the United States.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 475. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FSC|822639|item|disp=FS Catalog book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>


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|}<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
 
==History==
The first permanant European settlement in Virginia was made in Jamestown in 1607. These settlers were called the Virginia Company of London, and in 1609 recieved a charter. In 1624, the Virginia Company was dissolved when it became a royal colony. French Huguenot and German settlers arrived in Virginia by the mid-18th century.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 475. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>


==Resources==
==Resources==
===Statewide Records===
=====Court Records=====
*''Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia: 1620-1632, 1670-1676'' by H.R. McIlwaine, (1924. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1979).
*''Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1680-1775)'' by Virginia Council, 6 Vols., (1925. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1966-1978).
*''Virginia Colonial Decisions: The Reports by Sir John Randolph and Edward Barradall of the Decisions of the General Court of Virginia, 1728-1741'' by R.T. Barton, 2 Vols., (Boston: n.p., 1909).
*''The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776'' by John Pendleton Kennedy and Henry Reed McIlwaine, 13 Vols., (1905-1915. Reprint. Richmond: VSL and Scholarly Resources, 1985).
*''Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts (1652-1879)'' by William P. Palmer, 11 Vols., (Richmond: n.p., 1875-1893).
*''The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689'' by Warren M. Billings, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975).
*''Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619'' by William Waller Hening, 13 Vols., (1819-1823. Reprint. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969).
*''The Laws of Virginia: Being a Supplement to Hening's Statutes at Large, 1700-1750'' by Waverly K. Winfree, (Richmond: VSL, 1971).
*''Personal Names in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia, and Shepherd's Continuation'' by Joseph J. Casey, (1896. Reprint. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1977).
*''Virginia Company of London, 1607-1624'' by Beverley Fleet in ''Virginia Colonial Abstracts. Series 2. Vol. 3'', (Washington, DC: L.O. Duvall, 1955).
*''An Introduction to the Records of the Virginia Company of London, with a Bibliographical List of the Extant Documents'' by Susan Myra Kingsbury, (1905. Reprint. Fort Wayne, IN: Allen County Public Library, 1990).
*''The Records of the Virginia Company of London'' by Susan Myra Kingsbury, 3 Vols., (Washington, DC: GPO, 1906-1935).
*''Colonial Records of Virginia'', (1874. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964).
=====Land Records=====
*''Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants'' by G.E. Gray, 4 Vols., (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987-1993).
*''Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants (1623-1749)'' by Nell Marion Nugent, 5 Vols., (Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., VSL, Virginia Genealogical Society, 1934, 1963, 1977-1979, 1994).
*''Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699'' by W. Stitt Robinson, (Williamsburg, VA: 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957).
=====Military Records=====
*''Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776'' by William Armstrong Crozier, (1905. Reprint. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954).
*''List of Colonial Soldiers of Virginia: Special Report of the Department of Archives and history for 1913'' by H.J. Eckenrode, (1917. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing CO., 1974).
*''Virginia's Colonial Soldiers'' by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988).


===Church Records===
== References ==
 
*{{FSC|384322|item|disp=''A Guide to Episcopal Church Records in Virginia''}} by Edith F. Axelson, (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co., 1988).
*{{FSC|73989|item|disp=''Colonial Churches in Virginia''}} by Henry Irving Brock, (Richmond: The Dale Press, 1930).
*{{FSC|72441|item|disp=''Virginia's Mother Church and the Political Conditions Under Which it Grew''}} by George MacLaren Brydon, 2 Vols., (Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1947-1952). Also available digitally on [https://archive.org/details/MN5058ucmf_0 Archive.org]
*{{FSC|1157820|item|disp=''History of the Lutheran Church in Virginia and East Tennessee''}} by C.W. Cassell, (Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing house, 1930).
*{{FSC|184374|item|disp=''A Guide to Church Records in the Archives Branch, Virginia State Library''}}'' by Jewell T. Clark, (Richmond: VSL, 1981).''
*{{FSC|521948|item|disp=''Colonial Churches: A Series of Sketches of Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia: with Pictures of Each Church''}}, (1907. Reprint. Fort Wayne, IN: Allen County Public Library, 1990).
*{{FSC|72470|item|disp=''The Colonial Church in Virginia: With Biographical Sketches of the First Six Bishops of the Diocese of Virginia, and Other Historical Papers, Together with Brief Biographical Sketches of the Colonial Clergy of Virginia''}}'' by Edward Lewis Goodwin, (Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing Co., 1927).''
*{{FSC|357215|item|disp=''A Guide to Bible Records in the Archives Branch, Virginia State Library''}} by Lyndon H. Hart, (Richmond: VSL, 1985).
*{{FSC|92828|item|disp=''Colonial Churches of Tidewater, Virginia''}} by George Carrington Mason, (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, 1945).
*{{FSC|218395|item|disp=''Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Reprinted with Digested Index and Genealogical Guide Compiled by Jennings Cropper Wise''}}'' by William Meade, 2 Vols., (1857, 1910. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966).''
*{{FSC|702792|item|disp=''The Friendly Virginians: America's First Quakers''}}'' by Jay Worrall, Jr., (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co., 1994).''
 
===Court Records===
 
*{{FSC|76799|item|disp=''Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts (1652-1879)''}} by William P. Palmer, 11 Vols., (Richmond: n.p., 1875-1893).
*{{FSC|144464|item|disp=''Colonial Records of Virginia''}}, (1874. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964). Available digitally at [https://archive.org/details/colonialrecordso00virg/page/n8 Internet Archive]
*{{FSC|76543|item|disp=''Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1680-1775)''}}'' by Virginia Council, 6 Vols., (1925. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1966-1978). ''
*{{FSC|1541409|item|disp=''The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776''}}'' by John Pendleton Kennedy and Henry Reed McIlwaine, 13 Vols., (1905-1915. Reprint. Richmond: VSL and Scholarly Resources, 1985).''
*{{FSC|526038|item|disp=''An Introduction to the Records of the Virginia Company of London, with a Bibliographical List of the Extant Documents''}} by Susan Myra Kingsbury, (1905. Reprint. Fort Wayne, IN: Allen County Public Library, 1990).
*{{FSC|210954|item|disp=''The Laws of Virginia: Being a Supplement to Hening's Statutes at Large, 1700-1750''}} by Waverly K. Winfree, (Richmond: VSL, 1971).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/196397-redirection ''Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia: 1620-1632, 1670-1676'']'' by H.R. McIlwaine, (1924. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1979). ''
*{{FSC|70602|item|disp=''The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689''}} by Warren M. Billings, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975). {{FSC|70602|item|disp=FS Catalog book 975.5 H2bi}}. {{WorldCat|77716579|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}.
*{{FSC|526112|item|disp=''Personal Names in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia, and Shepherd's Continuation''}} by Joseph J. Casey, (1896. Reprint. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1977). Available digitally on [https://archive.org/details/personalnamesinh00case_0/page/n6 Internet Archive],  [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48417 Ancestry] ($).
*{{FSC|78236|item|disp=''The Records of the Virginia Company of London''}} by Susan Myra Kingsbury, 3 Vols., (Washington, DC: GPO, 1906-1935).
*{{FSC|354123|item|disp=''Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619''}} by William Waller Hening, 13 Vols., (1819-1823. Reprint. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969).
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=Virginia%20Colonial%20Decisions%3A%20The%20Reports%20by%20Sir%20John%20Randolph%20and%20Edward%20Barradall%20of%20the%20Decisions%20of%20the%20General%20Court%20of%20Virginia ''Virginia Colonial Decisions: The Reports by Sir John Randolph and Edward Barradall of the Decisions of the General Court of Virginia, 1728-1741''']' by R.T. Barton, 2 Vols., (Boston: n.p., 1909).
*{{FSC|271533|item|disp=''Virginia Company of London, 1607-1624''}} by Beverley Fleet in ''Virginia Colonial Abstracts. Series 2. Vol. 3'', (Washington, DC: L.O. Duvall, 1955).
 
===Land Records===
 
*{{FSC|160644|item|disp=''Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants''}} by Nell Marion Nugent. (Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., VSL, Virginia Genealogical Society, 1934, 1963, 1977-1979, 1994). Online at: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005994001 Hathitrust], [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48408 Ancestry] ($).
*{{FSC|64845|item|disp=''Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699''}}'' by W. Stitt Robinson, (Williamsburg, VA: 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957).''
*{{FSC|511490|item|disp=''Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants''}} by G.E. Gray, 4 Vols., (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987-1993).
 
===Manuscript Collections===
 
*''The William Blathwayt Papers at Colonial Williamsburg, 1661-1772'', (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1989, film 1843294). The original papers in this collections are located at the PRO in Kew, Surrey, England.
 
===Military Records===
 
*{{FSC|730651|item|disp=''List of Colonial Soldiers of Virginia: Special Report of the Department of Archives and history for 1913''}} by H.J. Eckenrode, (1917. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing CO., 1974).
*{{FSC|72797|item|disp=''Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776''}} by William Armstrong Crozier, (1905. Reprint. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954). Available digitally at [https://archive.org/details/virginiacolonial00croz Internet Archive]
*''Virginia's Colonial Soldiers'' by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988). Online at: [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48434/ Ancestry] ($).
 
 
==References==


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History[edit | edit source]

The first permanant European settlement in Virginia was made in Jamestown in 1607. These settlers were called the Virginia Company of London, and in 1609 recieved a charter. In 1624, the Virginia Company was dissolved when it became a royal colony. French Huguenot and German settlers arrived in Virginia by the mid-18th century.[2]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Statewide Records[edit | edit source]

Court Records[edit | edit source]
  • Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia: 1620-1632, 1670-1676 by H.R. McIlwaine, (1924. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1979).
  • Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1680-1775) by Virginia Council, 6 Vols., (1925. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1966-1978).
  • Virginia Colonial Decisions: The Reports by Sir John Randolph and Edward Barradall of the Decisions of the General Court of Virginia, 1728-1741 by R.T. Barton, 2 Vols., (Boston: n.p., 1909).
  • The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 by John Pendleton Kennedy and Henry Reed McIlwaine, 13 Vols., (1905-1915. Reprint. Richmond: VSL and Scholarly Resources, 1985).
  • Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts (1652-1879) by William P. Palmer, 11 Vols., (Richmond: n.p., 1875-1893).
  • The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689 by Warren M. Billings, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975).
  • Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619 by William Waller Hening, 13 Vols., (1819-1823. Reprint. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969).
  • The Laws of Virginia: Being a Supplement to Hening's Statutes at Large, 1700-1750 by Waverly K. Winfree, (Richmond: VSL, 1971).
  • Personal Names in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia, and Shepherd's Continuation by Joseph J. Casey, (1896. Reprint. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1977).
  • Virginia Company of London, 1607-1624 by Beverley Fleet in Virginia Colonial Abstracts. Series 2. Vol. 3, (Washington, DC: L.O. Duvall, 1955).
  • An Introduction to the Records of the Virginia Company of London, with a Bibliographical List of the Extant Documents by Susan Myra Kingsbury, (1905. Reprint. Fort Wayne, IN: Allen County Public Library, 1990).
  • The Records of the Virginia Company of London by Susan Myra Kingsbury, 3 Vols., (Washington, DC: GPO, 1906-1935).
  • Colonial Records of Virginia, (1874. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964).
Land Records[edit | edit source]
  • Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants by G.E. Gray, 4 Vols., (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987-1993).
  • Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants (1623-1749) by Nell Marion Nugent, 5 Vols., (Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., VSL, Virginia Genealogical Society, 1934, 1963, 1977-1979, 1994).
  • Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699 by W. Stitt Robinson, (Williamsburg, VA: 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957).
Military Records[edit | edit source]
  • Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776 by William Armstrong Crozier, (1905. Reprint. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954).
  • List of Colonial Soldiers of Virginia: Special Report of the Department of Archives and history for 1913 by H.J. Eckenrode, (1917. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing CO., 1974).
  • Virginia's Colonial Soldiers by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988).

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Christina K. Schaefer, Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 183, 192. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998
  2. ↑ Christina K. Schaefer, Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 475. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998
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