Virginia Colonial Abstracts


Book Description

"In this reprint edition the contents [of the original 34 volumes] have been rearranged, re-typed, and consolidated in three hardcover volumes, each with its own master index."--Title page verso.










Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Abstracts 1695-1697


Book Description

Deed and will books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, estate settlements, and more. Deed and will books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from Essex County Deed and Will Book Part I, 1695-1699, February 10, 1695, through November 22, 1697. Originally published in 1991, reprinted 2016.




Records of Colonial Goucester County, Virginia


Book Description

The middle chapters of this book are given over to Wilkes County genealogy and biography, with chapters on the buyers and sellers of lots and the early settlers of the county. The work as a whole is crowded with references to ministers, officials, teachers, and soldiers, so much so that an index of more than 2,000 entries was created by Mrs. Hays to encompass them.




Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 1753-1754 and Will


Book Description

Deed and will books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, estate settlements, and more. Deed and will books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from Essex County Deed Book 25, 1753-1754, pages 334-445 from June 12, 1753, through May 21, 1754; and Will Book 1748-1750, pages 383-430 from December 18, 1750, through March 19, 1750. (2004), 2016.




Wills of Rappahannock County, Virginia 1656-1692


Book Description

Mr. Webb's Sussex County directory is divided into three parts. The first part, comprising fully half the book, gives a historical overview of Sussex County, eminent Sussex pioneers, the establishment of the county courthouse, and so forth. The historical narrative then moves on to each of the county's fourteen townships from Andover through Wantage, delineating milestones, landmarks, and famous episodes in the lives of the townships. Part 2 constitutes the directory itself, which is arranged by township and lists the name of each freeholder, with his village, living in Sussex County at the time of the volume's original publication in 1872. In all, some 5,000 freeholders can be found in the directory.







Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Abstracts 1701-1703


Book Description

Deed and will books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, estate settlements, and more. Deed and will books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from Essex County Deed & Will Book 1701-1703, March 10. 1700/1 through March 1703/4. Originally published in 1991, reprinted 2016.




Essex County, Virginia Deed and Will Abstracts 1697-1699


Book Description

Deed and will books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, estate settlements, and more. Deed and will books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from Essex County Deed and Will Book 1695-1699, November 22, 1697, through June 21, 1699. Originally published in 1991, reprinted 2016.