{"title":"Virginia: Bath County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"101-cd1259","title":"CD-Virginia, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis CD-ROM contains electronic image reprints of the following four essential volumes of Virginia history: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMarriages of Alleghany County, Virginia: 1822-1872\u003c\/em\u003e - Carletta Lanear Nelson (1994). Alleghany County was formed in 1822 from parts of Botetourt, Bath and Monroe Counties, Virginia. This book is a list of marriage records from the Minister Returns Books, 1822-1855; Marriage Returns Book (1), 1854-1872; and various original documents. Two indices are included listing names and any important dates associated with these individuals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA History of Rockingham County, Virginia\u003c\/em\u003e - John W. Wayland, Ph.D. (1912). This comprehensive history begins with the earliest settlements in the valley and recounts the history of Rockingham County from its formation through the Reconstruction Era to the twentieth century. Includes lists of tithables in 1775, local officials, Civil War rosters, and marriage records, 1778-1820.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAnnals of Bath County, Virginia\u003c\/em\u003e - Oren F. Morton (1917). Covers the history of the county from 1791 to the time of original publication. The book recounts tales of pioneer life, Indian Wars, events during the Revolution, the Civil War and early political history. A list of marriages, a list of surnames and a roster of confederate soldiers round out this book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSouthwest Virginia and Shenandoah Valley\u003c\/em\u003e - Thomas Bruce (1891). This beautiful area of Virginia experienced very rapid development after the Civil War, putting its abundant resources to work in the name of progress. This book deals with the reasons for the area's growth from about 1870-1890. It covers southwest Virginia and begins with a history of the first settlers in the region.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeritage Books Archives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1999, CD-ROM, Graphic Images, Adobe Acrobat v6, PC or Mac, 1538 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788412592\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e101-CD1259\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39314458640502,"sku":"101-CD1259","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-cd1259.png?v=1757946280"},{"product_id":"107-vd07","title":"Bath County, Virginia 1815 Directory of Landowners","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1782, the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county and independent city an enumeration of land and certain personal property. These early land tax laws required a tax commissioner in each district of a county to record a list of the names of persons owning land or town lots, the quantity of land owned and its value, and the amount of tax owed. By 1813, a brief geographic description (usually citing an adjacent stream, road, or other landmark) was required; in 1814, the distance and direction from the courthouse for each parcel was also added to the tax rolls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe present work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in each county and independent city, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the said property. We have not included the number of acres, taxes assessed, or any transactions between landowners which may have been noted on the tax rolls; also, in many cases the geographic location was provided as \"adjacent to John Smith\", etc. and, while useful many times to a genealogist, was considered to be beyond the objectives of this project. The reader is encouraged to consider the information here-in as an \"outline\" of early landowners in Virginia rather than a \"text\" due to the year-to-year variation in information provided to the clerk (or recorded by the clerk), omissions, lack of \"identifiers\" to determine if \"same name\" was also \"same person\" within a district or across districts, marginal quality\/clarity (in a few cases) of the microfilm copy, and, not least, errors on the part of either the original clerks or the current author while transcribing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eobserve distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as \"Smith\", \"Anderson\", etc;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eidentify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edetermine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003euse the 1815 information as a \"bridge\" from the 18th and 19th century deed\/will books to the 17th and 18th century land grants\/patents in the county;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eevaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esubstitute this information for missing deed\/will books in the \"burned\" counties; and, clarify\/enhance vague deed\/will information in the counties with more complete records.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFORMAT OF PRESENTATION: Each entry is listed as: Surname, name, personal identifiers (if any); location\/place-name of land; miles\/direction from the 1815 courthouse. If multiple owners are listed for a property, the listing is duplicated under each of the owner's surnames (i.e \"Smith and Brown\" is also listed as \"Brown, --see Smith\"); when multiple owners share a common surname, the property is only listed once. When a landowner had land at more than one location\/place-name, the miles\/direction listing for each parcel is in the same sequence as the location listing (i.e. James RV, Slate CK; 12N, 5SW.). In the few cases where a landowner had \"many\" parcels, the miles\/direction notation is attached to the location listing (i.e. Sandy RV- 5NE, Willow CK-7S, etc.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger G. 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One entry alone (page 34 of original manuscript) contained 41 names. I have done my best to reproduce the text as it is written, misspellings and all. For the index, I adopted one standard spelling, as far as I could be reasonably sure that the entries referred to the same person. However, do check also other probable spellings. I am certain I have misread many names. Sorry. Quantum in me fuit!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMany of the cases were sent up from their respective county courts, but many were filed here as the court of origin. Unless agreed by the parties or dismissed by the plaintiffs, very few were settled at the first hearing. Most carried on from court to court, being continued even in spite of a jury verdict upon an appeal for a new trial. This makes the material in this volume quite repetitive. I have edited some entries, to remove the \"boilerplate' and focus on what really happened. All names have been retained, of course. Where I have omitted or abbreviated material, the summary is given in square braces. I shall give here, in the introduction, examples of the terminology which is repeated over and over.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn many cases concerning land title, fictitious names are employed, such as Aminidab Seekright and Ferdinando Dreadnought. Others are Thomas Trytitle or Henry Goodtitle against David Notitle, or Soloman Saveall against Simpleton Spendall. As the case progressed, some individual would petition to be named the defendant in the case \"in the room' of the said Dreadnought or Spendall. If no one appeared to defend the case, the court would respond in this fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Wagner Treacy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019, paper\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-ADCR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29979698200694,"sku":"107-ADCR","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-adcr.png?v=1727805307"},{"product_id":"107-bath10","title":"Bath County, Virginia 1810 Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first surviving census for Bath County, Virginia, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. The transcription is in the order in which the enumerator took his census. Thus, neighbors appear together and this will assist the genealogist. Bath was a county on the western edge of Virginia's Piedmont with the Alleghany Front as its western boundary. This and other 1810 censuses are transcribed by the author from the original images, and while many of Virginia's censuses are available online, they oftentimes are replete with misreadings. Caveat emptor!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Vogt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2013, 8.5\" x 11\", Paper, Index, 27 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e107-BATH10\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30324306083958,"sku":"107-BATH10","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-bath10.png?v=1755621062"},{"product_id":"107-vdl5","title":"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Volume 5: Southwestern Region","description":"\u003cp\u003eIncludes the counties of Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Giles, Grayson, Greenbrier (West Virginia), independent city of Staunton, Lee, Monroe (West Virginia), Montgomery, Pendleton (West Virginia), Rockbridge, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, Washington, and Wythe. This work is the fifth volume in a continuing project to record all 1815 landowners found in each county, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the property.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLinks to all 6 volumes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl1\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 1: Central Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 1: Central Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl2\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 2: South Central Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 2: South Central Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl3\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 3: Eastern Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 3: Eastern Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 4: Northern Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl4\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 4: Northern Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 5: Western Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl5\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 5: Western Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 6: Northwest Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl6\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 6: Northwest Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger G. Ward\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2000, 8.5\" x 11\", indices, maps, viii+ 240 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-VDL5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31791931588726,"sku":"107-VDL5","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-vdl5.png?v=1727805636"},{"product_id":"603-es4","title":"Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865: Volume 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eIndex of all Virginia estate-related records found in will books and other collections, typically on microfilm. Volume 4 covers the Counties of Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Botetourt, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Highland, Nelson, and Rockbridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis ten-volume set has been completed geographically. Funding for this series has been made possible in part by a grant from the Richard Slatten Endowment for Virginia History of The Community Foundation in memory of Richard Slatten, a former President of the Virginia Genealogical Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWesley E. 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Of greatest genealogical import are the chapters devoted to the names of heads of families in Bath in 1782, early marriage records, a roster of Confederate soldiers, and a list of families in Greater Bath.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOren F. Morton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1917), 2003, paper, 208 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806346427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9260\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39481943392374,"sku":"102-9260","price":34.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9260.png?v=1727806655"},{"product_id":"102-9122","title":"Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County, Virginia: Will Books 1-4, 1791-1842","description":"\u003cp\u003eBath County, in western Virginia, was formed from Augusta, Botetourt, and Greenbrier counties in 1791. It is itself the parent county for part of Alleghany County, Virginia, and Pocahontas County, West Virginia. This work consists of genealogical abstracts of the oldest surviving wills and inventories for Bath County-but that's not all. Interspersed with the inheritance records are abstracts of bonds, powers of attorney, estate settlements, articles of agreement, and other records of genealogical import. In general the will abstracts furnish the name of the testator, his county of residence, the names of witnesses and executors, the date of probate, and the names and relationships to the testator of the heirs to the will. All told, nearly 15,000 early residents of Bath County appear in these pages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean R. 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Funding for this series has been made possible in part by a grant from the Richard Slatten Endowment for Virginia History of The Community Foundation in memory of Richard Slatten, a former President of the Virginia Genealogical Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWesley E. Pippenger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2003), 2022, paper, 700 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781888192537\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e603-ES4P\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Genealogical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40124346957942,"sku":"603-ES4P","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/603-es4p.png?v=1727812912"},{"product_id":"101e-va0677","title":"1840 Bath County, Virginia Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eBath County, located on the border with West Virginia and yet part of the Shenandoah Valley, was created in 1791. It was named after the famous resort town of Bath England, due to the many 'hot springs' found in this area which developed into a resort area for the state of Virginia. This 1840 census transcribes both pages of the official census. On the first page we find the names of the head of the households, inhabitants of the household given by age\/sex and then the freed color persons. The second page contains the occupations, pensioners names and ages, personal data like blind, deaf etc. and the type and size of the various schools. In many cases, the items is given a \"paid by private fund or by public funds\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames L. 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As the historian and archivist Robert Clay once remarked in a lecture, an individual he was researching in Virginia’s frontier region \"appeared in a random document one morning, fully grown, and disappeared the following morning never to be heard from again.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOftentimes, early frontiersmen created few records and left little trace of their passing. Nowhere is this more evident than in the rapidly changing frontier west of the Blue Ridge. Starting with a trickle of settlers, there probably were no more than 160 families residing west of the mountains by 1735. By 1776 and the American Revolution, the number of settlers had grown to tens of thousands, attracted by the rich soils and pasture lands of the Shenandoah Valley and beyond, into Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the new government sought to bring order to the region, parent counties like Augusta and Lunenburg, which originally were little more than artificial lines when first drawn by surveyors in the wilderness, underwent division and subdivision into smaller political units to accomodate the new settlers. The trio of counties on Virginia’s frontier in the early 1740s [Frederick, Augusta, Lunenburg] would be divided and further subdivided over the next seven decades into more than sixty political units.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Karen Treacy has discovered an enlightening and unexpected record in the bounty system for wolf hunters. Early farmers and herders sought legislative relief from the scourge of wolf packs. The Virginia legislature responded by establishing the bounty system. In a time when an average laborer’s earning was $6-10\/month, the $1 to $6 or 100# tobacco from a wolf scalp (depending on the currency and inflation of the time) was an attractive economic draw for every class of frontiersman, even those constantly moving folk mentioned by Clay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is an important record not only for the two and a half thousand individuals cited but also for a valuable historical window into the activities and growth of Virginia’s frontier society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Wagner Teacy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2025, 8.5\" x 11, paper, index, 169 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-WOLF\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42422935847030,"sku":"107-WOLF","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-wolf.png?v=1755622255"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/virginia-bath-county\/united-states+virginia-grayson-county.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}