{"title":"Virginia: Grayson County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"107-grob1","title":"Grayson County, Virginia Order Book 1, 1793-1794","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author's Foreword: \"This book is interesting for those wishing to observe how a county was set up and organized. We have the initial organizational meeting, followed by appointment of county officers. We see how the militia was organized, and how the road surveyors were appointed. Elections were ordered for the overseers of the poor. A site was selected for the Courthouse, and the Court duly moved into in on July 22nd 1794. There were some dealings with other counties. There are a few lawsuits, but not as many as I have seen in other counties. There were only four jury trials in the seventeen months, all for lawsuits. Few crimes against the Commonwealth were reported, and only a few called courts for small-scale theft. There are many reasons a person's name appears in this document. Some are the principal men in the community. Some are representative landowners or householders, shown as grand jurors or petit jurors. Some appear in lawsuits. Some are described geographically when road surveys are located. Very few are women, and they only appear as wives, widows, and fornicators: this was not a time and place when women displayed a public and independent existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Wagner Treacy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2017, 8.5\" x 11\", Paper, index, 30 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e107-GROB1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30292093567094,"sku":"107-GROB1","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-grob1.png?v=1760653957"},{"product_id":"107-gypp","title":"Grayson County, Virginia 1810 Substitute Census","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbstracts from the 1810 Personal Property Tax List\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrayson is one of eighteen Virginia counties for which the 1810 census is lost. In August, 1814 British troops occupied Washington, DC and public buildings were put to the torch. In the destruction that followed, numerous early records of the government were lost, including all of Virginia's 1790 and 1800 census reports, as well as eighteen county lists for the state's most recent [1810] federal census. Although two \"fair copies\" of each county's census had been left in the counties for public display, these were ephemeral lists and not preserved, and by 1814 they too had been mislaid, lost, or destroyed. Hence, the closest document available we have to reconstruct a partial image of the missing county lists is the personal property tax list.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Vogt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2011, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 12 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-GYPP\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30292101988470,"sku":"107-GYPP","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-gypp.png?v=1727805454"},{"product_id":"107-vd33","title":"Grayson 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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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. 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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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWesley E. Pippenger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2002, 6\" x 9\", cloth, xxxvi + 683 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781888192322\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e603-ES3\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Genealogical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31869345857654,"sku":"603-ES3","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/products\/603-es3.png?v=1763749315"},{"product_id":"102-4215","title":"Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrayson County, Virginia is situated just north of the convergence of the North Carolina and Tennessee borders. It is famous in southwestern Virginia as the cradle of the New River settlements-perhaps the first settlements beyond the Alleghanies. The Nuckolls book is equally famous for its genealogies of the pioneer settlers of the county. Ranging from the eighteenth through the nineteenth century, and into the twentieth, and encompassing, on average, as many as a half-dozen generations in each line, the genealogies typically provide the names of the progenitors of the Grayson County line and dates and places of migration and settlement, and then, in fluid progression, the names of all offspring in the direct and sometimes collateral lines of descent. Altogether somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 persons are named in the genealogies and indexed for ready reference. The following is a selection merely of some of the most prominent names dealt with: Blair, Bourne, Bryant, Cooley, Cornett, Cox, Dickenson, Dickey, Fulton, Garland, Goodykoontz, Hale, Jones, LeSeuer, Lundy, McCamant, Moore, Nuckolls, Osborne, Perkins, Phipps, Phlegar, Reeves, Skinner, Stanton, Swift, Thomas, Vaughn, Ward, Whitman, and Worrell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScattered throughout the genealogies are interesting items of history and tradition, as well as a number of photographic portraits and views. Researchers should also note that this reprint contains a new comprehensive index of names prepared expressly for this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Floyd Nuckolls\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1914), 2007, paper, 237 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806306407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-4215\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39403046862966,"sku":"102-4215","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-4215.png?v=1727806218"},{"product_id":"101e-va0178","title":"Grayson County, Virginia Will Book 1, 1796-1839","description":"\u003cp\u003eA complete abstract of records.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames L. 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This is not a true census but is taken from a tax list of the time period which list only the names of the white tithables, slaves over 12 years of age and the number of horses in the household.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 12 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788492198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101E-VA0585\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41534931796086,"sku":"101E-VA0585","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101e-va0585-1.png?v=1755621252"},{"product_id":"101e-va0637","title":"1840 Grayson County, Virginia Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrayson County, located in the Mountain Empire region of Virginia, is one of the older counties in the section. This 1840 census gives only the names of the head of the households, but there is so much more to be found here. The residents in the household are given by sex\/age ranges, freed colored are show in the same way. Then on page two of the census is found the occupations, the name and age of those pensioners from the American Revolution or the War of 1812 as well as some personal data like blindness, deafness, etc. Then last but not least, if the head of the household or someone in that house is a teacher, the type of school and the number of scholars are shown.\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. 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