Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy focuses on Tidewater counties lying north of the James River, namely, Caroline, Charles City, Elizabeth City, Essex, Gloucester, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland, Richmond, Warwick, Westmoreland, and York. Each volume is perfect bound and contains complete name indexes to the contents of all four issues. The volumes contain a variety of records such as: Bible records, lists of marriages, abstracts of deeds and wills, military records, tax records and tithables, guardianship records, parish registers, tombstone inscriptions, and methodological essays germane to the Tidewater region, including tracing Virginia ancestors, county and parish formation, records pertaining to "burned counties," vital statistics, map collections, and places of note.
This volume includes The Benefit of an Unusual Name, Charles Chester Colson Hampton; The Thomas Comes to Virginia, 1634; Emmaus Baptist Church and Second Liberty Baptist Church, Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Kent County; Civil Appointments, 1788-1798, Charles City County; Tidewater Virginians Found in Ohio Wills, James Vaughan, 1820, Charles City County, Joseph Ladd, 1814, Charles City County; Civil Appointments, 1781-1798, Gloucester County; Fairfax County Tithables, 1749; Legislative Petition, Divorce, 1836, Eubank vs. Eubank, King William County, Middlesex County Militia Muster, 1730; Land Records, 1719-1858, King and Queen; Losses Sustained from the British Depredations, 1783, Middlesex County; Counties Boundaries of the Northern Neck.
Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis
(1995), 2016, 5½x8½, paper, index, 268 pp.
ISBN: 9781585496648
101-D0664
