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About 1636 that portion of Elizabeth City County, lying on the south side of the James River, was formed into New Norfolk County. About 1637 New Norfolk County was divided into Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk Counties; Upper Norfolk County later became Nansemond County, and in 1691 Lower Norfolk was divided into Princess Anne County and Norfolk County.\" A list of wills (1637-1710), an index to full names and an index to places augment the text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Fleming McIntosh\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1914, 1997), 2009, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 226 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585492640\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-M0264\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39163973712,"sku":"101-M0264","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-m0264.png?v=1727798059"},{"product_id":"101-m0265","title":"Brief Abstracts of Norfolk County [Virginia] Wills, 1710-1753","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbstracts of early wills, lists all names included in the original will.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Fleming McIntosh\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1922), 2000, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 347 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585492657\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-M0265\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41320405904,"sku":"101-M0265","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-m0265.png?v=1727799416"},{"product_id":"101e-va0750","title":"1704 Norfolk County, Virginia Quit Rent List","description":"\u003cp\u003eContinues the series.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(?), 2017, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, surnames grouped by first letter, 16 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788480102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101E-VA0750\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":22666425892982,"sku":"101E-VA0750","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101e-va0750.png?v=1727719343"},{"product_id":"107-norf10","title":"Norfolk County, Virginia 1810 Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first surviving census for Norfolk County, Virginia, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. A complete index is included for easy access.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNorfolk County has been occupied since the early seventeenth century, and it has formed the basis for numerous population centers which have been subdivided from it. In 1810, the county alone [not including the borough of Norfolk, which was \u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-nrbo10\" title=\"Independent Borough of Norfolk, Virginia 1810 Census\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eenumerated separately\u003c\/a\u003e] possessed more than 1,500 families with a total population exceeding 16,000. This document should be a fine complement to the abstract of Roger Ward on \u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vd73\" title=\"Norfolk County, Virginia 1815 Directory of Landowners\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eland taxes in the county\u003c\/a\u003e. 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Though brief, these abstracts are sufficiently full to convey an understanding of the economic status of many of the testators living in Norfolk County, the Borough of Norfolk and the Town of Portsmouth. A complete name index includes the variations of spellings of the surnames. A map identifies many locations in colonial Norfolk County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMrs. William B. 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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. 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Much of this was requisitioned from the civilian population and certificates were issued payable in either continental or state funds, depending on the units supplied, upon presentation to court authorities. Thousands of these certificates issued to Virginians were duly entered by the courts, and they provide a fascinating insight into the period of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese \"Publick\" Claims booklets contain interesting and useful information about the contributions of ordinary people to the Revolutionary War. They provide some details of people's service in the militia or as guards for prisoners of war; they indicate where some bodies of troops were at particular times; and they identify providers of horses, wagons, cattle, grain, or other supplies. Much of the information in these booklets cannot be found anywhere else, which makes the surviving records particularly valuable. Also remarkable is the fact that records survived from virtually every county in the state at that time with the exception of the newly formed Kentucky counties. This makes the collection even more valuable in covering areas which heretofore in this time period have suffered from a lack of personal data. The \"Virginia Publick Claims\" are published by counties. In addition to a faithful transcription by Janice Luck Abercrombie and the late Richard Slatten, a complete index is provided for each county booklet. This series is an extremely important genealogical tool for searchers in Revolutionary-era materials.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanice L. 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Another useful aspect to these records: the naming of slaves. This can be a very useful tool when trying to research slave ancestry. The Original lists are so badly damaged that examination in now restricted. 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As a matter of fact, in addition to wills, deeds, and other land records, this volume contains hundreds of depositions, orphans' court proceedings, dispositions of widows' estates for second and third husbands, lawsuits resolved and unresolved, punishments for moral offences such as bastardy and truancy, powers of attorney, petitions of every fathomable variety, assignments of county precinct officers, announcements of travel \"out of the county,\" lists of Quakers, and edicts from the Crown conveyed by Governor Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Anderson Brayton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epaper, 756 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806353784\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e836-9924\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Anderson Brayton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39472093102198,"sku":"836-9924","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/836-9924.png?v=1727811950"},{"product_id":"836-9710","title":"Transcription of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Records, Volume Two, Record Book C","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecord Book C, 1651-1656\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLower Norfolk County was established in 1637. 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