{"title":"Virginia: Powhatan County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"101-b0932","title":"Southam Parish Land Processioning, 1747-1784, Goochland, Cumberland, and Powhatan Counties, Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout the colony of Virginia, land was processioned every four years to determine the bounds of every landholder's property. The vestrymen divided the parish into precincts of convenient size with several men appointed to conduct the processioning for each precinct. The returns were recorded in the vestry book.The book contains maps and abstracts of the land processioning orders and returns for Southam Parish for the years 1747 through 1784 while Southam Parish was part of the counties of Goochland, Cumberland, and Powhatan. The original information is found in the Vestry Book of Southam Parish which contains the detailed records of the parish for the years 1745 through 1792. This volume is intended to be a companion book to the complete Vestry Book of Southam Parish.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnn K. 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This work is the first 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\u003eIn 1782, the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county 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 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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORMAT OF PRESENTATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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\u003cu\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLinks to all 6 volumes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 1: Central Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl1\" 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 rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 2: South Central Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl2\" 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 rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 3: Eastern Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl3\" 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 href=\"\/products\/107-vdl4\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 4: Northern Region\" rel=\"noopener\" 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 href=\"\/products\/107-vdl5\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 5: Western Region\" rel=\"noopener\" 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 href=\"\/products\/107-vdl6\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 6: Northwest Region\" rel=\"noopener\" 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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Prof. Fife has transcribed the vestry book from French to English so that it might provide some useful help to those tracing their Huguenot ancestors. When the Parishes were created by the General Assembly of Virginia, the Vestries were assigned some of the civil administrative functions and all of such civil functions were official in nature and the records of actions taken were recorded in the vestry book. This book serves as a unique as well as double purpose in that it contains two different sets of records: the minutes of the vestry (civil functions) and also the Order for Processing. The later was the surveying of land to attempt to eliminate lawsuits over boundary lines. This book is filled with hundreds of early inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR. H. Fife\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1905-1906), 2006, cloth, 155 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893083540\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-VA142\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32148200751222,"sku":"117-VA142","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-va142.png?v=1727811419"},{"product_id":"107-pow10","title":"Powhatan County, Virginia 1810 Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first surviving census for Powhatan, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. 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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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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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