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The early 1800s saw the establishment of a county court system, the selection of a county seat, the building of the first courthouse and the division of the county into government and school districts.\" In 1852, the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company was chartered to construct the first railroad to replace the Clinch and Holston Rivers as the \"highways of commerce.\" Beginning in 1873 a number of small newspapers tried and failed before the successful publication of the Herald began in 1903. By early 1917 all classes of people began to read newspapers and periodicals. Of special interest was the war in Europe after Congress declared war on Germany and brought the war home to Scott County. Over 150 years of Scott County history comes to life in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert M. Addington\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1932, 2001), 2009, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 396 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788420207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-A2020\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39282993660022,"sku":"101-A2020","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-a2020.png?v=1727713106"},{"product_id":"107-sdra","title":"Selected Death Records (Annotated) from Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Scott, and Wise Counties, Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author has gathered together more than three thousand death records from the counties listed above. The majority of the records carry annotations drawn from a myriad of sources. This work is the result of more than eight years research in the Archives of Virginia transcribing and annotating selected death records from these southwestern counties. This is an important resource for researchers working in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Jack Hockett, researcher; Donald Helton, compiler\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-SDRA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29512442314870,"sku":"107-SDRA","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/iberian-logo-107-sdra.png?v=1727820008"},{"product_id":"107-scvw","title":"Scott County, Virginia Wills, 1816-1852","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf all the common frontier documents, wills give us the best picture of the families. In the sixty-nine wills of this volume we see how Scott County, Virginia people intermarried, how they disposed of their property, and what property they had to dispose of.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the author's introduction: These documents cover the period 1816-1852, and are recorded in Will Books 1, 2 and 3. The will books were used as catch-all places to record a variety of instruments, mainly performance bonds, and were not suitable for transcribing in full. Will Book 1, for example, contained only 10 wills in 359 pages. One will was found in Deed Book 1. I chose instead to pull out the individual wills and transcribe them. Researchers should check the will books for possible related documents such as inventories, estate sales, and settlements. Of interest here are the paired wills of John and Rebecca Anderson, husband and wife (pages 2 and 14) and of Charles McClung Sr and Jr, father and son (pages 48 and 50) with Hugh McClung brother of Charles Sr (page 32). Many wills mention slaves; some emancipate them and some provide care for their declining years . The will of Jonathan Wood (page 57) shows a marked distrust of his daughter's husband, setting up a trust fund in case she should be left destitute. I have transcribed the texts and names to the best of my ability from the microfilm. I expect there may be errors; there were certainly spots I couldn't decipher. All names are indexed except for the Scott County attesting clerks. I hope this volume provides some missing links for some researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Wagner Treacy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-SCVW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29532812542070,"sku":"107-SCVW","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-scvw.png?v=1727805292"},{"product_id":"107-scop","title":"Scott County, Virginia Overseers of the Poor, 1815-1850 [welfare in rural Virginia]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe value of the records of the overseers of the poor cannot be overestimated. Oftentimes, those individuals who fall upon diffiult circumstances or, through no fault of their own happen to be bastards [i.e., base-born] are lost in the official records. They appear here along with a panoply of names of citizens of the county who vote in elections for the officials who will administers the county's largesse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the author's introduction: Childhood poverty.......Out of wedlock births and the need for child support.......Elderly people needing maintenance.......People dependent on public charity.......Single parent households.......Teenage boys roaming the streets.......Vocational training. The social service needs of the early nineteenth century were not much different from those of today. Prior to 1780 those needs were met by the established church, with its system of parishes and church wardens. In 1780 the Virginia General Assembly instituted the Overseers of the Poor, an elective body in each county who were responsible for the needs of their countrymen. This volume collects acts of the Overseers of the Poor in Scott County, Virginia, for the period 1815 to 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe loose documents have been arranged in chronological order, based on the latest date in the document.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Wagner Treacy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2017, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, 230 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-SCOP\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29532815065206,"sku":"107-SCOP","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-scop.png?v=1727805294"},{"product_id":"107-scot","title":"Scott County, Virginia Marriages, 1815-1853","description":"\u003cp\u003eScott County, Virginia was formed in 1814 from portions of Lee, Washington, and Russell counties. In March, 1775, Daniel Boone made a road through Big Moccasin Gap in this county, following an older Indian Path. The trail became known as the Wilderness Road, and for many years it was a main route to Kentucky from the East. A total of 1,413 marriages are recorded in this current volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary D. Fugate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1989\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-SCOT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29532827320438,"sku":"107-SCOT","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-scot.png?v=1727805294"},{"product_id":"107-vd92","title":"Scott 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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The tables are comprised of two different types of information: \"A Register of Children of Colored Persons Whose Parents Had Ceased to Cohabit Which the Father Recognizes to be His\" and \"A Register of Colored Persons Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Register of Children usually gives the child's name, age, place of birth, residence, and the last owner. Also included are the parent's names, ages, residences, and last owner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cohabiting Records generally include the husband's and wife's names and ages, their residence, their last owner with his\/her residence, and a list of their children and ages plus a date of the start of their cohabitation or the number of years together.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough the information in each table is similar, it may be arranged in different sequences. The place of birth is usually the county and the residence is usually the town. Ages are given and can aid in estimating a birth year. The same applies to estimating a death year. Some registers indicate children by a first wife. Names can be repeated more than once on a page with different owners, wives, and ages. Counties and states are included in the full-name index to facilitate research.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSandra Barlau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 262 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788434082\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B3408\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31341422248054,"sku":"101-B3408","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b3408.png?v=1727714503"},{"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. 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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":"101e-va0660","title":"1840 Scott County, Virginia Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eScott County, located in southwestern Virginia, is part of the Mountain Empire area of the state. The 1840 census gives only the names of the heads of households, but there is a great deal of information can be gleaned from the records other than names. There is the age\/sex\/race of other individuals in the household as well as occupations. Then there is the personal data like those living in the household who were pensioners in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as well as those that were deaf, blind and\/or idiots. There were teachers given with the number of students and the types of schools they taught. Study this census carefully for a great deal of information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames L. 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