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If your family line traces to colonial Virginia, this collection is an essential starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"101-d0661","title":"Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Volume 1, May 1992-Feb 1993","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, following the publication of her award-winning book of the same name, Virginia Hutcheson Davis launched \u003cem\u003eTidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy\u003c\/em\u003e. Devoted to new research and information concerning Tidewater Virginia, Mrs. Davis' periodical would focus 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. Cognizant of the number of Tidewater counties that have lost their records to courthouse fires, war, and the ravages of time, Virginia Davis started her quarterly magazine in order to preserve or make accessible any number of records that had never before been published. Now in its sixth year of publication, \u003cem\u003eTidewater Virginia Families\u003c\/em\u003e is widely recognized as the best new source of valuable genealogical findings for Virginia's oldest area of settlement. Each volume is perfect bound and contains complete name indexes to the contents of all four issues. The five volumes range over Bible records, lists of marriages, abstracts of deeds and wills, military records, tax records and tithables, guardianship records, parish registers, tombstone inscriptions, and so on. Mrs. Davis has also sprinkled the magazine with a variety of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, each of the following families is featured in the tables of contents to the first twenty issues of the magazine: Alford, Blakey, Bland, Bradway, Broche, Brown, Burruss, Butler, Byrom, Carr, Carter, Catesby, Cathon, Catlett, Chiles, Clements, Cock, Cole, Downer, Drake, Dunbar, Eubank, Faulkner, Garrett, Hargrave, Harrison, Herring, Higby, Hill, Hockaday, Howerton, Hubbard, Hudgins, Jones, Ladd, Latham, Lewis, Lumpkin, McAdam, Macon, Medlicott, Morris, Moseley, Munday, Page, Parrish, Rogers, Ross, Sanders, Shadwick, Spiller, Stiff, Taylor, Utie-Otey, Vaughan, Walden, Washington, Watkins, Williams, and Winston.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVirginia Lee Hutcheson Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1992), 2013, 5.75\" x 8\", paper, index, 232 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585496617\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-D0661\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":690008064016,"sku":"101-D0661","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-d0661.png?v=1728590374"},{"product_id":"101-d0662","title":"Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Volume 2, May 1993-Feb 1994","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy \u003c\/em\u003efocuses 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume includes: Virginia Personal Property Tax Records; The Bird Papers, 1696-1810, King and Queen County; Orphans and Their Guardians, 1757-1763, Northumberland County; Delinquent Taxpayers, 1782, Elizabeth City County; Civil Appointments, 1779-1799, Hanover County; Christ Church Parish Register, 1754-1763, and Lower Church, Middlesex County; The Will of John Jones, 1804, York County; Land Tax Records, 1782, Gloucester County; Burnside Family Bible, 1792-1868; and, Lucy W. 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Each volume is perfect bound and contains complete name indexes to the contents of all four issues. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume includes: Using the Map Collection in the Library of Virginia; Saint Stephen's Parish, King and Queen County, James Madison and the Bill of Rights; Losses Sustained from British Depredations, 1783, Henrico County; The Utie-Otey Connection; Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church, Northumberland County; Andrew Harrison of Golden Vale Creek, Caroline (Essex) County; Loose Court Papers, 1811-1851, Mathews County; A List of Male Free Negroes, 1850, Lancaster County; Sheriff's Receipt Book, 1820-1821, Middlesex County; Cemeteries of King and Queen County; Persons Assessed with License Tax, 1862, Caroline County.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVirginia Lee Hutcheson Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1997), 2016, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 276 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585496655\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-D0665\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":22515549732982,"sku":"101-D0665","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-d0665.png?v=1728590383"},{"product_id":"101-d0666","title":"Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Volume 6, May 1997-Feb 1998","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy \u003c\/em\u003efocuses 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. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume includes John William Claiborne, 1621, The George to Virginia; Petition of Francis Makemie, Minister of the Gospel, 1689; Milden Presbyterian Church, 1888, Richmond County; Weems (Campbell Presbyterian) Church, 1889, Lancaster County; Finding Ancestors Through Land Ownership; Merchants and Mariners: The Slacum Family of Alexandria, Virginia; The Will of Mary Cunninghame, 1767, Gloucester County; King William County Land Tax Records, 1783; Henrico County Deeds, 1750-1774 (Deed Book, 1767-1774); Research in the John D. 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