{"title":"Virginia: Winchester City","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"101-t0379","title":"City of Winchester, Virginia Register of Births, 1853-1891: Volume 1, 1853-1860","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis compilation was abstracted from the birth records of the city of Winchester, Virginia, which are housed at city hall, and are not to be found at the Frederick County Court House. The birth records presented here are all the extant city birth records for the period 1853-1860, the records for the years 1861-1864 having been lost during the Civil War. Entries include the following information (where available): infant's name and line number in the register, date of birth, sex, race, parents' names, and father's occupation. Occasionally given are: father's residence, a grandparent's name, and\/or physician's name. The Transcriber's Index lists the full name of the child, register page, and line number.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDola S. Tylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1991), 2013, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, index, 115 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556133794\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-T0379\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39329269776502,"sku":"101-T0379","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-t0379-1500px.png?v=1777305258"},{"product_id":"101-t0380","title":"City of Winchester, Virginia Register of Births, 1853-1891: Volume 2, 1865-1891","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis compilation was abstracted from the birth records of the city of Winchester, Virginia, which are housed at city hall, and are not to be found at the Frederick County Court House. The birth records presented here are all the extant city birth records for the period 1853-1860, the records for the years 1861-1864 having been lost during the Civil War. Entries include the following information (where available): infant's name and line number in the register, date of birth, sex, race, parents' names, and father's occupation. Occasionally given are: father's residence, a grandparent's name, and\/or physician's name. The Transcriber's Index lists the full name of the child, register page, and line number.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDola S. Tylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1991), 2013, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, index, 310 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556133800\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-T0380\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39329269907574,"sku":"101-T0380","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-t0380-1500px.png?v=1777305261"},{"product_id":"101-t0390","title":"Winchester, Virginia Register of Deaths, 1871-1891","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains abstracts of the death records kept by the city of Winchester, Virginia; they are distinct from records kept by Frederick County. The data typically includes: date and cause of death, age at death, parents, place of birth, and informant. This volume covers the first twenty years of Winchester death records, except for the years 1884, 1885, and 1889 which are missing. The annual registers from which these data were taken have been microfilmed, and are available at Winchester City Hall and other repositories. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDola S. Tylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1991), 2016, 8.5\" x 11\", index, 210 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556133909\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-T0390\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39320887951478,"sku":"101-T0390","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-t0390-1500px.png?v=1777305263"},{"product_id":"107-fbwc","title":"Free Blacks on the Winchester City, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1789-1862","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe City of Winchester was taxed separately from Frederick County, Virginia. The author has abstracted the information for free African-Americans into seven columns: Year; last name; first name; age; occupation [only given infrequently on the rolls]; property description and value; memo [oftentimes describing the exact location of the taxpayer or his former owners if freed in recent decades].\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is provided in three separate arrangements to facilitate genealogical research by African-American families; 1) chronologically by year; 2) sorted by last name of the individual; and 3) sorted by first name.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimilar volumes are available for \u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-fbcl\" title=\"Free Blacks on the Clarke County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1836-1862\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClarke County\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Free Blacks on the Frederick County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1793-1862\" href=\"\/products\/107-fbfc\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFrederick County\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Free Blacks on the Warren County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1836-1862\" href=\"\/products\/107-fbwn\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWarren County\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation recorded in Virginia personal property tax records provide a wealth of information regarding the social status of an individual. The early laws required the tax commissioner in each district to record in \"a fair alphabetical list\" the names of the person chargeable with the tax, the names of white male tithables over the age of twenty-one, the number of white male tithables between ages sixteen and twenty-one, the number of slaves both above and below age sixteen, various types of animals such as horses and cattle, carriage wheels, ordinary licenses, and even billiard tables. Free Negroes are listed by name and often denoted in the list as \"free\" or \"FN.\" By the 1850s, the personal property tax records contained detailed descriptions of personal property owned.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe most frequent use of personal property tax records is for the direct information recorded: name of the property owner, type and quantity of property owned, and amount of tax paid. Comparative analysis of personal property tax records from year to year may lead to conclusions about social, economic, and agricultural history, as well as the status of certain individuals or groups of property owners within a locality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor genealogical researchers, personal property tax records may provide important data. Individuals with the same names in a locality may be distinguished by a junior or senior, residence in different tax districts, or geographical location. Parentage may be expressly or implicitly stated by either the name or number of male tithables between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one in the household of the taxpayer. The names of women appear occasionally when owning property in their own right or as the widow of a property owner. By studying the lists from year to year, researchers may trace an ancestor to determine the date of departure from a locality, or possibly the year of death. The name of a taxpayer will continue on the tax list, noted as \"deceased\" or \"estate,\" until the estate is settled.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2013, 11\" x 8.5\", paper, 383 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e107-FBWC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30294811181174,"sku":"107-FBWC","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-fbwc-1500px.png?v=1777313118"},{"product_id":"107-bglg","title":"Burials of Grace Lutheran and German Reformed Churches within Mt. Hebron Cemetery of Winchester, Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the introduction: Mount Hebron Cemetery, within the city limits of Winchester, Virginia, is the resting place for many of the earliest settlers of the Northern Shenandoah Valley. Officially part of the Virginia Landmark Register, including its dramatic gatehouse, the cemetery is a beautiful tribute to our earliest citizens. Its occupants include its share of Revolutionary War soldiers and their families, and people who deserve recognition as the founding families for the area.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shenandoah Valley Genealogical Society organized the project of transcribing all the legible stones that are inclusive of the 2 oldest sections of Mt. Hebron. The cemetery is now made up of 4 sections. The oldest areas are the German Reformed Church and the old Lutheran Church sections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Winchester congregation of the German Reformed church was formed under the name of Reformed Calvinists (or German Reform) about 1741. The building for this church no longer exists, but burials are handled through what is now the Centenary United Church of Christ, which sits on the corner of South Cameron Street and Cork Street in Winchester.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lutheran Church began building its church near the ruins of the older German Reformed Church in 1764. Following a fire in 1854, the remaining wall of that church still stands. There is a Memorial Garden formed within the lines of the old foundation of the church, and those cremations are included within this list of burials. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Winchester held a fundraiser to restore the remains of the old church wall, create sidewalks, and upright and repair some of the oldest stones. Grace Lutheran Church is currently on Boscawen Street.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMt. Hebron was created on a five-acre plot of land by the General Assembly in 1844, where the nonsectarian cemetery was built next to the older cemeteries. Following the Civil War, about 1866, another section of Mt. Hebron became the Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, and is believed to be the first memorial Confederate cemetery in the south. There is also a nearby area of Union burials along National Avenue (not considered part of Mt. Hebron). The total of 56 acres now remains a resting place for over 30,000 people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation on the history and development of the earliest sections of Mt. Hebron, which is the focus of this publication, can be found at the Stewart Bell, Jr. Archives of Handley Regional Library in Winchester. Newspaper articles, private collections, and photographs may be available as additional resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe following list is of the original sections from the two churches and does not include the main cemetery or the Civil War areas. Using the maps included, a researcher should be able to locate the gravesites. Although some more current burials rest along Morgan Lane (labeled as Section N), note that the older stones begin about four rows back from the road, and line up approximately with the Revolutionary War Marker towards N. East Lane. Also note that the plaque at the entryway does not include all the names of those who contributed to the Revolutionary War, and further research will be needed to make that list more accurate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe hope that the work of diligent and dedicated volunteers who contributed their time and talents to this publication will result in successful researching for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShenandoah Valley Genealogical Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2010, 8\" x 10\", paper, index, maps, 147 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e107-BGLG\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30298144178294,"sku":"107-BGLG","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-bglg-1500px.png?v=1777312921"},{"product_id":"107-vdl4","title":"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Volume 4: Northern Region","description":"\u003cp\u003eIncludes the counties of Culpeper, Virginia, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, independent city of Alexandria, independent city of Fredericksburg, independent city of Winchester, Loudoun, Madison, Orange, Prince William, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania, and Stafford. This work is the fourth 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\u003cb\u003eRoger G. Ward\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1999, 8.5\" x 11\", indices, maps, 228 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e107-VDL4\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31791908126838,"sku":"107-VDL4","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-vdl4-1500px.png?v=1777313851"},{"product_id":"603-es2","title":"Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eIndex of all Virginia estate-related records found in will books and other collections, typically on microfilm. Volume 2 covers the counties of Clarke, Culpeper, Frederick, Greene, Madison, Orange, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania, and Warren, and the Cities of Fredericksburg and Winchester.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis ten-volume set has been completed geographically. 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWesley E. Pippenger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2001, 6\" x 9\", cloth, 873 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781888192315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e603-ES2\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Genealogical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31869343793270,"sku":"603-ES2","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/603-es2-1500px.png?v=1777319669"},{"product_id":"101-t0415","title":"Winchester, Virginia Abstracts of Wills, 1794-1894","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Winchester, Virginia is unique in that it is an independent city and its records are separate and distinct from the county in which it lies. Many genealogical researchers come to the Frederick County Court House but are unaware of the wealth of information that is in City Hall.\" The wills transcribed in this volume were recorded in Winchester City Hall, 1794-1894. The abstracts herein were taken from four books: Book 1, 1794-1823; Book 2, 1824-1874; Book 3, 1874-1884; and Book 4, 1884-1894. In addition to the full name of the deceased, these records offer a rich source of names, which may include spouse, children, relatives, witnesses, and\/or others. \"Items chosen from Inventories and Estate Settlements are meant to give clues to occupation and financial\/community status.\" A full-name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDola S. Tylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1990), 2020, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, index, 124 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556134159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-T0415\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32052762312822,"sku":"101-T0415","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-t0415-1500px.png?v=1777305268"},{"product_id":"107-vd49","title":"Independent City of Winchester, 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\u003cb\u003eRoger G. Ward\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2005, 5.5\" x 8.5\", map, 18 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e107-VD49\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39895395827830,"sku":"107-VD49","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-vd49-1500px.png?v=1777313755"},{"product_id":"116d-026","title":"The Personal Property Tax Lists for the Year 1787 for Frederick County and Winchester City, Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1787 tax list is unique and a better substitute for the 1790 census of Virginia. It is the result of a law passed by the Virginia Assembly which mandated that the tax commissioner visit the residence of the taxpayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNetti Schreiner-Yantis and Florence Love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1987, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 61 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e116D-026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Genealogical Books in Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41484889391222,"sku":"116D-026","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101d-026-1500px.png?v=1776981998"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/virginia-winchester-city\/author-wesley-e-pippenger+probate-records.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}