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This volume begins with descriptions of the daily life and customs of the early settlers, including farming, hunting, building a log cabin, cooking, witchcraft, medicine, etc. An important crossroad during the French and Indian War as well as the Civil War, Berkeley County \"sent more soldiers to the wars of the country per capita than any other county\" of Virginia. A detailed chapter on its military history contains muster rolls from several different wars. Of special interest is a full transcript of the \"Faulkner Report,\" which was commissioned by the governor of Virginia in response to Maryland's claims to part of the northern section of what is now West Virginia. The report was thorough, convincing and full of historical data. A large biographical section (about 100 pages) is followed by lists of town officers and a history of the schools, churches and \"miscellaneous.\" A new fullname plus subject index has is provided.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWillis F. 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The discovery and perusal some years ago of The Gerardstown Times (one \"R\") published in the latter 1800's and early 1900's by James Brainerd Morgan on microfilm loaned by West Virginia University at Morgantown was an exhilarating and productive experience, provoking attention sometime in the future. Upon completion of other projects, including In and Around the Loop, Northern Frederick County, Va., the overwhelming desire to compile the local newsbits of The Times and its contemporary newspaper, The West Virginia Good Templar, by the same editor, was given attention. In order to gain background and perspective prior to undertaking this work, a review of existing information was deemed necessary and included familiarity with the following: The History of the Presbyterian Church and Other Sketches of Gerrardstown, W.V. by Sarah Morgan Groff Gordon, 1939; The History of Gerrardstown and Historic Homes in Surrounding Area by Marshall J. Beverly, 1982; the Martinsburg Evening Journal Supplement by the Gerrardstown Men's Club, 1987; The Berkeley Journal - History of Gerrardstown, 1991 and the unpublished diary of Sarah Morgan McKown. After this exposure, innumerable visits were made to the Martinsburg, W.V. Public Library and the Berkeley County Historical Society to review, copy and record information from every issue of The Times and Good Templar known to exist, at least on microfilm - in an undertaking that took well over a year. Researchers will find this primary research to be as interesting and as helpful in understanding more about the life and times of the folk living at the time in Southern Berkeley County, W.V. and Northern Frederick County, Va.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames V. 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Misc: An appendix of heads of households for Berkeley in 1820 in index form is included.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Vogt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2009\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-BRY10\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30324184055926,"sku":"107-BRY10","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-bry10.png?v=1755621061"},{"product_id":"107-vdl09","title":"Berkeley County, [West] 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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\u003cli\u003edetermine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);\u003c\/li\u003e\n\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\n\u003cli\u003eevaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\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\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger G. 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This work is the sixth and final volume in a 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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Much of the action of this legendary drama took place in the eastern panhandle of what is now West Virginia, and the first great migrations to the West cut right through Berkeley County, originating for the most part in Pennsylvania and Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe bulk of Berkeley County's early records-including its marriage records-can be found today in the courthouse in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The marriage records commence in 1781 and are recorded in marriage bond books, church record books, and a miscellaneous volume of marriage records, and are more or less complete up through 1854. The present work is a digest of the marriage records for the entire period from 1781 through 1854. It is arranged in alphabetical order by the names of both brides and grooms and contains the records of nearly 6,000 marriages. In addition to the names of the bride and groom, information given with each entry includes the date of the marriage bond, the date of the marriage itself, the names of suretors or bondsmen, the name of the performing minister, and a reference to the location of the actual marriage record. At least 15,000 persons are mentioned in this work, not counting ministers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuy L. 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It is the second oldest county in the state and was created by an act of the House of Burgesses in February 1772 from the northern third of Frederick County, Virginia. Two thoughts on the origin of the name: 1) is from Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, a Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1768-1770; 2) From Sir William Berkeley, another governor of Virginia in 1660-1677. These tax records show first the name of the person, then the number of polls in the household [males over 21 years] and the number of slaves within the household.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, alphabetical, 26 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788481253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101E-WV0099\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41553771167862,"sku":"101E-WV0099","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101e-wv0099.png?v=1727733728"},{"product_id":"101e-wv0106","title":"Berkeley County, [West] Virginia Birth Records, 1853-1860","description":"\u003cp\u003eBerkeley County, West Virginia, one of the older of the panhandle counties, is the area of interest in this volume. In 1853, all Virginia Counties were requested to file the data on their births, deaths and marriages. Most of the counties had already been filing the information on the marriages, but the births and deaths were new. This was not a law or a mandate, but a recommendation therefore, not every birth or death is recorded. In this record, you will find the name of the child, date of birth and location along with the name of the father and mother with occupation and location of their resident. For the child the race\/sex is given. In the case of slaves it is noted their sex and usually just 'slave' and not black\/mullato\/etc. The owner is normally given as the father and only the first name of the mother is shown. One of the interesting items given is the \"Informant\" who was mother\/father usually, but sometimes a grandparent or relative. Rarely is the informant a neighbor. The arrangement is by year and then each birth is numbered for that year. When you find the name, be sure to check out the year for the birth. They were not given in chronological number as it may have been weeks or even months before the birth is registered. This is why the date is no consistent. The register was kept open for six months following the close of the year so that births could be registered in that year.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames L. 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