Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy focuses 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.
This 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. Atkinson’s Bible, 1800, King William County.
Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis
(1997), 2016, 5½x8½, paper, index, 262 pp.
ISBN: 9781585496624
101-D0662
