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: The Importance of Preserving Our History; Charles City County Lands Plotted; The Mystery of Mathew Seay, the Original Seay Family Immigrant; Sally Dumas vs Benjamin Dumas, 1809, Divorce Petition, New Kent County; James Spratling and His Wife, Winifred (Munday), Caroline and Henry Counties; Henrico County Will Book 1, 1781–1787; James City County Tax Book, 1769; and, Cemeteries of King and Queen County.
Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis
(1997), 2016, 5½x8½, paper, index, 276 pp.
ISBN: 9781585496662
101-D0666
