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Historic Homes of Brunswick County

• Search Brunswick County Records
• Brunswick County Deeds
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• Brunswick County Deaths
• Brunswick County Marriage Bonds & Consents
• Brunswick County - Vaughn Marriages
• Brunswick County - Civil War Soldiers (by Dr. William M. Pritchett)
• Family Bible Records
• 1810 Census Images, Saint Andrews District
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• 1850 Census, Northern District
• 1850 Census, Southern District, part 1
• 1850 Census, Southern District, part 2
• 1783 Personal Property Tax List
• • The Library of Virginia Genealogy Home Page
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Genealogy Books and Resources
[NOTE: RRL= Rockbridge Regional Library; VMI= Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute; WLU= Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University. WLU Law is the Law Library at Washington and Lee University, LOC indicates the Library of Congress Call number]

Amelia County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Amelia County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Hadfield, Kathleen Halverson and W. Cary McConnaughey. Historical Notes on Amelia County, Virginia. (Amelia, VA: Amelia Historical Committee, 1982) WLU Rare F232 .A54 H57 1982.
McConnaughey, Gibson Jefferson. Amelia County, Virginia Wills, Bonds (Amelia, VA: author, 1978) WLU Rare F232 .A54 M32.
McConnaughey, Gibson Jefferson. Amelia County, Virginia, 1735-1746 (Amelia, VA: Author, 1985) WLU Law F232 .A54 M32.
McConnaughey, Gibson Jefferson. Amelia County, Virginia Deed Book 1,: Deeds 1735-1743, Bonds 1735-1741. (Amelia, VA: Mid-South Publishing Co., 1981) WLU Law F232 .A54 M28.also at RRL Spec. Coll. 929.375 MCC.
McConnaughey, Gibson Jefferson. Amelia County, Virginia Will Book 1: Wills, 1735-1761, Bonds, 1735-1754 (Amelia, VA: author, 1978) WLU Law F232 .A54 M3.
Wise, Bel Hubbard. Amelia County, Virginia Will Book 3. 1780-1786. Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press).
Wise, Bel Hubbard. Amelia County, Virginia Will Book 4, 1786-1792. Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press).
Wise, Bel Hubbard. Amelia County, Virginia Will Book 5, 1792-1799. Signal Mountain, TN: Mountain Press).


Amherst County, VA
Amherst County, VA Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Amherst County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991)
Amherst County VA 1810 Census at WLU, M-Film HA 681 1810.
Antient Press, Lant Tax Book 1782-1788 ($22.00)
Antient Press, Lant Tax Book 1789-1791 ($22.00)
Brown, Alexander. The Cabells and Their Kin (org. pub. 1895, reprint Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1939) LOC # CS71 .C11 1939)
Davis, Bailey Fulton, Wills of Amherst County, VA, 1761-1865 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1985) at WLU, RARE F 232 .A55 D3.
Davis, Bailey Fulton. Amherst County, Virginia Courthouse Miniatures: An Abstract of All Items in Deed Book A, 1761-1765. (Amherst Courthouse, VA: B.F. Davis, 1960). WLU Rare F232 .A55 D33 1960.
Percy, Alfred. The Amherst County Story. (Amherst, VA: Amherst County Museum, 1961)
Percy, Alfred. History of Amherst County (Madison Heights, VA: Percy Press, 1961).
Rice, Horace R. The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee (Madison Heights, VA: BRC Books, 1991). WLU Rare E99 .C5 R53 1991.
Sweeney, Lenora (Higginbotham), Amherst County, VA in the Revolution (Lynchburg, VA: np, 1951) at VMI and WLU, F 232 .A55 S77.
Sweeney, Lenora (Higginbotham) Marriage Records of Amherst County, Virginia, 1815-1821: and Subscription for Building St. Mark's Church, Amherst County, VA. (Lynchburg, VA: np, 1961) WLU Rare F232 .A55 S78.
Sweeney, William Montgomery, Marriage Bonds and Other Marriage Records, 1763-1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973) at VMI and WLU RARE, F232 .A55 S8 1973.


Appomattox County, VA
Chilton, Harriet A. Register of Old Concord Presbyterian Church, Appomattox County, Virginia, 1826- 1878: Baptism 1826-1876; Membership 1826-1878; Obituary 1829-1854. (Falls Church, VA: 1973). WLU Rare BX9211 .A6042.
Chilton, Harriet A. Appomattox County, Virginia, Tax Lists, 1845: Only Extant Record for the First Year the County was Established: Includes Land Tax Rolls, Personal Property Tax Rolls. (Falls Church, VA: author, 1975). WLU Rare F232 .A65 C54.
Stanley, Vara Smith. A History of Appomattox County, Virginia. (Appomattox, VA: Times-Virginian, 1965). WLU Rare F232 .A65 S8 1965.

Brunswick County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Brunswick County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Bell, Edith Rathbun. Brunswick Story: A History of Brunswick County. (Lawrenceville, VA: Brunswick Times-Gazette, 1957) WLU Rare F232, B9 B4.
Fothergill, Augusta B. Marriage Records of Brunswick County, Virginia, 1730-1852.
Pawlett, Nathaniel Mason. Brunswick County Road Orders, 1732-1746 (Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Transportation Research Council, 1988). WLU F232 .B9 P3.
Vogt, John and T. William Kethley. Brunswick County Marriages, 1750-1853 (Iberian, Athens, GA, 1988).
Brunswick County, Virginia Deeds, 1740. (TLC Publishing Co.)
Brunswick County, Virginia Deeds, 1745-1749. (TLC Publishing Co.)
Brunswick County, Virginia Wills, 1739-1750.  (TLC Publishing Co.)
Brunswick County, Virginia Court Orders, 1732-1737.  (TLC Publishing Co.)
Brunswick County, Virginia Court Order Books, 1737-1749. (TLC Publishing Co.)
Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., Brunswick County, Virginia, Will Books, Volume 1: Will Books 2 and 3, 1739-1769 and 1783-1785 (1997). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.
Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., Brunswick County, Virginia, Will Books, Volume 2: Wills Books 4 and 5 (part), 1761-1780 (1997). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.
Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., Brunswick County, Virginia, Will Books, Volume 3: Will Book 5 1780 - 1795 (1997). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.
Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., Brunswick County, Virginia, Will Books, Volume 4: 1795 - 1804 (1997). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.
Brunswick County, Virginia, Deed Books: Volume 1:1732 - 1745 (1997). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.
Brunswick County, Virginia, Deed Books: Volume 2:1744 - 1755, 1764 (1997). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.
Brunswick County, Virginia, Deed Books: Volume 3:1755 - 1764 (1998). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.
Civil War Soldiers from Brunswick County, Virginia. Available from Dr. John W. Pritchett, P. O. Box 9086, Dallas, TX 75209-9086. Visit his web site: http://www.virginians.com/civil_war_book.htm#Civil War Soldiers from Brunswick County.  


Campbell County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Campbell County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Baber, Lucy H. M. and Hazel L. Williamson. Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia, 1782-1810. (Lynchburg, VA: 1971).
Bell, James Pinkey Pleasant. Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time: Being Part of a Transcript of the Minute Books of Cedar Creek Meeting, Hanover County, and South River Meeting, Campbell County, Virginia. (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 1991). WLU Rare F232 .H3 B44 1991.
Brock, R.A. Campbell County Biographies (org. pub 1880'2, reprint). Chapla, John D. 42nd Virginia Infantry (1983).
Early, R. H. Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches, Embracing the History of Campbell County, Virginia, 1782-1926. (Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Co., 1927). WLU F232 .C15 E12.
Lane, Rosa Thornton Wright, Register of Marriages in Campbell County at WLU & VMI, F221 .V91 v.40.
Moore, Robert H., II. The Charlottesville, Lee Lynchburg and Johnson's Bedford Artillery. (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, Inc.)
Moore, Robert H., II. The Richmond, Fayette, Hampden, Thomas, and Blount's Lynchburg Artillery. (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, Inc.)
Morris, G. and S. Foultz. Lynchburg in the Civil War. (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, Inc).
Siddons, James, Ph.D. A History of the First United Methodist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, 1828-1988, with Genealogical Index and Descriptions of the Church Archives. (1992).


Charles City County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Charles City County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Ayres, Margaret McNeill. Charles City, Virginia Order Book, 1676-1679. (Memphis, 1968) WLU F232 .C3 A97.
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Charles City County, Virginia, 1725-1731. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1986). Abstracts of a book carried off by Union soldiers in the Civil War and returned in the 1970's.
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Charles City County, Virginia, Records, 1737-1774. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1986). Abstracts of wills and deeds, etc.


Chesterfield County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Chesterfield County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Lutz, Francis Earle. Chesterfield, An Old Virginia County, Vol. I, 1607-1954. (Richmond: W. Byrd Press, 1954, reprint 1990) WLU F232 .C52 L8.
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Chesterfield County, VA Wills, 1749-1774. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1979).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Chesterfield County, VA Deeds, 1749-1756. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1986).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Chesterfield County, VA Deeds, 1756-1764. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1989).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Chesterfield County, VA Deeds, 1764-1768. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Chesterfield County, VA Wills, 1774-1802. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1979).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Chesterfield County, VA Marriages, 1816-1853. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1981).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Chesterfield County, 1850 U.S. Census. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1988).


Dinwiddie County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Dinwiddie County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991)
Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. Births From the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince George and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798. (org. pub. 1898, reprint 1990).
Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., The 1850 Federal Census Dinwiddie County andCity of Petersburg Virginia (All Schedules) (1991). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.

Greensville County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Greensville County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Brown, Douglas Summers. Historical and Biographical Sketches of Greensville County, VA, 1650-1697. (Emporia, VA: Riparian Women's Club, 1968). WLU Rare F232 .G85 H57 1968.
Vogt, John and T. William Kethley. Greensville County Marriages, 1781-1853 (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1989).
Sasser, Ray R., Jr., Royal Patents and Commonwealth Land Grants of Greensville County Virginia (1998).  Available from Ray R. Sasser, Jr., 2134 Skippers Road, Emporia, VA 23847.
Sasser, Ray R., Jr., Greensville County, Virginia Abstracts of Wills, Will Book 1 - 1781-1806 (2003). Available from Ray R. Sasser, Jr., 2134 Skippers Road, Emporia, VA 23847.


Isle of Wight County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Isle of Wight County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, VA, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. (Chicago: Chicago Law Print, 1938) WLU F232 .I8 B6.
Chapman, Blanche Adams. Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800. (1982).
Chuckatuck, Virginia Friend Meeting. Early Quaker Records in Virginia. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977) WLU Rare F232 .N2 C5 1977.
Van Derpool, James Grate. Historical St. Luke's, The Nation's Oldest Standing Church, a National Shrine. (NY, 1957) WLU Rare BX5980 .V5 S2.
White, Miles, Jr. Early Quaker Records in Virginia.(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977).


Nansemond County, VA
Chuckatuck Virginia Friends Meeting. Early Quaker Records of Virginia. (org. pub. 1902, reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977) WLU Rare F232 .N2 .C5 1977.
Upper Parish. The Vestry Book of the Upper Parish, Nansemond County, Virginia, 1743-1793. (Richmond: Commonwealth of Virginia Division of Purchase and Print, 1949). WLU Rare F232 .N2 U6.
White, Miles, Jr. Early Quaker Records in Virginia.(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977).


Nottoway County, VA
Turner, William Read. Old Homes and Families of Nottoway (Blackstone, VA: Nottoway Publishing Co., Inc., 1932) WLU Rare F232 .N9 T9.
Weaver, Jeffrey C. The Nottoway Artillery and Barr's Battery Virginia Light Artillery. (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, Inc).


Powhatan County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Powhatan County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Simmons, Don. Powhatan County, Virginia Tax Lists 1782 & 1784.
Simmons, Don. Powhatan County, Virginia Tax Lists 1787-1789.
Vogt, John and T. William Kethley. Powhatan County Marriages, 1777-1850 (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1985)
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Powhatan County, Virginia Wills, 1777-1795 (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1986).


Prince George County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Prince George County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. Births From the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince George and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798. (org. pub. 1898, reprint 1990).
Lutz, Francis Earle. The Prince George-Hopewell Story. (Richmond: The Area Historical Committee, 1957) WLU F232 .P85 L87.
McIlwaine, H. R. Index to Obituary Notices in Richmond Enquirer from 9 May 1804-1828, Richmond Whig from Jan 1824-1838.
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Prince George County, Virginia Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728 (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1973).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Prince George County, Virginia Records, 1733-1792 (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1975).
Weisiger, Benjamin B., III. Prince George County, Virginia Miscellany, 1711-1814 (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1986).
Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., Prince George County, Virginia Federal Censuses1810, 1820, 1830, 1840 (1991). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.


Sussex County, VA
Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten, Virginia Publick Claims; Sussex County. (Athens, GA: Iberian, 1991).
Boddie, John Bennett The Albemarle Parish Register of Surry and Sussex Counties, Virginia. (org. pub. 1958, reprint 1981 ).
Richards, Gertrude R. B. Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1788. (National Society, Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958).
Sussex County, Virginia Wills, 1754-1764 (TLC Publishing, 1991).
1787 Sussex Co, VA, Census (available from Mountain Press, P.O. Box 400, Signal Mountain, TN 37377-0400).
Hopkins, William Lindsay, Sussex Co, VA, Will Books A-F, 1754-1806, William Lindsay Hopkins, (reprinted 1994, Iberian)
Hopkins, William Lindsay, Sussex Co, VA, Deed Books A-E, 1754-1779, William Lindsay Hopkins, (reprinted 1995, Iberian)
Putnam, Martha A., Early Quaker Records of Southeast Virginia, Martha A. Putnam (1996, available from Family Line Publications, Rear 63 E. Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157)
Ross, Helen Pate, Thomas Pate, D. 1774, Sussex County, Virginia (available from Helen Pate Ross, 1801 Esic Drive; Edwardsville, IL 62025-3945)
Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., The Deeds of Sussex County Virginia 1779 - 1792 (1993). Available from Dr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr., 114 Sixth Avenue, Lawrenceville, VA 23868.

Deeds