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Last Updated: 25 June 2000


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GENERAL VIRGINIA REFERENCE AND HISTORY RESOURCES

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Ames, Susie M. The Company's Garden: Dale's Gift (Eastville, VA: Hickory House, 1998). Hickory House.

Boogher, William Fletcher. Gleenings of Virginia History (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., (1903) rept), 443 pp, paper. Available from heritage.

Bemiss, Samuel M. The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London with Seven Related Documents 1606-1621 (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, (1957) 1994). available.

Bockstruck, Lloyd D. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers, 2nd Printing (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., (1988), rept 1998). , 443 pp, indexed, cloth. ISBN 0-8063-1219-X.

CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS, ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS AND GRANTS, Vols. 1-3 by Nell M. Nugent and Vols. 4-6 by Dennis Hudgins, Available at Family Line/Willow Bend Books.

  1. Vol. 1: 1623-1666 (1934, 1992), 767 pp.
  2. Vol.2: 1666-1695 (1934, 1992), 609 pp.
  3. Vol.3: 1695-1732 (1934, 1992), 578 pp.
  4. Vol. 4: 1732-1741 (1994), 393 pp.
  5. Vol. 5: 1741-1750 (1995), 477 pp.
  6. Vol. 6: 1749-1762 (1998), 552 pp.

    Cocke, Charles Francis. Diocese of Southern Virginia (Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 1964, rept 1996. Paperback, 287 pp, $15 available from Boyds publishing at 1-800-452-4035.

    Cocke, Charles Francis. Diocese of Southwestern Virginia (Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 1960 rept 1980). $10, paperback, 196 pp, Available from Boyds Publishing at 1-800-452-4035.

    Cocke, Charles Francis. Diocese of Virginia (Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 1967 rept 1978). Paperback, 321 pp, $10, available from Boyds Publishing at 1-800-452-4035.

    Craven, Wesley Frank. The Virginia Company of London 1606-1624 (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc., (1957) 1995). available.

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    des Cognets, Jr, Louis. English Duplictes of Lost Virginia Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, (1958) 1990). available.

    Doran, Michael F. Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia 1634-1895 (Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Company, 1987). [available from Iberian]

    Dorman, John F., and Virginia Meyer (eds). Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 3rd Edition, Revised (xx:xx, 1987), 827 pp., cloth. [available from Heartstone]

    Dorman, John Frederick. The Virginia Genealogist, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Press, Inc.,) [Volumes 1 - - 27 in paperback editions are available from Heritage. The CD ROM edition is available for volumes 1 - 20 from Heritage]

    Felldin, Jeanne R. Index to the 1820 Census of Virginia (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., 1976, 1981). available.

    Garrett, Nancy Wescoat H., editor. Housekeeper's Companion (Eastville, VA: Hickory House, 1998, rept of 1889 edition). Hickory House.

    Gibb, Ella Mae. Remember Way Back When (Eastville, VA: Hickory House, 1999). Hickory House.

    Greer, George Cabell. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., (1912), rept. 1998), 376 pp, cloth. ISBN 0-8063-0161-9.

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    Hatch, Jr., Charles E., The First Seventeen Years - Virginia 1607-1624 (xx:xx, 1991 (1951)), 132 pp, paper. [available from Heartstone]

    Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia, 2nd Ed. (Baltimore: Clearfield Co, Inc, 1994). available.

    Hudgins, Denis. Cavaliers And Pioneers Vol. 4, 1732-1741, Vol. 5, 1741-1750, & Vol. 6., 1749-1762 (Richmond, VA: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1994). Available from VGS. (See Nugent, this section for rest of series) GO HERE FOR COMPLETE SERIES

    Hume, Ivor Noel. The Virginia Adventure, Roanoke To James Towne, An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), 491 pp, cloth. ISBN 0-394-56446-4

    Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Virginia, 1862-1866. (U.S. National Archives Record Group 58, microfilm). At Eastern Shore Public Library

    Jackson, Luther Porter. Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia (New York: Appleton, 1942).

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    Kellam, William M. Around the Cracker Barrel, A History of Cheriton, Virginia (self-published by kellam, 1995). available from Savage's Drug Store, 301 Mason Ave, Cape Charles VA 23310.

    Kinsbury, Susan M. Ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London: The Court Book Vol 1, 1619-1622 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Press, Inc., (1906) rept). 636 pp, paper. [available from Heritage]

    Kinsbury, Susan M., Ed. The Records of the Virginia Company of London: The Court Book Vol 2, 1622-1624 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Press, Inc., (1906) rept). 611 pp, paper. [available from Heritage]

    Kinsbury, Susan M. The Records of the Virginia Company of London: Vol. 3 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Press, Inc., (1933) reprint), 769 pp in 2 Vols., paper. [available from Heritage]

    Kinsbury, Susan M. The Records of the Virginia Company of London: Documents II, 1622-1625 Vol. 4 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Press, Inc., (1935) reprint), 637 pp, paper. [available from Heritage]

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    Mariner, Kirk. Off 13, The Eastern Shore of Virginia Guidebook.

    Mariner, Kirk. Wachapreague, VA: Then and Now: A Brief History with a Walking Tour of its Sites (New Church, VA: Miona Publications, 1995). available from the publisher at POBox 339.

    McGinnis, Carol. Virginia Genealogy (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., (1993), rept. 1998), 505 pp, indexed, cloth. ISBN 0-8063-1379-X

    Mears, James Egbert. Hacks Neck and Its People, Past and Present (James E. Mears, 1937).

    Neugent, Nell Marion, Compiler. Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Vol One 1623-1666 (Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library & Archives, 1992). ISBN 0-88490-174-2. [available from VA State Library] GO HERE FOR COMPLETE 6 VOL. SERIES

    Pouliot, Richard A., and Julie J., Shipwrecks on the Virginia Coast and the Men of the United States Life Saving Service (Centerville, MD: Tidewater publishers, 1986).

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    Reid, Judith Prowse. Genealogical Research in England's Public Record Office: A Guide for North Americans (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, 1996). available.

    Robinson, Morgan P. Virginia Counties: Those Rsulting from Virginia Legislation (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., 1992 (1916). Available from GPS.,

    Schwartz, Phil. Emancipators, Protectors, and Anomalies: Free Black Slaveowners in Virginia, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 95 (1987): 317-338.

    Schwartz, Phil. A Sense of Their Own Power: Self-Determination in Recent Writings on Black Virginians, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 97 (1989): 279-310.

    Tawes, William I. God, Man, Salt Water, and the Eastern Shore (Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1967).

    Tyler, Lyon Gardiner Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998), 5 volumes, 2,296 pp, indexed, cloth, reprint of the 1915 edition. ISBN 0-8063-1552-0.

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    Wawizyczek, Irmina. "The Women of Accomack versus Henry Smith: Gender, Legal Recourse, and the Social Order in the Seventeenth-Century Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Richmond, VA: The Virginia Historical Society, Winter 1997, Volume 105, Number 1), pp. 5 - 26.

    Withington, Lothrop. Virginia Gelanings in England, Abstracts of 17th and 18th Century English Wills and Administrations Relating to Virginia and Virginians (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., 1980 (1903-1929). Available from Genealogical Publishing. Indexed.


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