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Amelia County Virginia

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Amelia County was created on 25 March 1735 from the lands of Prince George County west of Namozine Creek and from the portion of Brunswick. County north of the Nottoway River. The first court for the new county was held on 9 May 1735. It was named in honor of Amelia Sophia Eleanora, daughter of King George II. At the time of its creation, Amelia included the lands of present-day Amelia, Nottoway and Prince Edward counties, as well as the eastern part of Appomattox County. In 1754 Prince Edward County was cut off on the west; in 1789, Nottoway County was established from a part of Amelia, leaving Amelia in its present configuration.

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Publications:

CENSUS

Amelia CO., VA 1810 CENSUS transcribed by John Vogt. 2004, x, 15 pages, illustrations, map This is the first surviving census for Amelia, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. The original is in a very poor state of preservation; however, the transcriber was able to recover the majority of the faded names, with only six unreadable entries. (The computerized version available on the Web contains 204 out of 608 unreadable entries, along with other transcription errors!).

This and other 1810 censuses are transcribed by the author from the original images, and while many of Virginia's censuses are available online, they oftentimes are replete with misreadings.Caveat emptor!

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COURT ORDER BOOKS

Amelia CO., VA COURT ORDER BOOK 1, 1735 TO 1746 Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 2004, 291 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index & slave index.This publication contains orders to record deeds, wills and powers of attorney for this period, lawsuits, witnesses, records of some Orphans Courts and Courts of Oyer and Terminer not found elsewhere. The names of many individuals not found in other county records appear here. (Prince Edward County was not cut away from Amelia until 1754, and Nottoway county was not cut off until 1789, therefore this record contains the court orders for both of these present-day counties at a very early period in their existence.)
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Amelia CO., VA COURT ORDER BOOK 2, 1746 TO 1750 Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 2004, 291 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index & slave index.This publication contains orders to record deeds, wills and powers of attorney for this period, lawsuits, witnesses, records of some Orphans Courts and Courts of Oyer and Terminer not found elsewhere. The names of many individuals not found in other county records appear here. (Prince Edward County was not cut away from Amelia until 1754, and Nottoway county was not cut off until 1789, therefore this record contains the court orders for both of these present-day counties at a very early period in their existence.)
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WILL BOOKS

AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILLS (1735-1761) AND BONDS (1735-1754) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 2004, 87 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.In addition to wills, this volume contains estate inventories and appraisements.

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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILLS (1761-1771) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 63 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.In addition to wills, this volume contains estate inventories and appraisements.

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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILLS (1771-1780) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 108 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.In addition to wills, this volume contains estate inventories and appraisements.

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DEED BOOKS

AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS (1735-1743) & BONDS (1735-1741) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 115 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.This volume contains deeds, wives' dower relinquishments and migration patterns to and from other Virginia counties.
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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS (1742-1747) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 99 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.As above, Deed Book II contains deeds, wives' dower relinquishments and shows migrations to other parts of Virginia and to other states, occupations, an early apprenticeship, and mentions several family cemeteries.
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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS (1747-1753) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 130 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.This volume contains deeds, wives' dower relinquishments, apprenticeships, bills of sale, several bonds, and location of a family cemetery.
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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS 5 & 6 (1753-1759) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 130 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.Deeds, wives' dower relinquishments, apprenticeships, bills of sale, and several bonds.
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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS 7 & 8 (1759-1765) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 183 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.Deeds, wives' dower relinquishments, powers of attorney, apprenticeships, occupations, references to churches and family cemeteries.

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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS 9, 10 & 11 (1766-1773) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 137 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.Deeds, wives' dower relinquishments, migrations to other states, occupations, powers of attorney and apprenticeships. A separate index of 320 slaves is included.
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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS 12, 13 & 14 (1773-1778) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 149 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.Deeds, wives' dower relinquishments, migrations to other Virginia counties and to other states, references to churches, and occupations. An index of over 300 slave names is included.
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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOKS 15, 16 & 17 (1778-1786) Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 204 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.In addition to deeds and wives' dower relinquishments, there are marriage contracts, a marital separation, occupations, powers of attorney, migrations to other Virginia counties and to other states, a deed stipulating a military service substitute, owners of ordinaries, apprenticeships, and names of over 400 slaves and their owners.
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AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA UNRECORDED DEEDS, 1750-1902 Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 183 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.While abstracting the series Colonial Records of Amelia County, Virginia, there were numerous unproven and unrecorded deeds, bills of sale, powers of attorney, marriage contracts, etc., discovered along with records of the county Court of Oyer & Terminer (1775-1791). They are included in this publication.
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MISCELLANEOOUS RECORDS

AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS, 1735-1865 Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 187 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.Compiled from original deed and court order books housed at the Amelia County Clerk's Office, this publication contains abstracts of all pertinent genealogical information .
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Journals of Stirling Ford, M.D. (1829-1831), Amelia County, Virginia Transcribed by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey. 160 pages, 8.5" X 10.5",detailed index.These informative abstracts contain a complete record of Dr. Ford's patients, from the wealthiest to destitute whites and slaves. Ailments of patients and their families, treatments, charges, and the physician's personal and professional opinions of his patients are provided. Footnotes contain additional genealogical information.

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Old Homes & Buildings of Amelia County, Virginia, v. 2. 1986, 234 pages, hardbound, photos,index, new (no dust jacket). 106 homes and buildings in Amelia County at least 100 years old are traced from their present owners back to the earliest county records. There are 115 photographs. A number of these buildings still stand, some in disrepair and others restored, but these photographs are the only record of the ones that have been destroyed intentionally or accidentally. A county map is printed on the end papers, to assist in locating the buildings.
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[AMOH] $50.00    

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Amelia Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners by Roger G. Ward. 2005.16 pages, map, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
For a full description of the 1815 LAND DIRECTORY Records and a listing of available counties, see combined volume below

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1815 DIRECTORY OF VIRGINIA LANDOWNERS & GAZETTEER, vol. 1 Central Region (Includes the counties of Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Buckingham, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, independent city of Petersburg, independent city of Richmond, Louisa, Nelson, New Kent, Nottoway, Powhatan, and Prince George.) abstracted by Roger G. Ward. 1997, vi, 239 pages, indices, maps.
In 1782 the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county 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.
The present work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in each county, 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.
Some of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:

1. observe distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as "Smith", "Anderson", etc;
2. identify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county);
3. determine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);
4. use 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;
5. evaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;
6. substitute 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.

FORMAT 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.)

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Amelia Co. Revolutionary Public Claims transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten.. 2005. 107 pages, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
For a full description of the Virginia Revolutionary Public Claims and a listing of available counties, see: Revolutionary "Publick" Claims series

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For other records pertaining to Amelia COUNTY, VIRGINIA see:

• Prince George County
• Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812
• Index to the 1810 Virginia Census
• Chart on the Formation of Virginia Counties
• Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia, 1634-1895

 

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