Revolutionary "Publick" Claims series
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For more records pertaining to BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA see
also:
Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812
Chart on the Formation of Virginia Counties
Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia, 1634-1895
Index to the 1810 Virginia Census
Bedford County was formed on 10 May 1754 from the western lands of Lunenburg County and named for John Russell, fourth Duke of Bedford, who as secretary of state for the southern department (1748-1751), had general supervision of colonial affairs. At the time of its creation the new county comprised the area from Falling River, in present Campbell County, to the mountains where it abutted with Augusta County. A year after its formation the portion of Albemarle County south of the James River and an additional part of Lunenburg County west of the present Charlotte-Campbell line was added to Bedford. In 1782 Campbell County was cut off, followed by a portion of newly-created Franklin County's land in 1785. At that point, Bedford achieved its present boundaries. The great landmark of the Peaks of Otter are located in this county, at the juncture of the Carolina Wagon Road and the Cumberland Trace.
BEDFORD CO., VA 1810 CENSUS transcribed and annotated by John Vogt. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2, x, 47 pages, illustrations, maps. This is the first surviving census for Bedford, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. Bedford was an important county with a heavy slave population (6,147), and the census records a large total population in excess of 16,000. The manuscript itself is in very poor condition.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA MARRIAGE BONDS, 1755-1800 Earle S. Dennis & Jane Estelle Smith, compilers, 1931,
8"x10" format, 110 pages,index. Earle Dennis, the county clerk of the Bedford Superior Court, compiled these marriage bonds from the originals. The original list was first published in 1931. Iberian has reformatted the text from the original typescript in the Library of Virginia, and a complete name index of grooms, brides, bondsmen, and parents where available has been created. These early marriage bonds cover the first half-century of Bedford's existence, and they span the French & Indian War as well as the American Revolution and its aftermath when Americans began moving west in greater numbers
Bedford Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners
by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 39 pages, map, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
Bedford Co. Revolutionary Public Claims
transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten.. 2005. 64 pages, 5 1/2X8 1/2.