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Map of Va: Campbell CountyCampbell County was formed on 1 Feb. 1782 from the eastern portion of Bedford County. It was named in honor of General William Campbell, one of the heroes of the Battle of King's Mountain (1780). Its boundaries were the same as today, except along the northeastern line. In 1845 the northeastern portion of Campbell was cut off to form part of Appomattox County, and in 1848 a small adjustment of this same border saw additional territory transferred to Appomattox's jurisdiction. Campbell county's creation represented geographers often refer to as a "second-order" formation. The earliest population to the area dates from the 1740s, when a group of Presbyterians from Pennsylvania migrated to the region. they were later joined by significant numbers of Quakers. By the end of the Revolution, this group and subsequent settlers in this corner of Bedford County were sufficient in number to petition for their own county, complaining of the great distance to quarterly court and inconvenience of conducting official business.

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CAMPBELL CO., VA 1810 CENSUS transcribed by John Vogt. 2013, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2, x, 29 pages, illustrations, map, full name index. This is the first surviving census for Campbell, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. The transcription is in the order in which the enumerator took his census. Thus, neighbors appear together and this will assist the genealogist. Campbell was an important and populous county at the western edge of Virginia's Piedmont with a heavy slave population [5,300+].

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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CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILLS AND INVENTORIES, 1782-1847 Transcribed by William Lindsay Hopkins. 1989, 232 pages (8«x11), index. Campbell County, Virginia, including the Town of Lynchburg, was formed from Bedford County in 1782, only six years after the Declaration of Independence. Included in the current volume is a name index of over 6,000 individuals.

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cite>Campbell Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 34 pages, map, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
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1815 DIRECTORY OF VIRGINIA LANDOWNERS & GAZETTEER, vol. 2 South Central Region (Includes the counties of Bedford, Brunswick, Campbell, Charlotte, Franklin, Greensville, Halifax, Henry, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Southampton, and Sussex) abstracted by Roger G. Ward. 1997, vi, 234 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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Campbell Co. Revolutionary Public Claims transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten.. 2005. 28 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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