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Map of Va: Franklin CountyFranklin County, named for Benjamin Franklin, was formed in 1786 from adjoining lands of Bedford and Henry counties. In 1848 the part of Patrick County lying northeast of Smith's River was added to Franklin County, and in 1873 a small part of Franklin was taken away and given to Floyd County. Franklin's boundaries have not changed since that time. Franklin County's location adjacent to both the Great Valley Road to the Cumberland Plateau and also the Wagon Road into North Carolina spurred many of its inhabitants to join the great migrations out of Virginia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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FRANKLIN CO., VA 1810 CENSUS transcribed by John Vogt. 2010, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2, x, 39 pages, illustrations, maps, index. This is the first surviving census for Franklin, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. The manuscript is transcribed in its original form with all beginning and ending notations included. This document should be a complement to the fine work of Roger Ward (below) on land taxes in the county.

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ENTRY RECORD BOOK [1], 1737-1770 (Land entries in the present Virginia counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, & Patrick) transcribed by Marian Dodson Chiarito. 1984. 432 pages, 8" x 11. This book contains land entries in the western portion of the original Brunswick County. The area concerned was south of Blackwater Creek and Roanoke-Stanton River, west of Aaron's Creek (which divides Mecklenburg and Halifax counties), and extended to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The North Carolina line was the southern boundary. A complete index of all names, watercourses, mountains, etc.

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ENTRY RECORD BOOK [2], 1770-1796 (Land entries in the present Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, & Patrick) transcribed by Marian Dodson Chiarito. 1988. 138 pages, 8" x 11. This book is a sequel to Entry Record Book [1], 1737-1770, published in 1984. The watercourses listed in the index indicate that the area for this volume was Pittsylvania County as it existed in 1770. Pittsylvania was formed from Halifax County in 1767. The map included with the book gives names of most of the early watercourses, and makes possible the location of land entries, adjoining landowners, and other points of interest. A complete index of all names, watercourses, mountains, etc. is provided.
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OLD SURVEY BOOK 1, 1746-1782, PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA transcribed by Marian Dodson Chiarito. 1988. 400 pages, 8" x 11.

PLEASE NOTE: This book contains surveys of land in Pittsylvania County as it existed in 1767 when it was created from Halifax County. Until 1776, when Henry County was formed, the counties of Henry, Franklin, and Patrick are also included.

It consists primarily of a photocopy of the original surveys found in Old Survey Book 1. The map included with the book gives names of most of the early watercourses, and makes possible the location of land surveys, adjoining landowners, etc. A complete index of all names, watercourses, roads, etc. is provided.
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An Important Revolutionary War Title!
Revolutionary Warriors and Widows of Henry, Franklin, Patrick and Floyd Counties of Virginia: Pension Applications Transcribed and Abstracted by C. Leon Harris
8 ¼" x 10 ¼" format, xiv, 376 pages, color cover, internal illustrations, bibliography, comprehensive index, maps, charts, graphs. Paperback.
  • Pension applications of all known revolutionary soldiers and widows who ever lived in Henry, Franklin, Patrick, or Floyd Counties
  • The Revolutionary War in the words of 200 participants
  • Annotated and with additional material on Arms and tactics
  • The Battle of Guilford Courthouse and numerous other Southern campaigns in the Carolinas and Georgia
  • Henry County Militia Virginia in the Revolutionary War
  • Extracts of widows’ pensions, many with family records
  • Completely indexed with more than 1000 surnames


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    FRANKLIN COUNTY DEATH RECORDS, 1853-96     by Nell Hailey, vi, 296 pages, index. A thorough and accurate abstraction of all the data contained in the first death register for Franklin County. Many older inhabitants can be traced into the eighteenth century from the extrapolation of the data given on their death record. A valuable resource.
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    Franklin Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 31 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. 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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