SOME WILLS FROM THE BURNED COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA
compiled by William Lindsay Hopkins. 6x9 format. Wills from
circa 1670-1830. Brunswick, Buckingham, Caroline, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City,
Glouster, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King George, King and Queen, King William, Mathews,
Nansemond, New Kent, Prince George, Prince William, Stafford, and Warwick Counties, Va.
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Gloucester County was created in 1651 from the northeastern portion of its parent county, York. Settlement in the region had begun as early as 1635, when the first land patent was made to Augustine Warner. The new county was named for Gloucester County, England. in 1791 Gloucester was divided, with its eastern portion becoming Mathews County.
Most of the early records of Gloucester are no longer extant. An 1821 fire in the clerk's office destroyed many early books, and most of the remainder went up in flames in April, 1865 in Richmond, where they had been sent for "safekeeping".
GLOUCESTER CO., VA 1810 CENSUS transcribed by John Vogt. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2, x, 19 pages, maps, illus. This is the first surviving
census for Gloucester, since both the 1790 and 1800 censuses have been lost. The transcription is in its original rough alpha order of the original document for easy reference.
Gloucester was one of the first settlements outside of Jamestown in the seventeenth century and it has been the scene of numerous historic events. The very high proportion of slaves to the overall total illustrates
the plantation society which existed in the area by the beginning of the nineteenth century. This transcription is carefully executed and corrects numerous errors which
have crept into the internet databases.
GLOUCESTER CO. VA. METHODIST RECORDS
Abstracted by Michael Pollock. viii, 501pp. every-name index (10.75"x8.25"),paper.A major reason for the lack of records in Methodist churches is that historically ministers have been assigned by the bishop of the governing conference for a term of 2 years with the possibility, when the same was requested, for an extension of a further 2 years. With many ministers either being circuit riders or working part-time because their congregations were too small, most record-keeping was done by the ministers and those records generally followed the minister when he moved on to his next assignment. Those instances where the records for a specific congregation extend for a longer period of time were likely to be instances where the congregation had what is known within the Methodist Church as a “local preacher”, i.e., a minister who was paid solely by his congregation, or in this specific instance, as the results of the efforts of such extraordinary individuals as Jefferson W. Stubbs, who served for 50 years as recording steward of the Gloucester Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal, South, Conference of Virginia. They survive because of the keen interest of his son William Carter Stubbs in both history and genealogy.
Gloucester Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners
by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 24 pages, map, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
Gloucester Co. Revolutionary Public Claims
transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten.. 2005. 35 pages, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
BURNED COUNTY DATA, 1809-1848 (AS FOUND IN THE VIRGINIA CONTESTED ELECTION FILES)
by Benjamin B. Weisiger,III, 1986. 100 pages, index. The author has examined a previously unexplored source of
information for valuable genealogical information regarding "burned counties." The bulk of the
data consists of depositions regarding qualifications of the voter (e.g., land ownership, age, length
of residence in the county, etc.) as well as data gleaned from a number of attached wills, deeds,
and even a Bible register.