The new county was named for the Greenbrier River, a prominent water feature of the region. The first settlement in the region was made at Frankfort in 1769. shortly thereafter, in 1777, Greenbrier County was formed from the western parts of Botetourt and Montgomery counties. At the time, the new counties encompassed the entire central region of present-day West Virginia. In 1790 part of Bath County and in 1799 all of Monroe County was cut off from Greenbrier lands. Also from Greenbrier came part of Nicholas County (1818), part of Pocahontas County (1825 & 1827), part of Fayette County (1831), part of Webster (1863 & 1882), and Summers County (1871). Portions of the Monroe cessions were returned to Greenbrier in 1825 and 1827, and part of the Fayette cession was returned in 1833.
GREENBRIER COUNTY, VA 1810 SUBSTITUTE CENSUS [Abstracts from the 1810 Personal Property Tax List]
by John Vogt, 2011, 5 1/2"x 8 1/2" format, vi, 14 pages, map.
GREENBRIER COUNTY RECORDS, Volume 2: Personal property tax lists: 1782/83, 1786/88, 1792, 1796, 1799, 1805, 1815
transcribed by Larry Shuck 1989, ix, 302 p. The author continues with the compiling of Greenbrier's early records by the
transcribing of selected personal property tax lists for this county until the time when surviving censuses are
available to continue the search for ancestors. In the years when a date of visitation is included (1792, 1796,
& 1799) two lists are available: one is presented in its entirety in alphabetic order, the second in abbreviated
fashion by date of visitation. In this way the researcher can provide helpful clues as to who an ancestor's
neighbors were.
GREENBRIER COUNTY RECORDS, Volume 3: U.S. Federal Population Schedules: 1820; 1830; 1840; & 1850
transcribed by Larry Shuck. 1990, xii, 421 pages. A household-by-household transcription of four early censuses is provided with
a 71-page, triple-columned integrated index for the complete volume. Statistical analyses of the data is
provided in the introduction.
GREENBRIER COUNTY RECORDS, Volume 4: Marriages of Greenbrier County, [W.] Virginia, 1782-1900
transcribed by Larry Shuck. 3 volumes, 1991, xii, 997 pages. This volume is a thorough and comprehensive
listing and abstracting of data from the marriage records of this most important early West Virginia county.
Up to 1863, the marriages are part of Virginia's records, and after that date they fall within the purview of
West Virginia public record. A full and complete index of all names is provided in volume 3 of the set; volume
one includes a surname frequency and the complete abstracts sorted alphabetical by husband's name; volume
2 uses the bride's maiden name as the sort key. In this way, many family relationships can easily be seen which
would not be visible while scattered throughout the data. This is a most important work for this early county's
records.
GREENBRIER COUNTY RECORDS, Volume 5:
Greenbrier County, [W.] Virginia, Deeds & Wills; Early miscellaneous deeds, 1750-52, 1754, 1769, 1783-84;
Deed Books 1-5, 1780-1814; Will Book 1, 1777-1833
transcribed by Larry Shuck. 1992, iv, 362 pages. This book is a thorough and comprehensive listing and abstracting of data from the earliest
extant deed and will records of this important central West Virginia county. A full and complete name index
is provided.
GREENBRIER COUNTY RECORDS, Volume 6: Greenbrier County, [W.] Virginia, Death Records, 1853-1900
transcribed by Larry Shuck. 1993, iv, 399 pages. This sixth volume in the series by Shuck furnishes a thorough and comprehensive
listing and abstracting of all the data from the death registers of this most important central West Virginia
county. A full and complete name index is provided.
GREENBRIER COUNTY RECORDS, Volume 7: Greenbrier County, [W.] Virginia, Land Entry Book, 1780-1786
transcribed by Helen S. Stinson. 1994, xxii, 297 pages. Originally published in 1984, this new edition has been
retypeset, and a full name index provided to aid researchers. The first land record book for Greenbrier covers
not only the current county area, but "Greater Greenbrier as it was originally created, a county encompassing
nearly all of central West Virginia and extending to the Ohio River. In this first book are found hundreds of
preemption grants given to settlers who occupied lands in the region prior to the county's creation, and a
wealth of information can be gleaned about the very earliest settlers of the county and region from this volume.
GREENBRIER COUNTY RECORDS, Volume 8: Birth Records of Greenbrier County, [W.] Virginia, 1853-1898
transcribed by Larry Shuck. 2 volumes, 1995, iv, 614 pages. The birth records are extracted from two
nineteenth century registers; The second register includes not only name, sex, race, date of death, and parents
of the deceased (as does the other register, but also notes the age of each parent and the number of children
born to them. A valuable addition to the growing collection of Greenbrier records. Includes more than 17,000
entries from circa 2,200 families. For more records pertaining to
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Greenbrier Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners
by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 46 pages, map, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
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Greenbrier Co. Revolutionary Public Claims
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