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King and Queen County was formed in 1691 from lands belonging to New Kent County lying north of the Pamunkey and York rivers. The late-seventeenth county was named in honor of the ruling monarchs, William III and Mary II, who were called to the throne n 1688. In 1701 the portion of King and Queen situated within Pamunkey Neck was made into King William County. In 1720 an upper portion of the county was taken to form part of Spotsylvania County, and again in 1727 an upper portion became part of Caroline County. Further additions to Caroline County from King and Queen occurred in 1742 and 1762. After 1762 its present boundary line was achieved. Two fires have devastated King and Queen's official county records. the first was a courthouse fire in 1828 which burned many early records. Then, on March 10, 1864, Union troops set fire to both the courthouse and the clerk's office, and virtually every county record was destroyed. Only a handful of land books covering the years 1723 to 1850, were saved from the conflagration.

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KING & QUEEN CO., VA 1810 CENSUS transcribed by John Vogt. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2, x, 22 pages, maps, illus. This is the first surviving census for King and Queen, 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. King and Queen was one of the first settlements in the Northern Neck in the late 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.

SURNAMES included in the 1810 King and Queen census are:
Acre; Adams; Alexander; Allen; Anderson; Atkins

Bagby; Banks; Barby; Barfoot; Barkley; Basket; Bates; Beadles; Bew; Bird; Bland; Bohannon; Booker; Botts; Boughton; Boulware; Bourne; Bowden; Boyd; Braxton; Bray; Bridget; Brisendine; Brister; Broach; Broaddus; Brookes; Brown; Brumley; Brushwood; Buckner; Bullman; Burch; Burnnett; Burton; Busby; Byne;

Campbell; Cannady; Cardwell; Carlton; Carr; Carter; Caugfland; Cauthorn; Cawthorn; Chanalt; Chapman; Clark; Clayton; Cleavley; Clegg; Cole; Collie; Collier; Collins; Cook; Cooke; Cooper; Corbin; Courtney; Covington; Cox; Crafton; Crane; Crittenden; Cross; Crouch; Crow; Curry;

Dalley; Darling; Davis; Deane; Deshazo; Dickie; Diggs; Dillard; Dudley; Dunbar; Dunn;

Edmondson; Edwards; Eubank; Evans;

Faringholtz; Farmer; Farrow; Faulkner; Fauntleroy; Fiddler; Fidler; Fleet; Fleming; Fogg; Foster; Fox; Furgeson;

Gaile; Gaines; Gardner; Garnett; Garrett; Gatewod; Gatewood; Gentry; Gibson; Gilmore; Gleeson; Good; Gouldman; Gouldmond; Grafton; Gramsil; Graves; Green; Greenstreet; Gresham; Griffith; Groom; Guthry; Gwathmey;

Haile; Hall; Hare; Harland; Harper; Harris; Hart; Harwood; Hasken; Hawes; Hawkins; Hawood; Hayes; Hemingway; Henderson; Henry; Hill; Hilyard; Hitchecock; Holderby; Hooker; Hoomes; Hooper; Hoskins; Hott; Houghton; Howard; Howel; Howerton; Hudson; Hundley; Hurt; Hutcheson;

Ison;

Jackson; Jeffries; Jeffry; Johnson; Jones; Jordan;

Kauffman; Kemp; Kerchevall; Kerr; Key; Kidd;

Lafon; Lambeth; Langham; Lankford; Layne; Leman; Lewis; Longest; Loving; Lumpkin; Lumpkins; Lyne;

Mahon; Major; Mann; Marman; Marshall; Martin; May; Meador; Meredith; Milbey; Mills; Minor; Mitchell; Moody; Moore; Morris; Motley; Muire; Mullin; Muse;

Nann; New; Newbill; Newcomb; Newsum; Noel; Norman; Norris; Nunn;

Oakes; Oglebe; Oliver; Orrill; Owens;

Pace; Page; Palmer; Parker; Parker; Patterson; Pearce; Pemberton; Pendleton; Perriman; Philips; Pickels; Pillsbury; Pitts; Pollard; Pollen; Prewett; Prince; Purks; Pynes;

Radford; Reade; Redd; Richards; Richeson; Riddle; Roane; Roberson; Roberts; Robins; Row; Roy; Royston; Ryland; Rylie;

Saddler; Sale; Samuel; Sanders; Schools; Scott; Sears; Segar; Self; Semple; Seward; Sewards; Shackelford; Shepherd; Simpkins; Skelton; Smith; Smither; Smithy; South; Southall; Southern; Southgate; Spencer; Standard; Stevens; Steward; Stone;

Taliaferro; Tarrent; Taylor; Temple; Terry; Tewmond; Thomas; Thrift; Thurston; Tigner; Tinsbloome; Todd; Townley; Trice; Tucker; Tuning; Tunstall; Turner; Twopence;

Upshaw;

Vass; Vaughan; Virlander;

Walden; Walker; Waller; Walton; Ware; Warren; Watkins; Watts; Webb; Webley; Wedderbourne; Whayne; Wheeler; Williams; Williamson; Willis; Wilmore; Wilson; Wright; Wyatt;

Young

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THE PARISH REGISTER OF SAINT PETER'S, NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1680-1787
PUBLISHED by National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia, rICHMONF, vA., 1904, ii, 206 pages AVAILABLE IN ELECTRONIC (PDF) FORMAT ONLY

Saint Peter’s Parish in New Kent County, Virginia, was established on April 29, 1679. Its historic church, completed in 1703, is now St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in New Kent, VA 23124. It is one of Virginia’s oldest surviving parish churches and a National Historic Landmark.
The parish is particularly associated with Martha Dandridge Custis, later Martha Washington: the Rev. David Mossom of St. Peter’s officiated at her marriage to George Washington on January 6, 1759. The church’s parish register and vestry records are important sources for Virginia genealogy, including records from roughly 1680–1787.

When New Kent county was formed in 1654, it included what is now King William, King & Queen, and Hanover counties. The parish register includes birth, baptism, marriage and death records, for both blacks and whites, in their original entry order To view a digital copy of the index to this book, visit Index-Sppr
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King and Queen Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 23 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. 3 Eastern Region (Includes the counties of Accomack, Caroline, Elizabeth City, Essex, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Nansemond, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Princess Anne, Richmond, Surry, Warwick, Westmoreland, York, and the independent city of Norfolk. ) abstracted by Roger G. Ward. 1997, vi, 252 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:
observe distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as "Smith", "Anderson", etc;
identify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county);
determine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);
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;
evaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;
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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King and Queen Co. Revolutionary Public Claims transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten.. 2005. 66 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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SOME WILLS FROM THE BURNED COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA compiled by William Lindsay Hopkins. 6x9 format. Wills from circa 1670-1830 for the counties of Brunswick, Buckingham, Caroline, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City, Gloucester, 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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For records pertaining to King and Queen COUNTY, VIRGINIA see:

York County
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

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