Surry County Virginia History and Genealogy

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Surry County was formed in 1652 from the James City County lands south of the James River. Its initial boundaries extended from the river to the North Carolina line. In 1723 the southern portion was cut off to form part of newly-established Brunswick County, and additional territory was ceded to Brunswick in 1732. The middle portion of Surry County was formed into Sussex County in 1753 and Surry reached its present bounds at that time. Surry was settled very early in Virginia history. Smith's Fort Plantation was the first permanent settlement erected there in 1608/09. The first land patent in the county's lands dates from 1624. Four courthouse fires and two major wars have swept through the county, but the county court records have survived these disasters. Only the court order books from 1719 to 1740 and one nineteenth-century deed book is missing.

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SURRY CO., VA 1810 CENSUS transcribed by John Vogt. 2010,8 x 10, x, 15 pages, illustrations, maps, statistical summary
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SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS, 1684-1733 AND OTHER COURT PAPERS transcribed by William Lindsay Hopkins. Reprinted 1994, 8� x 11, iv, 203 pages, index. A faithful and accurate transcription of an important colonial record book for this county. Due to the loss of many of the court records of Dinwiddie, Charles City, and Prince George counties, the records of Surry County have taken on even greater importance because there was much movement in these early years over county lines and the James River.
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SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS AND ESTATE ACCOUNTS, 1734-1755 transcribed by William Lindsay Hopkins. Reprinted 1994, 8" x 11, iv, 163 pages, index. A faithful and accurate transcription of an important colonial record book for this county. Due to the loss of many of the court records of Dinwiddie, Charles City, and Prince George counties, the records of Surry County have taken on even greater importance because there was much movement in these early years over county lines and the James River.
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SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS AND ESTATE ACCOUNTS, 1756-1787 transcribed by William Lindsay Hopkins. Reprinted 1995, 8" x 11, iv, 182 pages, index. A chronological continuation of the above volume.
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Surry Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 21 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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Surry Co. Revolutionary Public Claims transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten.. 2005. 19 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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For more records pertaining to SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA see also:

James City County
Brunswick County
Sussex 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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Iberian Publishing Company's On-Line Catalog: Surry County Virginia

Iberian Publishing Company's On-Line Catalog:
Surry County Virginia