In Eastern VA, AS this Shows New Kent County was Formed in 1654, Hanover
County 1721 Formed From New Kent County, Records were Destroyed in 1865,
Louisa 1742 formed From Hanover County. Albemarle 1744 Formed From <Goochland> &
Louisa Counties, Amherst 1761 Formed From Albemarle County THEN Nelson 1808
Formed from Amherst County.
I still Believe That our Campbell's Landed in Eastern Va, Settling in The
Area that Evently Became Albemarle, County Then Amherst To Nelson County &
Never Moved.
Now This County Lines Moving Comes from The, <Formation of Virginia
Counties>
RETRACING OUR FAMILY LEGACY
EVOLUTION of VIRGINIA COUNTIES
This happens so Often, The migrants Settled & the County Lines Changed BUT
so often the People were right where They First Settled. MAY be Not But I Have
Not Seen ANY THING TO say NO. MAY some enterprising Genealogist,
< CUZ BUDY, maybe, will check on the Campbell's Listed Here,
Hint-Hope. BUT I still Believe that Our Campbell's Landed in Va. There Has
Been many North Carolina Families That did Originate in Va. BUT There Has Been
very little if Any Record of Migration From N. C. to Va. In Olden Times.
CUZ A T <atpowelljr(a)aol.com>
New Kent County,
Virginia, was created from York and a portion of James City County in 1654, and
it was itself the parent county of King & Queen and King William counties. Dr.
Malcolm Harris' two-volume history and genealogy of "Old" New Kent County
(the
three present-day counties in the aggregate) is one of the great achievements
of Virginia local history of the last century. Clearfield Company is honored
to have been selected by the Harris family to reprint a hardcover edition of
Old New Kent County at this time. Privately published and out of print for many
years, this work takes on even greater importance in light of the loss of
county records in New Kent and in King & Queen counties and the survival of mere
fragments for King William County prior to 1865.
The scope and arrangement of Old New Kent County are both entertaining and
extraordinarily informative. Because the author's objective was to aid
researchers in locating the sites and the inhabitants of the region during the colonial
period, a pleasing narrative-supported by numerous photographs-links New
Kent's plantations, ancestral homes, landmarks, and artifacts with its ancestors
and their descendants. The work is arranged by county and thereunder according
to the Episcopal parishes that comprised each county, namely Blisland and St.
Peter's in New Kent; Stratton Major, St. Stephen's, and Drysdale in King &
Queen; and St. John's and St. David's in King William. Besides the local and
family histories, the publication boasts of an inventory of extant records at each
county clerk's office, a number of lists of landowners (including a
comprehensive list of King William County land tax assessments for 1782), marriage or
other source records, and a comprehensive name index.
Of greatest interest to genealogists, of course, are the genealogies and
sketches of Old New Kent families. Following is a list of most of the main
families covered in this extraordinary work. (Researchers should bear in mind that
many more surnames will be found in the index to the work.)
New Kent: Adams, Allen, Apperson, Armistead, Bacon, Bassett, Bathurst, Boyd,
Burnet, Butts, Chamberlayne, Christian, Clayton, Clopton, Cousic, Crump,
Dancie, Dandridge, Daingerfield, Davies, Ellyson, Foster, Goddin, Graves, Jones,
Lacy, Lafayette, Lewis, Littlepage, Lyddall, Macon, Massie, Meaux, Mossom, Otey,
Parke, Parkinson, Poindexter, Pollard, Scott, Semple, Stewart, Tarleton,
Terrell, Tunstall, Vaiden, Martha Washington, Webb, Wilks, Williams, Winslow,
Woodward, and Wyatt-Field-Jefferson.
King & Queen: Bagby, Bates, Baylor, Beverley, Bird, Boyd, Brooke, Camm,
Campbell, Coleman, Corbin, Dame, Dew, Didlake, Dillard, Dixon, Dunlap, Field,
Fleet, Gaines, Gardner, Gatewood, Govan, Gregory, Gresham, Gwathmey, Hill, Hockley,
Holmes, Hoomes, Hoskins, Howell-Fielding-Dixon, Hubbard, Leigh, Lewis,
Livingston, Lumpkin, Lyne, Madison, Meredith, Milby, Pendleton, Pollard, Richards,
Roane, Robinson, Rootes, Ryland, Sears, Semple, Shackleford, Smith, Soanes,
Spencer, Strachey-Metcalfe, Taliaferro, Taylor, Todd, Tunstall, Walker, Ware,
Wyatt, and Young.
King William: Arnold, Aylett, Banks, Boothe, Braxton, Buckner, Burwell,
Butler, Campbell, Carr, Catlett, Chamberlayne, Chiles, Claiborne, Cocke, Cownes,
Dabney, Dandridge, Ellett, Fontaine, Fox, Frazer, Garlick, Harris, Hickman,
Hill, Hoomes, Huntington, Johnson, Jones, King, Langbourne, Lipscomb, Littlepage,
McGeorge, McGhee, Marshall, Martin, Maury, Mill, Moore, Nelson, Palmer,
Perrin, Pollard, Power, Quarles, Ragsdale, Richeson, Ruffin, Seaton, Skyren,
Southerland, Spencer, Starke, Taliaferro, Temple, Toler, Tompkins, Valentine, Waller,
Webber, West, Wormley, and Winston.
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