Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants: 1694-1742

Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants: 1694-1742
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1987
Genre: Genealogy
ISBN: 0806311762

The "headright" system, widely used for acquiring land in Virginia was never recognized in Virginia's Northern Neck. People wanting to acquire land there had to purchase a warrant and obtain a survey before they were issued a grant. The original Grant Books, now on microfilm, were used in making this collection of abstracts, and they generally provide the following information on some 5,000 Northern Neck residents: the name of the grantee, dates of warrant and survey, date and location of grant, amount of acreage, names of former owners/occupiers, names of adjacent property owners, and often the names of heirs and other family members.

Virginia Colonial Abstracts

Virginia Colonial Abstracts
Author: Beverley Fleet
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 1454
Release: 1988
Genre: Genealogy
ISBN: 0806311959

"In this reprint edition the contents [of the original 34 volumes] have been rearranged, re-typed, and consolidated in three hardcover volumes, each with its own master index."--Title page verso.

Genealogies of Virginia Families

Genealogies of Virginia Families
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 3680
Release: 1981
Genre: Registers of births, etc
ISBN: 0806309474

From Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine.

Genealogies of Virginia Families

Genealogies of Virginia Families
Author: Virginia Magazine of History and Biograp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2010-10
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is the fourth volume of a five-volume work consisting of Virginia genealogies from the "Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," a notable periodical that contained a large number of genealogies that will be of help to the researcher. This volume consists of articles about the following main families in the alphabetical sequence Healy-Pryor: Healy, Herndon, Heth, Hill, Hoffman, Hooe, Hoxton, Hughes, Johnson, Lanier (with Anderson, Robertson, Jennings, Knight, Woodson), Lee, Lefebure, Le Grand, Lewis, Lightfoot, Lindsay, Ludlow, Mallory, Markham, Marshall, Maupin, Mauzey-Mauzy, Michaux, Micou, Minor, Moore, Mordecai, Morgan, Morriss-Wade, Morton, Moseley, Muse, New, Newsom (with Sheppard, Spencer, Crawford, Carter, Barham, Judkins, Thorpe), Newton, Opie, Parker, Payne, Pendleton, Peticolas, Pickett, Pleasants, Poindexter, Poythress, Presly, Proby, and Pryor.

Westmoreland County

Westmoreland County
Author: William Armstrong Crozier
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1971
Genre: Land grants
ISBN: 080630474X

In 1905 Crozier launched an ambitious series entitled "Virginia County Records." This final volume published by Crozier is devoted exclusively to Westmoreland County, Virginia, and contains will abstracts, 1654-1794, and land grants, 1653-1793. The will abstracts, typically, furnish the name of the testator, the date of death and the date of probate, and the name and relationship to the deceased of all persons identified in the will. The index to land grants gives the name of the grantee, date and size of the grant, and source of the original record in Westmoreland County. The index refers to about 2,000 persons who resided in Westmoreland County in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Jenkins of Northern Neck and Old 96

The Jenkins of Northern Neck and Old 96
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1988
Genre: Virginia
ISBN:

Ancestors and descendants of John Belton Cleland (1864-1939) of South Carolina. John was the son of David Cleland and Harriet Alethea Jenkins (1840-18863. Jenkins ancestry traced to Nicholas Jenkins, son of Nicholas and Clemency Jenkins, who was born in Purleigh, Essex County, England and came to Virginia in 1657.

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
Author: Thomas D. Morris
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2004-01-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0807864307

This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance, mortgages, and transfers of property coexisted with laws pertaining only to slaves. According to Morris, southern lawmakers and judges struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery with existing English common law (or, in Louisiana, with continental civil law.) Because much was left to local interpretation, laws varied between and even within states. In addition, legal doctrine often differed from local practice. And, as Morris reveals, in the decades leading up to the Civil War, tensions mounted between the legal culture of racial slavery and the competing demands of capitalism and evangelical Christianity.