Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816
Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816

Author: Landon Covington Bell

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0806306327

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Cumberland Parish was coextensive with Lunenburg County from its inception in 1745, and Mr. Bell's history of the parish and transcription of its oldest vestry book are of the first importance. The vestry book itself is replete with records of birth, baptism, marriage, and death, as well as an abundance of land transactions. To this, Mr. Bell has added extensive genealogical sketches of families who furnished vestrymen to Cumberland Parish.

Early Wills, 1746-1765
Early Wills, 1746-1765

Author: Katherine B. Elliott

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780893083779

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By: Katherine Elliott, Pub. 1967, Reprinted 2016, 178 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-377-1. Lunenburg County was created in 1746 out of Brunswick County, VA. The earliest records in Lunenburg County cover this entire area. The records included in this volume have been abstracted from wills and administrations found in the back of Deed Book I and Will Book I & II. Because some of the early records of Lunenburg County do not seem to have been preserved, the compilers have included in this volume some 20 pages of records abstracted from ORDER BOOK 1-6. These notes from the order books give names of deceased persons not of record in the will books, and names of orphans and other notes pertaining to the period covered in Volumes 1 and 2 of these reprints. Also found is a listing of marriages taken from Deed Books and other vital records, as well as apprenticeships, guardianship and much other valuable data important to the person searching this area of Virginia. There are more than 2,200 names of persons found in the above records listed in the full-name index.

A Murder in Virginia
A Murder in Virginia

Author: Suzanne Lebsock

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780393326062

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Recounts the events surrounding the dramatic post-Civil War trial of a young African American sawmill hand who was accused of ax murdering a white woman on her Virginia farmyard and who implicated three other women in the crime.

Marriages of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1853
Marriages of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1853

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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At the time of its formation in 1746, Lunenburg County comprised the territory contained in nine present-day Virginia counties. In this work, Matheny and Yates have recorded all pertinent details of the 2,400 earliest extant Lunenburg County marriages.

The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry
The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry

Author: Richard R. Beeman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 081220087X

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The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry is the story of an expanding frontier. Richard Beeman offers a lively and well-written account of the creation of bonds of community among the farmers who settled Lunenburg Country, far to the south and west of Virginia's center of political and economic activity. Beeman's view of the nature of community provides an important dynamic model of the transmission of culture from older, more settled regions of Virginia to the southern frontier. He describes how the southern frontier was influenced by those staples of American historical development: opportunity, mobility, democracy, and ethnic pluralism; and he shows how the county evolved socially, culturally, and economically to become distinctly southern.