BURNED COUNTY DATA, 1809-1848 (AS FOUND IN THE VIRGINIA CONTESTED ELECTION FILES)
by Benjamin B. Weisiger,III, 1986. 100 pages, index. The author has examined a previously unexplored source of
information for valuable genealogical information regarding "burned counties." The bulk of the
data consists of depositions regarding qualifications of the voter (e.g., land ownership, age, length
of residence in the county, etc.) as well as data gleaned from a number of attached wills, deeds,
and even a Bible register. The following counties and elections are included in the current
volume: Hanover (1825); Buckingham (1809, 1840, 1848); Charles City (1821, 1838);
Gloucester (1827); New Kent (1838); James City (1845); and Caroline (1843).
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SOME WILLS FROM THE BURNED COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA
compiled by William Lindsay Hopkins. 6x9 format. Wills from
circa 1670-1830. Brunswick, Buckingham, Caroline, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City,
Glouster, 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 New Kent COUNTY, VIRGINIA see:
Chart on the Formation of Virginia Counties
Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia, 1634-1895
Index to the 1810 Virginia Census
New Kent County was created in 1654 from the upper part of York County and, like York, named for an English county. Its western limits were set as the headwaters of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers, and it included lands on the north shore of the Pamunkey River (which were given to New Kent from King and Queen County in 1691). Hanover County was taken from New Kent's western land in 1721. The final boundary change occurred in 1767 when an exchange of land on the New Kent-James City boundary settled a dispute.
Most of New Kent's records postdate the Civil War. In 1787, a fire destroyed most of the county's colonial records; then the remaining pre-1865 files were destroyed in the 1865 Richmond fire during the evacuation of the city.
New Kent County,Virginia 1810 Federal Census: A Transcription