Created in 1761 from Albemarle County. Amherst, the seat of Amherst County, is surrounded by farms.
Amherst County, was named for Sir Jeffrey Amherst, who was acclaimed as "Conqueror of Canada".
Although named Governor of Virginia, he never came to the colony.
Clifford, incorporated as Cabellsburg in 1785 and later known as New Glasgow, was for a short time the county seat.

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History and Borders of Amherst County

Amherst County Courthouse
Clerk of the Court
100 E. Court St.
P.O. Box 462
Amherst, VA 24521-2707
434-946-9321

Birth Records - N/A
Marriage Records - From 1763
Death Records - N/A
Land Records - From 1761
Probate Records - From 1761
Court Records - From 1761

 

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BIBLE RECORDS

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 CAMPBELL-DINWIDDIE Family Bible

 MARTIN Bible

 PRESTON-FLOYD Family Bible

 

 

 CEMETERIES

 Allwood Cemetery,
behind El Bethel Church

 Avoca Slave Cemetery
An Offsite Link

 Davies Cemetery

Fairmount Baptist Church Cemetery

 USGenWeb Archives
Amherst Co. Cemeteries

 Higginbotham Cemetery

An Offsite Link
 

Monacan Indian Burial Ground - AKA Vault Hill

Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery

 Mt. Tabor United Methodist Church Cemetery

 Oronoco Church of the Brethern Cemetery

Pettyjohn Cemetery

An Offsite Link 

Sardis United Methodist Church Cemetery

 Schaar Cemetery

Smyrna United Methodist Church Cemetery

An Offsite Link

 St. Luke's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Pedlar Mills

 Thomas Cemetery

 

 The Political Graveyard

(This is a list of politicians
buried in Amherst County)

An Offsite Link

Sweet Briar College Cemeteries

Iseman Cemetery

 

 

 CENSUS

Electronic census spreadsheets
An Off Site Link

 Alexander Brown's Early Settler's List

From the Alexander Brown papers in the Special Collections Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

 Free Heads of Household in the 1810 Virginia Census

Heads of Household 1783
An Offsite Link

 Heads of Household 1785
An Offsite Link

 Tax List for Lexington
Parish/District - 1800

1810 Amherst Co. Census
An Offsite Link

1850 Amherst Co. Census Index
An Offsite Link
1850 Amherst Co. Census
An Offsite Link

 1880 Census
An Offlink Site

 


 

  CHURCHES

History of St. Luke's Church in Pedlar Mills, VA 

   

 

 DEATHS

 Obituaries extracted from The Nashville Christian Advocate

1853-1902

   

 

 DEEDS

Amherst County Property Look-ups
An Offsite Link 

STINNET-ISHAM Deed, 1761 
An Offsite Link

 John O. BROWN Deed, 1891

 GARLAND - CLARK Deed, 1822
An Offsite Link

HALL Deeds 

An Offsite Link

 HUCKSTEP Deeds

An Offsite Link

 Charles ISON Deed, 1780

An Offsite Link

 ISON -STEPHENS Deed, 1780

An Offsite Link

MAGANN Deeds 

An Offsite Link

 MAYS Deeds

An Offsite Link

 MAYS-COLEMAN Deed, 1787

An Offsite Link

 McALEXANDER Deed, 1799

An Offsite Link

 Richard NORTH Land Grant, 1800

 PARISH-CHRISTIAN Deed, 1816
An Offsite Link

 Powhatan Bolling Grant, 1791
An Offsite Link


 

 EDUCATION

 1959 Amherst County High School Senior Class

   

 FAMILY

BOBBITT Family
An Offsite Link

CASH Line
An Offsite Link

John Friar HALL Family Page

An Offsite Link

HIGGINBOTHAM Family

An Offsite Link
The WRIGHT Family
An Offsite Link

SMOOT Family

        Descendants of Augustus SCHAAR

 Descendants of Samuel STAPLES, Sr.

The Tinsley Family Jamestown and Beyond
 An Offsite Link


 

HISTORY

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 Historical Highway Markers of Amherst County

 Early Settlers of Amherst County


 

 LIBRARIES

Amherst Main Library
An Offsite Link

 

Library of Virginia


 

MARRIAGES

Original Amherst Marriage License

 

Miscellaneous Marriage Records, 1857-1956
An Offsite Link

 

 MISC GENEALOGY RECORDS

 Misc. SORRELL documents

The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin In the Colony of Virginia

An Offsite Link

 The Monacan Indians of Amherst County

An Offsite Link

 Common Nicknames

Documents, Chiefly Unpublished relating to the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin Town, Published by the Virginia Historical Society in 1886

An Offsite Link

 Eastern Tribes of First Contact
Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware


 

 NEWSPAPERS

Amherst New Era-Progress

The Ledger

An Offsite Link
 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

 Amherst County Museum & Historical Society

An Offsite Link

Central Virginia Genealogical Association
P.O. Box 5583
Charlottesville, VA 22905-5583

   

 

PENSIONS

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Revolutionary Pension Abraham CHILDERS

Soldier's Pension Application: Robert N. TYREE, 1899

 Rev. War Pension Thomas CRAWLEY

 Rev. War Pension Application for
Pvt. George HARDWICK, 1834

Revolutionary War Pension, Thomas McCLAIN

 Revolutionary War Pension, James McCLAIN

  Revolutionary War Pension, Henry McCLAIN

Revolutionary War Pension, Thomas McCLAIN, 1832



 

 PLACES

Dulwich Manor B&B
An Offsite Link 

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
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Bald Eagle Island
An Offsite Link


 

 WILLS

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 Various Amherst County Wills

 Will of Lawrence CAMPBELL, 1813

Will of  Edward Ware, 1779

 Settlement of Estate of Robert H. CASH, Jr.

 Will of Howard CASH

Administrators, Estate of
John F. HALL, 1850

Will of Jacob SMITH

 Will of William SMITH

 HALL Family Heirs

Heirs of John Friar HALL, 1891

Will of Clary SMITH

Will of Ambrose LEE, 1764

 Will of Thomas LEE, 1861

Will of William LEE, 1784 

 Will of John MAYS, 1815

 Will of  John SANGIDGE

Will of Abram SMITH, 1806

 


 

 GENEALOGY HELPERS

Amherst County Government 

Where to write for Vital Statistics

Virginia Historical Society

 Search the LDS website

The Association for
Gravestone Studies  

 Search the DAR Library Catalog

 

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Virginia's Indian Tribes


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Shortcuts to Ancestor Counties

Henrico Co (Original Shire)

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Albemarle Co (1744)

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Amherst Co (1761)