A Place to Start
	Prince Edward County Clerk P.O. Box 304 Farmville, VA 23901-0304 (804) 392-5145 Marriages from 1754 Land from 1754 Probate from 1754 Court from 1754
Copies of birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates can be requested from the Virginia Department of Health Office of Vital Records, which houses more than 7 million records. Office of Vital Statistics P.O. Box 1000 Richmond, VA 23218-1000 804-662-6200 1853-1896 Birth & Death records are on file at The Virginia Archives as well as marriage records prior to 1936

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AREAS OF INTEREST (This Section Under Construction)

Battle of Sailors Creek    Campaign of 1781    Farmville    Hampden-Sydney College    High Bridge    Kingsville    Longwood Estate    Providence    Vernon Johns    Worsham - Link 1    Worsham - Link 2

Slate Hill Plantation

Slate Hill Plantation - Link 1    Slate Hill Plantation (Plantation Marker)- Link 2    Slate Hill Plantation (The Untold Story) - Link 3

Minnie Lacy's Boarding House

Minnie Lacy's Boarding House (The Untold Story)

BIBLE RECORDS All Offsite Links
Blount/Morrison Family Bible (1841-1877)	Edwards Family Bible	Martyr Family Bible
Morris Family Bible	Womack Family Bible	Various Bible Records Online

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BIOGRAPHIES All OFSITE Links
Gen. Joseph Eccleston Johnston	William Marshall Tredway, (1807 - 1891)	Abraham Bedford Venable, (1758 - 1811)	Some Prince Edward County Biographies Allen - Curry - Cunningham - Dickinson - Dunnington - Frazer - Henry	Some Prince Edward County Biographies Bondurant- Davidson- Eggleston- Gammon- Hundley- Jarmon- Watkins

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BIRTHS
	Hughes Births, 1853-1896

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Black History All Offsite Links
		Slaves Named in Estate of John Arnold
Virginia Black History Archives	Jackson Davis Collection An educational reformer and amateur photographer, took photographs of African American schools, teachers and students.	People of Color in the Old South

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BOOKS
Offers to lookup		Books

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CEMETERIES
Prince Edward County cemeteries at the Tombstone Project	Hamlet Family Cemetery	Prospect Methodist Church Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery	Williams Family Cemetery	Wilson/Jeffress Cemetery
Worsham Family Square (Cemetery)

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CENSUS
1783 Prince Edward County Census Heads of Household	1785 Prince Edward County Census Heads of Household
1850 Prince Edward County Census Index	1860 Prince Edward County Census	1880 Census An Offlink Site
	Electronic census spreadsheets An Off Site Link	USGenWeb Census Project

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COURT RECORDS All off site links
	Finley abstracts from Prince Edward County, Virginia, court and land records, 1700s	Morgan Family Court Orders, abstracted, 1787-1820 Part 1 Part 2

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DEEDS All Offsite Links
Some Prince Edward County Deeds 1775-1783	Ellington Deed, 1786	Finley Deeds
Overby/Jeffress deed	Meador/Routon Deed, 1817	Morgan Family Deed Abstracts, 1757-1843
		West/Blankenship Deed, 1768

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EDUCATION / SCHOOLS All Offsite Links
Early Education in Prince Edward County		Race, Education, and Prince Edward County, Virginia

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FAMILIES ALL Off Site Links
Bassett Family	Evans Family (The Untold Story)	Sam Brown and Family (The Untold Story)

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HISTORY All Offsite Links
Chalkley's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia	1776 Petition - Citizens of Prince Edward County	William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine

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LETTERS
Civil War Letter, Edward Hudson Jeffress	Woodall Letters by different people (1850-1865)	Judith Woodall Oakes Letters

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LIBRARIES All Offsite Links
DAR Library

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MAPS All Offsite Links
U.S. Census Maps 1790-1930	1820 Prince Edward County, Virginia Map	1895 Map of Prince Edward County
Virginia Historical Counties Map Provides on-demand, printable, large-scale maps of every boundary change of every county and independent city of Virginia.User chooses any day and month from 1634 to 2000 and can zoom in or out or alter the map in other ways. An easy-to-use HELP file and supplementary texts support the maps. From the Newberry Library

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MARRIAGES All Offsite Links
James Gillespy and Elizabeth Finley Marriage Bond, 5 January 1764	Marriages; Wm. and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2	Overby/Jeffress pre-nuptial agreement
Selected Marriage Records, 1803-1857	Marriages 1780 - 1850	Wingo/Bracher Marriage Bond, 1794

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MILITARY
Muster Roll of Capt. Morton's Co. of Militia, 1781	Officers in the Virginia Militia, 1777-1781 - Prince Edward Co. VA	Virginia Civil War Map of Battles 1865
A Memorial of LtC John C. Thornton 3rd VA Cav, CSA; by Rev R. L. Dabney

ORGANIZATIONS
Farmville - Prince Edward Historical Society	South Central Virginia Genealogical Society

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PENSIONS All Offsite Links
John BOATWRIGHT, Rev. War	Thomas BROOKS, Rev. War	Littlebury FARMER, War of 1812
	William HUBBARD, Rev. War	Confederate War Record Robert Henry SCOTT

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PLACES All off site links
Woodlawn	Jamestown on the Appomattox River	Prospect, Virginia

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WILLS All Offsite Links
Will Book 1 (partial)	Will Book 2 (partial)
Will of Caleb Baker, 1750	Will of Christian Baker, 1795	Will of Douglas Baker, 1765
Will of Martha Baker, 1759	Will of Robert Baker, Jr., 1759	Will of Samuel Baker, c1781
Will of Thomas Baldwin, 1767	Will of John Baldwin, 1799	Will of Mary Dejarnat/Dejarnatt, 1765
Will of Richard Blanton, Sr., 1799	Will of Theodorick Carter, 1778	Will of David Flournoy, 1757
Will of Betty Devin, 1818	Will of Mary Dejarnat/Dejarnatt, 1765
Will of Rev. James Garden, 1772	Will of Davis Hill, 1840	Will of James Hill, 1842
Will of William Hill, 1834	Will of William Hudson, 1795	Will of John Porter (Sr.), 1781
Will of John Spaulding, 1825	Will of James Wimbish, 1761

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Prince Edward County Resources All Offsite Links
Prince Edward County Government Page

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NEIGHBORING COUNTIES

Buckingham Co Cumberland Co Amelia Co Appomattox Co Prince Edward Co Nottoway Co Charlotte Co Lunenburg Co

Genealogy of Prince Edward County, with

Shortcuts to Ancestor Counties

Charles City Co (Original Shire)

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Prince George Co (1703)

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     Amelia Co (1735)

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      Prince Edward Co (1754)