James City County, Virginia, VAGenWeb page.

James City County History and Genealogy Sources and Links

• Familiy Pages

  • Check out the names at the Ratcliffe Family Information.
  
  
• BOOKS
  • 2013 BOOK REVIEW: Kingston Parish, Mathews County, VA
    Included here because James City County has lost so many early records. While not specifically about James City County, this book may contain information about people who lived in the county.
    
    Kingston Parish Register: Mathews, Gloucester and Middlesex Counties, Virginia - Slaves and Slaveholders, 1746-1827, by Martha W. McCartney
    108 pages; paper; every name index, list of slaveholders and years of reporting; brief history of Mathews County, Kingston Parish and the Kingston Parish Register and over 1800 alphabetically listed entries of slave births and baptisms. Available at Genealogical.com.
    This slim volume is well-arranged, well-indexed and packed with new information that was deliberately omitted from earlier publications of the Kingston Parish register. The format gives slave's name, owner's name, birth or baptism date, or both, and page number of the parish register.
    Information about these previously neglected individuals should be of interest to everyone researching African-American families in Virginia. The separate list of slaveholders and years of reporting gives a succinct snapshot of economic activities of those families, too. Because slaves could be sold or rented out of the area where they had been born, any of these individuals could have been moved during their lifetimes to other nearby counties. This fact broadens the interest of this information beyond the boundaries of Kingston Parish and Mathews County.
    This is a highly valuable resource from a well-respected historian. It fills in a large gap in the previously available published records of Mathews County and Kingston Parish. Highly recommended.
    
    
  • James City County: Keystone of the Commonwealth (1997) by Martha W. McCartney, can be ordered from James City County, 3127 Forge Road, Toano, VA 23188.
  • Jamestown People to 1800: Landowners, Pulbic Officials, Minorities and Native Leaders (2012) by Martha W. McCartney, can be ordered from Amazon.com
  • Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635 (2007) by Martha W. McCartney, can be ordered from Amazon.com
  
  
• LINKS
  • James City County Burgesses 1619-1693 at this web site.
  • James City County, VA Archives at the USGenWeb Archives.
  • James City County, VA, 1782 Personal Property Tax List at the New River Notes web site.
  • James City County, VA, 1788 Personal Property Tax List at the New River Notes web site.
  • James City County, VA, 1788 Personal Property Tax List USGenWeb.
  • Explore Special Collections at Earl Gregg Swam Library, College of William and Mary.

• James City County, VA, Censuses at Linkpendium.
• Coke and Geddy Family Bible Records
• Search Cemeteries at Find a Grave
• Churches in James City County at Family Search
• Virginia GenWeb Check it out.

Other James City County Links

• Jamestown Rediscovery. exciting archaeological discoveries at the earliest permanent English settlement in North America!
• Colonial Williamsburg's Digital Library. Check it out!
• The Jamestowne Society.
• James City County Government Web Site
• The Virginia Gazette
• Williamsburg Area Chamber of Commerce.

• Sites On the Web Relating to James City County (Google)
• U.S. Civil War pages at Cyndi's List.
• The Civil War in Virginia
• Genealogy.com

• Historical Virginia State Maps at VDOT. Check them out!
• Office of Coast Survey. There are GREAT color Civil War era maps! They show topography and names of land owners in the 1860s. DON'T NEGLECT THEM! Search the catalog.
• Virginia counties on a topography map from Johns Hopkins University