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Middlesex County is located at the eastern end of Virginia's Middle Peninsula region. The county is bounded by the Rappahannock River to the north, by the Chesapeake Bay to the east, by the Piankatank River and Dragon Run Swamp to the southwest, and by Essex County to the northwest. Middlesex County was founded in 1668; the county seat is Saluda. Urbanna was one of the twenty towns created by an act passed by the Colonial House of Burgesses in 1680 to encourage the creation of port towns that would open trade with the Colonies. The town was officially named Urbanna in 1706 and it was incorporated on April 2, 1902. It remains the county's largest commercial center and its only incorporated area. |
 The official seal of the county, from https://www.co.middlesex.va.us/ | Neighboring Counties:
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Records of Middlesex County, VA by Helyn Hatton Collison (1997) |
Births - 1853-1896; Deaths - 1853-1896; List of Jurors/Court Docket - 1887-1891; Temperance Society - 1829-1833; Minutes and Members of Lower Church - 1884-1926 To order, contact Helyn at helync@comcast.net ~ New email address Mar. 2002 |
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Middlesex County Marriage Records 1853--1904 & the 1880 Federal Census of Middlesex County, Virginia by Catherine Moore Traylor (1998). |
Includes about 900 marriage abstracts, with vital statistics and diverse genealogical information.
Marriage Records include such information as: 279A 14 May 1903 - *Geo. Fountain, Jr., 31 single, farmer, b. & residing Mid., son of Geo. & Maria Fountain, married Susan Davis, 39, widow, b. & residing Mid., dau. of Wm & Lucy Taliaferro. (B) Sample 1880 Census Record includes: 190 203 George Fountain, BM, 55, married, farm laborer, attended school, could read and write, born in Virginia, parents born in Virginia, with the following members of his household: Marie Fountain, BF, wife, keeping house; Major Fountain, BM 14, son; Lucinda Fountain, BF, 10; and *George Fountain, BM, 9 son. Copies may be obtained from the Middlesex County Museum, Saluda, Va. |
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Some Voters of Middlesex County, VA With Dates of Birth Back to the 1820s by Helyn Hatton Collison (2001) |
Includes the first women to register in the county, some history of suffrage, misc. tidbits of information found on loose papers in voting registers, and article "African American Females and Voting Rights in Middlesex County, VA"
Sample entry: Registration date: Sep, 1902, Name: J. P. Crismond, Date of Birth: 1827, Occupation: Ship Joiner, Precinct: Saluda, Years in VA/75; yrs in Middlesex/05; yrs in precinct/05. To order, contact Helyn at helync@comcast.net ~ New email address Mar. 2002 |
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Cemeteries in Middlesex County, Virginia recorded by the Middlesex County Cemetery Search Committee (2001) |
This book is the result of a three-year search by volunteers and documents burials in 25 church graveyards, 120+ private burial grounds, Index of 1000+ names.
Copies may be obtained from the Middlesex County Museum, Saluda, Va. |
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The Vestry Book of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, 1663-1767, C. G. Chamberlayne (Richmond, VA: Old Dominion Press, 1927) |
This volume transcribes the earliest records of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, predating by several years the establishment of the parish in 1666. Some of the entries in this vestry book relate as well to Lancaster Parish and Middlesex County. This volume contains a verbatim transcript of the parish vestry book, in which was recorded essential accounts of parish business. The bulk of the entries concern: disbursements of funds for routine services and maintenance of church property which generally name the recipient and the service or product supplied; disbursements of funds for the support of poor and/or sick parishioners which generally name the caretaker and the cared-for parties; and appointments of tithingmen and other church officers. |
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Family Histories of Middlesex County, Virginia by by Jessie M DeBusk, Louise E Gray, Charles Price, Dorothy Price (Urbanna, VA: Ralph Wormeley Branch APVA, 1982) | |
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Robinsons of "Hewick", Near Urbanna in Middlesex County, Virginia by R. A. Brock |
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A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Viginia, 1650-1750 by Darrett Bruce Rutman (NY: Norton, 1984) |
Describes the social and economic conditions in Virginia during the hundred years prior to the Revolution, and examines how the county developed. |
Hewick Plantation Cemetery Tombstones of Middlesex Urbana Cemetery |
1810 Federal Census Index 1810 Federal Census, page 393 1820 Federal Census Index 1820 Federal Census, page 36 1830 Federal Census Index 1830 Federal Census, page 162 |
A History of the First Courts of Middlesex (1660s-early 1700s) (Includes info further dating the establishment of the county) |
1909 Middlesex County Confederate Pension List |
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