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Deed and will books can contain land transactions, mortgages, leases, bills of sale, powers of attorney, marriage contracts, estate settlements, and much more information of genealogical interest. They are a must for researching your family history.This volume contains entries from Northumberland County, Virginia, Record Book, 1658-1662 beginning on page 1 and ending on page 89 for courts held 20 July 1658 through 12 December 1662. A full-name and place index adds to the value of this work.

The town of Newington lies north and west of Portsmouth. Originally a part of Dover called Bloody Point, it was separated as a town, in its own right, in 1713. Being so close to the earliest settlements in New Hampshire, Newington is an important town for anyone doing research into 17th and 18th century New Hampshire.Compilation of this major work was prompted by the difficulty Mr. Hardon had in using copies of Rev. Joseph Adam's record of baptisms and marriages, 1716-1783. It occurred to him that he could save himself (and other researchers) time, and also clear up uncertainties, if he rearranged the records into family groups. Mr. Hardon then made numerous additions to Adam's work, from such sources as the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, various volumes of the New Hampshire State Papers and published genealogies.For some families the entries are brief - perhaps just a few marriages or baptisms. But for many the treatment is so lengthy that it amounts to a genealogy in itself. Entries are listed alphabetically by surname then by generation. Information includes birth, baptism and death dates, covenants, communions, marriages, parentage, occupations, affiliations with certain organizations, administration of estates, conveyed property, and other facts of interest to the genealogist. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume of the Fauquier County, Virginia series contains entries from Fauquier County Minute Book, 1764-1768 beginning on page 339 and ending on page 411 for courts held November 24, 1767 through July 26, 1768; and Fauquier County Minute Book, 1768-1773 beginning on page 1 and ending on page 129 for courts held August 22, 1768 through August 28, 1769.Court minute books contain minutes of all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in court minute books including appointments of county and militia officers, records of legal disputes heard before the county court, appointments of guardians, apprenticeship of children by the overseers of the poor, naturalizations, road orders, and registrations of free Negroes.

"Here upon the soil of the first free State west of the Mississippi River the lines from the North and the South converged; the varied habits of life, traits of character, manners, customs, and beliefs were to be moulded and fashioned together; and out of the combination was to come that which to-day is characterized as 'Western Quakerism'." The author, a member of the Society of Friends, has compiled material from a wealth of manuscripts at Penn College in Oskaloosa, the Library of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and personal correspondence with various sects. This work was written at the request of the State Historical Society of Iowa to document the considerable influence of Iowa's small Quaker population on Iowa history.A brief historical account of the rise and spread of Quakerism provides a foundation for further exploration of the history and evolution of Iowa Quakers, including the organization's structure and a look at some of the factions of the Friends in Iowa, including: Anti-Slavery Friends, Hicksite Friends, Wilbur Friends, Conservative Friends, and Norwegian Friends of Iowa; benevolent and educational enterprises including African Americans, American Indians, White's Iowa Manual Labor Institute, Missionary activities, and educational issues. The author touches on Quakerism in England during the reign of the Stuarts, the persecution of the first Quaker immigrants to America, the "Holy Experiment" of William Penn, the exodus of Quakers from the South due to their abhorrence of the institute of slavery, the first Quaker settlers in Iowa, Isaac Pidgeon (1835), the expansion of Quaker settlements (1850-1860), the establishment of a yearly meeting, and humanitarian efforts into the early 1900's. This work is enhanced by a full-name, place and subject index; appendices; and is fully annotated with citations and sources.

This volume is presented in the same double-page format as Northampton County, Virginia, 1890 Personal Property Tax List due to the volume of information. It offers a wealth of valuable genealogical data presented in a convenient table format with entries listed alphabetically by surname within most sections.Column headings include: Name of Person who by himself or by his tenant has the freehold in possession the land charged (residence of the owner of the tract of land - both in column 1); Nature of the owner's estate whether held in fee or for life; Number of acres in each tract; Name of tract and description of the land; Distance and Bearing from the courthouse; Value of land per acre, including buildings; Sum included in the value of each tract of land on account of buildings; Total value of the land and buildings; Amt. of tax on the land and buildings at 30 cts. on every $100 value thereof; Amt. of tax on the land and buildings at 10 cts. on every $100 value thereof; TOTAL TAX; Amt. of tax levied for county free school purposes; Amt. of tax levied for district free school purposes; Total levy for county and district free school purposes; and Amt. of Tax levied for County Purposes.Chapters include: Capeville District, Recapitulation, Eastville District, Recapitulation, Franktown District, Recapitulation, Cape Charles City, Recapitulation, County Recapitulation, Cape Charles (map and lots), Oaths & Certificates, Largest Landowners, and Largest taxpayers. Several facsimile reprints of original documents and a full-name index add to the value of this work.

This work contains transcriptions of the 1820, 1830 and 1840 Northampton County, Virginia, censuses. Genealogists, or any individual researching their family tree, will find this useful in their quest to fill missing gaps.The first section is devoted to the painstakingly transcribed 1820 Population Census for Northampton County, Virginia. Censuses were taken in 1790, 1800 and 1810; however, this is the earliest that has survived. Taken by Samuel G. Carpenter, assistant to the Marshall of Virginia, this version is different from later ones. This one was written on plain paper with lines and columns drawn by Mr. Carpenter, and was three decades before the history-making 1850 Census which listed all members of a family for the first time. This census contains 757 total households.The 1830 Census is unlike the one previous for several reasons. Most notably this census contains far fewer households and each household contained far more persons. This census contains 404 households and a total of 8,644 persons which is an average of 21.4 persons per household. There were eight households with fifty or more per household and only six households with less than ten per household in the first thirteen pages of the census. The largest household has sixty-nine, and one household had ten male slaves under ten and eleven female slaves under ten.Northampton County, Virginiäs 1840 Census, the 6th Federal Census, is different from the 1820 Census because it has twice as many age categories. The 1840 Census has thirteen age groups each for free white males and females. Free colored males and females and slaves, both male and female, also have more age categories. Names of head of household are in the original order recorded by Mr. Carpenter to preserve areas and neighborhoods for genealogy research. In addition to the Agriculture, Commerce and Manufacturing categories in Employment, this Census has added one for Navigation of the ocean and one for Learned professions and engineers. In the original census there are thirty names to a page and a total of twenty-five pages. The total population count for Northampton County is 7,714. Another difference in the 1840 Census over the 1820 Census is that Free White Persons, Free Colored Persons and Slaves are all listed together on one form.