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Orange County, Virginia families / compiled by William F. Brockman.

ISBN: 9780893087951
ISBN: 0893087955
ISBN: 0893087947
ISBN: 9780893087944
Physical Description: 3 volumes (multiple pagings) ; 22 cm
Publisher: Greenville, S.C. : Southern Historical Press, Inc., 2010.

Summary:

Vol. 2 - "Orange county was created from Spotsylvania County, VA. in 1734. In turn it is the parent county of: Augusta, Culpeper, Greene & Frederick. The records contained within this volume are: 2000 marriage bonds from 1747-1824; a list of Importations from 1735-1756 giving persons names and origin of country; Military Commissions from 1735-1793 giving names, dates and rank; a list of Revolutionary soldiers giving dates of enlistments along with any known additional information of service; a list of Bonds & Administrations from 1752-1796, Chancery Suits from 1739-1760; a list of Bonds 1735-1799; Court Orders-Military Services 1738-1785; a list of persons from Orange county who served in the War of 1812 & Mexican War; Military Claims 1785-1795; Tithables 1736-1758; and genealogies of Brockmans, Collins, Gaydens, Merrys, Sims, Rhodes, and Woolfolks."--SouthernHistoricalPress.com.

Vol. 3 - "The records contained within this volume are: Clerk Browning?s abstracts of various information from loose papers and supplemented by items not recorded and are believed to be the only source for this valuable information; Military Commissions in the State Militia 1735-1793 listing dates & ranks; and family genealogies/detailed information on: Ballard, Catterton, Chapman, Collins, Dowell-Salmon-Brockman, Salmon-Mundy Bible record, Edwards Bible record, Ellis, Graves Bible record, Hume of Culpeper, Macon, Masons of Gunston Hall, Montagues, Quisenberry, Rhodes, Shotwell Bible record, Simms, Terrett, Towles-Clark-Smoot, Willis family of Orange, Step-Stap-Stapp, Brockman, Tribble-Gordon-Burris, Marshall-Durrett, Robert E. Johnson Bible record, John Vaughan Miller Bible record, Wood Bible record."--SouthernHistoricalPress.com.