Prince William County, Virginia Genealogy

United States &gt; Virginia &gt; Prince William County

Parent County
1727--Prince William County was created 1 February 1727 from King George and Stafford Counties. County seat: Manassas

Neighboring Counties

 * Charles County, Maryland
 * Fairfax
 * Fauquier
 * Loudoun
 * Stafford

Court
General


 * Lounsbury, Carl R. "'An Elegant and Commodious Building': William Buckland and the Design of the Prince William County Courthouse," The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Sep. 1987):228-240. Available at JSTOR.

Chancery Court

Indexes and images to Prince William County, Virginia Chancery Records 1804-1951 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.

Family Histories
Bibliography


 * [Davis] Moore, Robert P. Ancestors and Nelson Co., Ky., Associates of the Kincheloe, Wickliffe, and Davis Families of Prince William County, Virginia. Lexington, Kentucky: R.P. Moore, 1996. Available at FHL.
 * [Harrison] Harrison, Fairfax. "Parson Waugh's Tumult: A Chapter from 'Landmarks of Old Prince William,'" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. 1922):31-37. Available at JSTOR.
 * [Kincheloe]See Davis.
 * [Randolph]Available at FHL.
 * [Wickliffe] See Davis.

Immigration

 * Harrison, Fairfax. "When the Convicts Came: A Chapter from 'Land Marks of Old Prince William,'" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Jul. 1922):250-260. Available at JSTOR.

Local Histories

 * Berkley, Henry J. "The Port of Dumfries, Prince William Co., Va.," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr. 1924):99-116. Available at JSTOR.
 * Curtis, Donald E. and Prince William County Historical Commission. The Curtis Collection: A Personal View of Prince William County History. Prince William, Virginia: Prince William County Historical Commission, 1988. Available at FHL.

Newspapers
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette(1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburgwebsite. In addition, Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.

Slavery and Bondage

 * Harrison, Fairfax. "When the Convicts Came: A Chapter from 'Land Marks of Old Prince William,'" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Jul. 1922):250-260. Available at JSTOR.

Taxation
Images of the 1788 and 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of Prince William County, Virginia are available to browse online at Binns Genealogy.

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog