Mecklenburg County, Virginia Genealogy

United States   Virginia    Mecklenburg County

County Courthouse
Mecklenburg County Courthouse P.O. Box 530 Boydton, VA 23917-0530

Clerk Circuit Court has marriage probate

land and court records

Parent County
1764--Mecklenburg County was created 26 May 1764 from Lunenburg County. County seat: Boydton

Variant Spellings

 * Mecklenburgh

Record Loss

 * Lost censuses: 1790, 1800, 1810, 1890

Neighboring Counties
''' Civil War

Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865

Virginia,  Service Records of Union Soldiers 1861-1865

Naturalization '''

Virginia Naturalization Petitions, 1906-1929

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.

Occupations

 * Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. Available at . [Includes a section on Mecklenburg County silversmiths.]

Private Papers

 * Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007

Probate

 * Bolten, Joseph S. Will of William Davis, Lunenburg County, Va. 1964. Available at . [Davis's will was proved in Mecklenburg County.]

Taxation
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 * [1782-1820] Heinegg, Paul. "Mecklenburg County Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1820," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
 * [1782-1783] Mecklenburg County 1782 &amp; 1783 Tax List. Purchase at Simmons Historical Bookstore.
 * [1784] Sheriff's Tax Land Sales, 1784, Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Oct. 1989). Available at.
 * [1787] Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 &amp; 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 &amp; Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle &amp; Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. Available at . [The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Mecklenburg County is included in Vol. 1.]
 * [1787-1789] Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1976):199-208; Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1978):43-50. Available at ; digital version at New England Ancestors ($). [These records identify migrants who left the county and often their intended destinations. Mecklenburg County's 1787-1788 Delinquent Lists appear on 20:204-207; 1788-1789 Delinquent Lists appear on 22:46-50.]
 * [1790, 1799] Indexed images of the 1790 and 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of Mecklenburg County, Virginia are indexed online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * [1789, 1799] Indexed images of the 1789 and 1799 Land Tax Lists of Mecklenburg County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * [1800] Tax List, 1800, Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jan. 1996); Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr. 1996); Vol. 40, No. 3 (Jul. 1996); Vol. 40, No. 4 (Oct. 1996); Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan. 1997); Vol. 41, No. 2 (Apr. 1997). Available at.
 * [1810] Schreiner-Yates, Netti. A Supplement to the 1810 Census of Virginia: Tax Lists of the Counties for which the Census is Missing. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1971. Available at . [The source for this publication is the 1810 personal property tax list. Mecklenburg County is included because the 1810 Census for that county has been destroyed.]
 * [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at . [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Mecklenburg County is included in Vol. 2.]

Birth

 * Fridley, Beth. Mecklenburg County Virginia Birth Records, 1866-85 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001. Available at Ancestry ($).

Marriage

 * Nottingham, Stratton. Marriage License Bonds of Mecklenburg County, Virginia from 1765 to 1810. Onancock, VA, USA: Stratton Nottingham, 1928. Available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($); and World Vital Records ($).

Societies and Libraries
Library of Virginia: (Virginia State Archives)

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/

Virginia Memory Collection is part of Library of Virginia's website. It contains digitized collections of chanceries, newspapers, photo collections etc.:

http://www.virginiamemory.com/

Websites

 * Mecklenburg Co., VAGenWeb. Part of the USGenWeb Project. Maps, name indexes, history.


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