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


 * [Boswell] Pippenger, Jean Boswell. Descendants of Edward Boswell: Prince William County, Virginia and Orange County, North Carolina. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1986. Available at FHL.
 * [Brown] Brown, James Edgar. Genealogy of the Brown Family of Prince William County, Virginia: Being a History of William Brown and Seven Generations of His Descendants. Chicago: Press of G.E. Brown &amp; Co., 1898. Available at FHL.
 * [Brown] Brown, James Edgar. Genealogy of the Brown Family of Prince William County, Virginia, and the Following Group of Families Allied by Marriage: Bland, Buckner, Byrne, Fairfax, Morgan, Tebbs, Watson, Zinn and Others. Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1930. Available at FHL.
 * [Cleveland] Cleveland, Edmund James and H.G. Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Trace in Both Male and the Female Lines the Posterity of Moses Cleveland Who Came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Worburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of Ancient and Other Clevelands in England, America and Elsewhere; with Numerous Biographical Sketches; and Containing Ancestriesof Many of the Husbands and Wives; Also a Bibliographyof the Cleveland Family and a Genealogical Account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of Other Winn Families. 3 vols. Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1899. Available at FHL.
 * [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.
 * [DeBell] Peters, Joan and Juanita Price. Descendents of William and Margaret DeBell of Prince William County, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Albemarle Press, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Duncan] Roy, Nancy Reba. Some Descendants of Marshall Duncan of Prince William County, Virginia and of Surry County, North Carolina: Also Descendants of Peter Duncan, Immigrant to Virginia. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Florence] Florence, James Edward. The Flourance, Florance, Florence Families of Old Prince William County, Virginia. Nokesville, Virginia: J.E. Florence, 2001. Available at FHL; digital book available at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [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.
 * [Hedges] Hedges, Robert. The Hedges of Stafford/Prince William Counties, Virginia, 1660-1980. Taylorsville, Kentucky: R. Hedges, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Hutchison] Winthurst, Phyllis. The Hutchison Chronicles: Some Stories of the Nine Generations of Descendants of John and Margaret Hutchison, Prince William and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia and Montgomery County, Tennessee. Tucson, Arizona: P.R. Winthurst, 1998. Available at FHL.
 * [Kincheloe]See Davis.
 * [Legg] Deason, Lisa Marie Hirst. Descendants of Eli Legg (1775-1835) and Jane Prince (1776-1846): of Prince William County, Virginia. Cedar Hills, Utah: L.M.H. Deason, 2004. Available at FHL.
 * [Northcutt] Miller, Elizabeth Ellis. John Northcutt of Prince William County, Virginia, 1740 and Some of His Descendants. 1958. Available at FHL.
 * [Owens] Owens, David Hatfield. Owens Family of Virginia (Richmond, King George, Stafford, Prince William, Fauquier Counties) and Kentucky (Mason, Lewis, Fleming, Bracken, Mercer, Boyle Counties). Ann Arbor, Michigan: D.H. Owens, 1991. Available at FHL.
 * [Prince]See Legg.
 * [Randolph] Randolph, Blanche Willie Grace and Deborah Ann Kraemer Small. The Randolphs of Prince William County, Virginia. Little Rock, Arkansas: B. Randolph, 1979. Available at FHL.
 * [Randolph] Small, Deborah Ann Kraemer and Blanche Willie Grace Randolph. The Randolphs of Prince William County, Virginia, Volume II. Winter Park, Florida: D. Small, 1989. Available at FHL.
 * [Randolph] Raski, Arma, James Randolph, and Glenita Guthrie. Additions &amp; Corrections to Vol. II, the Randolphs of Prince William Co., VA by Deborah K. Small. Available at FHL.
 * [Simpson] McFarland, Robert H. and Twilah M. McFarland. Simpson Connections: John and Hannah Simpson of Prince William County, Virginia and their Descendants. Rolla, Missouri: McFarland Home Enterprises, 1987. Available at FHL.
 * [Spiller] Gottschalk, Katherine Cox. The Spiller Family of Prince William County, Virginia; Robertson County, Tennessee; Williamson County, Illinois. MSS., 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