Wythe County, Virginia Genealogy

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Parent County
1789--Wythe County was created 1 December 1789 from Montgomery County. County seat: Wytheville

Neighboring Counties

 * Bland
 * Carroll
 * Grayson
 * Pulaski
 * Smyth

Newspapers
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 the Virginia Gazette and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia.

Research Guides

 * "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Wythe County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1981):49-51. Available at New England Ancestors ($).

Taxation
Images of the 1793 Personal Property Tax List of Wythe County, Virginia are available to browse online at Binns Genealogy.

Indexed images of the 1800 Personal Property Tax List of Wythe County, Virginia are available 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