Fauquier County, Virginia Genealogy

United States &gt; Virginia &gt; Fauquier County



Parent County
1758--Fauquier County was created 14 September 1758 from Prince William County. County seat: Warrenton

Neighboring Counties

 * Clarke
 * Culpeper
 * Loudoun
 * Prince William
 * Rappahannock
 * Stafford
 * Warren

African American

 * Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County. Newsletter. Midland, Virginia: Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County, Virginia, 1992-2000. Available at FHL.
 * Duncan, Patricia B. 1850 Fauquier County, Virginia, Slave Schedule. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, Heritage Books, 2003. Available at FHL.
 * Ibrahim, Karen King, Karen Hughes White, Courtney Gaskins, and Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County. Fauquier County, Virginia, Register of Free Negroes 1817-1865. Virginia?: K.K. Ibrahim, K.H. White, C. Gaskins, 1993. Available at FHL.
 * Peters, Joan W. Local Sources for African-American Family Historians: Using County Court Records and Census Returns. Broad Run, Virginia: J.W. Peters, 1993. Available at FHL.

Cemeteries

 * King, Junie Estelle Stewart. Abstracts of Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1800 [Includes cemetery inscriptions]. 2001. Digital book available at Ancestry ($).

Census
1890 Union Veterans


 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website. [Includes residents of this county.]

Church
Baptist


 * Broad Run Baptist Church (Fauquier County, Virginia). "Minutes of the Broad Run Baptist Church near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia 1762 - 1872," Genealogical Record, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Sep. 1965) to Vol. 9, No. 4 (Dec. 1967). Houston, Texas: Houston Genealogical Forum, 1965-1967. Available at FHL.
 * Gott, John K., Wayland F. Dunaway, C. Wirt Trainham. History of Long Branch Baptist Church, Fauquier County, Virginia: From Centennial History by Rev. Wayland F Dunaway and Sesquicentennial History by Rev. C. Wirt Trainham. Richmond, Virginia: Williams Printing Co., 1967. Available at FHL.
 * Kemper, Charles E. "The Baptists in Fauquier County, 1770-1771: Extracts from Peter Hitt's Account Book," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct. 1927):390-392. Available at JSTOR ($).

Lutheran


 * W.P. Huddle, Margaret G. Davis, Hebron Lutheran Church, and Mt. Nebo Lutheran Church. History of the Hebron Lutheran Church, Madison County, Virginia, 1717 to 1907. New Market, Va.: Henkel &amp; Company, 1908. Available at FHL. [Germantown settlers belonged to this congregation.]

Presbyterian


 * Gott, John K., Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington-Lewis Chapter (Virginia), and Marshall Presbyterian Church (Marshall, Virginia). Abstracts of the Second Session Book of the Marshall Presbyterian Church, Marshall, Fauquier County, Virginia. MSS., 1957, available at FHL. [This church was organized in 1849 under the name Salem Presbyterian Church.]

Court
Chancery Court


 * Indexed images of Fauquier County, Virginia Chancery Records 1759-1919 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.

Loose Papers


 * Peters, Joan W. "Researching the Fauquier County Clerk's Loose Papers," The Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Aug. 2001):1-4. Available at FHL; digital version at Virginia Genealogical Society website.

Superior Court of Chancery

The Superior Court of Chancery of Fredericksburg (1802-1831) had jurisdiction over certain Fauquier County court cases. An index has been compiled:


 * Indexes of Court Records in the Clerk's Office, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1782-1904. Original records, Fredericksburg City Courthouse, Fredericksburg, Va., microfilmed reproduction available at FHL. [Indexes the following records: District Court law book v. 8, 1782-1792; District Court law books 1790-1793, v. A-F 1789-1811; Superior Court of Law law order books v. G-H 1812-1831; Superior Court of Chancery chancery order books 1814-1831; Hustings Court orders v. A-O 1782-1871; Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery law order books v. A-E 1831-1875; Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery chancery order books v. A-D 1831-1872; Circuit Court chancery order books v. A2, B-C 1875-1904; Fredericksburg District Court (1789-1808) had jurisdiction over the following counties: Spotsylvania (including Fredericksburg), Caroline, King George, Stafford, Orange, and Culpeper; Superior Court of Chancery (1802-1831) had jurisdiction over the following localities: city of Fredericksburg and the counties of Caroline, Culpeper, Fauquier, Fairfax, Lancaster, Northumberland, Madison, King George, Orange, Prince William, Richmond, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Essex, and Westmoreland.]

Family Histories
It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. In addition to finding a direct ancestor’s surname listed, and watching to see if more recent publications make additions and corrections to earlier works, this list is also useful for determining if genealogists have published accounts, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, for any members of an ancestor’s “FAN Club” [Family, Associates, and Neighbors]. Checking publications about those individuals can lead you to new information about your own ancestry. Be mindful that compiled genealogies may contain errors.

General


 * Holtzclaw, B.C. and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1964. Available at FHL.
 * Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. Germanna Heritage Book. Culpeper, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 2000. Available at FHL.
 * Peters, Joan. Local Records and Genealogy: A Primer for Family Historians. Albemarle Press, 1990. Available at FHL. ["In her book, Joan uses case studies from Fauquier County to show how to track a family through several generations." ]
 * United States. Work Projects Administration (Virginia). Old Homes and Families of Fauquier County, Virginia: (The W.P.A. Records). Compiled in 1930s. Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Co., 1978. Available at FHL.

Bibliography


 * [Adams] "Records of the Adams Family of Fauquier County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Oct. 1910):108-109. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Adams] Campbell, Kathryn Hutcherson. Absalem Adams, Fauquier Co., Virginia, 1757, Allied Families. Dallas, Texas: K.H. Campbell, 1983. Available at FHL.
 * [Adams] Adams, John C. Allied Families of Absalom Adams of Fauquier County, Virginia. Greeley, Colorado: J.C. Adams, 2008. Available at FHL.
 * [Anderson] Smith, Cynthia Taylor. Ray and Anderson Family Lines. Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Publications, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Arrasmith] Day, Bessie R. Some Information about Arasmiths, Arrasmiths, Arrowsmiths. [Wilsonville, Oregon]: B.R. Day, 1991. Available at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Ashby] Ashby Family, ca. 1737-1885. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Ashby] Dunn, Richard M. Notes About the Ashby Family, Fauquier County, Virginia, 1670-1938. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Bailey] Henry, Hazel Bailey and Moses Bailey. History and Genealogy of the Moses Bailey Family of Fauquier Co., Va. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Ball] Ball, Helen R. Ball Families of Fauquier County, Virginia. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Ball] Hill, Ronald A. "Ball Family Migration: Virginia to Kentucky, 1784," The American Genealogist.
 * [Ball] Ball, Helen A. The Edward Ball Family of Middlesex County, Va. Horton, Mich.: H. Ball, 1990. 2 vols. Available at FHL.
 * [Ball] Ames, Ronald Ames. The Ancestors and Descendants of Reuben Ball: The Ball Migration: Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, and Points West 1653-1900. Star, Idaho: Chaghill Publications, 2007. Available at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Benson] Walker, Claudia Louise. Benson Family History. Typescript, 1959. Available on microfilm at FHL.
 * [Blackwell] See also Churchill.
 * [Blackwell] Blackwell, Edward Maurice. Blackwell Genealogy. Richmond, Virginia: Old Dominion Press, 1948. Available at FHL.
 * [Bowyer] Bower, Effie Pearl Bowyer. Levi Bowyer Family Descendants, 1635-1977. Typescript, 1962, Ripley County Historical Museum, Versailles, Indiana; available on microfilm at FHL.
 * [Bradford] White, Nelle Rhea. The Bradfords of Virginia in the Revolutionary War and Their Kin. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet &amp; Shepperson, 1932. Available at FHL.
 * [Brahan] Lane, Elise Denison Brown. Documentary Evidence Concerning John Brahan, about 1725-1775, of Fauquier County, Virginia, and Some of His Descendants. MSS., available at FHL and digital book at Heritage Quest Online ($).
 * [Bridwell] Wise, Erbon W. The Bridwell Family in America. New Orleans, La.: E.W. Wise, 1968. Available at FHL.
 * [Brooks] Hadeler, Shelby M. Relatives Along the Rappahannock: Allied Families of Brooks, Curtis, Edwards, Embrey, Monroe, McIntire, Patton, Russell, Smith, Stringfellow: And Others in the Adjoining Areas of Culpepper, Fauquier, and Stafford Counties, Virginia. Pearl River, New York: S.M. Hadeler, 1987. Available at FHL.
 * [Burgess] Reginald, R. The House of the Burgesses: Being a Genealogical History of Edward Burgess of King George and Stafford Counties, Virginia, with His Sons - Garner Burgess of Fauquier Co., Virginia; William Burgess of Stafford Co., Virginia; Moses Burgess of Orange County, Virginia; Reuben Burgess of Rowan Co., North Carolina - and His Grandsons - Edward Burgess of Culpeper Co., Virginia; John Burgess of Harrison Co., Kentucky; Henry Burgess of Fleming Co., Kentucky; Edward Burgess of Scott Co., Kentucky; John P.B. Burgess of Halifax Co., Virginia; Edward Burgess of Kanawha Co., West Virginia; William Burgess of Davie Co., North Carolina; Reuben Burgess of Davie Co., North Carolina; and Thomas Burgess of White Co., Tennessee - Together with their Known Descendants Named Burgess. San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1983. Available at FHL.
 * [Burgess] Burgess, Michael and Mary A.Wickizer Burgess. The House of the Burgesses: Being a Genealogical History of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, his Son Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King Geoge) County, Virginia, with the Descendants in the Male Line of Edward's Sons: Garner Burgess of Fauquier County, Virginia, William Burgess of Stafford County, Virginia; Edward Burges, Jr. of Faugqier County, Virginia, Moses Burgess of Orange County, Virginia; Reuben of Rowan (later Davie) County, North Carolina. San Bernardino, California: Burgess and Wickizer, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Cain] Corkill, Eldon. Cain-Burnett Kin: Descendants of Bailey Cain (1767/70-1807) of Virginia and Kentucky, and of James Burnett, Who Died in 1797 Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Dallas, Texas: E.&amp;L. Corkill, 1988. Available at FHL.
 * [Churchill] Todhunter, Charles Timothy. The Churchill Family Genealogy: Genealogical and Biographical. 2 vols. Payneville, Kentucky: C.T. Todhunter, c1988, c1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Corder] Corder, Herman O. John Corder of Virginia: and Descendants, 1761-1961. Typescript, 1959. Available at FHL.
 * [Cummins] Orr, Marjorie. Cummins-Lanier-West-Watkins Family History. Available at FHL.
 * [Cummins] Cummins, W.L., Shirley Cummins Wolfe and Norma Cummins Elrod. The Cummins Family. Illinois: W.L. Cummins, 1996. Available at FHL.
 * [Cunningham] Paget, James Suddath. Descendants of William Cunningham of Fauquier County, Va., and Greenville County, S.C.: 28 July 1770-14 Oct. 1853. Greer, South Carolina: J.S. Paget, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Davis] Bird, Mabel C. Family History : Davis -- Gowdy. New Decatur, Alabama: M.C. Bird, 1910. Available at FHL.
 * [Dilley] Jones, Thomas W. "Dilley of Northern Virginia and Ohio: A Proposed Solution Hanging on a Single Word," The American Genealogist, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Jul. 2004):220-227.
 * [Dixon] Russell, Thomas Triplett and John K. Gott. The Dixon Valley, Its First 250 Years. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1991. Available at FHL. Reviewed in The Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society," Vol. 10, No. 9 (Mar. 1992):69. Review available at FHL.
 * [Dodson] Lynn, Catherine Gaffin. The Dodson Family of Warren County, Tennessee and Allied Families. [Centerville, Tennessee: Lynn], 1974. Available at FHL.
 * [Edmonds] Edmonds, Albert Sydney. "Edmonium, 1741--Oak Spring, 1759: Elias, William and John Edmonds, Pioneers in Fauquier County, Va.," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr. 1937):293-300. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Fishback] Kemper, Willis Miller. Genealogy of the Fishback Family in America, the Descendants of John Fishback, the Emigrant, with an Historical Sketch of His Family and of the Colony at Germanna and Germantown, 1714-1914. New York, New York: T.M. Taylor, 1914. Available at FHL; digital versions at BYU Family History Archives and Google Books (full-view).
 * [Fishback] Fishback, Reuben Dewitt. Genealogy of the Fishback Family: The Descendants of Harman Fishback, the Emigrant, with Additional Data. New York: Thomas Madison Taylor, 1926. Available at FHL.
 * [Francis] Billingsley, Zora Petty. The Petty and Francis Families and Allied Lines. Amarillo, Texas: Z.P. Billingsley, 1967. Available at FHL.
 * [Francis] Felchlia, Albert Oscar. Francis Family of Fauquier County, Virginia. Highland, Illinois: A.O. Felchlia, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Francis] The Francis Surname Extracted from the Fauquier County, Virginia Minute (Order) Books, 1759-1842. Available at FHL; digital book available at Heritage Quest Online ($) and Ancestry ($).
 * [Gaunt] Gaunt, Jesse Samuel. The Gaunt Family: A Genealogy. n.p.: J.S. Gaunt, 1978. Available at FHL.
 * [Genn] Hillman, Ralph E. "James Genn of Northumberland County, Virginia, and Some of His Descendants," The American Genealogist, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Jan. 1997):32-38; Vol. 72, No. 2 (Apr. 1997):101-108.
 * [Gill] Gill, Paul Rogers. Gill, Weaver and Allied Families. San Francisco, California: P.R. Gill, [1982]. Available at FHL.
 * [Glasscock] Meinke, Terry and Arthur L. Glasgow. My Glasscock Ancestors: The Genealogy of the Glas(s)cock (Alias Glassco and Glasgow) Families of Richmond, Prince, Fauquier and Frederick Counties in Virginia; Rowan County, North Carolina; Jefferson County in West Virginia; Adams, Brown, Green and Knox Counties in Ohio; Sangamon County in Illinois and Wright, Morrison, Cass and Hubbard Counties in Minnesota from 1643 to 1933. Palatine, Illinois: T. Meinke, 2004. Available at FHL.
 * [Grant] Heller, Dick D. Grant Family of Fauquier County, Va: Fleming Co., Ky., Rush, Wabash, and Jasper Counties, Indiana in the 18th, 19th, and 20th Century. Decatur Daily Democrat, 1974.
 * [Hardin] The Hardin Family. MSS., microfilm in 1965, available at FHL.
 * [Headley] Headley, Marvin D. Headley Family Line: Virginia to Kansas. Blue Springs, Missouri: M.D. Headley, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Headley] Headley, Marvin D. Headley/Bond Connection: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas. Blue Springs, Missouri: M.D. Headley, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Heflin] Heflin, Bruce Morgan. The Heflin Genealogical Collection II. [Columbus, Ohio]: B.M. Heflin, 2006. Available at FHL.
 * [Herndon] The Herndon Family. MSS., Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; available on microfilm at FHL.
 * [Herndon] Herndon, Dudley L. and John Goodwin Herndon. The Herndons of the American Revolution: (being The Herndon Family of Virginia, Vol. 2) Presented in Parts. Multi-volume. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1992-. Available at FHL.
 * [Herndon] Herndon, Dudley L. and John Goodwin Herndon. The Herndons of the American Revolution: #84, John Herndon, b. ca. 1741-d. ca. 1805 of Fauquier County, Va., and His Known Descendants of the Family in America. Maryland: Gateway Press, 1996.
 * [Hinson] Merrill, Hazel Robinson. The History of Families that Migrated to Northwest Louisiana and Northeast Texas, 1838-1856: Adams, Bolin, Carrow, Hanson, Hardy, Henry, Oliver, Petty, Robinson, Ross, Tillman and Related Families. [New Orleans]: H.R. Merrill, 1985. Available at FHL.
 * [Hitt] See also Poe.
 * [Hitt] Holtzclaw, B.C., Charles Herbert Huffman, and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. Peter Hitt, John Joseph Martin and Tillman Weaver of the 1714 Colony and Their Descendants. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1961. Available at FHL.
 * [Hitt] Miller, Charlotte Ford. Hitt-Sullinger Families: With Information on the Allied Families of Alden, Banks, Bass, Blocker, Cox, Delap, Hayden, Holmes, Holtzclaw, Kierstede, Mullins, Otterback, Shipp, Smith and Webb. Amarillo, Texas: C. Miller, 1984. Available at FHL.
 * [Hoffman] Holtzclaw, B.C., Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, and Charles Herbert Huffman. John Hoffman, 1714 Germanna Colonist, and His Descendants. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1963. Available at FHL.
 * [Holder] Woolen, Edward A. Holder Family Biographical and Historical Records and Genealogy of Daniel Holder, 1758-1843: of Fauquier &amp; Pittsylvania Counties, Virginia and Union County, South Carolina. Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Holton] Edgeworth, M.J. Some Descendants of Rev. William Holton, Sr. Fauquier County, Virginia and Mason County. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Holtzclaw] Holtzclaw, B.C., Robert A. Hodge, and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. The Genealogy of the Holtzclaw Family, 1540-1935. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, 1936. 1990 reprint available at FHL.
 * [Holtzclaw] Holtsclaw, Otis M. John Holtsclaw of Holtzclaw Knob, Pulaski County, Kentucky: His Ancestors and Descendants. 1968. Available at FHL.
 * [Hume] Donaldson, O. Clyde. A Hume Chronicle: Andrew Hume of Fauquier County, Virginia; His Scottish Heritage and American Descendants. Hopkins, Minnesota: O.C. Donaldson, 1982. Available at FHL. 1986 addendum at FHL.
 * [Jeffries] Headley, Marvin D. Jeffries Family: Fauquier County, Va. - 1700: To Kentucky, Hardin &amp; Washington Counties: To Missouri, Carroll County. Blue Springs, Missouri: M.D. Headley, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Jennings] Loeber, Charles. Jennings Family, Garrard County, Kentucky: Address Delivered ... Consulting Engineer for the Jennings Family Record ... Richmond, Virginia, at a Meeting Held in Garrard County Court House, Lancaster, Kentucky, Monday, December 23rd, 1929 at 7 P.M. Lancaster, Ky.: Printed by Central Record, 1929. Available at FHL.
 * [Johnson] Johnson, Myles. The Descendants of Amos Johnson of Middleburg and Fauquier County, Virginia: Brents and Johnson. Washington, D.C.: M. Johnson, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Johnson] Ross, D. Reid. George Steptoe Johnson, His Wife Eliza Ann Gwatkin, Their Forebears and Their Descendants. Durango, Colorado: D.R. Ross, 2000. Available at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Johnson] Ross, D. Reid, and George M. Johnson. George Steptoe Johnson: His Wife Eliza Ann Gwatkin, Their Forebears and Their Descendants and Allied Families - Utie, Otey, Mathews, Johnson, Ross, Jones, Emonts, Barnes, Smith. D.R. Ross, 2008. Available at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Keeble] Dockter, Albert W. William Keeble of Blount County, Tennessee. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007. Available at FHL.
 * [Keith] Somerville, Keith Frazier. Keith. Cleveland, Miss.: K. F. Somerville, 1947. Available at FHL.
 * [Kemper] See also Bowyer.
 * [Kemper] Kemper: Bible Records, 1769-1945. Microfilmed in 1977, available at FHL.
 * [Kenner] Bennett, Pansy S. Kenner H. Seaton and Families. Hagerstown, Maryland: P.S. Bennett, 1989. Available at FHL.
 * [Kenner] Dutton, Edward R. Seaton-Kenner. Casper, Wyoming: E.R. Dutton, 2003. Available at FHL.
 * [Kidwell] Davis, Robert Lowell. Genealogy of Joshua Kidwell of Fairfax Co, Virginia: Descendant Families, Kidwell of Loudoun &amp; Fauquier Co., VA &amp; Franklin Co., OH: Connor of Warren Co., VA &amp; Grant Co., WV: Gibson of Tucker Co., WV. R.L. Davis, 2002.
 * [Lawless] Wilkey, Keith L. A History of the Descendants of John Lawless II and Margaret Skirvin Lawless. Quincy, Ill.: K.L. Wilkey, 1968. Available at FHL.
 * [McPherson] McPherson, Judy. A Guide to McPhersons and Related Families in Loudoun and Fauquier County, VA. J. McPherson, 1989.
 * [Marshall] Quisenberry, Anderson Chenault. The Life and Times of Hon. Humphrey Marshall: Author of Marshall's History of Kentucky. Winchester, Kentucky: Sun Pub., 1892. Available at FHL; digital versions at BYU Family History Archives and Google Books (full-view).
 * [Marshall] Agerton, Zillah Lee Bostic Redd. Marshall Family, ca. 880 A.D. to 1935. MSS., County Court House, Waynesboro, Georgia; available on microfilm at FHL. [Thomas Marshall (1709-1784) and his family immigrated in 1735 from England to Fauquier County, Virginia. Chief Justice John Marshall was a direct descendant.]
 * [Martin] See also Hitt.
 * [Martin] Martin: Family Records, ca. 1755-1844. MSS., microfilmed in 1968; available at FHL.
 * [Martin] Martin, William A. A Martin Genealogy Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia: Showing Some of the Descendants of Merten of Ferdorf, Germany (b. ca. 1500), Through Johann Jost Merten (or John Joseph Martin), a 1714 Immigrant to Germanna, Verginia, and Covering Some of Their Know Allied Families: Includes a Brief History of Germanna and Germantown, Virginia, and a Three Generation Genealogy of the First Settlers There. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1995. Available at FHL.
 * [Mauzy] Mauzy, Richard. Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Mauzy: A Huguenot Refugee, the Ancestor of the Mauzys of Virginia and Other States from 1685 to 1910, and of the Descendants of Jacob Kisling from 1760 to 1910. Harrisonburg, Va.: Press of the Daily News, 1911. Available at FHL.
 * [Moffett] Moffett, Meredith J. Moffetts of Fauquier County, Virginia. Warrenton, Virginia: M.J. Moffett, 1967. Available at FHL.
 * [Mooney] Mooney, Russell E. and Marianne Turpin Burke. A Mooney Genealogy and Miscellany: With Some Allied Lines. Knoxville, Tennessee: Knoxville Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists, 1964. Available at FHL.
 * [Morehead] Morehead Revolutionary War Soldiers. Microfilm of photocopy (2 p.) from an unidentified book at the Willard Library, Evansville, Indiana; available at FHL.
 * [Morrison] Morrison, W. Briley and J. Robert Morrison. The Edward Morrison Family of Fauquier County, Virginia and His Descendants. Milford, Ohio: Little Miami Pub. Co., 2005. Available at FHL.
 * [Nay] Nay, Ernest Omar. Genealogy of the Nay Family: A Record of the Descendants of Jacob Nay of Virginia from 1723 to 1949: With Supplement. Terre Haute, Indiana: E.O. Nay, 1949. Available at FHL.
 * [Nelson] Gibson, Olive Nelson. Descendants of John Nelson, Sr.- Mary Toby, Stafford County, Virginia 1740-1959 with Related Families. Redlands, California: Redlands Blueprint, 1961. Available at FHL.
 * [Nelson] Bradshaw, John Douglas. The Wigfield and Nelson Families of Fauquier Co., Virginia: Being a Compilation of the Ancestors &amp; Descendants of Thomas Smith Wigfield (1813-1897) and Anne E. Nelson (1817-1879) and Allied Families. Williamsburg, Virginia: J.D. Bradshaw, 1986. Available at FHL.
 * [Newman] Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. Available at FHL; digital version at Google Books. [Includes a chapter titled "Genealogy of the Newman Family, 1618-1900," see Table of Contents; discusses Newmans of Fauquier County.]
 * [O'Bannon] DeHuff, Elizabeth Willis. The Family of Thomas O'Bannon of Fauquier County, Virginia, and Barnwell County, South Carolina. Augusta, Georgia: E.W. DeHuff, 1969. Available at FHL.
 * [O'Bannon] Ames, Mildred. The O'Bannon Genealogist: A Quarterly Magazine for the Appreciation and Study of the O'Banon-O'Bannon-O'Banion Families. Ogden, Utah: [Mildred Ames], 1976-1977. Available at FHL.
 * [Oldacre] Oldaker, Edward L. The Oldacre--Oldaker Story. Mesa, Arizona: E.L. Oldaker, 1983. 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.
 * [Partlow] Partlow, Thomas E. The Partlow Family and Connections. 2 vols. Lebanon, Tennessee: [s.n.], 1973-1974. Available at FHL.
 * [Pearl] Senger, Clyde N. Summary of the Pearl-Pearle-Perrill Family of Fauquier Co., Virginia. Bellingham, Washington: C.M. Senger, 1985. Available at FHL.
 * [Poe] Brannan, Pauline Mae. The Poe Family Line: A History of the Poe Family and Collaterals, Including Short Histories of Collaterals Corley, Hitt, Crim and Spielman, Early Families Found in Fauquier, Warren and Rappahannock Counties of Virginia. Bel Air, Maryland: P.S. Brannan, 1974. Available at FHL.
 * [Pope] Field, Nathaniel. A Genealogy of the Pope Family of Kentucky. Jeffersonville, Ind.: Evening News Print, 1879. Available at FHL.
 * [Priest] Priest Genealogy: Descendants of Peter and Sarah Priest of Fauquier County, Va. 1908.
 * [Rector] Salmans, Levi Brimner. History of the Descendants of John Jacob Rector. Guanajuato, Mex.: L.B. Salmans, 1936. Available at FHL.
 * [Rector] Holtzclaw, B.C., Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, and Charles Herbert Huffman. John Jacob Rector of Germanna and His Descendants. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, 1963. Available at FHL.
 * [Reno] Fancy, Jean Reno. My Family. [Santa Clara, California]: J.R. Fancy, 2000. Available at FHL.
 * [Richter] See Rector.
 * [Rousseau] Rousseau, Marilyn K. "The Colonial Virginia Ancestry of a Pioneer Florida Family: William H. Rousseau (1818-1870), Florida House of Representatives 1852, Florida State Senate 1865," The American Genealogist, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Jul. 2004):184-198.
 * [Seaton] Dutton, Edward R. James Seaton, 19 July 1751 - 2 Mar 1830, Husband of Mary Clark: Three Generations of Ancestors and Descendants Stemming from Greene County, Pennsylvania. Casper, Wyoming: E.R. Dutton, 2002. Available at FHL.
 * [Shakleford] Shackleford, John. Brief Memoirs of John Shakleford, M.D., 1885. 1885. Available at FHL.
 * [Shipp] Sanders, Walter R. The Shipp Genealogy from Essex, Caroline, Faquier Counties, Virginia, to Green, Taylor, Woodford, Jefferson, Fayette, Christian, Bourgon, Scott, Owen, Counties, Kentucky, and Johnson Counties, Indiana. 1946. Available at FHL.
 * [Shumate] Ledgerwood, Marian Carter. Descendants of Mark Shumate of Claiborne County, Tennessee. Houston, Texas: M.C. Ledgerwood, 1985. Available at FHL.
 * [Sinclair] Grigsby, Jean. Sinkler, Sinclair, St. Clair: Wills. Beeville, Texas: J. Grigsby, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Sires] Mahey, John A. Descendants of John Sires, the Elder of Virginia. 3 vols. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: J.A. Mahey, 2000. Available at FHL; digital versions of all three volumes at BYU Family History Archives: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3.
 * [Smith] Price, Lucy Montgomery Smith. The Sydney-Smith and Clagett-Price genealogy: With the Lewis, Montgomery, Harrison, Hawley, Moorhead, Rixey, Doniphan, Waugh, Anderson, Randolph, Mott, Drake, Butcher, Triplett, Humphrey, Ball, Porter, Brown, Dorsey, Cooper, Stuart, Strother Families with Whom They Inter-married, and Some of Their Descendants. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1927. Available at FHL.
 * [Smith] Mayes, C. Vale. A Genealogy and History of Smith Family of Rhea Co. Tn. and Barry Co. Mo. with Their Related Families, 1772 - 1982. n.p.: C.V. Mayes, 198?. Available at FHL.
 * [Stone] Stone, James H. Of the Stones: The Ancestry of William Stone, Virginia Planter and Third Governor of Maryland, and a Line of His Descendants Who Lived in the Counties of Charles (Maryland), Fauquier (Virginia), Surry (North Carolina), Gallia (Ohio), Jay (Indiana), and .... Palo Alto, California: J.H. Stone, 1997. Available at FHL.
 * [Taylor] Kemper, Charles E. "The Taylor Family, of Fauquier County, Va.," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct. 1926):331-333. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Todd] McMurtry, Richard K. Addendum to Todd Families in America Collection. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Tolle] Meyers, Thoren Tolle. The Tolle Family Exchange [Newsletter]: A Newsletter in Search of the Ancestors and Descendants of Roger Tolle of Fauquier County, Virginia (pre 1708-ca. 1780). 14 vols. Garden Grove, California: T.T. Meyers, 1984-1998. Available at FHL.
 * [Turley] Collins, Ruth Merrilees. William Turley (c. 1749-1819) of Fauquier County, Virginia. Alexandria, Virginia: R.T. Collins, 1977. Available at FHL.
 * [Turner] Bjorkman, Gwen Boyer. The Descendants of John Meridy Turner, 1747-1815, of Fauquier County, Virginia. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Walker] Bowman, G. Ralph. Some Descendants of Captain George Walker, 1745-1833: of Fauquier, Virginia; Burke County, North Carolina; Knox, Rhea &amp; Bledsoe Counties, Tenn. n.p.: G.R. Bowman, 1978, 2004. Available at FHL.
 * [Warden] Warden, Clifford E. and Victor F. Warden. The Warden Family, 1664-1972. [Florissant, Missouri: C.E. and V.F. Warden, 1971-1972]. Available at FHL.
 * [Weaver] See Hitt.
 * [Weedon] Karracker, James L. and George Harrison Sanford King. The Weedon Family of Westmoreland, Prince William, Fauquier, Culpeper Counties, Va. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [White] White, Meade Fitzhugh. History of Robb White of Fauquier County, Virginia: (Warrenton) and Sallie Annette Warren of Rockingham County, Virginia (Harrisonburg). The Eight Little Whites. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Wigfield] See Nelson.
 * [Withers] "The Withers Family, of Stafford, Fauquier, &amp;c.," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jan. 1899):309-313; Vol. 6, No. 4 (Apr. 1899):425-427. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Withers] Withers, Webster. An Unfinished History of the Withers Family in Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City, Mo.: Webb Print, 1932. Available at FHL.
 * [Woolf] Woolf, Henry Bosley. The Woolfs of Fauquier County, Virginia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Woolf, 1979. Available at FHL.
 * [Wright] Grant, Robert N. The Identification of 1809 William Wright of Franklin County, Virginia as the Son of 1792 John Wright of Fauquier County, Virginia and Elizabeth (Bronaugh) (Darnall) Wright. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2004. Available at FHL.
 * [Wright] Grant, Robert N. The Identification of 1792 John Wright of Fauquier County, Virginia: As Not the Son of 1729/30 John Wright of Stafford County, Virginia. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2009. Available at FHL.

Historic Residences

 * Gott, John K. Flint Hill Farm: A History, George Washington's "Tract on Chattins Run," Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia. Athens, Georgia: New Papyrus Pub. Co., 2004. Available at FHL.
 * United States. Work Projects Administration (Virginia). Old Homes and Families of Fauquier County, Virginia: (The W.P.A. Records). Compiled in 1930s. Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Co., 1978. Available at FHL.

Immigration

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes will of a resident of Fauquier County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]
 * Holtzclaw, B.C. and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1964. Available at FHL.
 * [http://www.immigrantservants.com/search/advancedResults.php?surname=&givenName=&varientSurnameSpellings=&gender=&dateOfBirthDay=&dateOfBirthMonth=&dateOfBirthQuantifier=&dateOfBirthYear=&placeOfBirthParish=&placeOfBirthTown=&placeOfBirthCity=&placeOfBirthCounty=&placeOfBirthColony=&placeOfBirthNation=&occupations=&religions=&orphan=&familyPosition=&immigrationYearQualifier=&immigrationYear=&portOfDepartureTown=&portOfDepartureCity=&portOfDepartureCounty=&portOfDepartureNation=&placeOfArrivalTown=&placeOfArrivalCounty=&placeOfArrivalColony=&shipName=&convict=&yearOfIndentureQualifier=&yearOfIndenture=&lengthOfIndentureYears=&lengthOfIndentureMonths=&yearOfFreedomQualifier=&yearOfFreedom=&placeOfIndentureTown=&placeOfIndentureCity=&placeOfIndentureCounty=Fauquier&placeOfIndentureColony=Virginia&agentSurname=&agentGivenName=&agentTitle=&masterSurname=&masterGivenName=&masterTitle=&residenceParish=&residenceTown=&residenceCity=&residenceCounty=&residenceColony=&residenceNation=&landowner=&literate=&spouseSurname=&spouseGivenName=&spouseMarriageDateDay=&spouseMarriageDateMonth=&spouseMarriageDateQualifier=&spouseMarriageDateYear=&spouseMarriageLocationParish=&spouseMarriageLocationCounty=&spouseMarriageLocationColony=&spouseMarriageLocationNation=&deathDateDay=&deathDateMonth=&deathDateQualifier=&deathDateYear=&deathLocality=&deathCounty=&deathColony=&deathState=&testate=&proofServantStatus=&proofConvictStatus=&headright=&preServitudeSources=&postServitudeSources=&comments=&family=&sourceCitations=&interestedResearchers= List of imported servants and transported convicts from Europe] who served labor terms in Colonial Fauquier County, Virginia (work in progress), courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database.

Land
Grants and Patents


 * Davey. 253 patents dated 1651-1911 in what is now Fairfax, Fauquier, Northumberland, Prince William, Stafford, and Westmoreland Counties, Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper. [Names of those who received land patents, dates, land descriptions, and references may be viewed free of charge (click "Index" next to the county listing, which is "Nova" in this instance); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's DeedMapper product.]
 * Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775. Vol. II. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Fauquier County.]

Local Histories

 * Evans, M. Louise and Charles F. Knox. An Old Timer in Warrenton and Fauquier County, Virginia. Warrenton, Virginia: Virginia Pub., 1955. Available at FHL.
 * Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee. Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1959. Warrenton, Virginia: Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee, 1959. Available at FHL. [Includes two lists of early marriage bonds and soldiers in the Revolution.]
 * Fauquier County (Va.). Board of Trade and Harry Connelly Groome. Fauquier County, Virginia: Historical Notes. Warrenton, Va.: Board of Trade, 1914. Available at FHL; digital version at Google Books (full-view).
 * Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation, Inc. Fauquier Heritage and Preservation News: A Publication of the Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation Inc. Marshall, Virginia: Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation, Inc., 2002-present. Available at FHL.
 * Groome, H.C. Fauquier During the Proprietorship: A Chronicle of the Colonization and Organization of a Northern Neck County. Richmond: Old Dominion Press, 1927. Available at FHL; digital book available at Heritage Quest Online ($) and Ancestry ($). [2 copies at FHL.]
 * Hackley, Woodford B., B.C. Holtzclaw, and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. Germantown Revived. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1962. Available at FHL.
 * Huffman, Charles Herbert and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. The Story of Germanna Descendants in Reunion at Siegen Forest, Virginia. [Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1957- 1972?]. Available at FHL.
 * Smith, P.A.L. and A. Maxim Coppage. Boyhood Memories of Fauquier. Owensboro, Kentucky: Cook &amp; McDowell Publications, 1980, c1979. Available at FHL.
 * Vann, Elizabeth Chapman Denny and Margaret Collins Denny Dixon. Virginia's First German Colony. Richmond, Virginia: n.p., 1961. Available at FHL.
 * Wayland, John W., Charles Herbert Huffman, and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. Germanna, Outpost of Adventure, 1714-1956. Culpeper, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, 1989. Available at FHL.

Maps

 * Palmer, Meade and B. Curtis Chappelear. Historical Map of the Northern Portion of Fauquier County and a Part of Loudoun County, Virginia. 1953; reprint, 198-?. Original edition available at FHL; 1980s reprint at FHL.
 * Scheel, Eugene M. "Fauquier County, Commonwealth of Virginia. n.p.: Fauquier National Bank and E.M. Scheel, 1985. Available at FHL. [Features include "old roads, mills, stores, plantations, churches, ruins, cemeteries, battles, historic sites, early stream names and boundaries." ]
 * [1664] Virginia, Old Stafford County, Established 1664. Concord, California: Tackitt Photographic, n.d. Available at FHL. [Old Stafford County originally covered the area of the counties of Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford.]
 * [1759] 1759 Bertrand Ewell's Survey of the Fauquier-Prince William Boundary Line April 14, 1759, available online. [Includes names of residents.]
 * Groome, Harry Connelly. Fauquier County, Virginia, Historical Notes: Published as a Supplement to the Map of Fauquier County. Warrenton, Virginia: n.p., 1914. Available at FHL.
 * [1776] Scheel, Eugene M. A New and Accurate Map of the County of Fauquier, Virginia 1776. Falls Church, Virginia: Fauquier Historical Society, n.d. Available at FHL.

Migration

 * Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1976):199-208. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($). [These records identify migrants who left the county and often their intended destinations. Fauquier County's 1787 Delinquent List appears on pp. 124-126.]

Military
General


 * Peters, Joan W. Military Records, Certificates of Service, Discharge, Heirs, &amp; Pensions Declarations and Schedules: From the Fauquier County, Virginia Court Minute Books, 1784-1840. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1999. Available at FHL.
 * Peters, Joan W. Military Records, Patriotic Service, &amp; Public Service Claims: From the Fauquier County, Virginia Court Minute Books 1759-1784. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1999. Available at FHL.
 * Peters, Joan W. Military Records, Pensions Applications, Heirs, At Law and Civil War Military Records: From Fauquier County, Virginia Court Minute Books 1840-1904. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1999. Available at FHL.
 * Peters, Joan W. Neglected &amp; Forgotten: Fauquier County, Virginia, French &amp; Indiana War, Revolutionary War, &amp; War of 1812 Veterans; Muster Rolls, Pension Lists, Declarations &amp; Certificates, Land Warrants, Heirs at Law, Court Martials, from the Military Record Series of the Fauquier County, Virginia, Clerks Loose Papers, 1759-1825. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2004. Available at FHL.

French and Indian War


 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Fauquier County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]
 * Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. Available at FHL; digital version at Google Books. [Includes a chapter titled "Legislative Enactments connecting the preceding historic sketch [French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War] with the adjudication of the resulting accounts that follow; with the list of officers, soldiers and civilians entitled to compensation for military and other services rendered." For Fauquier County, see p. 108.]
 * Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at FHL; digital book at Ancestry ($). [Identifies some Fauquier County militia officers and soldiers; see place name index.]

Revolutionary War


 * Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee. Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1959. Warrenton, Virginia: Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee, 1959. Available at FHL. [Includes two lists of early marriage bonds and soldiers in the Revolution.]
 * Russell, Thomas Triplett and John K. Gott. Fauquier County in the Revolution. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1997. Available at FHL.

War of 1812

Civil War


 * Gott, John K., Emily G. Ramey, and Fauquier County Civil War Centennial Committee. The Years of Anguish, Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1865. Annandale, Virginia: Bacon Race Books, 1987. 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.

Fauquier Democrat Newspaper Index 1907 to present: http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/Government/Departments/library/index.cfm?action=FDsearchtips

Current issues of the Fauquier Times-Democrat: http://fauquier.com/

The Fredericksburg Free Lance Star carries many articles about people from Fauquier: 2001 to present http://fredericksburg.com/

Historical issues of the Free Lance Star and the Washington Post (turn of the century to present) are at: http://www.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search

Occupations

 * "Warrenton Directory, 1844-1847," [Attorneys, Physicians, Dentists, Druggists, and Merchants] The Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jul. 1984). Available at FHL. [Taken from the Fauquier Democrat special section for the Bicentennial Thursday, April 30, 1959, page E-8.]
 * "Directory of Fauquier Professional Men in 1851," [Attorneys, Physicians, and Hotel Keepers] The Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jul. 1984). Available at FHL. [Taken from the Fauquier Democrat--Special section for the Bicentennial Thursday, April 30, 1959, page E-8.]
 * Moffett, Lee. Water Powered Mills of Fauquier County, Virginia. Warrenton, Virginia: M.J. Moffett, 1972.

Private Papers

 * [Edmonds] Chappelear, Amanda Virginia Edmonds and Nancy Chappelear Baird. Journals of Amanda Virginia Edmonds: Lass of the Mosby Confederacy, 1859-1867. Delaplane, Virginia: N.C. Baird, 1984. Available at FHL.
 * [Ficklin] Collection of Papers from Culpeper Co., VA: Dealing with the Payne, Tull, Stewart, Ficklin and Related Families, 1848-1859. Original documents, includes papers from Fauquier County, available at FHL.
 * [Howison] Laws, Mary Jackson Howison. Journal of Mary Jackson Howison, 1858-1870. Lamesa, Texas: M.G. Beckham, 1985. Available at FHL.
 * [Kemper] Kemper: Bible Records, 1769-1945. Microfilmed in 1977, available at FHL.

Probate
Local Court


 * Gott, John K. Abstracts of Fauquier County Virginia, Wills Inventories and Accounts 1759-1800. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield, 1999. Digital book available at Ancestry ($).
 * King, Junie Estelle Stewart. Abstracts of Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1800. 2001. Digital book available at Ancestry ($).
 * Roberts, Eunice Byram. Oklahoma Genealogical Records. D.A.R. Library, Washington, D.C. Available at FHL. [Includes a few Maddux wills from Fauquier County, Virginia.]

London Courts


 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes will of a resident of Fauquier County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Research Guides

 * Peters, Joan W. Local Sources for African-American Family Historians: Using County Court Records and Census Returns. Broad Run, Virginia: J.W. Peters, 1993. Available at FHL.

Taxation
At first glance, researchers might conclude that Virginia tax lists contain very little family history data, though one soon learns that valuable genealogical conclusions can be drawn from these records, nicknamed "annual censuses," such as: relationships, approximate years of birth, socio-economic status, identification of neighbors, the ability to distinguish between persons of the same name, evidence of land inheritance, years of migration, and years of death.

Virginia began enumerating residents' payments of personal property and land taxes in 1782. These two types of taxation were recorded in separate registers. Personal property tax lists include more names than land tax lists, because they caught more of the population. The Family History Library has an excellent microfilm collection of personal property tax lists from 1782 (or the year the county was organized) well into the late nineteenth century for most counties, but only scattered land tax lists. Microfilm collections at The Library of Virginia include land tax lists for all counties and independent cities for the years 1782 through 1978, as well as personal property tax lists for the years 1782 through 1930 (and every fifth year thereafter). Taxes were not collected in 1808.

Some tax records are available online or in print, though published abstracts often omit useful details found only in the original sources. Statewide indexes can help genealogists identify specific counties where surnames occurred in the past, providing starting points for research.


 * [1751] "A List of Taxpayers for Hamilton Parish, 1751," The Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society, Vol. 10, No. 6 (Dec. 1991):43-45. Available at FHL. [Taken from the Account Book of Captain John Crump, Sheriff of Prince William County. "The original book was presented to the Fauquier Historical Society in 1922, by Col. Malcolm H. Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky," but has since been misplaced.]
 * [1759] T.L.C. Genealogy. Fauquier County, Virginia, Tax List of 1759. Miami, Florida: TLC Genealogy, 1998?. Available at FHL.
 * [1759-1783] Alcock, John P. Fauquier Families, 1759-1799. 2 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1994, 2001. Available at FHL. [Vol. 1. Comprehensive indexed abstracts of tax and tithable lists. Vol. 2 contains tithable and personal property tax lists 1759-1783.]
 * [1759-1782] Peters, Joan W. The Tax Man Cometh: Land and Property in Colonial Fauquier County, Virginia: Tax List from the Fauquier County Court Clerk's Loose Papers, 1759-1782. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1999. Available at FHL.
 * [1777] "Tenants of the Manor of Leeds, Fauquier County - 1777," in King, Junie Estelle Stewart, Abstracts of Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1800. 2001. Digital book available at Ancestry ($).
 * [1782-1850] Fauquier County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782-1850. Available at FHL.
 * [1782] Fothergill, Augusta B. and John Mark Naugle. Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-87, Other Than Those Published by the United States Census Bureau. 1940; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. Available at FHL. [1782 personal property tax list of Fauquier County.]
 * [1783-1791] Sparacio, Ruth Trickey and Sam Sparacio. Fauquier County, Virginia Land Tax Books [1783-1791]. 2 vols. McLean, Virginia: Antient Press, 1997. Available at FHL.
 * [1787] Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 &amp; 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 &amp; Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle &amp; Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. Available at FHL. [The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Fauquier County is included in Vol. 1.]
 * [1787] Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1976):199-208. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($). [These records identify migrants who left the county and often their intended destinations. Fauquier County's 1787 Delinquent List appears on pp. 124-126.]
 * [1790, 1799] Indexed images of the 1790 and 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of Fauquier County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at FHL. [This source is based on the 1815 land tax. Fauquier County is included in Vol. 4.]

Vital Records
Birth

The birth registers of Fauquier County, Virginia have been published at least three times:


 * Buck, Dee Ann Shipp. Fauquier County, Virginia, Birth Registry, 1853-1896. Fairfax, Virginia: D.A. Buck, 1996. Available at FHL.
 * Duncan, Patricia B. Fauquier County, Virginia Birth Register, 1853-1896. 2 vols. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2008. Available at FHL.
 * Peters, Joan W. Abstracts of Fauquier County, Virginia Birth Records 1853 - 1896. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989. Available at FHL.

Microfilmed reproductions of the original records are also available at the Family History Library:


 * Fauquier County, Virginia Birth and Death Registers, 1853-1896. Original records. Available at FHL.

Marriage


 * Buck, Dee Ann Shipp. Fauquier County, Virginia, Marriages [1854-1896]. 2 vols. Fairfax, Virginia: D.A. Buck, 1996. Available at FHL.
 * Chappelear, Nancy and John K. Gott. Early Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage Bonds, 1759-1854. Washington, D.C.: N. Chappelear and J.K. Gott, 1965. Available at FHL.
 * Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee. Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1959. Warrenton, Virginia: Fauquier County Bicentennial Committee, 1959. Available at FHL. [Includes two lists of early marriage bonds and soldiers in the Revolution.]
 * Gott, John K. Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage Bonds (1759-1854) and Marriage Returns (1785-1848). 1989. Available at FHL.
 * King, Junie Estelle Stewart, Abstracts of Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia, 1759-1800. 2001. Digital book available at Ancestry ($).
 * "Marriage Bonds in Fauquier County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Apr. 1904):256-258. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * Ricks, Joel. Fauquier County, Virginia, Marriage Bonds 1759 to 1854. 1939. Available at FHL.

Death

The death registers of Fauquier County, Virginia have been published at least twice:


 * Buck, Dee Ann Shipp. Fauquier County, Virginia, Death Registry, 1853-1896. Fairfax, Virginia: D.A. Buck, 2001. Available at FHL.
 * Duncan, Patricia B. Fauquier County, Virginia, Death Register, 1853-1896. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1998. Available at FHL.

Microfilmed reproductions of the original records are also available at the Family History Library:


 * Fauquier County, Virginia Birth and Death Registers, 1853-1896. Original records. Available at FHL.

Societies and Libraries
Fauquier County Public Library has the Virginiana Room with many local resources and some online indexes: http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/government/departments/library/index.cfm?action=virginiana

Fauquier Historical Society: http://www.fauquierhistory.com/

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vafauqui/fqva.htm
 * Family History Library Catalog