Dinwiddie County, Virginia Genealogy

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Dinwiddie County

Guide to Dinwiddie County, Virginia ancestry, family history and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, immigration records, and military records.

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Dinwiddie County, Virginia
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Location in the state of Virginia, United States Genealogy
Location of Virginia in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	1752
County Seat	Dinwiddie
Courthouse

County Information

Description

Dinwiddie County is located in the Central portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia and was named for Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751-1758.

Dinwiddie County Virginia Courthouse

Dinwiddie County Courthouse
P.O. Box 63
Dinwiddie, VA 23841-0063
Phone: 804-649-4540

Clerk Circuit Court has birth and death records 1865-1896
Marriage, probate and land records from 1833 and divorce records from 1870

Known Beginning Dates for Major County Records
Birth*	Marriage	Death*	Court	Land	Probate	Census
1865	1833	1865	1833	1833	1833	1810
Statewide registration for births and deaths began in 1912. General compliance year is unknown.

Dinwiddie County Virginia History

The county is named after Virginia Lieutenant-Governor Robert Dinwiddie (1693-1770).

Parent County

1752--Dinwiddie County was created 27 February 1752 from Prince George County.
County seat: Dinwiddie

Boundary Changes

For animated maps illustrating Virginia county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Virginia County Boundary Maps" (1617-1995) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss

There was substantial record loss from the courthouse in Dinwiddie County, Virginia the last few months of the American Civil War, 1861-1865.

Surviving records: Pre-Civil War marriages, deeds, wills, chancery order books.

• Lost censuses: 1790, 1800, 1890

Visit the Library of Virginia's website to determine exactly what records have been lost and their Lost Records Localities Database to find additional resources.

B. Darrell Jackson, CG, exploits virtually every surviving source from Dinwiddie County, Virginia in the following publication:

• Jackson, B. Darrell. Jackson Family History: Descendants of Robert Jackson of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to Nine Generations, ca. 1760-2008: with Ancestry of Allied Families -- Johnson, Blakely, Shields, Cooper, Stiles, Kitchell, Pierson, Bruen, Ogden, Swaine, and Owsley. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 2009. FHL Book 929.273 J137j

Genealogists with Dinwiddie County roots would benefit from exploring the list of sources he found and used in this book and applying them to their own families.

For suggestions about research in places that suffered historic record losses, see:

• Burned Counties. By Michael John Neill at 24-7 Family History Circle.
• When the Records are Gone. By Arlene Eakle at Arlene Eakle's Tennessee Blog.
• Burned Counties Research in the FamilySearch Research Wiki.

Dinwiddie County Virginia Places/Localities

Populated Places

For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Towns
McKenney
Unincorporated communities
Ammon Carson Church Road	DeWitt Darvils Dinwiddie	Ford Sutherland Wilsons

Dinwiddie County Virginia Genealogy Resources

Research Guides

The Library of Virginia's website includes the following guide:

• "Dinwiddie County,"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.

John Frederick Dorman has written an excellent guide:

• "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Dinwiddie County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1964):170-173. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors ($).

The Works Progress Administration's Historical Inventory is online at the Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

African American

From 1790 to 1860, Dinwiddie County had one of the largest enslaved populations in the state (7334 in 1790; 12,774 in 1860). It also had one of the largest free colored populations (561 in 1790; 3746 in 1860). Ten years later in 1870, Dinwiddie County had one of the largest African American populations in Virginia (17,664) - the town of Petersburg in particular.

• 1865-1872 Freedmen's Bureau Letters or Correspondence, 1865-1872
• 1935-2009 Virginia, African-American Funeral Programs, 1935-2009, index and images, incomplete
• Heinegg, Paul. "Dinwiddie County Personal Property Tax List 1782-1799," Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
• Search the Library of Virginia's Virginia Untold collection for digitized images of African Americans of Dinwiddie County.

Bible Records

Images of the Virginia Historical Society's family Bible collection have been digitized:

• Virginia Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007.

Cemeteries

Tombstone Transcriptions Online	Tombstone Transcriptions in Print	List of Cemeteries in the county
Findagrave.com	Family History Library	Findagrave.com
VAGenWeb	WorldCat	Billion Graves
VAGenWeb Archives
Tombstone Project
Virginia Gravestones
Billion Graves
See Virginia Cemeteries for more information.

• 1800-1986 - Virginia, Jewish Cemetery Records Index, ca. 1800-1986 at FamilySearch — index
• Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. "Inscriptions from Various Tombstones in Dinwiddie, Chesterfield, Henrico and New Kent Counties, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jan. 1900):178-183. Available at JSTOR ($).
• Short, Sallie E.H. "Branch Family Cemetery, 'Laurel Brook,' Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1970):153-154. FHL Collection; digital version at American Ancestors ($).

Census

Historical populations
Census	Pop.	%±
1790	13,934	—
1800	15,374	10.3%
1810	18,190	18.3%
1820	20,482	12.6%
1830	21,901	6.9%
1840	22,558	3.0%
1850	25,118	11.3%
1860	30,198	20.2%
1870	30,702	1.7%
1880	32,870	7.1%
1890	13,515	−58.9%
1900	15,374	13.8%
1910	15,442	0.4%
1920	17,949	16.2%
1930	18,492	3.0%
1940	18,166	−1.8%
1950	18,839	3.7%
1960	22,183	17.8%
1970	25,046	12.9%
1980	22,602	−9.8%
1990	20,960	−7.3%
2000	24,533	17.0%
2010	28,001	14.1%
Source: "Wikipedia.org".

Church Records

Baptist

Early Baptist churches (with years constituted):

1. Cutbanks (1789)
2. Harper's (1773)
3. Rowanty (1775)

• 1776 Petition of Baptists (10,000 names!) and sympathizers from all over Virginia, dated 16 October 1776, asking for an end to persecution of Baptists by the established church. After locating your ancestor, view the digital copies.
  – Digital copies at Library of Congress; also at Library of Virginia using the code word "000606093"
  – Hall, Jean Pickett. "Legislative Petitions: the 10,000 name petition" transcription in the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vols. 35-38, with annotations in Vol. 39, (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1983-) online at Ancestry ($) and in book form at various libraries.
  

Dinwiddie County fell within the bounds of the Meherrin Association and the Portsmouth Association.

Church of England

See also Bath Parish
See also Bristol Parish

Bristol Parish was established in 1643, including all the Appomattox River valley. When Didwiddie Couny was partitioned from Prince George county 1752, Bristol Parish became the parish for Dinwiddie County. The original Register 1685-1798 and the Vestry Book 1720-1789 are available at the Library of Virginia and the FHL: FHL 30625.

Meade's 1861 history of parishes in Dinwiddie County is available online.

Blandford Church has served Petersburg's residents.

• Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince George and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798. Richmond, Virginia: C.G. Chamberlayne, 1898. Two published transcripts available at FHL here and here; digital book at Ancestry ($); and World Vital Records ($).
• Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720 - 1789. Richmond, VA: [s.n.] 1898. Available at FHL US/CAN Film 1036590 Item 2. Digital versions at Google Books; and World Vital Records ($).
• Jarratt, Devereux and John Coleman. The Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt: Rector of Bath Parish, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Printed by Warner & Hanna, 1806. Digital version at Google Books.
• Mason, George Carrington. "The Colonial Churches of Prince George and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jul. 1943):249-271. Available at JSTOR ($).
• Mason, George Carrington. Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1945. Available at FHL; digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.

Blandford Church, Petersburg

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Petersburg Ward and Branch Records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Quaker

Early monthly meetings (with years of existence):

• Butler's Monthly Meeting (1698-1800)
• Gravelly Run Monthly Meeting (1767-1830)
• Langley's Monthly Meeting (1755-1767) aka Whippanock

Friends from Dinwiddie County, Virginia also attended the Chuckatuck Monthly Meeting in Nansemond County, Virginia and the Blackwater Monthly Meeting in Surry County, Virginia.

• Brown, Jane Douglas Summers and Jones Memorial Library. Jane Douglas Summers Brown (1903-) Quaker Records: Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia); MS 1515. MSS, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, Va. Available on 26 microfilms at FHL. [Includes records of Dinwiddie County Quakers; Brown assisted "William Wade Hinshaw in the writing of the Virginia volume of the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy."]

Court

Chancery Court

• 1844-1954 - Indexes (1844-1954) and images (1844-1932) to Dinwiddie County, Virginia Chancery Records are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.
• 1950-1984 - Dinwiddie County Chancery Index 1950-1984. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

County Court

• 1789-1791, 1842-1846, 1855-1909 - Order Books of Dinwiddie County. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.
• 1789-1790 - "Records of Dinwiddie County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jan. 1915):214-218. Available at JSTOR ($).

Crime

• 1920-2004 - Dinwiddie County Criminal Index 1920 to 2004. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

Board of Supervisors

• 1870-1960 - Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisor Books. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

Funeral Homes

• 1935-2009 Virginia, African-American Funeral Programs, 1935-2009, index and images, incomplete

Genealogy

• See Dinwiddie County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies for a list of 125+ published books and articles, or jump to the surname using the alphabet bar.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Historic Residences

• [Pride's Tavern] "Inventory of Halcott Pride's Estate in Dinwiddie County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr. 1938):219-226. Available at JSTOR ($).
• Lancaster, Robert A. "Wales, Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Jul. 1936):232-237. Available at JSTOR ($). [Residence of the Briggs family.]

Immigration

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

• List of imported servants and transported convicts from Europe who served labor terms in Colonial Virginia are online at: Immigrant Servants Database.
  

During the War of 1812, American officials reported finding a total of 51 British aliens, many of whom had families, living in Petersburg (50) and Dinwiddie County (1).

Land and Property

Grants and Patents

Land patents (pre-1779), land grants (after 1779) and surveys are available online at the Library of Virginia website. For step-by-step instructions on retrieving these records, read the Virginia Land and Property article.*Hudgins. 884 patents dated 1653-1785 in what is now Dinwiddie County, Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper, 2003. [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); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's DeedMapper product.]

• Short, Sallie E. Hargrave and Priscilla M. Godfrey, Dinwiddie County Surveyors Platt Record Book 1752-1865. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

• Dinwiddie County Plat Index 1910-2010. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

Local Histories

• Dinwiddie County: The Countrey of Apamatica. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1942. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). Reviewed by Chas. Edgar Gilliam in The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Apr. 1943):228-230. Review available at JSTOR ($).

Maps

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for more resources

Migration

• Elliott, Katherine B. Emigration to Other States from Southside Virginia. 2 vols. South Hill, Virginia: K.B. Elliott, 1966. Vol. 1 of original edition available at FHL; 1983 reprints (both volumes) available at FHL; 1990-1992 reprints (both volumes) also available at FHL. [Includes individuals who migrated out of Dinwiddie County to other parts of the country.]

Military

Colonial Militia

• King, George H.S. "Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Militia Officers, 1752," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1963):173. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors ($).
• 1752 Dinwiddie Militia. Virginia Pioneers ($)

French and Indian War

• Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Dinwiddie County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]

Revolutionary War

Regiments. Service men in Dinwiddie County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Dinwiddie County supplied soldiers for the:

- 6th Virginia Regiment

- 14th Virginia Regiment

Additional resources:

• A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books et. al. 1967 reprint: FHL Collection 973 X2pc 1840. [See Virginia, Eastern District, Dinwiddie County on page 130.]
• Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." FHL Book 973 M24ur; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]
• Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War. By J.T. McAllister. 1913. Hot Springs, Va.: McAllister Pub. Co. Online at: Internet Archive

War of 1812

Dinwiddie County men served in the 83rd Regiment and Petersburg men served in the 39th Regiment.

• Douthat, James L. Roster of War of 1812, Southside, Virginia. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 2007. Free online surname index and purchase details at Mountain Press website. FHL Collection 975.5 M2djL. [Includes Dinwiddie County.]
• List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. FHL Collection 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Google Books and Internet Archive. [See Vol. 5, Virginia, Dinwiddie County, pp. 69-70.]

Civil War

Regiments. Service men in Dinwiddie County, Virginia Genealogy served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Dinwiddie County, Virginia Genealogy:

- 3rd Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company I (2nd) (Dinwiddie Cavalry).

- 3rd Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company C (Dinwiddie Greys) and Company E (Cockade Rifles).

- 5th Battalion, Virginia Infantry (Wilson's)(Archer's)(Confederate).

- 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate).

- 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (12 months, 1861-62) (Mullins') (Confederate). Company D (Petersburg Rangers or Letcher Mounted Guards), Company K (Captain Charles Pannill's Company).

- 12th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company A (Petersburg City Guard), Company B (Petersburg Old Grays), Company C (Petersburg New Grays), Company D (Lafayette Guards), Company E (Petersburg Riflemen), and Company K (Archer Rifles).

- 13th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (12th Months, 1861-62) (Confederate). Company B (The Petersburg Light Dragoons) and Company E (The Cockade Cavalry).

Records and histories are available, including:

• 1861-1865 - Virginia, Civil War, Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
• 1861-1865 - Virginia, Civil War, Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
• 1861-1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
• 1861-1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)

Civil War Battles

The following Civil War battles were fought in Dinwiddie County.

• June 21-24, 1864 = Jerusalem Plank Road, also known as First Battle of Weldon Railroad
• June 29, 1864 = Ream's Station I
• August 18-21, 1864 = Globe Tavern, also known as Second Battle of Weldon Railroad, Yellow Tavern, Yellow House, or Blick’s Station
• August 25, 1864 = Ream's Station II[23][23]
• September 30-October 2, 1864 = Peebles' Farm, also known as Poplar Springs Church, Wyatt’s Farm, Chappell’s House, Pegram’s Farm, Vaughan Road, or Harmon Road
• October 27-28, 1864 = Boydton Plank Road, also known as Hatcher’s Run or Burgess’ Mill
• February 5-7, 1865 = Hatcher’s Run, also known as Dabney’s Mill, Rowanty Creek, Armstrong’s Mill, or Vaughan Road
• March 29, 1865 = Lewis’s Farm, also known as Quaker Road, Military Road, or Gravelly Road
• March 31, 1865 = Dinwiddie Court House
• March 31, 1865 = White Oak Road, also known as Hatcher’s Run, Gravelly Run, Boydton Plank Road or White Oak Ridge
• March 31, 1865 = Five Forks
• April 2, 1865 = Sutherland's Station

Maps of Civil War battles in Virginia: 1861 and 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865

Miscellaneous Records

• 1607-2007 - Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007 at FamilySearch — index and images

Naturalization

• Virginia Naturalization Petitions, 1906-1929

Newspapers

The Virginia Newspapers Project identifies local Dinwiddie County, Virginia Genealogy newspapers.
*1797-1877 - Petersburg Newspaper Index (1797-1877) index only - Free.

• 1814-1815 - Petersburg Daily Courier (Petersburg, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
• 1817 - American Star (Petersburg, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
• 1885-1904 - Daily Index-Appeal (Petersburg,Virginia) Digital version at World Vital Records ($) click here for years 1885-1886, 1887 and click here for years 1900, 1903-1904. See also Newspaper Archive ($)
• 1900 - National Pilot (Petersburg, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
• 1904-1910 - Daily Progress, The (Petersburg,Virginia). Digital version at World Vital Records ($) for years 1904-1905, 1906, 1909-1910. See also Newspaper Archive ($).
• 1920 - Evening Progress, The (Petersburg,Virginia). Digital version at World Vital Records ($) for 1920 only. See also Newspaper Archive ($).
• 2001-present - Progress-Index (Petersburg, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).

Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette (1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburg website. 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 FHL. [Includes a section on Petersburg silversmiths.]

Private Papers

Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007

• [Dabney] "Some Dabney Family Papers, Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1965):111-114. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($).

Probate Records

Local Court

• 1700-1805 - Images of Loose Wills and Estates Virginia Pioneers ($)
• 1758-1869 - Digital Images of Dinwiddie County (surviving) Wills 1758-1799; 1801-1869. See names of testators. Virginia Pioneers 
• 1830-2007 - Dinwiddie County Wills and Fiduciaries Index 1830 to 2007. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.
• Hopkins, William Lindsay. Some Wills from the Burned Counties of Virginia and Other Wills Not Listed in Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800. Richmond, Virginia: W.L. Hopkins, 1987. Available at FHL. [Includes Dinwiddie County.]
• Johnson, William Perry. "Wills of Philip and John Burrow, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, 1778," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1970):150-153. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($).
• Short, Sallie E.H. "Unrecorded Wills of Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1972):163-172; Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1972):255-260. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($).
• Steffens, Mary W. "Wills of Rawleigh Porteus Downman and his Wife Anne (Downman) Downman Muir, Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1975):83-92. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($).
• 1929-2003 - Dinwiddie County Devisees and Heir Index 1929 to 2003. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

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 Bristol Parish proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

North Carolina Courts

• Livingston, Virginia Pope. "Some Virginia Wills Recorded in North Carolina," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1967):30-34. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($). [Includes the abstract of the will of John Southerland, Mariner, of Donwoody County [sic], dated 1771.]

Sussex County, Virginia Court

• "Inventory of Halcott Pride's Estate in Dinwiddie County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr. 1938):219-226. Available at JSTOR ($).

Online Probate Indexes and Records

• 1639 – 1850 Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records 1639-1850 at Ancestry.com — index to transcribed records, incomplete, $
• 1758 – 1799; 1801 – 1869 – Images of Wills Virginia Pioneers ($)

Taxation

How can Virginia tax lists help me?

• [1752-1820] Hughes, Thomas P. and Jewel B. Standefer, Dinwiddie County Land Records Compiled 1752-1820. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.
• [1782-1819] Dinwiddie County Personal Property Tax Lists 1782-1819 (images); digital version in Tax List Club at Binns Genealogy ($).
• [1782-1875] Dinwiddie County, Virginia Land Tax Books. Images at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.
• [1782-1820] Hughes, Thomas P. Dinwiddie County Data from Records 1752-1865. Includes Personal Property Tax Lists 1782-1820. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.
• [1782] "Personal Property List Dinwiddie County, 1782," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Oct. 1917):96-106; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Jan. 1918):196-201; Vol. 26, No. 4 (Apr. 1918):250-258. Available at FHL; reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, which is also available at FHL; digital version at JSTOR($).
• [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. Online at FamilySearch - free; FHL. [1782 personal property tax list of Dinwiddie County.]
• [1782-1799] Heinegg, Paul. "Dinwiddie County Personal Property Tax List 1782-1799,"Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
• [1783] - Personal Property (or Land) Tax List, 1783; index online at Revolutionary War Service website - free.
• [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 & 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 & Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle & 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. Dinwiddie County and the portion of Petersburg in Dinwiddie County are included in Vol. 1.]
• [1790, 1800] Indexed images of the 1790 and 1800 Personal Property Tax Lists of Dinwiddie County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
• [1790, 1799] Indexed images of the 1790 and 1799 Land Tax Lists of Dinwiddie County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
• [1800] "Dinwiddie County, Virginia, 1800 Tax List," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1974):30-34; Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1974):92-96; Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1974):183-186; Vol. 18, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1974):251-256. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($).
• [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at FHL. [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Dinwiddie County is included in Vol. 1.]
• [1886-1931] Chappell, J. Barrett. Real Estate Tax Sales 1886 to 1931. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.

Vital Records

Indexes to Dinwiddie County, Virginia Genealogy births, marriages, and deaths are available online. These collections are incomplete, but are easy to search. Most records can also be ordered electronically online as well. Courtesy: FamilySearch. See also How to order Virginia Vital Records

Birth

• Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince George and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798. Richmond, Virginia: C.G. Chamberlayne, 1898. Two published transcripts available at FHL here and here; digital book at Ancestry($); and World Vital Records($).

• 1853-1866 - Virginia, Slave Birth Index, 1853-1866 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1912-1913 - Virginia, Birth Certificates, 1912-1913 at FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

• 1660-1800 - Virginia Marriages 1660-1800 (Ancestry) ($).
• 1660-1959 - Virginia, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
• 1689-1699 - Marriage Licenses (Virginia Pioneers) ($).
• 1740-1850 - Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (Ancestry) ($).
• 1785-1940 Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 at Ancestry.com ($) — index
• Hughes, Thomas P. Dinwiddie County Data from Records 1752-1865. Includes Marriages in Deed Books 1-6 and Marriages miscellaneous. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.
• 1832-1836 - Ministers' Returns of Marriages Performed in Dinwiddie County 1832-1836 - Recorded in Deed Book I (VAGenWeb)
• 1848-1849 - Haw, R.W. "Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Marriages," [1848-1849] The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1962):173. Available at FHL; digital version at American Ancestors($). [These marriages were found in Dinwiddie County, Virginia Deed Book 6, page 191.]
• 1850-1880 - Dinwiddie County Marriage Index 1850-1880. Batch M868588 at FamilySearch - free.
• 1853-1935 - Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1863-2000 - Dinwiddie County Marriage Indexes 1863-2000. Online at Dinwiddie County Government Site - free.
• 1878-1916 - Dinwiddie County Marriage Index 1878-1916. Batch M868589 at FamilySearch - free.
• 1936-1988 - Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988 at FamilySearch — index and images

Divorce

• 1918-1988 - Virginia, Divorce Records, 1918-1988 at FamilySearch — index and images

Death

• 1912-1987 - Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987 at FamilySearch — index and images

Vital Record Substitutes

The Virginia Historical Society's Marriage and Obituary Index, 1736-1820 (newspaper abstracts) is available at FamilySearch. Images of the original index cards are browseable, arranged alphabetically by surname.

Dinwiddie County Virginia Genealogy Societies and Libraries

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Dinwiddie County Virginia Genealogy Websites

• Dinwiddie Co., VAGenWeb. Part of the USGenWeb Project. Maps, name indexes, history.
• Dinwiddie County, VA History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Familytree101)
• FamilySearch Catalog
• Cyndi's List
• Virginia Pioneers ($)

Dinwiddie County Virginia Genealogy References

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