Orange County, Virginia Genealogy

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Orange County
	Orange County, Virginia
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	; Location in the state of Virginia, United States Genealogy
	; Location of Virginia in the U.S.
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Founded	1734
County Seat	Orange
	Courthouse

United States

Virginia

Orange County

Guide to Orange 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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County Information[edit | edit source]

Description[edit | edit source]

Orange County is located in the North-Central portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia and was named after William IV, Prince of Orange^[1].

Orange County, Virginia Courthouse[edit | edit source]

Orange County Courthouse
109-A W Main Street
Orange, Virginia 22960
Phone: 540-672-4066

Clerk Circuit Court has birth records 1860-1895,
marriage records from 1757 probate, court and
land records from 1734^[2]

Known Beginning Dates for Major County Records^[3]
Birth*	Marriage	Death*	Court	Land	Probate	Census
1860	1747	1853	1734	1734	1734	1810
Statewide registration for births and deaths began in 1912. General compliance year is unknown.

Orange County, Virginia History[edit | edit source]

The county was named after King William III of England (1650-1702). Before ruling England, he governed the Dutch Republic and was known as Stadtholder William III of Orange.

A large group of Germans settled in the area during the eighteenth century, while it was the frontier of European settlement.

Parent County[edit | edit source]

1734--Orange County was created 1 February 1734 from Spotsylvania County.
County seat: Orange ^[4]

Boundary Changes[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Lost censuses: 1790, 1800, 1810, 1890

Orange County, Virginia Places/Localities[edit | edit source]

Populated Places[edit | edit source]

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:^[5]

Towns
Gordonsville Orange
Unincorporated communities
Barboursville Burr Hill Lahore Locust Grove	Montpelier Station Nasons Rapidan	Rhoadesville Somerset Unionville
Census-designated places
Lake of the Woods

Neighboring Counties[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Getting Started[edit | edit source]

Compiled genealogies are a good place to start research for this area, see Orange County, Virginia Genealogy.

If you are researching families who lived in Orange County, Virginia between the 1740s and 1840s, the Sparacios' book indexes are a great time saver. The indexes are available for free online.

Research Guides[edit | edit source]

"A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Orange County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1975):283-286. FHL Collection; digital version at New England Ancestors ($).
Cortada, James W. A Select Bibliography on Orange County, Virginia. Orange, Virginia: Green Publishers, 1975. FHL Collection 975.5 A1 no. 158
Miller, Ann L. A Guide to Historical Research in Orange County, Virginia. Orange, Virginia: Orange County Historical Society (Virginia), 1988. FHL Collection 975.5372 H2m

African American[edit | edit source]

1865-1872 Virginia Freedmen's Bureau Letters or Correspondence, 1865-1872
1935-2009 Virginia, African-American Funeral Programs, 1935-2009, index and images, incomplete
Search the Library of Virginia's Virginia Untold collection for digitized records related to African Americans of Orange County.

Bible Records[edit | edit source]

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

Virginia Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007.

Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

Tombstone Transcriptions Online	Tombstone Transcriptions in Print	List of Cemeteries in the county
Findagrave.com	Family History Library	Findagrave.com
VAGenWeb	WorldCat	Billion Graves
USGenWeb 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
Klein, Margaret C. Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979. FHL Collection 975.5372 V3k; digital versions at Ancestry ($); and World Vital Records ($).

Census[edit | edit source]

1782 Enumeration

Orange County Heads of Families - 1782 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 39.

1785 Enumeration

Orange County Heads of Families - 1785 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 96.

1790 - Lost, but a subsitute is available, see Taxation.

1800 - Lost, but a subsitute is available, see Taxation.

1810 - Lost, but a subsitute is available, see Taxation.

1890 Union Veterans

"Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890." Prince William County Virginia, by Ronald Ray Turner. FHL Collection. Includes residents of this county.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Baptist[edit | edit source]

Early Baptist churches (with years constituted):

Blue Run (1769).^[6] Historical information was published in Orange County Historical Society Newsletter, Vol. 19, No. 6 (Jun. 1988).
Chestnut Grove (1773). A bicentennial history was published: Virginia Baptist Register, Issue 12 (1973).
Mountain Run (1767).^[7]
N. Fork, Pamunkey (1774)^[6]
Rapid-Ann (1769)^[8] Edwards published a membership list dated 1769 in Materials Towards a History of the Baptists... (1772), 81-82.

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.
Orange County fell within the bounds of the Culpeper Association and the Goshen Association.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

St. Mark's Parish was organized in 1730. St. Thomas' Parish was organized in 1740.^[9]

See also St. Mark's Parish
See also St. Thomas Parish

Records

Davis, Rosalie Edith Rogers, St. Mark's Parish (Culpeper County, Virginia: Episcopal), Bromfield Parish (Rappahannock and Madison Counties, Virginia: Episcopal). Saint Mark Parish Vestry Book & Levies, 1730-1785: Spotslyvania, Orange and Culpeper counties, Virginia. Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1983. FHL Collection

History

Papageorgiou, Lizabeth Ward. The Colonial Churches of St. Thomas' Parish, Orange County, Virginia: With Notes on Sites in Orange, Greene, and Madison Counties. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield, 2008. FHL Collection

German Reformed[edit | edit source]

Braun, Johannes, Klaus Wust and Joseph H. Meyerhoeffer. Shenandoah Valley Family Data, 1799-1813: From the Memorandum Book of Pastor Johannes Braun. Edinburg, Va.: Shenandoah History Publishers, 1978. FHL Collection 975.5 K2bjo

Quaker[edit | edit source]

Early monthly meetings (with years of existence):

Douglas's Monthly Meeting (1748-1806)^[10]

In the 1700s and 1800s, Friends from Orange County, Virginia Genealogy also attended the Cedar Creek Meeting House in Hanover County, Virginia.^[11]

Court[edit | edit source]

Chancery Court

Sparacio, Ruth Trickey and Sam Sparacio. Chancery Suits (Superior Court of Law & Chancery), Orange County, Virginia, 1831-1845. McLean, Virginia: R. & S. Sparacio, 1988. FHL Collection
Library of Virginia's Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index can be used to search Orange County chancery records for the years 1736-1952 (majority of records 1736-1913). Records available on microfilm.
Post-1913 Orange County chancery records may be available at the Circuit Court Clerk's Office.

District Court of Fredericksburg

The District Court of Fredericksburg and later the Superior Court of Chancery had jurisdiction over certain Orange 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: FHL Collection [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.]

Superior Court of Chancery

See District Court of Fredericksburg

Funeral Homes[edit | edit source]

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

Genealogy[edit | edit source]

Compiled Genealogies by Surname

See Orange County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies for a list of 450+ 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

Compiled Genealogies for Multiple Families

Brockman, William Everett. Orange County (Va.) Families. 4 vols. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Burgess Pub. Co., 1949-1965. Available at FHL.
Cerny, Johni and Gary J. Zimmerman. Before Germanna. 12 vols. Bountiful, Utah: American Geneal. Lending Library Publishers, 1990. Available at FHL. [Discusses families of German immigrants who settled in Spotsylvania and Orange counties, Virginia.]
Davidson, David Nathaniel. Several Famous Families of Orange County, Virginia; Genealogical Charts of Several Famous Orange County Families. Orange, Va., 1934. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
Holtzclaw, B.C. et al. Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750. Harrisonburg, Va.: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1964. FHL US/CAN Book 975.5 D2gd no. 5.
Holtzclaw, B.C. Second Germanna Colony of 1717. Harrisonburg, Va.: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, 1965. FHL US/CAN Book 975.5 D2gd no. 6.
Memorial Foundation of the Germann Colonies in Virginia. http://www.germanna.org/
Memorial Foundation of the Germann Colonies in Virginia. Germanna Heritage Book. Culpeper, Va.: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 2000. FHL US/CAN Large Q Book 975.5 D2gd no. 15.
Memorial Foundation of the Germann Colonies in Virginia. Newsletter (Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia). Newsletter. Harrisburg, Va.: The Foundation, [1956?]-1993. FHL US/CAN Book 975.5 B2m.
Sparacio, Ruth Trickey and Sam Sparacio. A Digest of Family Relationships. 4 vols. McLean, Va.: Antient Press, 1990-. FHL US/CAN Book 975.5 D2sp ff.
Sparacio, Ruth Trickey and Sam Sparacio. Pamunkey Neighbors of Orange County, Virginia: Lindsay, Mills, Montague, Stevens, and Related Families and Neighbors. 2 vols. and supplement. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1985. Available at FHL. 1994 supplements by Lauretta Trickey Corkill, Eldon Corkill, Ruth Trickey Sparacio, and Sam Sparacio also available at FHL.

Historic Residences[edit | edit source]

Miller, Ann L. Antebellum Orange: The Pre-Civil War Homes, Public Buildings, and Historic Sites of Orange County, Virginia. Orange, Virginia: Orange County Historical Society, 1989. Reviewed by Calder Loth in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Oct., 1990), pp. 671-672. Review available at JSTOR ($).
Taylor, Jaquelin P. "'Meadowfarm' Orange County, Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Jul., 1938), pp. 231-233. Available at JSTOR ($).

Immigration[edit | edit source]

Andrea, Leonardo. Miscellaneous Court Records. Typescript. FHL Collection 954248 Item 16 [Includes "Importations from abroad to Orange Co., Va., 1735-1755."]
Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes will of a resident of Orange County 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.

Land and Property[edit | edit source]

Grants and Patents

[Map] Hildebrand, John R. The Beverley Patent, 1736: Including Original Grantees, 1738-1815 in Orange & Augusta Counties, Va. 1954. FHL Collection Map Case 975.5 E7hjr
Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694-1742. Vol. I. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987. FHL Collection; digital version at Ancestry. [Includes an Orange County resident.]
Grymes, J. Randolph. The Octonia Grant in Orange and Greene Counties. Ruckersville, Va.: Seminole Press, 1977. FHL Collection 975.537 R2g
Hildebrand, John R. The Beverley Patent, 1736: Including Original Grantees, 1738-1815 in Orange & Augusta Counties, Va. 1954. FHL Collection Map Case 975.5 E7hjr
Hudgins, 390 patents dated 1713-1815 in what is now Orange County, Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper, 2004. [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.]
Joyner, Ulysses P. Orange County Land Patents. [Orange, Va.]: Orange County Historical Society (Virginia), 1985. FHL Collection 975.5372 R2j

Local Histories[edit | edit source]

Gwathmey, John Hastings. Twelve Virginia Counties, Where the Western Migration Began. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1937. FHL Collection 1320669 Item 13
Hurst, Patricia J. The History and People of Clark Mountain, Orange County, Virginia. Rapidan, Virginia: P.J. Hurst, 1989. FHL Collection
Joyner, Ulysses P. The First Settlers of Orange County, Virginia: A View of the Life and Times of the European Settlers of Orange County, Virginia, and Their Influence Upon the Young James Madison, 1700-1776. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1987. FHL Collection
Mansfield, James Roger. A History of Early Spotsylvania. Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Co., 1977. FHL Collection
Moffatt, L. G., J. M. Carrière and J. G. Moffatt. "A Frenchman Visits Norfolk, Fredericksburg and Orange County, 1816," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Apr., 1945), pp. 101-123; Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jul., 1945), pp. 197-214. Available at JSTOR ($).
Scott, W.W. A History of Orange County: From Its Formation in 1734 (O.S.) to the End of Reconstruction in 1870; Compiled Mainly from Original Records. Richmond, Virginia: Everett Waddey Co., 1907. Original edition: FHL Collection; 1974 reprint: FHL Collection; digital versions of original edition at Ancestry ($), Google Books, and World Vital Records ($). Reviewed in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1962):181. Review: FHL Collection; digital version of review at American Ancestors ($).
Thomas, William H.B. Orange, Virginia: Story of a Courthouse Town. Verona, Virginia: McClure Press, 1972. Reviewed by James T. Moore in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Jan., 1973), pp. 116-117. Review available at JSTOR ($).

Maps[edit | edit source]

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for more resources

Hildebrand, John R. The Beverley Patent, 1736: Including Original Grantees, 1738-1815 in Orange & Augusta Counties, Va. 1954. Available at FHL Collection

Military[edit | edit source]

French and Indian War[edit | edit source]

Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. FHL Collection [Identifies some Orange 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. FHL Collection; 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 Orange County, see p. 112.]

Revolutionary War[edit | edit source]

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

- 7th Virginia Regiment

- 10th Virginia Regiment

- Culpeper Minute Men (Revolutionary War) ^[12]

Additional resources:

Thomas, William H.B. Patriots of the Upcountry: Orange County, Virginia in the Revolution. Orange, Virginia: Orange County Bicentennial Commission, 1976. FHL Collection
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, Orange County on page 132.]
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 Collection 973 M24ur; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]

War of 1812[edit | edit source]

Orange County men served in the 3rd Regiment.^[13]

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, Orange County, p. 96. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.]

Civil War[edit | edit source]

Regiments. Service men in Orange 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 Orange County, Virginia Genealogy:

- 6th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company I (Orange Rangers).^[14]

- 13th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company A (The Montpelier Guard), Company C (The Gordonsville Grays), and Company F (The Barboursville Guards).^[15]

Records and histories are available, including:

1861-1865 - Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index
1861-1865 - Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index
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)
Hurst, Patricia J. Soldiers, Stories, Sites and Fights, Orange County, Virginia 1861-1865 and the Aftermath. Rapidan, Virginia: P.J. Hurst, 1998. FHL Collection
Virginia. Office of Comptroller and Library of Virginia. Confederate Pension Applications, Virginia, Acts of 1888, 1900, 1902; Index, 1888-1934. 220 microfilms, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; also available as FHL Collection [Includes Spotsylvania County veterans.]
Watkins, Raymond Wesley. Deaths of Confederate Soldiers in Orange County, Virginia Hospitals, 1861-1864. MSS., 1979, FHL Collection

Civil War Battles[edit | edit source]

The following Civil War battles were fought in Orange County.

November 27-December 2, 1863 = Mine Run, also known as Payne’s Farm or New Hope Church^[16]
February 6-7, 1864 = Morton's Ford, also known as Rapidan River^[17]
May 5-7, 1864 = Wilderness, also known as Combats at Parker’s Store, Craig’s Meeting House, Todd’s Tavern, Brock Road or the Furnaces^[18]

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

Newspapers[edit | edit source]

The Virginia Newspapers Project identifies local Orange County, Virginia Genealogy newspapers.
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.

Private Papers[edit | edit source]

Buni, Andrew. "Reconstruction in Orange County, Virginia: A Letter from Hannah Garlick Rawlings to Her Sister, Clarissa Lawrence Rawlings, August 9, 1865," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Oct., 1967), pp. 459-465. Available at JSTOR ($).
Redwine, Lucy Leah, J.E. Hays, and Daughters of the American Revolution. Elijah Clarke Chapter (Athens, Georgia). Family Bible Records. MSS., Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia; microfilm: FHL Collection [Includes records from Orange County.]

Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

A free index to Orange County, Virginia Genealogy wills and administrations (1735-1800) is available at the Library of Virginia.

Local Court

Wiggins, Mrs. Joseph P. "Will of Robert Terrill, of Orange County, Virginia," (and family notes) [1786] The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 1923), pp. 175-180. Available at JSTOR ($).

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

'Online Probate Links

1639 – 1850 Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records 1639-1850 at Ancestry.com — index to transcribed records, incomplete, $
1735 - 1744 Images of Wills and Estates Virginia Pioneers ($)
1744 - 1748 Images of Wills and Estates Virginia Pioneers ($)
1744 - 1778 Images of Wills, Inventories, Deeds - Book No. 2.Virginia Pioneers.net ($)
Images of Wills, Inventories - 1778-1801; 1801-1814. Virginia Pioneers.net ($)

Taxation[edit | edit source]

How can Virginia tax lists help me?

[1730-1754] Joyner, Peggy Shomo. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys. Vol. 1 (Orange & Augusta counties, with tithables, delinquents, petitioners, 1730-1754). Portsmouth, Virginia: P.S. Joyner, 1985. FHL Collection
[1734, 1738-1739] Hoppin, Charles Arthur. "Orange County Tithe Lists," (1734, 1738 Delinquents, 1739) The William and Mary Quarterly, 1st Series, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jul., 1918):19-27. FHL Collection; reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, which is also available as FHL Collection; digital version at JSTOR ($).
[1734-1782] Little, Barbara Vines. Orange County, Virginia, Tithables 1734-1782. 2 vols. [Orange, Virginia?]: Dominion Market Research Corp., 1988. FHL Collection
[1736-1782] Orange County, Virginia Tithables, 1736-1782. Original records, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; microfilm: FHL Collection; Online at FamilySearch - free.
[1739] German Tithables, 1739, Beyond Germanna, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jul. 1990).
[1756, 1782] Sparacio, Ruth Trickey and Sam Sparacio. Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia. (1743-1802) 9 vols. McLean, Virginia: R.L. and S. Sparacio, 1985-1995. FHL Collection Volume 2. Deed abstracts 1759-1778 (Deed books 13-16; tithable list of Benjamin Cave's precinct, 1756; and land tax book, 1782).
[1782-1822] Orange County Personal Property Tax Lists 1782-1822 (images); digital version in Tax List Club at Binns Genealogy ($).
[1783] - Personal Property (or Land) Tax List, 1783; index online at Revolutionary War Service website - free.
[1785] Tithables, 1785, Orange County Historical Society Newsletter. Vol. 19, No. 4 (Apr. 1988).
[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. FHL Collection The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Orange County is included in Vol. 2.
[1790] Indexed images of the 1790 Personal Property Tax List of Orange County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
[1800] Tax List, 1800, Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2003); Vol. 47, No. 4 (Oct. 2003); Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan. 2004). Digital version at American Ancestors ($); FHL Collection.
[1800] Images of the 1800 Personal Property Tax List of Orange County, Virginia are available to browse online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
[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. FHL Collection The source for this publication is the 1810 personal property tax list. Orange County is included because the 1810 Census for that county has been destroyed.
[1810] Personal Property Tax 1810, Genealogical Forum of Portland Oregon Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 8 (Apr. 1966).
[1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. FHL Collection The source for this publication is 1815 land tax. Orange County is included in Vol. 4.

Vital Records[edit | edit source]

Indexes to Orange 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[edit | edit source]

1750s-1770s - King, George H.S. "Some Orange County Virginia Birth Records," [1750s-1770s] The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Jul., 1942), p. 317. Available at JSTOR ($). [Found at the back of Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 17; King may have omitted births of black children.]
1751-1766 - Births Virginia Pioneers ($)
1853-1866 - Virginia, Slave Birth Index, 1853-1866 at FamilySearch — index and images
1866-1895 - Orange County Birth Index 1866-1895. Batch C868627 at FamilySearch - free.^[19]
1912-1913 - Virginia, Birth Certificates, 1912-1913 at FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage[edit | edit source]

1660-1800 - Virginia Marriages 1660-1800 (Ancestry) ($).
1660-1959 - Virginia, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
1722-1850 - Fisher, Therese A. Marriage Records of the City of Fredericksburg, and of Orange, Spotsylvania, and Stafford Counties, Virginia 1722-1850. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1990. FHL Collection
1740-1850 - Marriages (Watson to Waugh) Virginia Pioneers ($)
1747-1810 - Knorr, Catherine L. Marriages of Orange County, Virginia, 1747-1810. Pine Bluff, Arkansas: C.L. Knorr, 1959.
1753-1776 - Grinnan, A.G. "Some of the Early Marriage Licenses of Orange County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jul., 1895), pp. 59-61. Digital version at JSTOR - free.
1757-1912 - Orange County Marriage Index 1757-1912. Batch M868625 at FamilySearch - free.</ref>
1770-1800 - Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. FHL Collection; digital version at Google Books. [Includes a chapter titled "Early Marriages, Orange County, Virginia, 1770-1800," see p. 383.]
1770s-1810 - Scott, W.W. "A List of Marriages Recorded in the Back Part of Deed-Book No. 17, Orange County," [1770s-1810] The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 1918), pp. 190-200; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Jul., 1918), pp. 297-302; Vol. 26, No. 4 (Oct., 1918), pp. 401-404; Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan., 1919), p. 68; Vol. 27, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1919), pp. 345-348; Vol. 28, No. 2 (Apr., 1920), pp. 152-160; Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul., 1920), pp. 256-265; Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct., 1920), p. 360. Available at JSTOR ($). Alternative titles: "A List of Marriages in Orange County," "List of Marriages in Orange County," and "Orange County Marriages."
1775-1786 - Bonds Virginia Pioneers ($)
1785-1940 Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 at Ancestry.com ($) — index
1787-1791 - Bonds Virginia Pioneers ($)
1802-1938 - Orange County Marriage Index 1802-1938. Batch M868626 at FamilySearch - free.
1853-1935 - Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935 at FamilySearch — index and images
1936-1988 - Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988 at FamilySearch — index and images

Divorce[edit | edit source]

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

Death[edit | edit source]

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

Vital Record Substitutes[edit | edit source]

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.