Stafford County, Virginia Genealogy

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Parent County
1666--Stafford County was created 5 June 1666 from Westmoreland County. County seat: Stafford

Neighboring Counties

 * Caroline
 * Charles County, Maryland
 * Culpeper
 * Fauquier
 * King George
 * Prince William
 * Spotsylvania

Court

 * Waterman, Thomas T. "The Old Court House Buildings, Stafford County, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr. 1936):247. Available at JSTOR.

County Court


 * "Notes from the Records of Stafford County, Virginia, Order Books," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Oct. 1939):335-348. Available at JSTOR.

Family Histories
Bibliography


 * [Combs] Combs, Josiah. "The Ancestry of Joseph Combs, of Stafford," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Oct. 1946):341-343. Available at JSTOR.
 * [Combs] "Corrections: The Ancestry of Joseph Combs, of Stafford," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. 1947):97. Available at JSTOR.
 * [Starke] "Starke Family of Stafford County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr. 1897):255-256. Available at JSTOR.
 * [Washington] "William Washington of Stafford County, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Oct. 1906):132-134. Available at JSTOR.
 * [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.

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.

Probate

 * Nicklen, John Bailey Calvert. "A Missing Will Book of Stafford County and Its Contents," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan. 1949):67-75. Available at JSTOR.

Taxation
Images of the 1789 and 1798 Personal Property Tax Lists of Stafford County, Virginia are available to browse online at Binns Genealogy.

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog