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Isle of Wight County, Virginia Genealogy General Resources
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Isle of Wight, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 120,000 entries.

Isle of Wight County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 300 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.

Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Isle of Wight County families include:


 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and . [Includes chapters on the following families: Bennett, Boddie, Brewer, Bridger, Davis, Exum, Godwin, Lawrence, Newman, and Pitt.]
 * Boddie, John Bennett. Southside Virginia Families. 2 vols. 1955-1956; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976..
 * Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * Chapman, Blanche Adams and Isle of Wight County Library (Virginia). Smithfield Branch. Chapman Collection of Virginia Family Names, Smithfield Branch, Isle of Wight County Library, 1635-1814. MSS., Blanche Adams Chapman Collection, Smithfield Branch, Isle of Wight County Library, at Smithfield, Virginia; also available at.
 * Chapman, Blanche Adams. "Isle of Wight Families," William and Mary Quarterly, Series 2, Vol. 10 (1930):254-260. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Gwaltney, Anne W. Personal History Departments of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia from Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Special Virginia Edition, c. 1884. [Virginia? : s.n., 1884?]. Available at.

Isle of Wight County, Virginia Genealogy Books and Articles


It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:


 * Locate publications about direct ancestors
 * Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
 * Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]


 * [Applewight] Brandow, James C. comp. Genealogies of Barbados Families from Carribeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983..
 * [Applewight] Farwell, Irene Applewhite. The Fabulous Applewhite Family. Burley, Idaho: I. Farwell, 1992. Digital version at - free;.
 * [Applewight] Brayton, John Anderson. "The Ancestry of Henry Applewight of Isle of Wight Co., Va.," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2001):243-253. Digital version at American Ancestors ($);.
 * [Applewight] Brayton, John Anderson. "Good News and Bad News in Applewight Research," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2003):267-271. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).
 * [Arrington] Stringfield, Ellie Beckwith. Will of William Arrington, Isle of Wight County, Va., 4th Day of May, 1725; Will of Arthur Arrington, Nash County, North Carolina, 1st day of April, 1779; Will of Joseph Arrington, Nash County, North Carolina, 12th day of November, 1818. MSS., available at.
 * [Arrington] Linn, Jo White. Drake-Arrington, White-Turner, Linn-Brown and Two Dozen Related Southern Lines: Treadwell, Slade, Lacey, Harrison, Cathey, Redwine, Krider, Wood, McNair, Peden, Sandefer, Tompkins, Bennett, Hodges, Goodrich, Bechinoe, Williams, Bustin, Outlaw, Fox, Smith, George, Doll and Stahle. Salisbury, N.C.: J.W. Linn, 1984..
 * [Arrington] Arrington, John Milton. Arrington History: A Un Sanitized Book. Houston, Texas: J.M. Arrington, 2007. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Atkinson] Purdie, Kenneth Sinclair. Notes Relating to the Purdie and Atkinson Families of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and Their Several Connections. 1975. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Atkinson] King, Forrest. "Descendants of Thomas Pitman (1614-about 1686) of Surry County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2005):163-176; Vol. 49, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2005):294-306; Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2006):28-50; Vol. 50, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2006):104-114. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).
 * [Bagnall] Bathiany, Robert Olds. "The Wife of Henry Reeves (ca. 1640-1687)," Glimpses of Grayson (Summer 1993):2-3. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Bailey] Wilkinson, William Bailey. Genealogical Notes Concerning the Bailey Family. Donated 1989. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Baker] The Colonial Dames of America. Ancestral Records and Portraits, 2 vols. New York: The Grafton Press Publishers, 1910. Digitized by Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II - both free.
 * [Baker] Robertson, Haywood L. "Baker Family of Isle of Wight Co., VA.," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1971):126-128. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Baker] Robertson, Haywood L. "Baker Family of Isle of Wight Co., VA.: A Continuation," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1971):249-253. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Baker] Robertson, Haywood Lawrence. Colonial Roots. Alexandria, Va.: Robertson, 1976..
 * [Baker] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Barcroft] Robertson, Haywood Lawrence. Colonial Roots. Alexandria, Va.: Robertson, 1976..
 * [Barcroft] Russell, George Ely. "John and Jane Barcroft of Boston, Mass., and Virginia," The American Genealogist, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Apr. 1992):112-113. Digital version at American Ancestors ($);.
 * [Barham] Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. 3 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004-2007. Volume 2..
 * [Barham] Joyner, Ulysses P. From the Pagan to the Nottoway: The Occupation of the Land by the Europeans 1607-1800. Orange, Va.: U.P. Joyner, 2008. Digital version at ;.
 * [Barlow] Barlow, Gladys Holleman. A Record of the Shadrach Barlow Family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. MSS., Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight Library in Smithfield, Virginia..
 * [Barnes] Berryman, Ann Williamson. Barnes Families of Isle of Wight County Virginia and Edgecombe/ Nash Counties North Carolina. 1992. Available at.
 * [Barnes] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Bechinoe] Linn, Jo White. Drake-Arrington, White-Turner, Linn-Brown and Two Dozen Related Southern Lines: Treadwell, Slade, Lacey, Harrison, Cathey, Redwine, Krider, Wood, McNair, Peden, Sandefer, Tompkins, Bennett, Hodges, Goodrich, Bechinoe, Williams, Bustin, Outlaw, Fox, Smith, George, Doll and Stahle. Salisbury, N.C.: J.W. Linn, 1984..
 * [Bell] Rollings, Virginia H. Bell Family of Surry &amp; Isle of Wight, Virginia. MSS., available at.
 * [Bennett] Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. 3 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004-2007. Volumes 1 and 2..
 * [Bennett] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Blount] Hathaway, J.R.B. "Abstract of Wills," The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan. 1900):34-35. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
 * [Blount] Crocker, James Francis. The Blunt's of Isle of Wight County, Virginia and Their Descendants. Portsmouth, Va.: Whitson &amp; Shepherd, 1914. Available at.
 * [Boddie] Leary, Helen F.M. "The Two William Boddies of North Carolina," The American Genealogist, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Jan. 1991):16-29; Vol. 66, No. 2 (Apr. 1991):106-110; Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul. 1991):148-153. Digital version at American Ancestors ($);
 * [Bond] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Boon] Thompson, Rupert Farnham. Boon Genealogy. 2 vols. Studio City, Calif., 1981-1986..
 * [Boon] Thompson, Rupert Farnham. 1987/1998 Thomas (1) Boon Calendar: Dedicated to Thomas (1) Boon, Immigrant, Died 1723, Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, and to Georgia Alice (Farnham) Jones Chilcott, Who Remembered Her Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth (Foster) Boon, Who Told Family Stories, and to Dorothy Ruth Victoria "Babs" (Farnum) Thompson, My Wife. Studio City, Calif.: R.F. Thompson, [1987?]. Available at.
 * [Boon] King, Forrest. "Descendants of Mathew Strickland (1648-1696) Through Four Generations," North Carolina Genealogical Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2 (May 2008);111-142; Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug. 2008):219-252; Vol. 34, No. 4 (Nov. 2008):293-326..
 * [Boon] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Boucher] Brandenberger, Evelyn Duke. The Duke Family. 2 vols. [Houston, Texas]: E.D. Brandenberger, 1979-1995..
 * [Boykin] The Colonial Dames of America. Ancestral Records and Portraits, 2 vols. New York: The Grafton Press Publishers, 1910. Digitized by Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II - both free.
 * [Boykin] Wooten, David Robert. We All Become Forefathers: Genealogies of the Wooten, Boykin, Whitaker and Broadhurst Families. 1993.
 * [Boykin] King, Forrest. "Descendants of Mathew Strickland (1648-1696) Through Four Generations," North Carolina Genealogical Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2 (May 2008);111-142; Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug. 2008):219-252; Vol. 34, No. 4 (Nov. 2008):293-326..
 * [Bragg] Berryman, Ann Williamson. James Bragg Family of Isle of Wight County Virginia. 1992. Available at.
 * [Braswell] Braswell, Viola Vick et al. The Lineage of Jacob Thomas Braswell. Rocky Mount, N.C.: n.p., 1964..
 * [Braswell] Woodard, William T. History of the Woodard Family of Johnston County, N.C. Raleigh, N.C.: Joseph C. Woodard Printing, 1983.
 * [Braswell] Strickland, David N. Strickland Research Notes. Multi-volume. Carrollton, Texas: D.N. Strickland, 1989-1990..
 * [Braswell] Williams, Winona Susan Simpson. Braswell Branches. Newsletter. Ben Lomond, Calif.: W.S. Williams, 1991-2006..
 * [Braswell] Young, Eunice H. "Notes on the Ancestry of the Rev. Robert Braswell of Isle of Wight County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1999):136-142. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors($).
 * [Braswell] Braswell, Guy Edward and Judith Braswell Yandle. Proud Members of the Braswell Family: Allied Families of Richard and Penelope Blow Braswell of Wayne County, North Carolina and Rev. Robert Braswell of London, England Who Immigrated to Isle of Wight, Virginia; Also Descendants from Anson and Union Counties, North Carolina. Chesterfield, South Carolina: South Carolina Genealogical Society. Chesterfield District Chapter, 2001. Available at.
 * [Brent] Brent, Chester Horton. The Descendants of Hugh Brent, Immigrant to Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1642, and Some Allied Families: Curd, Doggett, Edmonds, Fleet, Lawson, Nutt &amp; Wale: Also Lineages of Behethland, Bernard, Bunting, Hathaway, Nevil, Newton, Savage &amp; Vaughan Families and Notes from Some Diaries (1793-1909) of the Piedmont Section of Virginia. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1936. Available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Brewer] Kennedy, Mary Selden. Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families. New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911. Digital versions of Vol. 1 at Google Books; Internet Archive | Vol. 2 at ;Internet Archive;.
 * [Brewer] Ingersoll, Louise. Lanier: A Genealogy of the Family Who Came to Virginia and Their French Ancestors in London. Washington, D.C.: Goetz Printing Company, 1965. Digital version at World Vital Records ($).
 * [Brewer] Broyhill, Marvin T. The Brewer Families of Colonial Virginia, 1626-1776. Estill Springs, Tenn.: Brewer Researcher, 1994. 1992 edition and supplements have been digitized: - free.
 * [Bridger] See also Boddie (1938) General.
 * [Bridger] Thomas, Edison H. The Thomas and Bridges Story, 1540-1840. Louisville, Ky.: E.H. Thomas, 1984, c1972. Digital version at - free;
 * [Bridger] Brayton, John A. "Joseph Bridger of Dursley, Gloucestershire," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1997):183-184. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Bridger] Brayton, John Anderson. Colonial Families of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia, v. 7: Pedigree of the Family of Pitt of Bristol, Gloucester, Charlestown, Massachusetts and Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Memphis, Tenn.: J.A. Brayton, 2002. Available at . [2 copies at FHL.]
 * [Bridger] Dozier, Rebecca Leach, Lou Woodard King and Penn Perry. Twelve Northhampton County, North Carolina Families, 1650-1850: Bridgers, Daughtry, Futrell, Jenkins, Joyner, Lassiter, Martin, Odom, Parker, Stephenson, Sumner, Woodard. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 2004.
 * [Bridger] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Brown] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Bryan] Hathaway, J.R.B. "Bryan Record," The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct. 1900):577-584. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
 * [Bryan] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Bryant] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Burwell] Kennedy, Mary Selden. Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families. New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911. Digital versions of Vol. 1 at Google Books; Internet Archive | Vol. 2 at ;Internet Archive;.
 * [Bush] Grimsley, Mildred Arzilla Simpson. Bush Family Notes: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennes[s]ee, Virginia, and Isle of Wight. MSS., a project of the Las Vegas Nevada Multi-Regional Family History Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1994. Available at.
 * [Camm] Tyler, Lyon G. "Descendants of John Camm, President of William and Mary College," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jul. 1895):61-62; Vol. 4, No. 4 (Apr. 1896):275-278. Digital version at JSTOR - free.
 * [Carr] Davis, Eliza Timberlake. Carr Family of Isle of Wight and Nansemond Counties, Virginia. Berryville, Va.: Virginia, ca. 1950. Available at . Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Carr] Davis, Eliza Timberlake and Linda McNatt. Carr Family of Isle of Wight &amp; Nansemond Counties, Virginia. MSS., Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight Library in Smithfield, Virginia; also available at . Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Carter] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Cary] Harrison, Fairfax. The Virginia Carys. New York: De Vinne Press, 1919. Digital version at Internet Archive - free;.
 * [Cary] Bell, John G. "Genealogy from the Classified Ads," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Nov. 1985):28-41. Digital version at Ancestry ($);.
 * [Champion] Justice, Jean Fitch. Finley, Paul, Champion and Formby Family History. Eden Prairie, Minn.: J.F. Justice, 1998.
 * [Chapman] White, Paul R. Taproots: A Virginia and Carolina Legacy. Memphis, Tenn.: P.R. White, 1978. ; 1986 edition:.
 * [Chapman] Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. 3 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004-2007. Volume 1..
 * [Chesnutt] Griffin, A. Ray and Eloise Fretz Potter. The Chesnutt Family of Southeastern North Carolina: Descendants of Alexander Chesnutt of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1685-2003. Kingsport, Tennessee: A.R. Griffin, 2003. Available at.
 * [Clapham] Beahm, D.C. "Ancestry of Rebecca Bowen of King George Co., Va.," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2003):152-158; Vol. 47, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2003):223-226. Digital version at American Ancestors ($);.
 * [Clarke] Clarke Family 1737-1831. Typescript, Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight Library, Smithfield, Va. Item 9
 * [Clay] Hatcher, Patricia Law. "Clay of Isle of Wight County and Lawnes Creek Parish, Surry County" Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Aug. 2012):237-246..
 * [Clayton] Byars, Neva Fern Young. Claytons of Virginia: Isle of Wight County and Brunswick County. 2000?. Available at.
 * [Clifton] Bishop, Dorothy Clifton. "Benjamin Clifton, Tavern Keeper," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Feb. 1988):3-6. Digital version at Ancestry ($);.
 * [Cobb] Boddie, Mrs. John Bennett. Historical Southern Families. Volume XII. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1968..
 * [Cobb] Cobb, Joe H. Nicholas Cobb Descendants: Neighbors and Relatives, 1613-1983. Nashville, Tenn.: M.L.W. Pub. Co., 1984..
 * [Cocke] "Genealogy of the Cocke Family in Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jan. 1896):282-292, 340; Vol. 3, No. 4 (Apr. 1896):405-414; Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jul. 1896):86-96; Vol. 4, No. 2 (Oct. 1896):212-217; Vol. 4, No. 3 (Jan. 1897):322-332, 334; Vol. 4, No. 4 (Apr. 1897):431-450; Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jul. 1897):71-89; Vol. 5, No. 2 (Oct. 1897):181-198; Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jan. 1898):303-327; Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr. 1898):449. Digitized by JSTOR - free.
 * [Cocke] Hart, Lyndon H. "The Cocke Family in Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2000):41-61; Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2000):146-156; Vol. 44, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2000):203-215; Vol. 44, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2000):309-315; Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2001):23-36; Vol. 45, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2001):132-148; Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2001):208-219; Vol. 45, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2001):278-288; Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2002):42-46. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Cofer] Cofer, Wesley. Cofer [Family] of Surry and Isle of Wight [Counties], Virginia, 1784-1908. MSS., available at.
 * [Coleman] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Collins] Brayton, John Anderson. "William Tooke's Children: A Reinvestigation," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1998):291-298. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).
 * [Cooke] Cook, Robert Earl, Patricia Anne Dixon Cook, and Nancy Ann Cook Dicks. William Cooke of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and His Descendants. Capitola, California: P.A. Cook, 1990. Available at.
 * [Cooke] King, Forrest. "Descendants of Thomas Pitman (1614-about 1686) of Surry County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2005):163-176; Vol. 49, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2005):294-306; Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2006):28-50; Vol. 50, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2006):104-114. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).
 * [Cooper] Scott, Evalyn Parrott. Links That Bind. Vol. I. Cooper Family Notes. Sudan, Texas, 1967.
 * [Cooper] Rackley, Timothy W. "Possible Cooper Siblings of Colonial Edgecombe County," North Carolina Genealogical Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (May 2011):131-142..
 * [Copeland] Boone, James R., Daniel F. Boone, and Ruth Flake Boone. Boone Genealogical Collection. MSS., available at.
 * [Corker] Fothergill, Augusta B. The Rose Family. 1947-1948. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Corker] Barlow, Lundie W. "Corker of Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1965):3-8. Available at American Ancestors ($).
 * [Cotton] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Council] Adcock, Alma Whitley. "The Unknown Hodges Council (ca. 1731-ca. 1762)," Virginia Tidewater Genealogy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 1993):53-56.
 * [Cowling] Barrett, Russell Syer. Cowling and Allied Families, Being Court Records from Isle of Wight, Nansemond and Eastern Shore, Va. and Fullmer - Pennsylvania Records. Smithfield, Va., n.p.: 1935. Available at.
 * [Cullen] Brayton, John Anderson. "The Ancestry of Thomas Cullen," The North Carolina Genealogical Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Nov. 2000):376-392.
 * [Cullen] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Darden] Baer, Mabel Van Dyke and Daughters of the American Revolution. Monticello Chapter (Virginia).Darden - Lassiter Lineage of Isle of Wight and Nansemond Counties, Virginia: Including Families of Bressie, Casey, Dews, Harrell, Harrison, Seeds, Taborer and Wombwell: Ancestry of James Otis Wright, 6100 Wing Lake Road, Birmingham, Michigan. MSS., 1965, Daughters of the American Revolution National Library in Washington, D.C.; also available at.
 * [Daughtry] Dozier, Rebecca Leach, Lou Woodard King and Penn Perry. Twelve Northhampton County, North Carolina Families, 1650-1850: Bridgers, Daughtry, Futrell, Jenkins, Joyner, Lassiter, Martin, Odom, Parker, Stephenson, Sumner, Woodard. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 2004.
 * [Davis] Rawlings, Michael R. The Family History of D'earcy Paul and Lula Virginia (McKenney) Davis of Dinwiddie, Isle of Wight and Southampton Counties in Virginia: Being a Genealogical Outline of Their Descendants Covering the Years 1858-1996 and Assorted Sketches of Family Social History from the 1780s through the Present, Including Eight Generations. Spring Grove, Virginia: M.W. Rawlings, 1996. Available at.
 * [Davis] Dietz, Richard R. Descendants of Samuel Davis, I of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. El Monte, California: Golden West Marketing, 1994. Available at.
 * [Davis] Dietz, Richard R. Descendants of Samuel Davis, I (c. 1610-c. 1667) of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Temple City, California: GoldenWest Marketing, 2002. Available at.
 * [Davis] King, Forrest. "Circumstantial Evidence to the Father of Peter Davis," North Carolina Genealogical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2 (May 2005):150-165..
 * [Day] Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. 3 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004-2007. Volume 1..
 * [DeLoach] See also Copeland.
 * [Deloach] "Deloach of Isle of Wight, Brunswick County," Virginia Folder Collection at Virginia Pioneers ($).
 * [Denson] Joyner, Peggy S. Jordan Denson ( -1806): Some of His Ancestors and Descendants and "Beechwood", Denson-Pretlow- Darden Ancestral Home, Southampton County, Virginia. Portsmouth, Va.: P.S. Joyner, 1978..
 * [Denton] Denton, Don R. In Search of the Denton Lineage. Knoxville, Tenn.: Tennessee Valley Pub., 2004. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Dew] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Dick] Hart, Lyndon H. "The Cocke Family in Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2000):41-61; Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2000):146-156; Vol. 44, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2000):203-215; Vol. 44, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2000):309-315; Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2001):23-36; Vol. 45, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2001):132-148; Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 2001):208-219; Vol. 45, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2001):278-288; Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2002):42-46. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Drake] Drake, Charles E. "Drakes of Isle of Wight County, Virginia: Reconstructing an Immigrant Family from Fragile Clues," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 1 (Jan. 1991):19-32, 140. Digital version at National Genealogical Society website ($);.
 * [Drake] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Draper] Adcock, Alma Whitley. "The Unknown Hodges Council (ca. 1731-ca. 1762)," Virginia Tidewater Genealogy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 1993):53-56.
 * [Duke] Brandenberger, Evelyn Duke. The Duke Family. 2 vols. [Houston, Texas]: E.D. Brandenberger, 1979-1995..
 * [Duncan] Dobson, Mary Ann Duncan. Duncan Research Files of Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson. MSS. 1975-1999. Includes Isle of Wight County.
 * [England] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. Abstracts of Virginia Families: Vol. 1. MSS. Microfilmed 1990:
 * [Faulconer] Froom, Grace Yager. A Collection of Facts and Recollections of the Descent Lines and the Relationships Among Some Descendants of William Herndon of England and New Kent Co., Va.; Anthony Halberstadt of Hessen Kassel, Germany and Hunterdon Co., N.J.; Thomas Faulconer of England and Isle of Wight Co., Va.; Thomas Haydon of Northumberland Co., Va.; Nicholas Yager of Hesse, Germany and Spotsylvania and Madison Cos., Va.; Lewis Conner, Sr. of Boone Co., Ky. Indianapolis, Indiana: G.Y. Froom, 1983. Available at.
 * [Fisher] Smith, Mrs. Blair. "The Thomas Fishers of Northampton County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1986):83-89. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Flowers] Flowers, P.B. Flowers Chronicles: Studies of Captain John Flower II (1595-1657), Mariner of London, Bermuda and Virginia and Some of His Descendants in the American South. Las Vegas, Nev.: P.N. Flowers, 1987..
 * [Fort] Fort, Homer T. A Family Called Fort: The Descendants of Elias Fort of Virginia. 1920. Digital version at World Vital Records ($).
 * [Fort] Jones, Blair. Westbrook and Allied Families (Foster, Barker, Fort, Sandefur, Lambert-h, Hanson. Pell City, Ala., 1967..
 * [Fort] Boddie, John Bennett. Southside Virginia Families. Vol. 1. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1976, 1996..
 * [Fort] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Fox] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * [Fuller] Gould, Allena Robinson and Mary Lee Martin Ervin. John Murrell (1784-1849), Pioneer of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, and His Family, With Notes on Related Lines of Waters, Sasser, Fuller, Spivey and Walker. Oklahoma City, Okla., 1975.
 * [Fuller] Fuller, John Beattie. Ezekiel Fuller: Isle of Wight County, Virginia His Descendants of 300 Years to the 21th Century. Astor, Florida: Fuller Genealogy Data Bank, 2008. Available at.
 * [Gant] Gant, Clifford L. John Gant ca. 1713-1783 of Virginia and North Carolina: His Life, Ancestry and Descendants, with Information on Other Early Gant Families in America and Europe. La Quinta, Calif.: C. Gant, [1992?]..
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 * [Holladay] O'Brien, James Dewey. Our Colonial Ancestors: Knott, Massey, Youngblood, Hickman, Pullen &amp; Others. Fort Washington, Md.: J.D. O'Brien, 1988..
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 * [Johnson] Barewald, Ina. Our Johnsons of Isle of Wight County, Va. 1991. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
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 * [Pitt] See also General.
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 * [Pitts] See Pitt.
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 * [Spratley] Family Records of Thomas Spratley. MSS., Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight Library, Smithfield, Va. Item 26
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 * [Tyner] Phelps, Dallas LeRoy. Descendants of Nicholas Tyner Sr. of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. MSS. Two copies at FHL; and . [it is possible that one versions contains additional information.]
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