Loudoun County, Virginia Genealogy

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Parent County
1757--Loundoun County was created 25 March 1757 from Fairfax County. County seat: Leesburg

Neighboring Counties

 * Clarke
 * Fairfax
 * Fauquier
 * Frederick County, Maryland
 * Jefferson County, West Virginia
 * Montgomery County, Maryland
 * Prince William
 * Washington County, Virginia

African American

 * Tyler-McGraw, Marie. "'The Prize I Mean Is the Prize of Liberty': A Loudoun County Family in Liberia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 97, No. 3, "A Sense of Their Own Power": Black Virginians, 1619-1989 (Jul. 1989):355-374. Available at JSTOR ($).

Church
Church of England


 * Hopkins, Margaret Lail and Nancy Hopkins Phillips. The Anglican Parishes of Loudoun County, Virginia, Truro, Cameron, and Shelburne, 1736-1805. Lovettsville, Virginia: Willow Bend Books, 1997. Available at FHL.

Quakers


 * Janney, Asa Moore and Werner Janney. Ye Meetg Hous Smal: A Short Account of Friends in Loudoun County, Virginia, 1732-1980. Lincoln, Virginia: n.p., 1980. Available at FHL.

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.

Bibliography


 * [Abel] McCarley, Walter R. and Margaret Poe McCarley. George Abel Born 1754 in Germany, Married Catherine Roller: Family in Loudoun Co., Va. Intermarry [i.e., Intermarried] with Crim Family in Loudoun Co., Va. &amp; Ohio, Wagner Family in Carroll &amp; Logan Co., Ohio, Armstrong Family in Ohio. 1980. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Abel] McCarley, Walter R. and Margaret Poe McCarley. The Abel - Keller Genealogy: Eleven Generations, Earliest Born in Switzerland: Central Figure in America was George Abel (1754), Home was in Loudoun Co., Va., Bought Land in Harrison Co., Ohio for Children but Died at Home Place 6 mi. from Harper's Ferry; Hessian Soldier Deserted to the American Side. 1982. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Abel] McCarley, Walter R. George Abel, Born 1754 &amp; Wife, Catherine Roller - Germany to Loudoun C., Va. to Carroll Co., Ohio, Harrison Co., Tuscawarus Co., Morgan Co., Belmont Co., Logan Co. &amp; Elsewhere to 1991. Medina, Ohio: W.R. McCarley, 1991. Available at FHL.
 * [Adams] Ljunstedt, Milnor. "The Adamses in the Northern Neck of Virginia (Upper Counties) and Some Nearby Counties of Maryland," The American Genealogist, Vol. 13 (1936):82-88, 233-241. Available at New England Ancestors ($).
 * [Ball] Ball, William Lee. Genealogy of William Ball Born 1812 Loudoun County, Virginia. Honolulu, Hawaii: W.L. Ball, 1974. Available at FHL.
 * [Ball] Maerz, Claudette Atwood.Ball Families of Loudoun County, Virginia. Bloomington, Minnesota: C. Maerz, [199-?]. Available at FHL.
 * [Caldwell] Clark, Edythe Maxey. Joseph Caldwell of Loudoun County, Virginia: and His Descendants. Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Carter] Carter, F.R. Nicholas. Genealogy of William R. Carter of the State of Pennsylvania, of Loudoun County, Virginia, of Preble County, Ohio, and Clinton County, Indiana: With Genealogy of the Following Allied Famalies: The Byers Family, the Richards Family, the Jury Family, the Thomas Family, the Douglass Family, the Hughes Family, the McCulloch Family, the Smiley Family. South Bend, Indiana: F.R.N. Carter, [1977?]. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Champe] Ballantyne, Robert Jadwin. Descendants of John Champe of Truro Parish and Loudoun County, Virgin[i]a: Three Generations. New Delhi, India: R.J. Ballantyne, 2001. Available at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Clayton] Ferguson, Frances Luke. The William Clayton Family: From "Clayton Hall", England ---to "Clayton Hall", Loudoun Co., Va. 198-?. Available at FHL.
 * [Conard] Bowen, Amy Metcalf. The Descendants of John Conard of Loudoun County, Virginia. 1939. Available at FHL.
 * [Counts] Bushnell, Jean. Counts - Countz Surname Appearing in the Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables, 1761-1782. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Crim] See Abel.
 * [Crumbacker] Poling, Virginia S. and Newton L. Poling. John Crumbacker, Son of Hans Crumbacker, and Eve Filler Crumbacker of Loudoun County, Virginia and Their Descendants. Hagerstown, Maryland: V. &amp; N. Poling, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Diehl] Genealogy of the Descendants of Samuel Diehl and Margaretha Ritchey His Wife of Loudon County, Va.: and Bedford County, Pa., 1740-1828. Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania: Diehl Genealogy Publishing Committee, 1976. 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.
 * [Duncan] Bertsch, Amy. Gardner-Duncan Family: of Loudoun County, Virginia and Marion County, Missouri. Alexandria, Virginia: A. Bertsch, 2007. Available at FHL.
 * [Fred] Fred, Rosa Parrott. History of the Fred Family in Loudoun County, Virginia. 1969. Available at FHL.
 * [Gardner] See Duncan.
 * [Goodwin] "Appendix U: The Goodwins of Loudoun County, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1897):126. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Gregg] Ewers, Dorothy Violet Wood. Some Gregg Records: Records of Birth[s], Marriages and Deaths, Etc., of the [Gregg] Members of Fairfax Monthly Meeting at Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia, 1740-1880. MSS., microfilmed in 1974, available at FHL.
 * [Gregg] Casey, Nancy A. Ancestors and Descendants of Hamilton and Dinah (Gregg) Rogers of Loudoun County, Virginia. Hadley, Massachusetts: N.A. Casey, 1997. Available at FHL.
 * [Hough] Hough, Orville Louis. Hough in Loudoun County, Virginia, 1744-1850: An Unfinished History. Denver, Colorado: [O. L. Hough], 1974. Available at FHL.
 * [Lovett] Lovett, Daniel Jackson. Early Lovett Family of Bucks County, Pennslyvania [i.e. Pennsylvania] and Loudoun County, Virginia. Camden, South Carolina: D. Lovett, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Lucas] Tyler-McGraw, Marie. "'The Prize I Mean Is the Prize of Liberty': A Loudoun County Family in Liberia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 97, No. 3, "A Sense of Their Own Power": Black Virginians, 1619-1989 (Jul. 1989):355-374. Available at JSTOR.
 * [McCabe] McCabe, Michael V. Descendants of Dr. John Henry McCabe, Mayor of Leesburg and Sheriff of Loudoun County, Virginia: Especilly through Dr. Henry McCabe, New Martinsville, West Virginia, and the McCabe Ancestral Line. Sterling, Virginia: M.V. McCabe, 1997. Available at FHL.
 * [McMakin] McMakin, Dean. McMakin and McMeekin: Some Descendants of Alexander McMakin of Loudoun County, Virginia; Includes the Surnames: Briggs, Campbell, Hays, Henson, Hinkle, Howard, Leachman, Litsey, McMeekin, Miller, Sudduth, Wheeler. St. Charles, Illinois : D. McMakin, [199-?]. Available at FHL.
 * [Maffett] Maffett, Everett L. Henry Maffett of Loudon [sic] County, Virginia and Descendants. Eaton, Ohio: Silver Press, 1987. Available at FHL.
 * [Morrison] King, John Walter. Archibald Morrison of Loudoun County, Virginia, and His Descendants. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Oakley] Oakley, Eura and Betty Sellers. The George Oakley Family of Loudoun and Shenandoah Counties, Va. and Some of His Descendants. Melber, Kentucky: Simmons Historical Publications, 2000. Available at FHL.
 * [Pursell] Winchester, Warren. Benjamin Pursley (Pursell): of Loudoun County, Virginia, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Madison County, Kentucky. Middletown, Kentucky: W. Winchester, 1995. Available at FHL.
 * [Pursell] Winchester, Warren. "Thomas Pursell of New York New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware: Early Descendants in Maryland, Virginia (now West Virginia), and Kentucky," The American Genealogist, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Apr. 2006):110-120.
 * [Pursley]See Pursell.
 * [Rogers] See Gregg.
 * [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.
 * [Shaw] Anderson, Bruce. The Descendants of John Shaw of Loudon Co., Virginia, Perry Co., Ohio. Lancaster, Ohio: Bruce Anderson, 1982. Available at FHL.
 * [Shedd] Shedd, Joel P. The Shedd Family of the Southern States, Descended from James Shed of Loudoun County, Virginia. Arlington, Virginia: J. P. Shedd, 1981. Available at FHL.
 * [Simpson] Neibling Robert C. Solving the Identities of Gilbert Simpson (1699 - 1773) of Charles County, Maryland &amp; Fairfax County, Virginia &amp; His Son John Simpson (1739 - 1801) of Fairfax County Virginia &amp; Loudoun County, Virginia. Gulf Shores, Alabama: R.C. Neibling, 2000. Available at FHL.
 * [Skinner] Holcombe, Lester Granville. Descendants of Richard Alexander Skinner of Loudoun County, Virginia. Bourbonnais, Illinois: L.G. Holcombe, 1972. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Tavenner] Rose, Lois Esther Hammond. My Missouri Cousins, Jesse and Cecelia (Morris) Tavenner: Loudoun County, Virginia; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Cooper County, Missouri,1806-2005. Van Nuys, California: L.E.H. Rose, 2005. Available at FHL.
 * [Whaley] Cramb, Levi Kelsey. Whaleys of Loudoun County, Virginia,: and Some of Their Descendants Who Migrated to Kentucky. Fairbury, Nebraska: L.K. Cramb, 1947. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($); digital version at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Whaley] Foelsch, Donald H. and Levi Kelsey Cramb. An Index to Levi Kelsey Cramb's Preliminary Notes on the Whaleys of Loudoun Co., Va. Williamsport, Pennsylvania: D.H. Foelsch, 1982. Available at FHL.
 * [White] White, Stanley R. White Connections, Loudoun County, Virginia, Illinois, Dakota: A Genealogy of White, McIlhany, Vanandy, Roberts, Hunter, Tamblin, Ransom. Long Beach, California: S.R. White, 1981. Available at FHL.
 * [Wright] Perrine, Howland Delano. Anthony Wright of Loudoun County, Virginia and His Descendants. MSS., Iowa State Historical Society, Des Moines, available at FHL.
 * [Wyatt] Peters, Genevieve E. John Wyatt of Loudoun, Shenandoah, and Franklin Counties, Virginia. 1969. Available at FHL.

Historic Residences

 * McGhee, George C. "George Washington's Trusteeship over the Estate of the Reverend Dr. Charles Green, 1765-1772, Which Included the Present Area of Farmer's Delight Farm, Loudoun County, Virginia," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 143, No. 4 (Dec. 1999):639-647. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * Monroe, James. "Monroe's Estate in Loudoun County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Apr. 1934):168. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * Williams, Harrison. Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes of a Border County of Virginia's Northern Neck. Richmond, Virginia: Garrett and Massie, 1938. Available at FHL; reprint at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Immigration

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Local Histories

 * Head, James W. History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia. [Washington? District of Columbia]: Park View Press, 1908. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Williams, Harrison. Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes of a Border County of Virginia's Northern Neck. Richmond, Virginia: Garrett and Massie, 1938. Available at FHL; reprint at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Migration

 * Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 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. Loudoun County's 1790 Delinquent List appears on pp. 201-202.]

Military
French and Indian War


 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Loudoun County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]
 * Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at FHL; digital book at Ancestry ($). [Identifies some Loudoun County militia officers and soldiers; see place name index.]

Revolutionary War


 * "Resolutions of Loundoun County: Loudoun County a Hundred Years Ago," [1774] The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Apr. 1904):231-236. Available at JSTOR ($).

Civil War


 * Goodhart, Briscoe. History of the Independent Loudoun Rangers: U.S. Vol. Cav. (Scouts), 1862-65. Washington, D.C.: Press of McGill &amp; Wallace, 1896. 1990 reprint at FHL; 1996 reprint at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).

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.

Private Papers

 * [Baldwin] Miller, Adrian Cather. Baldwin-Brown Bible Records, Loudoun County, Virginia: Including the Names of Burson, Chamblin, Ewers, Love, Tavenner, Saffer and Van Sickler. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Brown] See Baldwin.
 * [Eaches] Gott, John K. "Eaches Family Bible, Loudoun County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1969):87. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($).
 * [Laycock] Gott, John K. "Laycock Family Bible, Loudoun County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1968):150-151. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($).
 * [White] Price, Prentiss. "White Family Bible, Loudoun County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1957):43-44. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($).
 * [White] Price, Prentiss. "Bible of Joseph White, Loudoun Co., Va.-Hawkins Co., Tenn.," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1963):125. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($).

Probate

 * Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administration Accounts of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1800. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Research Guides

 * "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Loudoun County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1972):126-129. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($).

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.


 * Hiatt, Marty and Craig Roberts Scott. Loudoun County, Virginia, Tithables, 1758-1786. 3 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1995. Available at FHL.
 * Hopkins, Margaret Lail. Index to the Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia and to Slaveholders and Slaves, 1758-1786. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1991. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Creekmore, Pollyanna. "Loudoun County, Virginia, 1771 Tithable List," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1972):243-248; Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1973):8-13; Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1973):107-113; Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1973):187-190; Vol. 17, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1973):270-276. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($).
 * Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 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. Loudoun County's 1790 Delinquent List appears on pp. 201-202.]
 * Indexed images of the 1789 Personal Property Tax List of Loudoun County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * Images of the 1800 Personal Property Tax List of Loudoun County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * 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 1815 land tax. Loudoun County is included in Vol. 4.]

Vital Records
Marriage


 * Jewell, Aurelia M. Loudoun County, Virginia, Marriage Bonds, 1762-1850. Berryville, Virginia: Chesapeake Book Co., 1962. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). Reviewed in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1962):180. Review available at New England Ancestors ($).
 * Wertz, Mary Alice. Marriages of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1853. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).

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