King and Queen County, Virginia Genealogy

United States   Virginia    King and Queen County

Tidewater county.

County Courthouse
King and Queen County Courthouse P.O. Box 67 King and Queen, VA 23085-0067 Phone 804-785-2460

Clerk Circuit Court has birth and death records 1865-1898 marriage and divorce records from 1864 probate and court records from 185 and land records from 1782

History


The county was named after King William III of England (1650-1702) and his wife Queen Mary II (1662-1694) who ruled the American colonies at the time of King and Queen County's organization.

Parent County
1691--King &amp; Queen County was created 16 April 1691 from New Kent County. County seat: King &amp; Queen

Record Loss

 * Lost censuses: 1790, 1800, 1890

Many records were destroyed during the Civil War.

Research Guides

 * Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. "Records of Tidewater Virginia Counties," Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May-June 1992):53-66. 975.51 D25t [For King and Queen County, see pp. 59-60]

African American

 * Freedmen's


 * Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. "A List of Free Negroes and Mulattoes, 1833 King and Queen County," Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (August/September 1998):108-115. 975.51 D25t


 * Heinegg, Paul. "King and Queen County Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1823," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]

Census
1890 Union Veterans


 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website. [Includes residents of this county.]

Baptist
Early Baptist churches (with years constituted):


 * Bruington (1790). A profile was published in Virginia Baptist Register, Issue 42 (2003). A bicentennial history was published in King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 70 (Jan. 1991); cemetery transcripts were published in that publication in Issue 53 (Jul. 1982); another history is available in Issue 21 (Jul. 1966):.
 * Exol. Information was published about this church (1775) in Tidewater Virginia Families, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Feb. 1996). A history was published in King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 58 (Jan. 1985). Tombstones were published in the same Bulletin, Issue 34 (Jan. 1973):.
 * Mattaponi (1824). Originally an Episcopalian place of worship. A history was published in the 1920s. Additional information, including tombstone transcriptions, was published in Tidewater Virginia Families, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Aug. 1992):.
 * Upper King and Queen. Membership lists from 1774 to 1788 have been published: . They are also online at Ancestry ($) in Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Feb. 1992):60-64. Histories were published in King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 50 (Jan. 1981) and in Issue 59 (Jul. 1985):.

Church of England
See also Stratton Major Parish See also St. Stephen's Parish  Acquinton Church (see ruins to the right) served King and Queen County.


 * Chamberlayne, C.G. The Vestry Book of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen County, Virginia, 1729-1783. Richmond, Va.: n.p., 1931. Available at ; 1980 reprint at.
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes St. Stephens Parish Petition 1683.]
 * Mason, George Carrington. "The Colonial Churches of King and Queen and King William Counties, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct. 1943):440-464. Available at JSTOR.
 * Mason, George Carrington. Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet &amp; Shepperson, 1945. Available at ; digital version at BYU Family History Archives. [Includes King and Queen County.]

Court
General


 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Crittenden vs. Crittenden.]

Chancery Court


 * Indexed images of King and Queen County, Virginia Chancery Records 1818-1913 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.

Genealogy
More than 100 genealogies have been published about King and Queen County families. To view a list, visit King and Queen County, Virginia Genealogy.

Immigration

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of King and Queen County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Land
Deeds


 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes transactions with residents of Amelia, Chesterfield, and Essex Counties.]

Grants and Patents


 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes patents 1711-1718 and early land grants.]
 * Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694-1742. Vol. I. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987. Available at . [Includes King and Queen County.]

Local Histories

 * Bagby, Alfred. King and Queen County, Virginia. New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1908. Available at ; 1990 reprint at ; digital version at Ancestry ($); Google Books (full view); and World Vital Records ($).

Colonial Militia

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

French and Indian War

 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at . [Identifies some King and Queen 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. Available at ; 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 King and Queen County, see p. 111.]
 * Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at ; digital book at Ancestry ($). [Identifies some King and Queen County militia officers; see place name index.]

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


 * - 7th Virginia Regiment

Additional resources:

King and Queen residents' participation in the Revolutionary War.


 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Revolutionary War services.]
 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books. 1967 reprint: . [See Virginia, Eastern District, King and Queen County on page 131.]
 * Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." ; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]

War of 1812
King and Queen County men served in the 9th Regiment.


 * 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. 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Google Books and Internet Archive. [See Vol. 5, Virginia, King and Queen County, p. 86. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.]

Civil War
Regiments. Civil War service men from King and Queen County County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company whose regiment in their county or an adjacent county. Listed below are regiments that were formed using, in part, men from King and Queen County.


 * - 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate)
 * - 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (12 months, 1861-62) (Mullins') (Confederate). Company E (King and Queen Cavalry).
 * - 24th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company C (Chesapeake Rangers), Company E, and Company F.
 * - 26th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company C (The King and Queen Minute Men), Company G (The Clifton Guards), Company H (The King and Queen Guards), and Company I (The Jackson Grays).
 * - 34th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate) - There is confusion surrounding the designation of this regiment. Read pages149-156 from to learn the details as to how "Bagby's Company" of the King and Queen Artillery was redesignated as an infantry unit.

Records and histories are available, including:


 * Bagby, Alfred. King and Queen County, Virginia. Baltimore: Clearfield Company. with company rosters on pages 139-148.
 * titled A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865

Naturalization

 * Virginia

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

 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Harris collection and Webb papers.]
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Beverley Prayer Book, Corbin-Randolph Memo, 1799, Row Memo, The Horrid Behavior of John Pigg, Esq., George Lyne-1780, Hill Diary Excerpts from the Revolutionary Diary of Baylor Hill, Baylor Hill Diary (Notes by Miss Ryland), Richmond Commercial Compiler, Crittenden vs. Crittenden, Col. Holt Richeson, and Bingham-West.]

Local Court

 * 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. [Includes King and Queen County.]

Copies of some destroyed wills have been collected and preserved:


 * "Listing of Copies of Wills Held by King and Queen County Historical Society," Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Vol. 9, No. 4 (February/March 2001):226-232. 975.51 D25t

London Courts

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of King and Queen County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Taxation
How can Virginia tax lists help me?


 * [1704] "Virginia Quit Rent Rolls, 1704," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 28 (1920):207-218, 328-339; Vol. 29 (1921):18-28, 337-343, 402-412; Vol. 30 (1922):21-30, 280-285, 341-347; Vol. 31 (1923):70-75, 153-163, 215-231, 314-318; Vol. 32 (1924):69-75, 144-158, 281-287, 338-343; Vol. 33 (1925):47-50, 359-370; Vol. 34 (1926):113-119, 252-258, 313, 321. Available at ; reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, which is also available at ; digital version of VMHB at JSTOR ($). [King and Queen County appears in 32:144-158.]
 * [1782-1820] Ward, Roger G. "Burned County Gleanings: King and Queen County Land Tax Lists, 1782-1820," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb. 1999):43-48. ; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Some abstracts of taxpayers, including "genealogical tidbits," such as relationships, land transfers, etc.]
 * [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. Available at . [1782 personal property tax list of King and Queen County.]
 * [1782-1823] Heinegg, Paul. "King and Queen County Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1823," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
 * [1783] Personal Tax List, 1783, Researcher [Chillicothe, Missouri], Vol. 132 (1987). Available at.
 * [1783] Personal Tax List, 1783, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 9 (Sep. 1957).
 * [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 &amp; 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 &amp; Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle &amp; 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 . [The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. King and Queen County is included in Vol. 2.]
 * [1787] "Land Tax List of King and Queen County, 1787," The Researcher: A Magazine of History and Genealogical Exchange, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul. 1928):144-146. Available at.
 * [1790, 1799] The 1790 and 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of King and Queen County, Virginia are indexed online at Binns Genealogy.
 * [1790, 1798] The 1790 and 1798 Land Tax Lists of King and Queen County, Virginia are indexed online at Binns Genealogy.
 * [1800] Tax List, 1800, Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan. 1990). Available at.
 * [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at . [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. King and Queen County is included in Vol. 3.]
 * Tax Books, King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 67 (Jul. 1989).

Marriage

 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes marriages from the Virginia Gazette.]

Societies and Libraries

 * Tidewater Genealogical Society

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Websites

 * King and Queen Co., VAGenWeb. Part of the USGenWeb Project. Maps, name indexes, history.
 * Cyndi's List
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