Goochland County, Virginia Genealogy

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Parent County
1727--Goochland County was created 1 February 1727 from Henrico County. County seat: Goochland

Neighboring Counties

 * Cumberland
 * Fluvanna
 * Hanover
 * Henrico
 * Louisa
 * Powhatan

Church

 * Fife, R.H. "The Vestry Book of King William Parish, Va., 1707-1750," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jan. 1904):289-304; Vol. 11, No. 4 (Apr. 1904):425-440; Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jul. 1904):17-32; Vol. 12, No. 3 (Jan. 1905):241-256; Vol. 12, No. 4 (Apr. 1905):369-384; Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jul. 1905):65-80; Vol. 13, No. 2 (Oct. 1905):175-190; Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jan. 1906):265-280. Available at JSTOR.

Family Histories

 * [Chastain] Allen, Cameron. "The Chastain Families of Manakin Town in Virginia and their Origin Abroad," The American Genealogist, Vol. 39 (1963):149-156; Vol. 40 (1964):1-12, 135-147. Available at New England Ancestors.
 * [Gevaudan] Allen, Cameron. "Antoine Gevaudan of Manakin Town and His Immediate Descendants," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 73, No. 1, Part One (Jan. 1965):22-28. Available at JSTOR.
 * [Oglesby] Paul, Oglesby. "Joseph Oglesby with Some Account of the Oglesby Family," The American Genealogist, Vol. 17 (1940):144-151. Available at New England Ancestors.
 * [Oglesby] Paul, Oglesby. "A Further Account of the Oglesby Family," The American Genealogist, Vol. 19 (1942):150-152. Available at New England Ancestors.
 * [Soblett] Allen, Cameron and James N. Jackson. The Soblett (Sublet) Family of Manakintown, King William Parish, Virginia. Detroit, Michigan: The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Sublet] Allen, Cameron and Donald J. Sublette. The Sublet (Soblet) Family: of Manakintown, Virginia. Birmingham, Michigan: D.J. Sublette, 1987. Available at FHL.
 * [Sublette] Allen, Cameron and Minnie Dubbs Millbrook. Sublette Family from 1698 to Present Time. MSS., available at FHL.

Immigration
[http://www.immigrantservants.com/search/advancedResults.php?surname=&givenName=&varientSurnameSpellings=&gender=&dateOfBirthDay=&dateOfBirthMonth=&dateOfBirthQuantifier=&dateOfBirthYear=&placeOfBirthParish=&placeOfBirthTown=&placeOfBirthCity=&placeOfBirthCounty=&placeOfBirthColony=&placeOfBirthNation=&occupations=&religions=&orphan=&familyPosition=&immigrationYearQualifier=&immigrationYear=&portOfDepartureTown=&portOfDepartureCity=&portOfDepartureCounty=&portOfDepartureNation=&placeOfArrivalTown=&placeOfArrivalCounty=&placeOfArrivalColony=&shipName=&convict=&yearOfIndentureQualifier=&yearOfIndenture=&lengthOfIndentureYears=&lengthOfIndentureMonths=&yearOfFreedomQualifier=&yearOfFreedom=&placeOfIndentureTown=&placeOfIndentureCity=&placeOfIndentureCounty=Goochland&placeOfIndentureColony=Virginia&agentSurname=&agentGivenName=&agentTitle=&masterSurname=&masterGivenName=&masterTitle=&residenceParish=&residenceTown=&residenceCity=&residenceCounty=&residenceColony=&residenceNation=&landowner=&literate=&spouseSurname=&spouseGivenName=&spouseMarriageDateDay=&spouseMarriageDateMonth=&spouseMarriageDateQualifier=&spouseMarriageDateYear=&spouseMarriageLocationParish=&spouseMarriageLocationCounty=&spouseMarriageLocationColony=&spouseMarriageLocationNation=&deathDateDay=&deathDateMonth=&deathDateQualifier=&deathDateYear=&deathLocality=&deathCounty=&deathColony=&deathState=&testate=&proofServantStatus=&proofConvictStatus=&headright=&preServitudeSources=&postServitudeSources=&comments=&family=&sourceCitations=&interestedResearchers= List of imported servants and transported convicts from Europe] who served labor terms in Colonial Goochland County, Virginia (work in progress), courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database.

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.

Taxation

 * Le Seur, David. "Tithables in King William Parish, Goochland County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul. 1899):31-32. Available at JSTOR.
 * The 1789 and 1801/1802 Personal Property Tax Lists of Goochland County, Virginia are indexed 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