Culpeper County, Virginia Genealogy

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Parent County
1748--Culpeper County was created 23 March 1748 from Orange County. County seat: Culpeper

Neighboring Counties

 * Fauquier
 * Madison
 * Orange
 * Rappahannock
 * Spotsylvania
 * Stafford

African Americans

 * Hodge, Robert A. Some Pre-1871 Vital Statistics on Colored Persons of Culpeper County, Virginia. Fredericksburg, Virginia: R.A. Hodge, 1978. Available at FHL.

Church

 * Thomas, Arthur Dicken, Angus McDonald Green and Culpeper Historical Society. Early Churches of Culpeper County, Virginia: Colonial and Ante-bellum Congregations. Culpeper, Virginia: Culpeper Historical Society, 1987. Available at FHL.

Baptist


 * Daughters of the American Revolution. Culpeper Minute Men Chapter (Culpepper, Virginia). History of Crooked Run Baptist Church, Culpeper County, Virginia: Names and Dates from Garnett Cemetery, the Corbin-Major Cemetery, Wrenn Inscription, MSS., 1950, available at FHL.
 * Finnell, Woolsey. Reverend Daniel Brown of Culpepper County, Virginia and Allied Families, Webster, Finnell, McCain, Pemberton. [Tuscaloosa?] Ala.: W. Finnell, 1954. Available at FHL. [Baptist preacher.]

Church of England


 * Slaughter, Philip. A History of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia: With Notes of Old Churches and Old Families, and Illustrations of the Manners and Customs of the Olden Time. Baltimore, Md.: Innes &amp; Co., Printers, 1877. Original edition available at FHL; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and BYU Family History Archives. 1990 reprint available at FHL.

Lutheran


 * Blankenbaker, John. "Hebron" Baptismal Register of the German Lutheran Church in Culpeper/Madison Counties, Virginia 1750 to 1849: Transcribed, Translated and Indexed from the Church Records with a Commentary on the Relationships of the Sponsors to the Parents. Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: J. Blankenbaker, 2004. 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


 * [Amiss] Ray, Laura Collison. The Amiss Family of Amissville, Rappahannock and Culpeper County, Virginia. Washington, D.C.: L. C. Ray, 1952. Available at FHL.
 * [Antram] Bird, Robert Byron and Ethel Antrim Bird. An Antrim Family History: Pertaining to Descendants of John Antram and Frances Butcher of Burlington County, New Jersey, Aaron Antram and Charlotta King of Culpeper County, Virginia, and JosAntrim and Mila America Edwards of Marion County, Indiana. 1977. Available at FHL.
 * [Baggerly] Chase, Addie Bell Baggerly. Descendants of John Baggerly (ca. 1700-1770) of England -- to Montgomery County, Maryland, 1746 and His Son John Baggerly (1737- ) of Maryland and Culpepper (now Rappahannock) County, Virginia, Sometime After 1776. 1955. Available at FHL.
 * [Booton] Dieterle, Diane Shutley. William Booton of Culpeper County, Virginia and His Descendants. Chelsea, Michigan: BookCrafters, 1996. Available at FHL.
 * [Brown] Finnell, Woolsey. Reverend Daniel Brown of Culpepper County, Virginia and Allied Families, Webster, Finnell, McCain, Pemberton. [Tuscaloosa?] Ala.: W. Finnell, 1954. Available at FHL. [Baptist preacher.]
 * [Burgess] Reginald, R. The House of the Burgesses: Being a Genealogical History of Edward Burgess of King George and Stafford Counties, Virginia, with His Sons - Garner Burgess of Fauquier Co., Virginia; William Burgess of Stafford Co., Virginia; Moses Burgess of Orange County, Virginia; Reuben Burgess of Rowan Co., North Carolina - and His Grandsons - Edward Burgess of Culpeper Co., Virginia; John Burgess of Harrison Co., Kentucky; Henry Burgess of Fleming Co., Kentucky; Edward Burgess of Scott Co., Kentucky; John P.B. Burgess of Halifax Co., Virginia; Edward Burgess of Kanawha Co., West Virginia; William Burgess of Davie Co., North Carolina; Reuben Burgess of Davie Co., North Carolina; and Thomas Burgess of White Co., Tennessee - Together with Their Known Descendants Named Burgess. San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1983. Available at FHL.
 * [Bywaters] See Read.
 * [Chapman] Gibbs, Mildred Chapman. From Culpeper County to the Teays Valley: The Story of the John and Jane Donaho Chapman Family and Those Related by Marriage. Hartford, West Virginia: M.C. Gibbs, 1984. Available at FHL. [2 copies at FHL.]
 * [Corbin] See also Read.
 * [Corbin] Conard, Erik P. Richard Corbin (1804-1880) of Culpeper Co., Virginia, of Fountain Co., Indiana, of Coles County, Illinois - His Wife Narcissa Schnorf (1819- 1866) of Warren County, Ohio, of Fountain Co., Indiana, of Coles County, Illinois: Their Children, Their Grandchildren, Their Great-Grandchildren. Chanute, Kansas: E.P. Conard, 1973. Available at FHL.
 * [Duncan] Vick, J. Wells. The Duncans of Culpeper County, Virginia to Logan County, Kentucky. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Duncan] Roy, Nancy Reba. Some Descendants of William Duncan from Scotland to Culpeper County, Virginia. MSS., 1966, available at FHL.
 * [Fishback] John Fishback (Son of Harman, Son of Harman) was Born in Culpeper Co., Va., Mch. 3, 1779, Died July 14, 1861. unknown: unknown, 1925. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Fitzgerald] Hudgins, Dennis Ray. Fitzgerald &amp; Jarrell Families: Orange, Madison, Culpeper, Greene Co. Virginia. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Genn] Hillman, Ralph E. "James Genn of Northumberland County, Virginia, and Some of His Descendants," The American Genealogist, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Jan. 1997):32-38; Vol. 72, No. 2 (Apr. 1997):101-108. Available at FHL.
 * [Green] Lewis, A.A. The Green Family of Culpeper County, Virginia, 1695-1939. Fredericksburg, Va.: A.A. Lewis, 1939. Available at FHL. [2 copies at FHL.]
 * [Griffiths] Griffith, Charlotte. The Griffiths from Culpepper, Virginia to Bourbon, Kentucky to Pike, Missouri. Clarksville, Missouri: C. Griffith, 1989. Available at FHL.
 * [Grimsley] McMeen, Lola Frances Murphy. Descendants of Silas Grimsley (1789) and Jane Moore (1791) of Culpepper County, Va., Boone Co., Ky., and Ripley Co., Ind. MSS., microfilmed in 1983, available at FHL.
 * [Hansbrough] Herndon, John W. The Hansbrough Family of King George, Stafford and Culpeper Counties, Virginia: Together With a Sketch of "Salubria" &amp; Other Hansbrough Homes, and Notes on Some Allied Families. MSS., Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., also available at FHL.
 * [Hanson] Inson, William Ashley. Our Hansons, Hensons, Hinsons: A History of the Hansons of Culpeper County, Virginia; Randoph County, North Carolina; Chatham County, North Carolina; Union County, North Carolina; Stanly County, North Carolina. Rowland, North Carolina: W.A. Hinson, 1996. Available at FHL.
 * [Henson] See Hanson.
 * [Hinson] See Hanson.
 * [Hisle] O'Brien, Bayne Palmer. John Hisle, Junr. and John Hisle, Senr. of Culpeper County, Virginia. Callao, Virginia: B.P. O'Brien, 1982. Available at FHL.
 * [Hume] McCurdy, James L. and Mabel R. Smith. John Hume of Culpeper County, Virginia. National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 1970. Available at FHL.
 * [Jarrell] See Fitzgerald.
 * [Johnston] Humston, Edward A. Johnston Genealogy: Some Descendants of John Johnston (Revolutionary Soldier of Culpeper County, Virginia) in Kentucky and Missouri. Carbondale, Kansas: E. Humston, 1987. Available at FHL.
 * [Jones] Jones, Mildred Conway. The Descendants of Gabriel Jones of Essex and Culpeper Counties, Virginia. Available at FHL.
 * [Jones] Morris, Lovell Jason. The Family and Some Descendants of John Jones (1755-1838) of Culpeper County, Virginia, and Kanawha County, West Virginia. Signal Mountain, Tennessee: L.J. Morris, [1995?]. Available at FHL.
 * [Long] Long, John Turner. Genealogy of Ware Long of Culpepper. [Chicago, 1908?]. Available at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Long] Vick, J. Wells. The Family of Major Gabriel Long of Culpeper County, Virginia, and Who Migrated to Logan and Christian Counties, Kentucky. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Luttrell] See Read.
 * [Madden] Madden, T.O. and Ann L. Miller. We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia: A 200-year Family History. New York, New York: W.W. Norton, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Menefee] Menefee, Ferdinand Northrup. Genealogy of the John Menefee and Mary James Family in America of the Descendents of John Menefee Who Died in September or October 1765 in Culpeper Co. Va. 1971. Available at FHL.
 * [Nethers] Noyes, Mary Nethers and Thelma Yowell Coppedge. Line of Arnold Nethers &amp; Ellen Hoffman, Sarah Nethers &amp; Walker Jenkins, Lucy Ann Nethers &amp; Silas Jackson Monroe, Rebecca Nethers &amp; Pascal Jenkins: Rappahannock, Culpeper, and Madison Counties, Virginia. 3 vols. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: M.N. Noyes &amp; T.Y. Coppedge, 1980. Available at FHL.
 * [Powell] DeVeau, Katharine Lee. Benjamin and Ambrose Powell of Culpeper County, Virginia, with Many Descendants of Benjamin. MSS., 1941, available at FHL.
 * [Read] Prichard, Armstead Mead. Allied Families of Read, Corbin, Luttrell, Bywaters: Starting from Culpeper County, Virginia, Their Descendants are Now Planted in Every State Westward to the Pacific: My Wife's Kin. Staunton, Virginia: [McClure Co.], 1930. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Robertson] Dorman, John Frederick. The Robertson Family of Culpeper County, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet &amp; Shepperson, 1964. Available at FHL.
 * [Ross] Ross, Edward. Your Affectionate Cousin: The Rosses of Culpeper County, Virginia, and San Jacinto County, Texas. Houston, Texas: Thornhouse Press, 1994. Available at FHL. ["This is the story of the descendants of Daniel Ross -- a veteran on the British side of the American Revolution -- through two of his sons, William (in Virginia) and Wesley (in Texas)"--Acknowledgements.]
 * [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. Available at FHL.
 * [Scott] Scott, Martin Johnson. Some Descendants of Anthony Scott (1690-1764) of Culpeper County, Virginia: Tracing a Scott Family's History from Colonial Times to the Present. Atlanta, Georgia: Landmark Press, 1999. Available at FHL.
 * [Shiplett] Hall, Frank Nelson. A Story of the Shiplett (Shipley) Family of Muskingum County, Ohio (near Zanesville) and Related Families: David Roland Shiplett from Culpepper, Virginia, Charles Franklin from Maryland, Catherine Councilman (Franklin) from Baltimore, Maryland, William Perley (Caleb) Hughes from New Jersey, Amy Allen (Hughes) from New Jersey (and) Fred Hall of Belvidere, Illinois the Descendants of Nelson and Ephraim Shiplett. [Denton, Texas : s.n., 1962]. Available at FHL.
 * [Sims] Prewitt, Lela Wolfe. Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Sims of Culpeper County, Virginia, Edmund Butler of Virginia and Kentucky: With Allied Families and Other Culpeper Data. Fairfield, Iowa: n.p., 1973. Available at FHL.
 * [Somerville] Yates, Robert Somerville Radford, Robert Somerville Radford Yates, and Dorothy Snyder Yates. A History of James Somerville of Culpeper County, Virginia: His Ancestors and Descendants from 1700 to 1987. Ballwin, Missouri: R.S. Yates, 1988. Available at FHL.
 * [Stark] Abbott, Jane H. Jeremiah Stark of Culpeper County, Va., Later of Allen Co., Ky. and Some Descendants: Genealogical Notes and Records, ca.1700-1930. MSS., 1928-1930. Available at FHL.
 * [Tucker] Grimes, Myrle. The Genealogy Line of the Tuckers in Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. MSS., available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Utz] See Yager.
 * [Wall] Brenneman, Richard E. Wall-Walls Families: Descendants of Jacob Wall Sr., Culpeper Co., Virginia &amp; Casey Co., Kentucky. Boston, Massachusetts: R.E. Brenneman, 2009. Available at FHL.
 * [Weedon] Karracker, James L. and George Harrison Sanford King. The Weedon Family of Westmoreland, Prince William, Fauquier, Culpeper Counties, Va. MSS., prepared by 1968, available at FHL.
 * [Willis] Hoskins, Genevieve Harris and Elizabeth Valentine Garnett. The Family of Absalom Graves Willis of Culpeper County, Virginia: Recollections Written Some of His Descendants. 1970. Available at FHL.
 * [Yager] Yowell, Claude Lindsay, B.C. Holtzclaw, Charles Herbert Huffman, and Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. Clore, Yager, and Utz Descendants - 1717 Colonists. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, 1967. Available at FHL.
 * [Yowell] Jensen, Paul Arlin and the Ewell National Genealogical and Historical Society. The Descendants of Thomas Yowell and Anne Sturman: Born about 1618 in Willbarsone, Northamptonshire, England, Immigrated to Kent Island, Maryland about 1634, Removed to Westmoreland &amp; Culpeper Counties Virginia Before 1655, Where Thomas Died Shortly Thereafter, and His Wife, Anne Sturman, Died In About 1671. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1994. Available at FHL; digital version at BYU Family History Archives.

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=Culpeper&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 Culpeper County, Virginia (work in progress), courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database.

Local Histories

 * Jones, Mary Stevens. An 18th Century Perspective, Culpeper County. Culpeper, Virginia: Culpeper Historical Society, 1976. Available at FHL.
 * Green, Raleigh Travers. Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish. Culpeper, VA, USA: Regional Publishing Company, 1900. digital version at Ancestry ($).

Migration

 * Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1976):29-34. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($). [These records identify migrants who left the county and often their intended destinations. Culpeper County's 1788-1789 Delinquent Lists appear on p. 29-31.]

Military
French and Indian War


 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Culpeper 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 Culpeper County militia officers and soldiers; see place name index.]

Dunmore's War


 * Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Culpeper and Fincastle Payrolls and Public Service Claims, 1775: Also Known as Dunmore's War: Enlarged and Photocopied. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Allen County Public Library, 2004. Available at FHL.

Revolutionary War


 * Blankenbaker, John. The Culpeper Classes. Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: J. Blankenbaker, 1999. Available at FHL. [In 1780 and 1781 the Virginia Legislature passed an act requiring the counties to supply a specific number of men for the Continental Army. These men would be divided into classes or divisions within the militia, each under an officer. Culpeper County had 106 classes with a total of 3,000 men.]
 * Godby, Jeannette. A List of Classes in Culpeper County for January 1781 for Recruiting the States Quota of Troops to Serve in the Continental Army. MSS., 1936, available at FHL.
 * List of Militia Classes and Index for Culpeper County, Virginia, for 1781. MSS., Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; also available at FHL.
 * Ross, Edward. Your Affectionate Cousin: The Rosses of Culpeper County, Virginia, and San Jacinto County, Texas. Houston, Texas: Thornhouse Press, 1994. Available at FHL. ["This is the story of the descendants of Daniel Ross -- a veteran on the British side of the American Revolution -- through two of his sons, William (in Virginia) and Wesley (in Texas)"--Acknowledgements.]

Civil War


 * Grimsley, Daniel A. Battles in Culpeper County, Virginia, 1861-1865: And Other Articles. Culpeper, Va.: Raleigh Travers Green, 1900. Available at FHL.

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.


 * An Index for Bell and Howell Microfilm Miscellaneous Titles and Dates, Culpeper, Va. Fredericksburg, Virginia: R.A. Hodge, 198-?. Available at FHL. [Indexes the Culpeper Observer, the Culpeper Times, the Piedmont Advance, and the Culpeper Enterprise from June 24, 1859 through September 21, 1899, and The Exponent, the Culpeper Times, and the Culpeper Exponent from June 9, 1882 through February 8, 1889.]

Private Papers

 * Collection of Papers from Culpeper Co., VA: Dealing with the Payne, Tull, Stewart, Ficklin and Related Families, 1848-1859. Available at FHL.
 * Daughters of the American Revolution. Culpeper Minute Men Chapter (Culpepper, Virginia). Copy of Some Family Bible Records Found in Culpepper County, Culpepper, Virginia. MSS., 1945-1946, available at FHL. [Family Bibles of: Daingerfield, Farish, Ellis B. Long, David Wright Kelly, R.T. Kelly, Richard Payne, Rust, Tutt, George Williams, and Wood.]

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.


 * Norris, Mary Boldridge. Property Tax List of Culpeper County, Virginia: And Names of Slaves, 1783. Raleigh, N.C.: n.p., 1936. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Clay, Robert Y. "Some Delinquent Taxpayers 1787-1790," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1976):29-34. Available at FHL; digital version at New England Ancestors ($). [These records identify migrants who left the county and often their intended destinations. Culpeper County's 1788-1789 Delinquent Lists appear on p. 29-31.]
 * Indexed images of the 1791 Personal Property Tax List of Culpeper County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * Images of the 1801 Personal Property Tax List of Culpeper 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 the 1815 land tax. Culpeper County is included in Vol. 4.]

Vital Records
Death

Beth Fridley has published abstracts of Culpeper County death records online at Ancestry:


 * Culpeper County, Virginia Deaths, 1854 - 1879 [database on-line]. Available at Ancestry ($).
 * Culpeper County, Virginia Deaths, 1880-96 [database on-line]. Available at Ancestry ($).

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