Virginia Colonial Records

History
The first permanant European settlement in Virginia was made in Jamestown in 1607. These settlers were called the Virginia Company of London, and in 1609 recieved a charter. In 1624, the Virginia Company was dissolved when it became a royal colony. French Huguenot and German settlers arrived in Virginia by the mid-18th century.

Court Records

 * Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia: 1620-1632, 1670-1676 by H.R. McIlwaine, (1924. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1979).
 * Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1680-1775) by Virginia Council, 6 Vols., (1925. Reprint. Richmond: VSL, 1966-1978).
 * Virginia Colonial Decisions: The Reports by Sir John Randolph and Edward Barradall of the Decisions of the General Court of Virginia, 1728-1741 by R.T. Barton, 2 Vols., (Boston: n.p., 1909).
 * The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 by John Pendleton Kennedy and Henry Reed McIlwaine, 13 Vols., (1905-1915. Reprint. Richmond: VSL and Scholarly Resources, 1985).
 * Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts (1652-1879) by William P. Palmer, 11 Vols., (Richmond: n.p., 1875-1893).
 * The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689 by Warren M. Billings, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975).
 * Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619 by William Waller Hening, 13 Vols., (1819-1823. Reprint. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969).
 * The Laws of Virginia: Being a Supplement to Hening's Statutes at Large, 1700-1750 by Waverly K. Winfree, (Richmond: VSL, 1971).
 * Personal Names in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia, and Shepherd's Continuation by Joseph J. Casey, (1896. Reprint. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1977).
 * Virginia Company of London, 1607-1624 by Beverley Fleet in Virginia Colonial Abstracts. Series 2. Vol. 3, (Washington, DC: L.O. Duvall, 1955).
 * An Introduction to the Records of the Virginia Company of London, with a Bibliographical List of the Extant Documents by Susan Myra Kingsbury, (1905. Reprint. Fort Wayne, IN: Allen County Public Library, 1990).
 * The Records of the Virginia Company of London by Susan Myra Kingsbury, 3 Vols., (Washington, DC: GPO, 1906-1935).
 * Colonial Records of Virginia, (1874. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964).

Land Records

 * Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants by G.E. Gray, 4 Vols., (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987-1993).
 * Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants (1623-1749) by Nell Marion Nugent, 5 Vols., (Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., VSL, Virginia Genealogical Society, 1934, 1963, 1977-1979, 1994).
 * Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699 by W. Stitt Robinson, (Williamsburg, VA: 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957).

Military Records

 * Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776 by William Armstrong Crozier, (1905. Reprint. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954).
 * List of Colonial Soldiers of Virginia: Special Report of the Department of Archives and history for 1913 by H.J. Eckenrode, (1917. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing CO., 1974).
 * Virginia's Colonial Soldiers by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988).