What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of King and Queen County and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1908.

 

King and Queen County,

Virginia

 

By Alfred Bagby

 

New York

The Slaets Publishing Company

 

1908

 

402 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are lighter in contrast due to age of the text.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Part I. The people: Their homes, ways, works, worships 

CHAPTER I: Geographical Location—Antecedents—Jamestown Settlement

CHAPTER II: Progress and Expansion from Jamestown—Origin of King and Queen's County

CHAPTER III: Resources, Climate, etc

CHAPTER IV: George Rogers Clark: his Nativity and his

Exploits

CHAPTER V: Legislative Action Concerning the Formation, and Intended to Advance the Interest, of the County of King and Queen—Henning's

"Statutes at Large "

CHAPTER VI: Church Houses and Old Homes

CHAPTER VII: Religious Denominations


 
Part II. Civil War annals 

CHAPTER VIII : The War Starts—The Home Guard . .

CHAPTER IX : Rosters of King and Queen County in the Civil War

CHAPTER X: War Records, Letters, and Diaries .

CHAPTER XI: From Richmond to Appomattox

CHAPTER XII: Historical Address by J. Ryland, Sr.


 
Part III. Domestic and social 

CHAPTER XII : Selections from the Poems of King and Queen

CHAPTER XIII : Two Men Deserving to be  Remembered, and a Boy sent on an Errand

CHAPTER XIV: Life on the Old Plantation

CHAPTER XV: Colored People of King and Queen County

  Part IV. Miscellanies 

CHAPTER XVI: Family and Individual Records

CHAPTER XVII: Genealogies

CHAPTER XVIII: Fragments

 

Surnames Listed in Index

 

 

Acree, Asbury, Aylett, Bagby, Bates, Benjamin, Bird, Bland, Boulware, Braxton, Broaddus, Brooke, Cameron, Campbell, Carlton, Chamberlain,  Clark, Claybrook, Collins,  Cook, Corbin, Cornelius, Corr, Cosby, Council, Courtney, Cox, Crittenden, Cromwell, Dahlgren, Davis, Dew, Dickey, Diggs, Dudley, Dunmore, Eggleston, Elegy, Eubank, Fauntleroy, Fleet, Gaiwes, Garlick,  Garnett,  Gregory,  Gresham,  Gwathmey, Harwood, Henry, Henshaw, Hill, Hutchinson, Jefferson, Jones, Kidd, Latane, Lee, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Lyne, Madison, McClellan, Meade, Monroe, Moores,  Morfnekat, Motley, Muire, Murdock, Nunn, Pendleton, Pollard, Porter, Purcell, Purks, Rehsilbup, Richie, Rives, Roane, Robinson,  Rogers, Rolfe, Rowe,  Roy, Ruffin, Ryland,  Saunders, Scott, Semple,  Shackelford,  Shackford, Skaife, Smith, Southerland,  Stephens, Steth, Street, Taylor, Temple, Todd,  Tunstall, Vaughan, Walker,  Ware, Washington, Webster, White, Williams, Wright,