Description

Have any genealogical connections to Grayson County, Virginia? This book takes out a large portion of the work in trying to screen through the county’s court and land records for all marriage references and genealogical information. This book carries on the research begun in the first volume (published in 2020), continuing through all of the 300+ Grayson County chancery suits for the years 1855-1870, plus chancery suits in other Virginia counties. It also sorts through additional deeds and land records in neighboring counties, records of the Mount Pleasant Monthly Meeting (and other Quaker meetings that make reference to Grayson County), orders from the order books pertaining to insolvency, tax exemption, bastardy, guardianship, deaths, or removals, and also free black and mulatto lists (1837, 1839-40), select entries from the Cohabitation Register of 1866 of free blacks (those that relate to Grayson County), Bible records, Grayson County school reports of 1856-1857, additional pensions, family letters, and other collections. While will and probate records are still not included here, all references to testate and intestate estates in the court order books ARE included in this book, serving as proof of an existing estate record. Served by a full name index, this book is necessary for any researcher with Grayson County, Virginia research prior to 1870. It saves much of the time in trying to review many repositories and resources by providing the most necessary genealogical information into one book! If you didn’t find something you needed in the first volume, you’ll want to check this source as well!