Church Records

Accomack County Birth Register Series

The entire Register has births recorded from 1853 to 1896 and more than 21,000 entries. For printing, and user handling purposes it has been divided into three volumes, 1853-1876. 1877-1886 and 1887-1896. It was the parents or informants who gave the information to the Tax Collector or Assessor as he was called. The tax Assessor then gave the information to the Clerk of the Court or Justice of the Peace. The Clerk then recorded it, sometimes two years after the fact.

At a time when only some big cities were recording births and the mode of collecting the data was lengthy, the Accomack County Birth Register is a great source of information and includes: parents, place of birth, occupation of the father, residence, and informant.

Miscellaneous Accomack Records

Meetings of the Overseers of the Poor for Accomack & St. Georges Parish September 1787 - 1819.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  PRICE 48.50.  ACC022.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index.  Comb bound 267 pages.  Some of our most elusive ancestors were poor and left no wills, administrations or deeds. Some of them can be found in the records of the Vestry who took care of the poor widows, orphans, the sick and natural born children. Their records included the expenses incurred by members of the Church who maintained these people. It also includes an inventory of the Poor House.

Accomac County Court Records

Eastern Shore District Court 1789-1797.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price 37.50.  ACC019.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, Comb bound, 192 pages.  On the 12th of May the first District Court met at Accomack. This court had jurisdiction over the Counties of Accomack and Northampton on the Eastern Shore. This book contains the records of this court from 1789 to 1797. The Court handled appeals on judgments of the lower courts, civil cases from debt, chancery, and dentinue, etc.,and criminal cases. It recorded deeds, wills inventories etc. This is the first book of a three part series.

Eastern Shore District Court 1797-1805.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.   Price 35.00.  ACC021.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, Comb bound, 167 pages.  A continuation of the District Court Records previously named.

Eastern Shore District Court 1805-1816.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price 37.50.  ACC023.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, Comb bound, 205 pages.  A continuation of the District Court Records previously named.

Accomack County Chancery Orders 1831-1845.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.   Price 42.00.  ACC024.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, Comb bound 220 pages.  The Court of chancery possessed general equity powers, distinct from the Court of Laws. The names of those elusive ancestors may be found in this book.

EASTERN SHORE DISTRICT COURT WILLS & DEEDS 1800-1806. Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk. Price $39.00. ACC029. ISBN pending. Every name, place index, Comb bound, 192 pages. On the 12th of May the first District Court met at Accomack. This court had jurisdiction over the Counties of Accomack and Northampton on the Eastern Shore. This book contains wills, deeds, mortgages, recorded in District Court for the years 1800-1806.

NEW SERIES! Accomack Chancery Court Causes 1727-1805. These records were found hidden in the attic of the Accomack County Clerk's Office in 1996 and restored and scanned by The Library of Virginia. They can be viewed in their original form at http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/.

Volume 1. 1727-1782. Contains approximately 97 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2012; 243 pp. ACC030 - $45.00.

Volume 2. 1783-1790. Contains approximately 100 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2013; 244 pp. ACC031, $45.00.

Volume 3. 1791-1795. Contains over 100 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2013; 236 pp. ACC032, $45.00.

Volume 4. 1795-1800. Contains over 100 transcribed cases, every name and place indexed, comb bound, 2013; 245 pp., ACC033, $45.00.

Volume 5. 1800-1805. Contains over 100 transcribed cases, every name and place indexed, comb bound, 2013; 250 pp., ACC034, $45.00.

Processioners' Returns

Processions were a type of a surveyor in England and the United States, especially Virginia and Kentucky. On the Eastern Shore of Virginia every four years the Vestrymen of the Church would meet and order that a processioning be taken and Processioners would be chosen. Their job was to decide upon property boundaries to mark and describe them in the processioner's book. Occasionally, the total acres and the property boundaries determined by the processioners will be found in records of a church in whose parish boundaries the land in question was located.

Every four years, all landowners in a community would ride or walk along the boundaries of all their plantations from marked trees to marked trees and from creek to creek. They would make sure the boundary markers were still there, note the ones missing and create new ones. On the Eastern Shore of Virginia, when there was a dispute in the boundaries the processioning of the disputed land would be stopped.  A Jury would be empaneled in court, and accompanied by a surveyor and the sheriff would go and view the stopped lines and decide on the boundary. This custom came from England to Virginia as a means of avoiding disputes arising from poor surveys or loss of boundary markers such as trees.

The original records contained the Processioners Returns from 1723 to 1787 which can be found on the microfilm Accomack County Reel #136 at the Virginia State Library at Richmond. This reel contained the Processioners records from 1723 to 1787 for Accomack Parish. In 1763 a second Parish named St. George Parish was created and those records were also on the film to 1787. In going ahead I reviewed Reel #137, which included Accomack County Parish Records and the Accomack Processing Book 1796-1816.  Processioners Returns 1723-1792 includes one year of  processioning for both Accomack and St. George Parishes not included on Reel #136 or in the Processioning Book on Reel #137 but appears on in the Parish Records on Reel #137.

To the researcher, at first glance, these records look like lists of names.  With further study it can been seen that they were done by precincts and walked from plantation to plantation, creating an every- four-year census of landowners and their neighbors.  By following the names through the ensuing years, sales of land, deaths of landowners and names of creeks and roads no longer used can be seen.  For the researcher doing "Area" or "Cluster" genealogy clues to parents, grandparents, other family relationships and social dealings can be gleaned.

I have walked the boundary lines from Red Oak trees to Black gum trees through Marshes and Swamps over Bridges, and through fields with the people of Accomack County for 69 years finding pieces of information that can not be found anywhere else.

Accomack County Processioners Returns 1723-1792 for Accomack and St. George's Parishes.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk. Price$43.00.  ACC020.  ISBN pending.  Every  name,  place index.  Comb bound.  230 pages.

Accomack County Processioners Returns 1796-1816 for Accomack and St. George's Parishes.   Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $43.00. ACC025.  ISBN pending.  Every name,  place index.  Comb bound 225 pages.  This book continues on with the processions first done in 1723.

NOTE: See also Northampton County Processions

Procession District Series

This series highlights the Districts named in Precessioner's Returns for 1795-1796. At that time Accomack County was divided into two Parishes--St. George Parish and Accomack Parish. St. George Parish contained 17 Districts and Accomack Parish contained 13. The books here are a detailed focus on the individual districts in 1795-1796 with a detailed look at the area and a three-generation genealogy of the people living within.

PEOPLE-PLACE-TIME: ACCOMACK COUNTY PROCESSION 1795-1796. ST. GEORGE PARISH DISTRICT 11. Compiled by Gail M. Walczyk & edited by Wayne Stith. Price $42.50. PD001. ISBN pending. Every name and place index with maps; illustrated. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound 140 pages.  St. George Parish included the lands from the mouth of Pungoteague Creek at the Chesapeake Bay, to the north fork of Pungoteague Creek, to present day Route 718, up the south fork of Onancock Creek and down that creek to the Bay again. Included in this area are the localities known as Cashville, Crockett Town and Slutkill Neck. In 1795 there were 40 families living in District 11, with 36 freeholders and 4 renters or overseers with their families living there.

CIVIL WAR

The Eleventh Census of the United States 1890 - Special Schedule - Union Veterans and Widows Bundle 180.   Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $25.00.  CW001.   ISBN pending.   Every name index, comb bound, 125 pages.   This material is on one of the 118 rolls of microfilm reproduction of the special schedules of the United States Eleventh Census. Little of this census remains today, it being destroyed in a fire. But this special schedule was saved. Bundle 180 is one of the three bundles that make up the State of Virginia. It consists of the Counties of Accomack, Charles City, Elizabeth City, Essex, Gloucester, Greensville, Isle of Wright, James City, King & Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Nansemond, New Kent, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Prince George, Princess Anne, Richmond, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, Warwick, Westmoreland and York. This special schedule was taken to enumerate Union Veterans but also includes Confederates.

The Rolls of Prisoners of War at Point Lookout, A-C.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $45.00.  CW003.  ISBN pending.   Every name index, 8-1/2 X 11, Comb bound, 296 pages.  On July 20, 1863, a prisoner of war camp was proposed on the site of an old resort that the U. S. government had bought. It was to hold 10,000 prisoners. It was located on both the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in Maryland, just over the state line and north of Northumberland Co. VA. A Union military hospital had already been built there. It was officially named Camp Hoffman after Colonel William Hoffman the commissary general of prisoners but it was generally known as "Point Lookout" after the low lying sand spit on was located. By August 31st of that year there were 1,827 prisoners there and by July 1864 there were 15,000. By the end of the war, June 1865, over 50,000 prisoners had passed thru and more that 20,000, twice as many as it was built to hold were still housed there. The camp itself was about 20 acres surrounded by a twelve foot board fence. Inside the camp, fifteen feet from the fence was a ditch. Instead of wooden barracks, the men lived in tents which were hot and steamy in the summer and bitterly cold in the winter.  The rolls of these prisoners consist of three reels of microfilm. All three are alpha sort lists of incoming prisoners, the date of arrival, from where, rank, regiment, company, where and when captured and remarks. REEL #113 consists of all prisoners (A-Z) arriving from August 1863 to August 1864. There are two notes at the front of REEL #113. One states:"This register shows a large number of prisoners arrived from Fort Columbus Sept 26, 1863, but it is found that most of the men were received from Fort Delaware Sept 28, 1863, while the men from Fort Delaware were received Set 26, 1863 and Oct 11, 1863. No arrival roll has been found at Fort Delaware of the men transferred to Point Lookout Sept 20, 1863, nor transfer rolls of the men from Fort Columbus to Point Lookout." The second states handwritten earlier one states: "The names in this Book having no remarks opposite them are of Prisoners who arrived at this Station under assumed names or who assumed ones for the purpose of being transferred, exchanged or released."  This is the first in the series and consists of letters A-C and over 11,000 entries. Although REEL #114 is marked A-K, it consists of prisoners with surnames A-M. REEL #115 consists of N-Z. Both #113 and #114 list prisoners received from August 1864 and released the end of June 1865. "Point Lookout" took in prisoners from many other Prison Camps such as Fort Monroe, VA, City Point VA, Johnson’s Island Military Prison OH, Fort Columbus, NY, Camp Chase, OH, and Fort Delaware Military Prison, DE. Some were exchanged, released with Oaths, or died. Others were transferred to other military prisons such as Elmira, Fort Delaware and Fort Monroe.

HARFORD COUNTY, MARYLAND

Harford County, Maryland

Harford County Maryland Church Records.  West Harford Circuit Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Transcribed by C. E. Warrington.  Price $25.00 - MD001.  These records include a membership list of the West Harford Circuit M. E. Church copied for Jarrettsville church records for the Class Leader in 1851, marriages and baptisms preformed from 1876 -1877, names of Official Members, and other associated church records.  Every name index, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 40 pages.

THE ISLANDS IN THE BAY

The Report and Journal of the Proceedings of the Joint Commission to Adjust the Boundary of the States of Maryland and Virginia.  Indexed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $29.00 - IS001.  In 1872 a commission for both the States of Maryland and Virginia met to establish the boundary line between the two States was on the Eastern Shore. This is the deposition of the witnesses, as noted in the final report, that came before the Commissioners, including parentage, age, etc. Full of Genealogical Material. Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 46 pages. (Out of print)

A Brief History of Tangier Island VA.  Price $20.00 - IS002.  Originally written by Reverend C. P. Swain in the 1890's, this work  relates the history of both the people and the Methodist religion on the island.  It now has been indexed and a dateline has been included. 8-1/2 X 11. Comb bound 32 pages.

Smith's Island in 1870.  Researched and compiled by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $75.00 - IS003.  In the summer of 1608 John Smith started on an exploration trip of the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled from Cape Charles, went up the bay to the Potomac River From there he went as far as present day Washington, D.C. and back down to Jamestown. It was actually two trips for at one point he was very badly hurt by a stingray and had to return to Jamestown to be treated. It was during these two voyages that he came across a group of islands in the middle of the bay. He named them the "Russell Isles," for a Doctor Russell who was then on board ship with him and had saved him from death. This group is today what is known as Smith's, Tangier and Watts Islands. Tangier Island is about 6 miles below the Maryland-Virginia State line and at one point all the islands below the state line were known as the "Tangier Islands" (with the "s") in Virginia's records not Smith's Island. These, among others, included Shanks, Old Walnut Island, Piney Island, Queen's Ridge, Horse Hummock, South Point, and Hog Neck. The latter three being attached to the lower part of Smith's Island in Maryland. The "s" was lost sometime after 1880 when erosion took its toll on these islands and the inhabitants moved to Crisfield MD, Onancock VA or Tangier Island itself. These islands were once inhabited with Smith's Island people, who had more dealings with each other and Maryland and even went to the one church on Smith's Island at the time which was on Old Orchard Ridge now known as "O'er the Gut." It was during this long walk through my own personal history that I decided to link that section of Virginia to Smith's Island MD and came across an idea. I would take the 1870 Virginia Census of these Islands and join them back together. I listed each Household and the people in it and then added their parents, any children born after 1870, where they were from and where they went. I also included who those children married. About seven years ago, when the Smith's Island Visitor's Center was in planning, I suggested that some genealogy could be included there, for family history was also the history of the Island itself. There was just one question. "What was the best way to do this?" It was then that I decided to enhance the above project with interesting personal information on the residents then and load it into a computer so that visitors and Islanders alike could use it. This work is the hard copy of the data available on the computer at the Visitors Center located on Ewell, Smith's Island MD in 1999 and contains over 3000 people who have Smith's Island connections. Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, 300 pages. $10 of each sale of this title is be donated to the Visitors' Center. 8-1/2 X 11, Comb bound 296 pages.

Graven Inscriptions of North End.  Researched and compiled by Jennings L. Evans, Frank V. Walczyk and Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $28.00 - IS004.  This work documents the 450 people buried in the Corinth UME Churchyard at Ewell on Smith's Island MD locally known as North End, two family plots and one stone found at an old church site on Orchard Ridge. It also includes those buried there with no stones. It is a unique treatment a cemetery written in obituary form, including spouses, parents, children, occupations and other pertinent information on the deceased. The epitaphs on the stones are also noted and a plot map, never before done, is included. Graven Inscriptions of North End is the product of five years of research, interviews and walks in the cemetery.  Contains a bibliography and an index of approximately 2000 names, places and boats. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 67 pages.

Graven Inscriptions of Tylerton.  Researched and compiled by Jennings L. Evans, Frank V. Walczyk and Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $28.00 - IS005.  This is the second book in this series and documents the over 300 people buried in the Union UME Churchyard on Tylerton on Smith's Island MD. As with the first, it is a product of five years of research, interviews and walks in the cemetery.  Contains a bibliography and an index of over 2000 names, places and boats.  8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 61 pages.

Graven Inscriptions of Rhodes Point.  Researched and compiled by Jennings L. Evans, Frank V. Walczyk and Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $28.00 - IS006.  This the third and last book in this series. As with the first two it is a unique treatment of a cemetery written in obituary form including parents, spouses, children occupation and other pertinent information. This book combined with Graven Inscriptions of North End and Graven Inscriptions of Tylerton document all the known burial plots and site on Smith's Island. Every name, place and boat index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound 51 pages.

Holland's Island's Disappearing.  Organized and indexed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price 28.00 - IS007.  This is an assortment of information on Holland's Island with a genealogy of Thomas Gordon Parks and information gleaned from Mr. Parks' files on the Bradshaw, Parks, Price and Todd families of Holland's Island.  New data and family charts are included. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 50. pages.

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY VA MARRIAGES 1854-1922. Transcribed by Phyllis Elmore. Price $50.00. NH019. ISBN pending. Every name, place index, comb bound, 305 pages. On 11 April 1853 the Virginia General Assembly passed an act requiring that any minister or person performing a marriage return that information to the Clerk of the County Court to begin on 1 January 1854. If not, the license to perform marriages that person held would be revoked. The returns were to be signed by the minister and were to include the full name and ages of the groom and the bride, whether they were single or widowed, place of birth and residence of both, occupation of the groom and date and place of the marriage. Sometimes the race of the individuals was also noted. This book contains the marriages listed in  Northampton County Virginia Registers No. 2 and 3 and range in date from 1854 to 1922. The transcriber is  donating her proceeds of the book to the Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac, VA.

THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY DEATH REGISTER 1853-1870. Transcribed by Sandra Perkins Price: $30.00 - NH026. ISBN Pending. This work includes the records of deaths between the years of 1853 and 1870. From the original Death Register, the present listings contain not only the name of the deceased but also (when known) the gender and race, the parents' birth and death places, occupations, spouses, and informants with their relationships. An assortment of other information was also gleaned from the records themselves and included in this work, such as physician names and causes of death. 8-1/2 X 11, Comb bound, 104 pages.

Northampton Court Order Series

Caught and recorded within these pages is a "slice of time" in the lives of some of the inhabitants of Northampton. I have transcribed and in a way translated the original records into an easier reading form. In doing so I have left names, places and sometimes things in the original spelling. This was done to show the reader that they could spell a name many ways sometimes in the same court case. Letters such as "a," "I," "e," and also "y" can be interchangeable as in the names Joine, Joyne, Joynes, Lukar Luker, or Ellegood, Elligood. That is not to say that Smith and Smyth are the same people. This shows the importance of citing work whenever possible. If one is looking to "put meat on the bones" of their ancestors, it might be found in these pages. On these pages are wills listing family members, friends, and relationships with allied families. They also include a fight over a bet not paid on a game of 9 pins, a trial and a hanging, along with such things as a dunking chair and the "Hornes," collecting tithes and many other daily events that were their lives. By reading these books the personalities of the people come through. Going from court to court one cannot help but feel transported to a different place and time. In doing so, it is possible to come face to face with an ancestor or two.

Northampton/AccomacK Book I - 1632-1640.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $32.50.  NH015.  ISBN pending.   Every name, place index, comb bound, 147 pages.  In 1632 Northampton/Accomacke held its Court session and in 1890 Thomas Teackle Upshur, a noted genealogist of the time, was asked to do the first Transcription of this book.  This book contains the records of that Court and compares them with the works of Mr. Upshur.

Northampton County VA Wills Deeds & Orders 1651-1654.  Book IV.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk.  NH001. Price $42.50, ISBN 0-9708037-8-8.   Every name and place index, 8-1/2 X 11, Comb bound, 237 pages.  Northampton County VA Orders, Deeds and Wills 1651-1654 Book IV, recorded before Accomack was named a County in 1663, is the fourth book of the early records of Northampton/Accomack County. This volume includes wills, deeds, headrights, and suits. The names of many Indians, Negroes and English, Dutch and Swedish settlers who lived in and had business in the County at the time are mentioned. Very few records of the area later known as Somerset County can be found in the records of St. Mary's before 1660. Surprisingly enough, some information, recorded ten years before Somerset was made open for settlement by the Calverts, can be found in the present Northampton County Order Book (Book IV).

Northampton County OrderS & Wills 1678 - 1683 BOOK 11.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $43.50 - NH011, ISBN pending.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 242 pages.

Northampton County Orders & Wills 1683-1689, Vol I 1683-1685.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $39.50 - NH009, ISBN pending.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 185 pages.

Northampton County Orders & Wills 1683-1689, Vol II 1685-1689.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $40.00 - NH010, ISBN pending.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 204 pages.

Northampton County Orders & Wills 1689-1698, Vol I 1689-1693.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $39.50 - NH002, ISBN 0-9708037-6-1.  Every name index, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 185 pages.

Northampton County Orders & Wills 1689-1698, Vol. II, 1694-1698.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $39.50 - NH003, ISBN 0-9708037-7-X.  Every name index, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 193 pages.

Northampton County Orders & Wills 1699-1710, Vol I 1699-1703.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $39.50 - NH007, ISBN 0-9708037-0-2.  Every name index, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 145 pages.

Northampton County Orders & Wills 1699-1710, Vol II 1704-1710.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $39.50 - NH008, ISBN 0-9708037-5-3.  Every name index, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 190 pages.

Northampton County Orders 1753-1758 Book 24.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $ 43.50.  NH014.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, comb bound, 273 pages.

Northampton County Orders 1751-1753 Book 23.  Transcribed by Frank V. and Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $34.00.  NH016.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, comb bound, 125 pages.

Northampton County Orders 1748-1751 Book 22.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $37.00.  NH017.  ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, comb bound, 155 pages.

Northampton County Processions

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY PROCESSIONERS RETURNS 1796-1828. Transcribed by Tammy Belote. Price $35.00. NH018. ISBN pending. Every name, every place index. Comb bound. 118 pages. Unlike Accomack County, which has has filmed records from 1723 to 1895, Northampton County has only two unfilmed books remaining. This is the first of these two books and spans from 1795/96 to 1828; it contains 14 "Precincts". Accomack County contains 2 Parishes and 30 "Districts", St. George Parish with 17 "Districts," and Accomack Parish with 13 "Districts." These are the records of the processioning done in Northampton for the years 1795/96 to 1828.

Northampton County Chancery Court Causes Series

NEW SERIES! Northampton Chancery Court Causes. Counted among the different types of loose papers that Northampton County holds; up until now these Chancery Causes have been rarely seen. This court had the jurisdiction to handle cases that could not be dealt with in a court of common law. These court papers hold many marriages of widows as well as information regarding land and debts. Also included are birth dates, death dates, and depositions.

Volume 1, 1721 1760. Contains approximately 76 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2009. 229 pp. NH020 - $43.00.

Volume 2, 1762 1773. Contains approximately 78 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2009. 240 pp. NH021 - $43.00.

Volume 3, 1773 1793. Contains approximately 72 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2009. 225 pp. NH022 - $43.00.

Volume 4, 1794 1800. Contains approximately 76 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2009. 246 pp. NH023 - $43.00.

Volume 5, 1800-1805. Contains approximately 72 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2009. 224 pp. NH024 - $43.00.

Volume 6, 1806 1816. Contains approximately 70 transcribed cases, every name and place index, comb bound, 2010. 213 pp. NH025 - $43.00. 

Minute Book Series

Northampton County Minute Book 1754-1761.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.   This is the first book in a five book series that spans from 1754-1783.  While searching for my own ancestors I have come across the many different court records of Northampton County some of which are the minute books. "Minute books are books kept by the clerk of the Court for entering memoranda of its proceedings."  In the Minutes were recorded parentage, guardianships, ages, and other genealogical information. Minutes also include historical information. The locations of roads and when they were cleared where new Mills, whether grist or water, were built and the individuals on whose land they were built were recorded within these records.  Price $30.50 - NH012, ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 147 pages.

Northampton County Minute Book 1761-1765.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  This is the second book in the above five book series that spans from 1754-1783.  Price $25.00 - NH013, ISBN pending.  Every name, place index, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 99 pages.

Northampton Orphan Series

Northampton County Orphans Accounts  1731-1784.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price: $35.00 - NH005.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound 178 pages.

Northampton County Orphans Accounts 1784-1813.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price: $35.00 - NH006.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound 220 pages.

Northampton County, VA Cattlemarks 1665-1742.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $18.50 - NH004.  ISBN 0-97-08037-9-6.    This work lists cattle marks and brands and dates they were recorded.  A drawing of the actual brand marks is included. Contains information on some families for three generations.  Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 43 pages.

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY VIRGINIA

Northumberland County VA Death Register 1853-1896.  Price $37.50 - HM001.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk. Every name index, 8-1/2 X 11.  Comb bound 141 pages.  This Death Register had recorded the deaths of 2639 people between the years of 1853 to 1896. From the start there were many mysteries, problems and other stumbling blocks with the original document. This was due in part to the fact that it is 43 years of records and recorded by many people over the 43 years. The microfilm, poorly done, was readable in sections, leaving 212 entries partially or totally illegible. In 1853 a Virginia State law was passed requiring that records of Births, Deaths and Marriages were with the Clerk of the Court. At first was done on a handwritten form with hand drawn lines and included columns for Name, White, Colored (free, slave,) Name of the owner of Slave, Sex, Date of Death, Place, of Death, Name of Disease or Cause of Death, Place of Death, Age (years, months, days, )Where born, Occupation, Consort of, and Sources of Information (Name of Person giving Information of Death and Designation of Informant who was Physician, Surgeon, Coroner, Head of Family, Friend to) were first used, and at the end of the record for each year the Clerk of the Court signed that he had recorded it. Later it was done on a standard printed form was used by the Clerk with a variation of the titles of the columns. The Commissioner of Revenue, (Tax Collector) while collecting taxes, also took down vital information (births and deaths,) as he went door to door. Each one recorded the information slightly different from the other. The information was then turned in to the County Clerk, who recorded it, putting it into semi-alphabetical order.

Northumberland County VA Church Records Births & Deaths 1650-1810.  Transcribed by Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $37.50.  HM002.  The aim of this book is to make genealogical data of Northumberland County VA more accessible to the average researcher who either does not live close to Richmond or the Court House in Heathsville VA or does not have the time to go through the unindexed and semi alpha sorted original. In this volume is a full name index of almost 7000 people. This includes those whose births or deaths were recorded and a least one parent. And spans over 150 years of data. The book was transcribed in the exact order as it appeared in the original and each microfilm frame was numbered. These numbers along with the page numbers and the condition of each page when warranted was noted before the entries on that particular page.  Every name index.  Comb bound. 145 Pages.

Northumberland County Record Book 1652-1658.  Price $ 37.50.  HM003.  ISBN pending.  Transcribed by Frank V. Walczyk.  Every name, place index, Comb bound, 184 pages.  This work 1658 contains the early court records for Northumberland County. As with other early record books it contains all types of court proceedings, including land patents, deeds letters of attorney, Indian matters and wills listing family members, friends, and relationships with allied families. These records prove an early connection with the Eastern Shore of both Virginia and Maryland.

SOMERSET COUNTY, MARYLAND

Somerset County, Maryland Judicial Series

This series is a transcription of the court proceedings between 1707 and 1717 and contain mention of individuals not found in any other record. It includes apprenticeships, depositions, petitions, bastardy cases, wills and other informative information. For years researchers have struggled to work with the microfilm of the original records. deposited in Annapolis MD because it was poorly filmed. Pages were filmed upside down, backwards and the index was unreadable and on the film the records abruptly end in the middle of 1717. These works make the vital information in these court records more accessible for everyone. Every name and place indices.

Somerset County Maryland Judicial Records 1707-1709.  Part I.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $40.00 SO001.   Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 253 pages.

Somerset County Maryland Judicial Records 1709-1711 Part II.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $40.00 - S002.  Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 253 pages.  The original Somerset County Judicial Record book for the years 1707 to 1711 was unlike most other Somerset County Record books in that instead of the usual two year recording, this one contained four years and consisted of 481 handwritten pages. Because of its length it was divided into two parts. Somerset County Judicial Records 1707-1709 contains the records of those years. Somerset County Judicial Records 1709-1711 Part II contains the records for those years. Every name and place indices.

Somerset County Maryland Judicial Records 1711-1713.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $40.00.  SO003.   Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 266 pages.  This is the third book in the series.

Somerset County Maryland Judicial Records 1713-1715.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk. Price $37.00.  S0004.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 216 pages.  This is the fourth book in the series.

Somerset County Maryland Judicial Records 1715-1717.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $37.00 - SO005.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 216 pages.

Somerset County Maryland Judicial Records  1715-1717 Part II.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk.  Price $37.50 - SO006.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 153 pages.  This portion of the Judicial Records for 1715-1717 was randomly microfilmed on a reel with Queen Anne and Cecil Counties.  It was just recently found by chance.

Somerset County Maryland Judicial Records 1717-1718 with Memorandum.  Transcribed and edited by Frank V. Walczyk .  Price $32.50. SO007.  Every name and place index. 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 148 pages.  This portion of the Judicial Records for 1717-1718 was randomly microfilmed on a reel with Somerset County Deeds.  It was just recently found by chance.

FAMILIES

Four Generations of the Evans Family of the Eastern Shore.  Researched and compiled by Rebecca F. Miller and Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $25.00 - FA003.  This work contains the first known generations of the Evans Family of the Islands in the Bay and Parksley, VA. Starting with John Evans, [Circa 1660-1721], the report continues through his great grandchildren, the descendants of his sons John, Mark and Richard. The research is based on thorough examination of primary sources of two counties: Accomack County, VA and Somerset County, MD. Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, Comb bound 61 pages.

The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin Marsh.  By Benjamin Franklin Marsh.  Price $18.50 - FA004.  This is an account of his life and life in general on Smith's Island in the 1800's.  Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound 17 pages.

A Primer on the Crocketts of the Eastern Shore.  Researched and compiled by Gail M. Walczyk and Rebecca F. Miller.  Price $25.00 - FA005.  This primer separates the "White Haven Crockett Family" from the "Tangier Island Crockett Family" and unravels some of the problems in doing research on these families.  Includes a family genealogy written by J. Shiles Crockett circa 1920.  Annotated, completely with indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 35 pages.

Three Generations of Bradshaws.  Price $25.00 - FA006.  Researched and compiled by Gail M. Walczyk.  Contains the first known generations of the Bradshaw family of the Islands in the Bay.  Starting with Richard Bradshaw [b. 1740], the report continues through his great grandchildren. The research is based on thorough examination of primary sources and secondary sources.  Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound 61 pages.

Descendants of John Tyler of Smith's Island.  Researched and compiled by Rebecca F. Miller.  Price $25.00 - FA007.  Contains eight generations of descendants of John Tyler [d.1714], a first settler of Smith's Island. New evidence reveals an early John Tyler which alters previously accepted Tyler lineage. Fully documented. Indexed, 8-1/2 X 11, comb bound, 55 pages.

The Duntons of the Eastern Shore.  Compiled, researched and cited by Dr. William S. Burton and Gail M. Walczyk.  Price $42.50.  FA008.  ISBN 0-9708037-4-5.  Comb bound.  80 pages.  This is a work of love for the history of the Dunton family and of the Eastern Shore. It is tightly packed with information, and consists of five, sometimes six, generations of the Dunton Family beginning with Thomas and ending about 1800. It contains almost all the data found on each generation including cattle and brand marks, wills, deeds and appearances in court.  Includes citation, a full name bibliography, three maps and a full name index.