James City County, Virginia, VAGenWeb page.

James City County History and Genealogy Sources and Links

• Familiy Pages

  • Check out the names at the Phillips Family pages. You might find your family there!
  • Ratcliffe Family Information.
  
  
  
• A history, James City County: Keystone of the Commonwealth, by Martha W. McCartney, can be ordered from James City County, 3127 Forge Road, Toano, VA 23188. INFORMATION
• James City County Burgesses 1619-1693 at this web site.
• A DNA study by Johnson family researchers, James City County Residents - 1624, is a fifty-two page .pdf document. Download Adobe Reader for .pdf files, if you don't already have it. Johnson family members are invited to participate. Contact information is in the file.
• James City County, VA Archives at the USGenWeb Archives.
• James City County 27 March 1702 Justices of the Peace, Officers of the Court and Militia Officers. at Genealogy Quest.
• James City County, VA, 1782 Personal Property Tax List at the New River Notes web site.
• James City County, VA, 1788 Personal Property Tax List at the New River Notes web site.
• James City County, VA, 1790 personal property tax lists USGenWeb.
• Provisional List of College of William and Mary Alumni, 1693-1888 at Earl Gregg Swam Library, Special Collections, College of William and Mary.
• Explore Special Collections at Earl Gregg Swam Library, College of William and Mary.

James City County Resources provided by the USGenWeb

• James City County, VA, 1850 Census transcription.
• Coke and Geddy Family Bible Records
• Old Tombstones in York and James City Counties
• Old Churchs in James City County
• Deed and Land patent abstracts
• James City County Wills

Other James City County Links

• Jamestown Rediscovery. Preservation Virginia (formerly APVA) exciting archaeological discoveries at the earliest permanent English settlement in North America!
• Colonial Williamsburg's Digital Library. Check it out!
• The Jamestowne Society.
• James City County Government Web Site
• The Virginia Gazette
• Williamsburg Area Chamber of Commerce.

Sites On the Web Relating to James City County (Google)

• U.S. Civil War pages at Cyndi's List.
• The Civil War in Virginia at virigniaplaces.org.

MAPS

• 1895 James City County Atlas
• Office of Coast Survey. There are GREAT color Civil War era maps! They show topography and names of land owners in the 1860s. DON'T NEGLECT THEM! Search the catalog.
• Virginia counties on a topography map from Johns Hopkins University