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Middlesex County is a county located on the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of 2000, the population was 9,932.
Its county
seat is Saluda. Settlement of the area began around 1640
with the county being officially formed in 1669 from a part of Lancaster County. The county's only incorporated town, Urbanna, was established in 1680 serving
initially as a port for shipping
agricultural products and later as the county's commercial and governmental
center. Rosegill Estate,
a Middlesex County plantation first constructed in 1649, served as the
temporary seat of the colony under two royal Governors of Virginia, (Sir Henry Chicheley, who served under Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway, and Lord Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham). The home remains a private residence
to this day. During the American Civil War, Urbanna was initially
planned as the point of landing for General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 to take Richmond, but ultimately, the failed campaign
utilized Fort Monroe as its starting point, almost doubling
the distance by land to the Confederate citadel. Delays in reaching the gates
of Richmond allowed the Confederates ample time to erect substantial
defensive batteries, contributing to the Union failure. The Town of Urbanna remains the county's largest commercial center
and its only incorporated area but the county seat of government has moved to the Village of Saluda on U.S. Route 17. To the east, almost to Stingray
Point, the Village of Deltaville is situated on State Route 33 between the mouths of the Rappahannock
and Piankatank Rivers. Once a major center for
wooden boat building, the village remains a commercial and recreational
center. The waterfront east to Stingray is home to many marinas, with a heavy
concentration on Broad Creek. |
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COUNTY RECORDS |
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Middlesex County
Clerk of the Circuit Court has Marriage Records from 1740 , Land
Records from 1673, Probate
Records from 1673 and Court
Records from 1673 and is located at the County Courthouse on P O Box
158, Routes 17 & 33, Saluda, VA 23149; 804/758-5317, Fax: 804/758-8637. There are a few online databases for
Court, Land and Probate Records which include: Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate
Records, 1639-1850,
Virginia County Records, Volume VI, Volume VII and Volume IX. |
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HISTORICAL / GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY(s) |
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LIBRARIES |
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Middlesex
County, VA. Middlesex County Public Library.
( Urbanna, VA United States) Middlesex County, VA. Deltaville Branch Library. (
Deltaville, VA United States) |
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HISTORICAL PLACES |
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Your
LINK to the Historical Places and
Districts in MIDDLESEX
County
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surnames
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The following are names of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or died
in this location. To find out more about each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. |
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Bagly; Pinnell; |
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Christ Church
Parish, Middlesex County
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LOCATION: N37.60474 W76.53437 |
Country:
United States; State:
Virginia; County:
Middlesex; Place:
56 Christ Church Lane, Christchurch, VA 23031 |
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DESCRIPTION: Created in
1651 out of Northumberland and York counties, Lancaster County originally
included lands on both the north and south sides of the Rappahannock River.
From 1651-1654, it is likely that the whole county formed one parish. In
1654, an order of the county court divided Lancaster County into two
parishes, the Upper Parish and the Lower Parish. In December of 1656, the
Assembly used the boundaries of this Upper Parish to create the new county of
Rappahannock, which, like Lancaster, included lands on both the north and
south sides of the river. In April of 1657, the Lancaster County
court again divided the county into two parishes, this time creating one
parish on the north side and one on the south side of the Rappahannock River.
By 1661, each of these parishes had divided, so there were now two parishes
on the north side and two parishes on the south side of the river. The upper
parish on the north side eventually became known as St. Mary’s White Chapel.
The lower parish took the name Christ Church Parish. On the south side
of the river, the upper parish became known as Lancaster Parish, while the
lower was called Piankatank Parish. In 1666,
Lancaster and Piankatank parishes reunited as one
parish called Christ Church Parish. When in 1669 Middlesex County formed from
that part of Lancaster County on the south side of the Rappahannock, this
parish was now referred to as Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County. This
left Lancaster County, now only encompassing lands on the north side of the
Rappahannock, with two parishes—Christ Church and St. Mary's White Chapel. Though Christ Church and St. Mary’s
White Chapel shared the same minister and a glebe, they considered themselves
separate parishes. Each had its own vestry and churchwardens, but they met as
a general vestry to consider issues related to both parishes, such as the
minister, the glebe, and the glebe house. In 1752, residents of Lancaster County
petitioned the Assembly to unite as one parish. Though it came to its
conclusion through an erroneous reading of the records, the Assembly decided
that no act of the legislature or order from the county court had ever
created St. Mary’s White Chapel or legally divided Christ Church Parish and
thus the whole of Lancaster County was included in one parish--Christ Church
Parish. A general vestry held on November 17, 1752 accepted the Assembly’s
report and formally united the two parishes as Christ Church Parish. St.
Mary’s became the upper precinct of the parish, and Christ Church served as
the lower precinct. Although Christ Church and St. Mary’s White Chapel were
now united as Christ Church Parish, the 12 vestrymen of each church (or
precinct) continued to meet independently, giving the parish a total of 24
vestrymen. In February of 1759, residents from both the upper and lower precincts
petitioned the Assembly over this arrangement, arguing that the vestry of
“each Precinct of the said Parish, though but one, has hitherto acted
separate from the other...which frequently occasions Disputes and
Controversies.” Moreover, some of the vestrymen had dissented from the Church
of England. The Assembly subsequently dissolved the vestry because it had 24
members, called for a new election of 12 vestrymen for the whole parish, and
forbade dissenters from serving on vestries throughout the colony. From this
point forward, Christ Church Parish had one vestry, and it governed the
affairs of both churches. |
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INTERNET
WEB LINK(s): Christ
Church Parish, Virginia Births, 1653-1812 $; Christ
Church, Middlesex; Christ Church Parish, Virginia
Marriages, 1653-1812 $ Christ Church Parish, Virginia Deaths,
1653-1812 $ |
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of government for this county. Yellow
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list below will assist in your research regarding the matching of your
ancestor’s birth, marriage, death dates and the place within this locality at
which these events may have occurred. |
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Main
Towns and Cities of Middlesex County, VA |
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For more information about the U.S. State in which this
county is located click on
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almost as important as their names.
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GENERAL RESOURCES |
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Our Genealogy Reference Library (USA Locations) ·
Genealogy Forum: U.S. States ·
Family Search, IGI Batches, Localities ·
Genealogy.com: Resources by county |
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LOCALITY SPECIFIC RESOURCES |
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· Middlesex County, Virginia - Wikipedia |
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will take you to our library of genealogy reference books. Here you may find books about the history
and records of this county and other places such as towns
and churches. The collection also
contains research works about military units and personnel during America’s
wars, in addition too resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups
who may have settled in this locality. |
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because we believe they tend to provide the reader with additional
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Urbanna Creek, Middlesex County, Virginia |
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Snail mail: Fred
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