>X-From_: [email protected] Sun Feb 14 08:52:25 1999 >Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:37:26 -0800 (PST) >From: [email protected] >Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:48:53 EST >Old-To: [email protected] >Subject: County Lines >Resent-Message-ID: <"Fu--7C.A.81C.KGtx2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1540 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Here is a message that Joe Baker posted a few months ago about County Lines. > >SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VA LAND RECORDS > >WHERE DO I SEARCH? > >References > >Martha W. Hiden, How Justice Grew, Virginia Counties: An Abstract of Their >Formation. >John. W. Wayland, A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. > >>From 1721 to 1734, the Shenandoah Co., VA area was part of Spotsylvania Co. In >1734 it became part of Orange Co. The Assembly created Frederick and Augusta >Cos. in 1738. Not until 1743 did Frederick have sufficient tithables and was >financially able to hold court and record documents. In 1745 Augusta set up >her county organization. The line at that time separating Frederick and >Augusta corresponded to the original Fairfax Line, passing in or near >Thorton's Gap in the Blue Ridge, crossing the Valley near Oak Hill (now in >Page County, north of Luray, between Big Spring and Rileyville), St. David's >Church (in Powell's Fort), and the Narrow Passage on the North Fork of the >Shenandoah River (between Woodstock and present-day Edinburg). In 1753 the >Assembly redrew the dividing line between Frederick and Augusta Cos. and moved >it to the Southwest corresponding. to the 1746 survey of the Fairfax Line. The >new line passed through present-day Page Co., a few hundred yards above the >village of Newport, crossed the Massanutten Mountain and passed just above New >Market. Shenandoah Co. (original named Dunmore) was formed from Frederick Co. >in 1772. > >Where should one search for Shenandoah County deeds and other court records? > >1721-1734 Spotsylvania County >1734-1745 Orange County > >1743-1772 Frederick County >1745-1753 Augusta County >1772- Up Shenandoah County (named Dunmore 1772-1778) > >Joe Baker > > > >==== SHENANDOAH Mailing List ==== > Need list assistance? Please contact: [email protected] > List Adm for SHENANDOAH-L and SHENANDOAH-D > Now with over 725 subscribers! > > >