For those of you who are looking in Caroline Co. a really good book to buy is: Caroline County, Virginia Court Records & Marriages, 1787 - 1810 This book is written by William Lindsay Hopkins You can call 1-800-394-8634 Mon - Fri. 8a-6p EST or Saturday 8a-Noon EST. Or you can write: Iberian Publishing Company 548 Cedar Creek Drive Athens, Georgia 30605-3408 I have nothing to do with selling of the book. I have it, and have been able to help out with many of you by using it. Sometimes there is so much on one family it is hard to type and send it all. I bought my book for $30. at Hearthstone Book Store they too, are online you can click on the following: <A HREF="http://www.hearthstonebooks.com/">Hearthstone Bookshop</A> and order on line. The book explains that many of Caroline County's will, deed and order books were destroyed by fire as had been the earliest marriage records in a previous fire. Due to these crucial loses, genealogists and family researchers have had to accept the fact that it appeared that many family lines could be searched back to Caroline County but had to stop there due to a lack of court records. Some years ago, a small number of complete wills and deeds for the years prior to 1800 were found as part of the extant Chancery Court papers for Caroline County and they were Photostatted and bound into two volumns. These records along with the early order books and the marriage registers for the years after 1787 became the true source of Caroline County records prior to 1800. The Caroline County book is the result of a very careful sorting through of the most useful unbound records that are now extant. From the table of contents, the reader can see that there is a wide variety of materials included. In every case, the information included here is transcribed as it was found in the original with no attempt being made to change spellings or to imply relationships. Many of these records appear to be a clerk's hastily written notes and are very difficult to read while some others are on pieces of disintegrating paper. In the future, all researchers of Caroline County records will have this volumn, T.E. Campbell's Caroline County, Marshall Wingfield's History of Caroline County, Virginia, the microfilmed copies of the extant will books, deed books, order books and the surviving marriage registers to use as compliments to each other. Also, John Frederick Dorman has published his abstracts of the Caroline Order Books through the year 1760. Careful notation of where each piece of information can be found in the Virginia State Library Archives was of paramount importance. All references can be found in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia unless another source is noted. Except for Caroline County Wills Found in Other Sources and Caroline County Marriages 1787-1810, all of the page headings in this book refer to boxed material that can be found only in the stacks of the Archives Division of the Virginia State Library under the correct headings. A separate folder within any one of these boxes can hold one piece of paper or a hundred separate pieces of paper.