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English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records
| Volume 1 | Issue 1 | March 1998 |
English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records
English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records; compiled by Louis des Cognets, Jr.; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1981, 1990: Copyright 1958 Louis des Cognets, Jr. Princeton, New Jersey. First Printing: 1958; Second Printing: 1960. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 80-85117, International Standard Book Number 0-8063-0929-6.
As the title implies this book contains information that was extracted in 1957 from the Public Record Office in England. Many of the records within the book are the only source of information now available due to the destruction of information throughout Virginia's History, i.e. The Reveloution, The War of 1812 and The Civil War.
The time frame of the material is from 1669 to 1735 and the book has a total of 380 pages with 56 of them being an Index. Some of the Chapter Names are:
As you can see from the sampling of the chapter titles there is alot of varied information contained within the pages. A large portion of the book, 110 pages, is a listing of the 1704 Virginia Rent Rolls.
The below is the description of the publication from Genealogical Publishing Company Inc.
LOST VIRGINIA RECORDS, English Duplicates of. By Louis des Cognets, Jr. 380 pp., indexed. (1958), repr. Balto., 1990. $25.00
Since its publication in 1958 this work has been regarded as an important source-book for colonial Virginia genealogy. It contains transcriptions of numerous historical documents and provides a great deal of out-of-the-way information pertaining to Virginians of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, much of it previously unknown. It is the product, in fact, of the compiler's researches into the by-ways of the Public Record Office in London, in particular his investigations of the reports sent from Virginia to the Colonial Office--an investigation into the very marrow of Virginia history.
Among the documents copied and recorded here, such as lists of colonial officials, naval and militia officers, petitions, French refugees (1700-1702) and lists of ships leaving and arriving at Virginia ports, three groups of records in particular deserve to be singled out: (1) The Present State of Virginia (with respect to individual counties), which gives county acreage, number of tithables, and names of sheriffs, burgesses, coroners, justices, clerks, surveyors, and ministers; (2) Patents for Land, 1699-1737 (with gaps), giving the name of the patentee, date of the patent, county, and acreage; and (3) The Rent Rolls of 1704, which supply the names of thousands of property holders in twenty Virginia counties! "No student of colonial Virginia history, biography and genealogy can afford to be without this source book."--Milton Rubincam, National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
So whats data is in the book related to the surname FREEMAN?? Below is an extract of the Index with the Chapter Title added for additional information:
Researchers who want to know all the names associated with Virginia during this time period, the county names, parish names, names of sheriffs, names of patent holders and the 1704 tax rolls will find this book full of information and worth reading through more than once.
This book and others are available at Genealogical Publishing Company
Name
Page
Chapter
Alexander Freeman
193
Norfolk Co., 1704 Rent Rolls
George Freeman
173
James City Co., 1704 Rent Rolls
George Freeman Jr.
96
Patent - James City Co. - 164a. - 1713
Henry Freeman
131
Middlesex Co., 1704 Rent Rolls
James Freeman
285
List of Ships - Dispatch of Bristoll - 1669
James Freeman
287
List of Ships - Expectation of Bristoll - 1770
John Freeman
70
Patents - 1701 - Charles City - 300a
John Freeman
72 - (3 Entries)
Land Entries for Southside Blackwater - 1702
John Freeman
80
Patents - Notaway River - Oct 1706 - 431a.
John Freeman
83
Signed Patents - Nottaway River - 431a. - Surveyed Dec. 17, 1705
John Freeman
86
Patents Prepared to be Signed Oct. 1706 - Nottoway River - 431a.
John Freeman
101
Patent - Surry Co., 300a. - Dec. 16, 1714
John Freeman
108
Patent - Prince George Co. - 431a. - Apr. 1, 1717
John Freeman
193
Norfolk Co., 1704 Rent Rolls - 190a.
John Freeman
223
Prince George Co. - 1704 Rent Rolls - 300a
Robert Freeman
145
Gloucester Co., Ware Parish - 1704 Rent Rolls - 135a.
William Freeman
165
New Kent Co. - 1704 Rent Rolls - 200a
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 & Emigrants in Bondage, 1624-1775
This Windows Version CD-ROM is part of the Family Tree Maker series of CD-ROMs. It is CD #350 copyright 1996 Br0derbund Software, Inc. The actual number of books on the CD are six:
All the books were written by Peter Wilson Coldham and copyrighted by Genealogical Publishing Company.
The nicest feature of this CD-ROM over some of the more recent ones that have been published is that you can "Cut-and-Paste" entries from the CD to your clipboard for source entry into your database, what a time saver. The introductions of each book by Paul Wilson Coldham are just an indication of the valueable information that is contained in the following pages. After a small history lesson in the introductions the data is listed in date sequence. There are over 140,000 entries of individual names.
In order to utilize this CD you must be using Broderbund Software Inc. software package "Family Tree Maker" or have a copy of Family Tree Maker's - Family Archives - Family Archive Viewer which includes a demonstration version of Family Tree Maker. Here is the good news ITS FREE, with the purchase of any CD-ROM requiring the Family Archive Viewer.
A quick search of the CD-ROM produced 240 hits on the surname FREEMAN. A search utilizing a wildcard function, FREE*, returned even more hits. Below is a sample of an extract from the CD-ROM:
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776
2 October 1635. Persons embarked on the John of London, Mr. James Waymoth, bound (from London) to St. Christopher's: John Batcheller 26; Samuel Parker 19; Thomas James 25; Christopher Thomson 21; Alexander Fleetwood 19; Walter Lee 21; Edward Dodson 21; Gilbert Clark 19; George Heelis 19; Richard Elmes 21; Richard Smith 22; William Richardson 24; Edward Mekins 18; John Clymer 30; Richard Evans 21; Henry Feeld 25; Henrie Radford 20; John Henman 19; Thomas Walker 19; John Mulleneux 24; Oswell Metcalf 22; Edward Cooke 22; John Sherlock 20; Thomas Frost 28; Lewes Evans 25; John Thomson 19; Richard Townsend 19; Mary Goodwinn 18; Jane Goodwynn 20; Martha Lilliot 20; Elizabeth Murrin 21; Joan Hill 21; Elizabeth Freeman 18. (PRO:E157/20).
Overall this CD-ROM is recommended for your personal collection if you have links to early american settlers from England. The only drawback to the information, and this is through no fault of the arthor, Broderbund Software, or Genealogical Publishing Company is that there is no information on emigrants from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales since they kept seperate records from England. If someone where to put that information together I would be standing in line to purchase it.
This CD-ROM and others are available at Genealogical Publishing Company