Welcome to the reference desk of the Southampton Transcription Project. Here you can find documents that may provide additional context for your Southampton County research.
Family Genealogies have been consolidated in their own subdirectory of References. Click here for quick access.
17th Century Isle of Wight County Virginia
17th Century Isle of Wight County Virginia.txt
A Brief History of isle of Wight County. 1608-1907.pdf
Biograpical History of North Carolina.pdf
Cavaliers and Pioneers Vol 1.txt
Charles Parish York County Virginia History and Registers.pdf
Colonial Churches of Virginia.pdf
Colonial Records of North Carolina.pdf
Colonial and state political history of Hertford County N C
Confederate Pensions Readme.txt
Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666.txt
Historic Structures Survey Southampton report.pdf
History of Virgina by Mary Tucker Magill
LAND GRANTS IN VIRGINIA 1607-1699.txt
MARRIAGE BONDS AND MINISTERS RETURNS FOR SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY 1750-1810
Map of Pr George Surry Sussex and Southampton Counties.pdf
Names of Early VA Immigrants duplicates removed.txt
Southampton County Bicentennial 1749-1949
Southampton County Bicentennial 1749-1949 Images
Southampton County Bicentennial.htm
Southampton Ridleys and their Kin.pdf
Southampton Wills and Adminstration
Southampton Wills and Admintrations Book II
Southside Virginian Jan-Mar 1991.pdf
Southside Virginian Jan-Mar 1991.txt
State Records of North Carolina.pdf
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and The Summer Isles.txt
The Johnson family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia and later of Indiana.pdf
Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800.pdf
Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800.txt
William Johnston Of Isle Of Wight County Virginia And His Descendants 1648.-1964.pdf
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The files on the Reference Desk have proven useful to the STP staff while doing conducting Southampton County genealogical research.
Several of these references chronicle the history of the region before the establishment of the county in 1749. Notable examples include ‘17th Century Isle of Wight County Virginia’ by John Bennett Boddie III which tells the story of Southampton County when the county was known as the Nottoway Parish of Isle of Wight County. ‘Cavaliers and Pioneers’ by Nell Marion Nigent contains abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants from 1623.
Others, such as ‘Southampton County Folklore’ by Mrs. John E Beale, tell of the people, places, and events in Southampton County not found in the official records.
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