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Fauquier Co, Virginia



 


Notes:
Fauquier County was split off from its parent county, Prince William, in 1759. It's boundaries have remained unchanged ever since.



Prince William lies to the east and Loudoun to the north. The top of the Blue Ridge Mountains forms the western boundary and the upper reaches of the Rappahannock River the southwestern one. Stafford is southeast across Deep Run, a tributary of the Rappahannock.



The first settlers in the frontier area that became Fauquier arrived in the second decade of the eighteenth century (i.e., 1720). At that time it was part of the Proprietorship of the Northern Neck, in Stafford and Richmond counties. The Richmond share along the Rappahannock became part of King George in 1721, and the whole became part of Prince William in 1732.



Settlement began from the south and east into the southern part of Fauquier county along the Rappahannock and its tributaries and a bit later along tributaries of the Occoquan. Almost all of the land had been granted by the Proprietors through their agents by 1750. Those patents included one for the Manor of Leeds giving Thomas Lord Fairfax, the last of the Proprietors, direct title to 120,000 acres, most of which lay in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in northwest Fauquier. Lord Fairfax began leases-for-lives in his Manor in 1753.



By the time of the Revolutionary War the population of the half of the county north of the Courthouse village (now Warrenton, Virginia) exceeded that below it, and the frontier had crossed the Blue Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.



Many of the inhabitants of Fauquier after the Revolution had “itchy feet” or at least their younger children did. Before 1781 there had already been migration from Fauquier to the Valley and to the interior of the Carolinas. A “Carolina Road” ran across the middle of Fauquier.



After Yorktown both western and southern tides swelled. Many people left for South Carolina and Tennessee. Still more headed west for Kentucky spurred in part by land grants to soldiers of the French and Indian War and the Revolution. Huge tracts of Kentucky land were originally surveyed, subdivided, and sold by real estate agents based in Northern Virginia.



In spite of these moves the population of the county grew rapidly from its founding to the end of the century and beyond.



In 1760, based on the count of 1693 tithes, there were an estimated 3,500 residents.



By 1775 the total had more than doubled to 8,000-8,500. In the decade to 1785, due to the war and the consequent drying up of immigration from Europe, there was little net increase. Then a burst of growth in the last fifteen years of the century took the total to around 15,000 residents in 1800.



In spite of continuing massive outflow to the West and South, growth kept on, reaching a peak of over 30,000 in the 1830’s, a number not to be surpassed for more than a century.



So the 18th century Fauquier Families have their descendants spread across the continent.

Latitude: 38.713842, Longitude: -77.795561


Birth

Matches 101 to 200 of 451

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
101 Corder, Bailis Bailey (Bell) (Bayless)  1767Fauquier Co, Virginia I37071
102 Stone, Elias (Elum)  Abt 1767Fauquier Co, Virginia I36757
103 Helm, Major Benjamin  8 May 1767Fauquier Co, Virginia I31405
104 Withers, Susannah "Sukey"  20 Aug 1767Fauquier Co, Virginia I5918
105 Helm, Mildred Milla  11 Sep 1767Fauquier Co, Virginia I36421
106 Barnett, Achilles Gibbs  Abt 1768Fauquier Co, Virginia I47548
107 Corder, John  Abt 1768Fauquier Co, Virginia I37642
108 Morgan, Alice  1768Fauquier Co, Virginia I60592
109 Pickett, Elizabeth  1768Fauquier Co, Virginia I89425
110 Withers, Thomas  1768Fauquier Co, Virginia I5891
111 Pickett, John  4 Dec 1768Fauquier Co, Virginia I36551
112 Barnett, John  Abt 1769Fauquier Co, Virginia I48430
113 Payne, Presley  1769Fauquier Co, Virginia I5898
114 Spinny, Mary  Abt 1769Fauquier Co, Virginia I48447
115 Stone, Lewis  Abt 1769Fauquier Co, Virginia I36758
116 Withers, Joseph  22 Jun 1769Fauquier Co, Virginia I5917
117 Rosser, Lettice Glending "Lettie"  1770Fauquier Co, Virginia I5884
118 Stone, Parazade  Abt 1770Fauquier Co, Virginia I37070
119 Withers, Elizabeth  1770Fauquier Co, Virginia I5893
120 Ball, Mary Ellen  10 Oct 1770Fauquier Co, Virginia I18625
121 Barnett, James  Abt 1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I48425
122 Corder, William  1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I37078
123 Mitchell, Frances  Abt 1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I48426
124 Payne, James  1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I6049
125 Rosser, George  Abt 1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I5876
126 Stone, Nancy  Abt 1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I36759
127 Withers, Hannah*  Abt 1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I5828
128 Chinn, Chichesler Thornton  17 Oct 1771Fauquier Co, Virginia I5937
129 Ball, Benjamin  1772Fauquier Co, Virginia I42631
130 Chinn, Joseph  1772Fauquier Co, Virginia I66716
131 Pope, Worden  Abt 1772Fauquier Co, Virginia I31421
132 Barnett, Joanna  Abt 1773Fauquier Co, Virginia I48483
133 Withers, Alice (Ailsey)  1773Fauquier Co, Virginia I18521
134 Withers, Matthew Keene "Cain"  Abt 1773Fauquier Co, Virginia I5911
135 Wood, Dickerson* Jr  1773Fauquier Co, Virginia I5827
136 Helm, George  2 Apr 1773Fauquier Co, Virginia I31406
137 Rosser, Nancy  Abt 1774Fauquier Co, Virginia I5874
138 Barnett, Mildred  Abt 1775Fauquier Co, Virginia I48429
139 Bradford, Joseph  Abt 1775Fauquier Co, Virginia I48419
140 Herndon, James White  1775Fauquier Co, Virginia I66091
141 Redman, James  Abt 1775Fauquier Co, Virginia I37630
142 Steel, Henry  Abt 1775Fauquier Co, Virginia I48446
143 Wood, Elijah Thornton  Abt 1775Fauquier Co, Virginia I18535
144 Withers, Elijah (Keene?) Sr  02 Oct 1775Fauquier Co, Virginia I18505
145 Corley, Richard  1776Fauquier Co, Virginia I48112
146 Barnett, Nancy  Abt 1777Fauquier Co, Virginia I48482
147 Rosser, James Neavill  1777Fauquier Co, Virginia I89002
148 Withers, Lucinda "Lucy"  Abt 1777Fauquier Co, Virginia I5889
149 Withers, William  02 Jun 1777Fauquier Co, Virginia I18506
150 Corder, Susannah W.  1778Fauquier Co, Virginia I37631
151 Gaskins, Ann Eustace  1778Fauquier Co, Virginia I65033
152 Handsucker, Jacob  Abt 1778Fauquier Co, Virginia I37910
153 Withers, Ailsey  Abt 1778Fauquier Co, Virginia I18507
154 Wood, Isabella  Abt 1778Fauquier Co, Virginia I5836
155 Wood, William III  1778Fauquier Co, Virginia I18390
156 Barnett, Ann  Abt 1779Fauquier Co, Virginia I48480
157 Neavill, Elizabeth  1779Fauquier Co, Virginia I79216
158 Rosser, Susanna "Sukey"  Abt 1779Fauquier Co, Virginia I5879
159 Shreave, William  Abt 1779Fauquier Co, Virginia I48481
160 Cole, Mahala Alice "Alcy"  16 Mar 1779Fauquier Co, Virginia I81158
161 Withers, Cynthia Ann "Cindy"  24 Apr 1779Fauquier Co, Virginia I5894
162 Glasscock, Stephen  30 Oct 1779Fauquier Co, Virginia I42930
163 Corder, Susannah  1780Fauquier Co, Virginia I37908
164 Dodd, Hannah  1780Fauquier Co, Virginia I89003
165 Wood, Nancy  1780Fauquier Co, Virginia I66092
166 Barnett, Sarah  Abt 1781Fauquier Co, Virginia I48423
167 McCormick, Stephen  Abt 1781Fauquier Co, Virginia I48424
168 Withers, Susannah  Abt 1781Fauquier Co, Virginia I18508
169 Rust, James  3 Apr 1781Fauquier Co, Virginia I42942
170 Payne, Henry Rousseau  22 May 1781Fauquier Co, Virginia I60989
171 Payne, Francis  06 Jul 1781Fauquier Co, Virginia I5916
172 Wood, James  31 Aug 1781Fauquier Co, Virginia I5838
173 Ball, Joseph Brumfield  Abt 1782Fauquier Co, Virginia I18629
174 Corder, Sarah  1782Fauquier Co, Virginia I37909
175 Withers, Enoch  1782Fauquier Co, Virginia I5895
176 Corder, Charity  1783Fauquier Co, Virginia I37079
177 Stone, Rosanna "Rosey"  1783Fauquier Co, Virginia I55439
178 Settle, Willis  12 Jan 1783Fauquier Co, Virginia I89432
179 Ball, Martha  12 Jul 1783Fauquier Co, Virginia I18628
180 Pickett, Nancy  1784Fauquier Co, Virginia I89429
181 Withers, William  1784Fauquier Co, Virginia I5896
182 Barnett, Judith  1785Fauquier Co, Virginia I48418
183 Hinson, James (Madison?) "Madi"  Abt 1785Fauquier Co, Virginia I42675
184 Neavill, Mary "Polly"  1785Fauquier Co, Virginia I35031
185 Rust, Benjamin  1785Fauquier Co, Virginia I40819
186 Withers, Scythia "Sithy"  Abt 1785Fauquier Co, Virginia I5890
187 Rust, Elizabeth  22 Jun 1785Fauquier Co, Virginia I42950
188 Corder, Vincent  15 Aug 1785Fauquier Co, Virginia I37906
189 Dulin, George  1786Fauquier Co, Virginia I42673
190 Withers, Sally  Abt 1786Fauquier Co, Virginia I5913
191 Holtzclaw, Susan  25 Jan 1786Fauquier Co, Virginia I66100
192 Barnett, Emily  Abt 1787Fauquier Co, Virginia I48485
193 Corder, Elizabeth  1788Fauquier Co, Virginia I37911
194 Cowgill, John  Abt 1788Fauquier Co, Virginia I37912
195 Dulin, Mary "Polly"  1788Fauquier Co, Virginia I42674
196 Barnett, Charles  Abt 1789Fauquier Co, Virginia I48486
197 Bramblett, Nathaniel  1789Fauquier Co, Virginia I104805
198 Jones, William  7 Jan 1789Fauquier Co, Virginia I35012
199 Helm, Lyna  2 May 1789Fauquier Co, Virginia I31456
200 Corder, Nancy  1790Fauquier Co, Virginia I40396

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Death

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Death    Person ID 
101 Ball, Jane  Bef 1856Fauquier Co, Virginia I42385
102 Gaskins, Ann Eustace  Mar 1856Fauquier Co, Virginia I65033
103 Cowgill, Tacy  1857Fauquier Co, Virginia I37892
104 Rosser, Lettice Glending "Lettie"  Bef 6 Jun 1858Fauquier Co, Virginia I5884
105 Rust, James  17 Sep 1858Fauquier Co, Virginia I42942
106 Glasscock, Margaret  1 Oct 1858Fauquier Co, Virginia I65061
107 Payne, Richard  Bef 1860Fauquier Co, Virginia I18116
108 Rowley, Elizabeth  18 Jul 1860Fauquier Co, Virginia I64974
109 Helm, Lyna  Aug 1860Fauquier Co, Virginia I31456
110 Forman, Malvina  Aft 1860Fauquier Co, Virginia I56782
111 Thornton, Martha Stuart  Dec 1861Fauquier Co, Virginia I86861
112 Allison, Richard  Abt 1862Fauquier Co, Virginia I64738
113 Rust, Elizabeth  28 Oct 1862Fauquier Co, Virginia I42950
114 German, James  May 1864Fauquier Co, Virginia I65028
115 Dulin, Clemmance  Abt 1865Fauquier Co, Virginia I65060
116 Rowley, Catherine (Ketty or Kitty)  1868Fauquier Co, Virginia  I64739
117 Glasscock, Cleminia Ann  Feb 1870Fauquier Co, Virginia I65004
118 Bowie, Flora V.  15 Jul 1870Fauquier Co, Virginia I18119
119 Butler, James  Aft 1870Fauquier Co, Virginia I81314
120 Payne, Edward C.  29 Sep 1873Fauquier Co, Virginia I18081
121 Payne, Annie Barton  18 Oct 1873Fauquier Co, Virginia I18082
122 Payne, Thomas Brown  1 Dec 1873Fauquier Co, Virginia I18113
123 Shield, Sarah  16 Jan 1875Fauquier co, Virginia I68439
124 Glasscock, George  10 May 1875Fauquier Co, Virginia I65062
125 Payne, Catherine Ernestine  1 Jun 1877Fauquier Co, Virginia I18085
126 Digges, Porcia Lucella (occupant 1850)  13 May 1879Fauquier Co, Virginia I64972
127 Payne, Amos E.  13 Nov 1884Fauquier Co, Virginia I18094
128 Cockrill, Thomas  1 Jan 1885Fauquier Co, Virginia I65087
129 Allison, Roberta Catherine  1887Fauquier Co, Virginia I64988
130 Payne, Leslie W.  16 Jul 1887Fauquier Co, Virginia I18095
131 Allison, George Bailey  Oct 1888Fauquier Co, Virginia I64989
132 Edwards, Marjulia "Julia"  15 Nov 1890Fauquier Co, Virginia I64733
133 Allison, Henry  Jun 1891Fauquier Co, Virginia I64732
134 Allison, William  29 Dec 1891Fauquier Co, Virginia I64977
135 Hinson, George  3 Sep 1894Fauquier Co, Virginia I42374
136 Bailey, Letitia  20 Dec 1895Fauquier Co, Virginia I65086
137 Rust, Sarah Ann  29 Jun 1898Fauquier Co, Virginia I42952
138 Herndon, Joseph Thaddeus "Joel"  Abt 26 Oct 1906Fauquier Co, Virginia I42396
139 Glasscock, Thomas J. (son?)  4 Mar 1908Fauquier Co, Virginia I42916
140 Payne, John Rice  21 Oct 1914Fauquier Co, Virginia I18111
141 Allison, John Thomas  2 Feb 1919Fauquier Co, Virginia I64976
142 Godfrey, Beaureguard Davis  14 Apr 1933Fauquier Co, Virginia I40368
143 Utterback, Joseph Neville  14 Sep 1940Fauquier Co, Virginia I65088
144 Robinson, Somerville Virginia  6 Oct 1944Fauquier Co, Virginia I40365

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Marriage

Matches 101 to 170 of 170

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   Family    Marriage    Family ID 
101 Turner / Maddox  Bef 1805Fauquier Co, Virginia F15893
102 Wood / Corley  8 Nov 1805Fauquier Co, Virginia F6775
103 Glasscock / Glasscock  23 Dec 1805Fauquier Co, Virginia F14306
104 German / Allison  17 May 1806Fauquier Co, Virginia F21076
105 Bradford / Barnett  4 Jun 1806Fauquier Co, Virginia F15996
106 Wood / Smoot  8 Aug 1806Fauquier Co, Virginia F2489
107 Herndon / Holtzclaw  15 Dec 1806Fauquier Co, Virginia F21390
108 Hinson / Dulin  30 Dec 1806Fauquier Co, Virginia F14222
109 Washburn / Jett  1807Fauquier Co, Virginia F24632
110 McCormick / Barnett  Feb 1807Fauquier Co, Virginia F15997
111 Corder / Smoot  5 Mar 1807Fauquier Co, Virginia F12950
112 Payne / Withers  10 Nov 1807Fauquier Co, Virginia F2524
113 Pope / Thruston  Abt 1808Fauquier Co, Virginia F11059
114 Shreave / Barnett  Bef 1808Fauquier Co, Virginia F16016
115 Rosser / Dodd  6 Jan 1809Fauquier Co, Virginia F29598
116 Corder / Cowgill  25 Dec 1809Fauquier Co, Virginia F12941
117 Oder / Wigfield  27 Jan 1810Fauquier Co, Virginia F9202
118 Cowgill / Corder  12 Dec 1810Fauquier Co, Virginia F12952
119 Rust / Rust  3 May 1812Fauquier Co, Virginia F14308
120 Corder / Ellis  17 Aug 1812Fauquier Co, Virginia F12946
121 Browne / Glasscock  2 Apr 1813Fauquier Co, Virginia F12510
122 Harvie / Marshall  15 Sep 1813Fauquier Co, Virginia F36406
123 Digges / Gordon  14 Feb 1817Fauquier Co, Virginia F21081
124 Allison / Skinner  17 Dec 1817Fauquier Co, Virginia F21063
125 Gladstone / Allison  23 Dec 1817Fauquier Co, Virginia F21075
126 Bryant / Payne  21 Dec 1819Fauquier Co, Virginia F19962
127 Bailey / Ball  Abt 1820Fauquier Co, Virginia F14125
128 Ball / Robinson  1821Fauquier Co, Virginia F14130
129 Lee / Allison  1 Jan 1821Fauquier Co, Virginia F20981
130 Allison / Poe  31 Dec 1823Fauquier Co, Virginia F21071
131 Allison / Lee  3 Jun 1824Fauquier Co, Virginia F21074
132 Tapp / Wood  27 Aug 1825Fauquier Co, Virginia F2572
133 Hinson / Ball  28 Nov 1825Fauquier Co, Virginia F14124
134 Wood / Rogers  28 Dec 1825Fauquier Co, Virginia F2493
135 Thornberry / Payne  3 Mar 1827Fauquier Co, Virginia F19963
136 Payne / Foley  28 Dec 1827Fauquier Co, Virginia F2580
137 Tucker / Compton  08 Jan 1828Fauquier Co, Virginia F4017
138 Holder / Ball  29 Nov 1828Fauquier Co, Virginia F14126
139 Orear / Thornton  6 Mar 1829Fauquier Co, Virginia F14307
140 Allison / Allison  Abt 1830Fauquier Co, Virginia F20979
141 Ball / Ball  Abt 1830Fauquier Co, Virginia F14128
142 Compton / Wood  4 Jan 1830Fauquier Co, Virginia F1309
143 Payne / Dulaney  16 Sep 1830Fauquier Co, Virginia F2578
144 Glasscock / Glasscock  Abt 1831Fauquier Co, Virginia F21090
145 Payne / Payne  12 Dec 1831Fauquier Co, Virginia F2581
146 Allison / Downs  26 Jan 1832Fauquier Co, Virginia F21072
147 Compton / Duke  12 Mar 1833Fauquier Co, Virginia F1437
148 Carter / Rust  5 Jun 1838Fauquier Co, Virginia F14309
149 Allison / Caldwell  10 Jan 1840Fauquier Co, Virginia F21069
150 Rust / Ashby  5 Mar 1840Fauquier Co, Virginia F14311
151 Allison / Edwards  Abt 1843Fauquier Co, Virginia F20978
152 Finnell / Powell  16 Mar 1843Fauquier Co, Virginia F32361
153 Thompson / Saunders (Sanders)  17 Jan 1844Fauquier Co, Virginia F13592
154 Allison / Minter  18 Dec 1844Fauquier Co, Virginia F21068
155 Thompson / Thompson  Abt 1845Fauquier Co, Virginia F13593
156 Glasscock / Duncan  Abt 1849Fauquier Co, Virginia F21092
157 Cockrill / Bailey  Abt 1853Fauquier Co, Virginia F21095
158 Allison / Glasscock  26 Dec 1853Fauquier Co, Virginia F21067
159 Payne / Payne  28 Dec 1858Fauquier Co, Virginia F6670
160 Payne / Payne  20 Dec 1866Fauquier Co, Virginia F6665
161 Russell / Payne  3 Jun 1867Fauquier Co, Virginia F6674
162 Hector / Payne  28 Oct 1867Fauquier Co, Virginia F6671
163 Oliver / Holder  17 Dec 1868Fauquier Co, Virginia F14132
164 Payne / Bowie  20 Jul 1869Fauquier Co, Virginia F6672
165 Payne / Hinson  21 Dec 1876Fauquier Co, Virginia F21052
166 Godfrey / Robinson  19 May 1880Fauquier Co, Virginia F13582
167 Utterback / Cockrill  Abt 1884Fauquier Co, Virginia F21096
168 Glasscock / Cockrill  Abt 1885Fauquier Co, Virginia F21093
169 Maddox / Herndon  27 Apr 1887Fauquier Co, Virginia F14131
170 Butler / Holder  Abt 1953Fauquier Co, Virginia F26581

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