Fauquier Co, Virginia: Our Family History

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.

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID
401	Allison, Roberta Catherine	1855	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I64988
402	Hinson, John Gaunt	1855	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I64933
403	Payne, Albena	25 Jul 1855	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18115
404	Butler, Lavania	1856	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I81316
405	Glasscock, Luther D.	1856	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42920
406	Payne, Cumberland George	16 Jan 1856	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18102
407	Payne, Richard	Abt 1857	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18116
408	Glasscock, Adonis	1858	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42921
409	Utterback, Joseph Neville	Apr 1859	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I65088
410	Glasscock, Isabella	1860	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42922
411	Godfrey, Beaureguard Davis	14 May 1861	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40368
412	Allison, George Bailey	1862	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I64989
413	Butler, Mofley	1863	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I81317
414	Allison, James Edward	1865	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I64990
415	Butler, Hampton	1865	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I81318
416	Herndon, Emma A.	1865	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42406
417	Holder, John Taliaferro	11 Feb 1865	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42408
418	Allison, Ann L.	1866	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I64991
419	Herndon, Sarah Catherine	31 Mar 1866	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42397
420	Cockrill, Ida Letitia	Sep 1866	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I65089
421	Russell, John Elijah	1868	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18139
422	Payne, Edward C.	24 Feb 1868	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18081
423	Herndon, Elizabeth Jennie	13 May 1868	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42407
424	Butler, Alice	1869	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I81319
425	Oliver, Georgianna	1869	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42411
426	Russell, Mary Susan	1869	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18140
427	Payne, Annie Barton	12 Apr 1870	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18082
428	Payne, Carrie Lee	15 Jul 1870	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18131
429	Allison, William	1872	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I64734
430	Oliver, Minneapolis "Minnie"	1872	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42412
431	Herndon, Joseph C.	May 1872	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42430
432	Oliver, Alfred Herbert	3 Jun 1873	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42413
433	Oliver, James G.	1874	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42414
434	Herndon, Charles Matlin	28 Jul 1875	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42429
435	Oliver, Claude Washington	22 Feb 1876	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42415
436	Payne, Catherine Ernestine	17 May 1877	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18085
437	Allison, Laura B.	1879	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I64735
438	Payne, Mary Barton	20 Apr 1881	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18093
439	Oliver, Cornelius	12 Sep 1882	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42417
440	Oliver, Wilson Herbert	17 Mar 1883	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I42418
441	Payne, Amos E.	29 Mar 1884	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18094
442	Allison, Arthur Lee	28 Dec 1886	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40301
443	Payne, Leslie W.	1 Jan 1887	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18095
444	Allison, Mardulia	11 Feb 1888	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40302
445	Allison, Sarah Ethel	29 May 1890	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40303
446	Allison, Rose Ella	26 Nov 1891	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40304
447	Allison, Mollie Frances	14 Mar 1893	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40305
448	Allison, Carrie L.	14 Jun 1895	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40306
449	Allison, Lewis H.	3 Jan 1898	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40307
450	Allison, Daisie	25 Apr 1899	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40308
451	Allison, Maggie	25 Apr 1899	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I40309

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