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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: -77.795561Matches 201 to 300 of 451
Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Birth |
Person ID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 |  Wood, Dickerson | 10 Mar 1806 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18536 |
| 202 | Payne, William Wood | 1806 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I6055 |
| 203 | Payne, James Wood | 1806 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I6053 |
| 204 | Ball, Joseph Brumfield | 23 Jul 1805 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18635 |
| 205 | Bonham, Evan | 17 Apr 1805 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I4512 |
| 206 | Lee, Frances | 1805 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65020 |
| 207 | Chilton, George | 15 Nov 1804 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I75951 |
| 208 | Poe, Lucinda | 17 Aug 1804 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65029 |
| 209 | Glasscock, Nimrod Sr. | Between 1804 and 1806 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42924 |
| 210 | Corder, Simeon (Simyon) | 1804 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I40321 |
| 211 | Ball, Joseph | 1804 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42372 |
| 212 | Allison, Elizabeth | 1803 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65018 |
| 213 | Glasscock, William Dunlin | 1802 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65066 |
| 214 | Ball, Mary H | 28 Mar 1801 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18603 |
| 215 | Jones, Daniel | 15 Feb 1801 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I35017 |
| 216 | Glasscock, Margaret | Between 1801 and 1810 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65061 |
| 217 | Glasscock, George | Between 1801 and 1810 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65062 |
| 218 | Ball, James Rosser | 1 Sep 1800 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42369 |
| 219 | Kerfoot, George Louthan | 22 Apr 1800 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I46346 |
| 220 | Withers, Benjamin Lewis | 05 Dec 1799 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18676 |
| 221 | Ball, Judith M. | 6 Nov 1799 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18633 |
| 222 | Chilton, James S. | 20 Aug 1799 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I75965 |
| 223 | Kerfoot, John Bradford | 27 Jul 1798 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I46345 |
| 224 | Jones, John R. | 13 Jul 1798 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I35016 |
| 225 | Payne, Jane | 1798 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I60996 |
| 226 | Ball, Martha S. | 4 May 1797 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18632 |
| 227 | Wood, Elizabeth | 15 Aug 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18321 |
| 228 | Gordon, Sarah Lee | 14 Apr 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65037 |
| 229 | Digges, Ludwell | 14 Apr 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65036 |
| 230 | Allison, Elsey A. | 14 Feb 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65009 |
| 231 | Payne, Elizabeth | 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I60995 |
| 232 | Ellis, Nancy | Abt 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37900 |
| 233 | Crim, Emily | Abt 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48428 |
| 234 | Barnett, Ambrose N. | 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48427 |
| 235 | Ball, Nancy Alice | 1796 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42371 |
| 236 | Ransdell, Thomas Jefferson | 25 Dec 1795 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I75944 |
| 237 | Jones, Samuel | 29 Nov 1795 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I35015 |
| 238 | Allison, John | Abt 1795 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65007 |
| 239 | Allison, (daughter) | Between 1795 and 1800 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65013 |
| 240 | Ball, William | 1794 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42370 |
| 241 | Bailey, Henry E. | 1794 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42384 |
| 242 | Jones, Solomon | 8 Sep 1793 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I35014 |
| 243 | Withers, Samuel | Abt 1793 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18529 |
| 244 | Helm, Erasmus | 1793 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42431 |
| 245 | Barnett, Henry | Abt 1793 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48487 |
| 246 | Chilton, John Ball | 1 Nov 1792 | Fauquier Co, VIrginia | I75959 |
| 247 | Withers, Oliver | 15 Apr 1792 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18510 |
| 248 | Cowgill, Tacy | 1792 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37892 |
| 249 | Smoot, Elizabeth "Betsy" | 7 Jun 1791 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37907 |
| 250 | Ball, George Lewis Capt | 17 Mar 1790 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18630 |
| 251 | German, James | 1790 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I65028 |
| 252 | Corder, Nancy | 1790 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I40396 |
| 253 | Helm, Lyna | 2 May 1789 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I31456 |
| 254 | Jones, William | 7 Jan 1789 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I35012 |
| 255 | Bramblett, Nathaniel | 1789 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I104805 |
| 256 | Barnett, Charles | Abt 1789 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48486 |
| 257 | Dulin, Mary "Polly" | 1788 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42674 |
| 258 | Cowgill, John | Abt 1788 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37912 |
| 259 | Corder, Elizabeth | 1788 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37911 |
| 260 | Barnett, Emily | Abt 1787 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48485 |
| 261 | Holtzclaw, Susan | 25 Jan 1786 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I66100 |
| 262 | Withers, Sally | Abt 1786 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5913 |
| 263 | Dulin, George | 1786 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42673 |
| 264 | Corder, Vincent | 15 Aug 1785 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37906 |
| 265 | Rust, Elizabeth | 22 Jun 1785 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42950 |
| 266 | Withers, Scythia "Sithy" | Abt 1785 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5890 |
| 267 | Rust, Benjamin | 1785 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I40819 |
| 268 | Neavill, Mary "Polly" | 1785 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I35031 |
| 269 | Hinson, James (Madison?) "Madi" | Abt 1785 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42675 |
| 270 | Barnett, Judith | 1785 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48418 |
| 271 | Withers, William | 1784 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5896 |
| 272 | Pickett, Nancy | 1784 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I89429 |
| 273 | Ball, Martha | 12 Jul 1783 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18628 |
| 274 | Settle, Willis | 12 Jan 1783 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I89432 |
| 275 | Stone, Rosanna "Rosey" | 1783 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I55439 |
| 276 | Corder, Charity | 1783 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37079 |
| 277 | Withers, Enoch | 1782 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5895 |
| 278 | Corder, Sarah | 1782 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37909 |
| 279 | Ball, Joseph Brumfield | Abt 1782 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18629 |
| 280 | Wood, James | 31 Aug 1781 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5838 |
| 281 | Payne, Francis | 06 Jul 1781 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5916 |
| 282 | Payne, Henry Rousseau | 22 May 1781 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I60989 |
| 283 | Rust, James | 3 Apr 1781 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42942 |
| 284 | Withers, Susannah | Abt 1781 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18508 |
| 285 | McCormick, Stephen | Abt 1781 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48424 |
| 286 | Barnett, Sarah | Abt 1781 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48423 |
| 287 | Wood, Nancy | 1780 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I66092 |
| 288 | Dodd, Hannah | 1780 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I89003 |
| 289 | Corder, Susannah | 1780 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37908 |
| 290 | Glasscock, Stephen | 30 Oct 1779 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I42930 |
| 291 | Withers, Cynthia Ann "Cindy" | 24 Apr 1779 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5894 |
| 292 | Cole, Mahala Alice "Alcy" | 16 Mar 1779 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I81158 |
| 293 | Shreave, William | Abt 1779 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48481 |
| 294 | Rosser, Susanna "Sukey" | Abt 1779 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5879 |
| 295 | Neavill, Elizabeth | 1779 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I79216 |
| 296 | Barnett, Ann | Abt 1779 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I48480 |
| 297 | Wood, William III | 1778 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18390 |
| 298 | Wood, Isabella | Abt 1778 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I5836 |
| 299 | Withers, Ailsey | Abt 1778 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I18507 |
| 300 | Handsucker, Jacob | Abt 1778 | Fauquier Co, Virginia | I37910 |
