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	Withers, Benjamin Lewis	05 Dec 1799	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18676
402	Withers, Cynthia Ann "Cindy"	24 Apr 1779	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5894
403	Withers, Elijah (Keene?) Sr	02 Oct 1775	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18505
404	Withers, Elizabeth	Abt 1748	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18497
405	Withers, Elizabeth	1770	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5893
406	Withers, Enoch	1782	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5895
407	Withers, Enoch Keene	14 Oct 1760	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5931
408	Withers, Hannah*	Abt 1771	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5828
409	Withers, James Sr	22 Feb 1757	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18496
410	Withers, Jesse	18 Aug 1760	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18500
411	Withers, Joseph	22 Jun 1769	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5917
412	Withers, Lewis	Bef 1759	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18499
413	Withers, Lucinda "Lucy"	Abt 1777	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5889
414	Withers, Mary	18 Feb 1762	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18502
415	Withers, Matthew Keene "Cain"	Abt 1773	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5911
416	Withers, Molly	Abt 1756	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18498
417	Withers, Oliver	15 Apr 1792	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18510
418	Withers, Sally	Abt 1786	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5913
419	Withers, Samuel	Abt 1793	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18529
420	Withers, Sarah "Sallie"	13 Oct 1765	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5935
421	Withers, Scythia "Sithy"	Abt 1785	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5890
422	Withers, Spencer	Abt 1765	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18503
423	Withers, Susan	Abt 1761	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18501
424	Withers, Susannah	Abt 1781	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18508
425	Withers, Susannah "Sukey"	20 Aug 1767	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5918
426	Withers, Thomas	1768	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5891
427	Withers, William	02 Jun 1777	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18506
428	Withers, William	1784	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5896
429	Wood, Absalom	1810	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5846
430	Wood, Amelia*	30 Jun 1808	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I2739
431	Wood, Dickerson	10 Mar 1806	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18536
432	Wood, Dickerson* Jr	1773	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5827
433	Wood, Edwin	Abt 1818	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I6068
434	Wood, Elijah Thornton	Abt 1775	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18535
435	Wood, Elizabeth	1766	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I6048
436	Wood, Elizabeth	15 Aug 1796	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18321
437	Wood, Gabriel	1808	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5847
438	Wood, Harriet	6 Jun 1807	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I6044
439	Wood, Isabella	Abt 1778	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5836
440	Wood, James	1743	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I2975
441	Wood, James	31 Aug 1781	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5838
442	Wood, Lewis	Abt 1816	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I6066
443	Wood, Malinda	30 Jun 1808	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5842
444	Wood, Margaret	10 Aug 1812	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18394
445	Wood, Mary	1762	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I5833
446	Wood, Nancy	1780	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I66092
447	Wood, Pollard	16 Aug 1825	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I6072
448	Wood, Wesley	3 Feb 1813	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I6063
449	Wood, William III	1778	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I18390
450	Young, Reuben	1710	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I66807
451	Young, Robert "Sweet Lips"	1708	Fauquier Co, Virginia	I66806

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