Nelson County findings discussed on p. 14-15. by Gerard Fowke published 1894, Government Printing Office

Scanned Chancery Records 1808-1912

Photos, recordings, and interviews of residents of Nelson County made between 1980-89 with funding from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and other sources.

Manuscript and Special Collections search results for Nelson County, Virginia

Nelson County entries

Discussion of mining of rutile in Nelson County, Virginia and properties/location of deposits.

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in 1855 with a biographical sketch of Henry A Wise pgs 347-349 discuss the sixth district and the run by Dr. L.N. Ligon as a candidate for the Know Nothing party. Includes comments by James H. Brent, Wm. N. Bryant, Nathan Bryant, Floyd L. Whitehead, Wm. Giles, and Obadiah Henderson.

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Diocese of Virginia published May 1837, B.R. Wren

Transcribed by Tom Blake, July 2003

Business Records/Corporations/Partnerships; County Administrative Records; Court Records; Fiduciary Records; Free Negro and Slave Records; Health and Medical Records; Land Records; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics; School Records; Tax and Fiscal Records; Wills

Songs from a collection of papers belonging to Averill Campbell of Montebello, Nelson County, Virginia. Averill Campbell was born in 1864 on Shoe Creek, a tributary of the Piney River. He married Ella Dimple Hite, whose name appears on one song in the collection, in 1892. Averill Campbell's grandson, Lyle D. Campbell, donated the collection in 1989. Eleven song transcriptions (22 photocopied manuscript pages of lyrics) from Campbell family papers documenting songfests in Nelson County, Virginia. A few songs are dated 1890 and 1891, others are undated. Includes texts of ballads, immigrant songs, a cowboy song, love songs, and popular songs. Library of Congress record.

includes biographical descriptions of Charles Henry Beasley, Launcelot Minor Blackford, James Hamilton Browning, Aylett Breckinridge Coleman, John Tinsley Coleman, John Dunscombe Horsley, Thornton Lemmon Massie, by Lyon G. Tyler, LL.D., 1907, Men of Mark Publishing Company

Chapter 4 (p. 46) discusses John Mosby's birth in Nelson County and life in the Central Virginia area. by J. Marshall Crawford published 1867, G. W. Carleton and Co.

Comprising the Hamlett, Witt, Giles, Wills, Eubank-Fortune, Mullenix, Lynchard, Talbot, and Kight Families with a Short Treatise on the Loving Family by Blanche Hamlett Baldridge n.d.,Press-Journal Publishing Company

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Microfilm at Library of Virgnia

LDS Genealogy

Article LII in particular discusses the parishes in Amherst, Nelson, Botetourt, Rockbridge, Greenbrier, and Montgomery. by Bishop Meade 1861, J.B. Lippincott & Co.

Microfilm at Library of Virginia

pg14 - article on Rev. Paul Whitehead, D.D. by John James Lafferty 1901, Richmond, VA

Genealogy written by Reba Fitzpatrick Lea including chapters on the Fitzpatricks and Penns, Colemans, Digges, Harris and Goodwin, and Miscellaneous, Letters and Records.

compiled by Charles William Bibb Addresses the descendants of Thomas Bibb (1669-1701) of Amherst/Nelson County, Virginia. He was the son of Benjamin Bibb. Published 1941, Baltimore, Maryland.

by Alexander Brown published 1895.

by William Arthur Maddox published 1918, Teachers College, Columbia University

1904 Gazetteer by Government Printing office. Includes names of post offices and physical locations throughout Nelson County.

and members of his family in Virginia, Montana, and California in relation to the Harrison, Reade, Cary, Digges, and Cabell Families of Colonia Virgnia By Albertina Brown Parker

by William D. Ligon, Jr. 1957, Shipman, VA.

A continuation of an article in the Virginia Historical Magazine. p. 82-87

The settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807 by Catherine Seaman published 1992, Sweet Briar College Printing Press

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Vol III published 1915, Lewis Historical Publishing Company includes Alexander Rives, Lucas P. Thompson, Samuel Garland Jr., Edward Alfred Pollard, Thomas Stanhope McClelland, James Lawrence Cabell, Landon Cabell Garland, Launcelot Minor Blackford, Alexander Brown, Robert Lee Taylor John Woods Harris James Alston Cabell John Dunscombe Horsley, Henry Rives Pollard, Mary Greenway McClelland, Phillip Alexander Bruce

Finding aids which provide information about the vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in historical societies, libraries, museums, colleges and universities across the Commonwealth dealing with Nelson County, Virginia.

with supplement of distinguished service Information on Patrick H. Calloway, Stanley Bradley, Victor A. McCreery, Andrew Jackson, John J. Snead published 1927 by The Virginia War History Commission

by Philip Alexander Bruce published 1929, The Lewis Publishing company

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