The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia, 1625-1812

By National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

Book Overview

By: National Society of Colonial Dames in the state of VA., Pub. 1897, Reprinted 2019, 360 pages, NEW INDEX, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-631-2.

Middlesex County was created in 1669 from Lancaster County and parish. Sometime before 1666 that parish was divided into two portions, seperated by the Rappahanock River and the new parishes were nameed Lancaster and Pyanketank. In 1666, they were reunited under the name Lancaster, but a few years later were again seperated and acquired the organization which they retained through the Colonial period as Chirst Church, Lancaster and Christ Church, Middlesex. Middlesex County did suffer some loss of legal records but did not as the result of the Civil War. Information to be found within this book: Burials & deaths, births & christinings, marriages and mentionings of slaves. This new reprint has a NEW INDEX that not only includes approximately 33,000 person but 4,000 slaves that are grouped alphabetically under their owner's names' for ease of research in a new Errata section in the back of the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893086312
• ISBN13: 9780893086312
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Southern Historical Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"