TOBACCO ROAD: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR COLONIAL VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
BIBLIOGRAPHY of Some Sources for colonial Virginia Social History & Genealogy:
Berkin, Carol; Foner, Eric, consulting ed. (1997). First Generations Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang.
Berkin, Carol. (2005). Revolutionary Mothers Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence. New York: Vintage Books.
Blackstone, Sir William; Jones, William Carey, ed. (1915). Commentaries On The Laws Of England. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company.
Bonomi, Patricia U. (2003). Under the Cope of Heaven Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America Updated Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Bontempo, Lydia (Sparacio); Sparacio, Ruth, indexing. (2003). Lancaster County, Virginia Deed Books 1710-1714. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Brown, Kathleen M. (1996). Good Wives Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press.
Carr, Lois Green; Morgan, Philip D.; Russo, Jean B.; eds. (1988). Colonial Chesapeake Society. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press.
Casey, Joseph J. (1896). Personal Names In Hening’s Statutes At Large Of Virginia, And Shepherd’s Continuation. New York: Piser & Russell Printers.
Duvall, Lindsay O. (1979, rpr. 1990). Virginia Colonial Abstracts–Series 2, Vol. 2 Lancaster County, Virginia Court Orders and Deeds 1656-1680. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
Fischer, David Hackett. (1989). Albion’s Seed Four British Folkways In America. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fischer, David Hackett; Kelly, James C. (2000). Bound Away Virginia And The Westward Movement. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press.
Fleet, Beverley, et.al. (1999). Virginia Colonial Records, 1600s-1700s Family Archives CD-Rom #503. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. [Contains images of 15 works, including the 3 Fleet volumes of Virginia Colonial Abstracts.]
Greene, Jack P.; Pole, J.R.; eds. (1984). Colonial British America Essays In The New History Of The Early Modern Era. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Hatfield, April Lee. (2007). Atlantic Virginia Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hening, William Waller. (2003). Statutes at Large Laws of Virginia Volumes 1-13. CD-Rom CD0878. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc. [the CD-Rom menu should list vol. 2 as: "to 1682", not: "to 1662".]
Horn, James. (1994). Adapting to a New World English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press.
Horn, James. (2005). A Land As God Made It Jamestown And The Birth Of America. New York: Basic Books.
Jett, Carolyn H. (2003). Lancaster County, Virginia Where the River Meets the Bay. Lancaster, Virginia: The Lancaster County History Book Committee in association with The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.
Kelso, William M. (2006). Jamestown The Buried Truth. Charlottesville and London: The University Of Virginia Press.
Kolchin, Peter. (2003). American Slavery 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang.
Kulikoff, Alan. (1986). Tobacco & Slaves The Development Of Southern Cultures In The Chesapeake 1680-1800. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press.
Lee, Ida Johnson. (2004). Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia Wills, 1653-1800. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
Massey, Don W.; Massey, Sue. (2003). Colonial Churches of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, Inc.
McIlwaine, H.R. (Henry Read), ed. (1924). Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia 1622-1632, 1670-1676 With Notes And Excerpts From Original Council And General Court Records Into 1683, Now Lost. Richmond, Virginia: Library Board Virginia State Library. [Free download from Internet Archive]
Middleton, Arthur Pierce. (1984). Tobacco Coast A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Norton, Mary Beth. (1996). Founding Mothers & Fathers Gendered Power And The Forming Of American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Purkiss, Diane. (2006). The English Civil War Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain. New York: Basic Books.
Salmon, MaryLynn. (1986). Women And The Law Of Property In Early America. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1701-1706. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia Deed Book 1706-1710. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
[For Lancaster County, Virginia Deed Books 1710-1714, see "Bontempo, Lydia (Sparacio)" above.]
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1991). Lancaster County, Virginia Deed & Will Abstracts 1661-1702. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1993). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1678-1681. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1682-1687. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1687-1691. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1995). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1691-1695. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1998). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1695-1699. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1998). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1699-1701. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1999). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1701-1703. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1999). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1703-1706. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1998). Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1729-1732. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1989). Middlesex County, Virginia Deed Abstracts 1679-1688. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1989). Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1677-1680. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1994). Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1680-1686. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sparacio, Ruth; Sparacio, Sam. (1999). Northumberland County, Virginia Order Book 1680-1683. Arlington, VA: The Antient Press.
Sturtz, Linda L. (2002). Within Her Power Propertied Women In Colonial Virginia. New York & London: Routledge.
Tate, Thad W.; Ammerman, David L., ed. (1979). The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century Essays on Anglo-American Society. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
Taylor, Alan. (2002). American Colonies The Settling Of North America. New York: Penguin Books.
Upton, Dell. (1997). Holy Things and Profane Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
Varon, Elizabeth R. (1998). We Mean To Be Counted White Women And Politics In Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press.
Wertenbaker, Thomas J. (1922). The Planters Of Colonial Virginia. Princeton & London: Princeton University Press & Oxford University Press (reprint).
Winfree, Waverly K.; ed. (1971). The Laws of Virginia Being a Supplement to Hening’s The Statutes at Large 1700-1750. Richmond: Virginia State Library. [I don't own this book.]
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Many of these books can be sourced from amazon.com. The two CD-Roms are currently available. Blackstone and Casey are available as free downloads from Google Books.
