Augusta County Duo- Book #1 -History ofAugusta County,VirginiaPublished 1882By J. Lewis Peyton360+ pages, Indexed- Book #2 -
Annals of
Augusta County,
Virginia
1726-1871
400 pages on CD
2nd Edition – Revised & EnlargedPublished 1902 (1st ed. Pub. 1886)By Joseph A. waddell
500+ pages, Indexed
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Augusta County, Virginia, was formed in 1738 from Orange County and was itself the
parent county, in whole or in part, of Bath, Botetourt, Frederick, Rockbridge,
and Rockingham counties. A stronghold of Scotch-Irish settlement, Augusta
commands great interest among genealogists because thousands of 18th- and
19th-century families passed through it en route to the West.
Originally, Augusta County was a vast territory with an indefinite western boundary.
Most of what is now West Virginia as well as all of Kentucky were formed from it,
and it also claimed the territory north and west of those areas, t
heoretically all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Reductions in its extent began in 1770, when its southern part became
Botetourt County. In 1776 part of western Augusta County, an area also known
as the District of West Augusta, became Monongalia County, Ohio County, and
Yohogania County (abolished in 1786). In 1778 the part of Augusta County west
of the Ohio River became Illinois County (abolished in 1784); the northeastern
part of what was left became Rockingham County, and the southwestern part was
combined with part of Botetourt County to form Rockbridge County. In 1788 the
northern part of the still shrinking county was combined with part of Hardy County
to become Pendleton County. Augusta County assumed its present dimensions in 1790,
when its western part was combined with parts of Botetourt County and
Greenbrier County to form Bath County.
- Book #1 -
J. Lewis Peyton\'s History of Augusta County, Virginia is a standard
work on the county. It is essentially a narrative account of Augusta from its
aboriginal beginnings and Spotswood\'s discovery of the Valley of Virginia through the Civil War.
Most of Peyton\'s account follows county politics, especially Augusta during the French
and Indian War and the American Revolution; however, the author also deals with
the organization of churches, celebrated court cases (such as trials for witchcraft),
formation of cities and towns, conflicts with the Indians, and so on.
The authorintersperses quotations from court records,legislative sessions,
fragmentary marriage records, and other primary sources to embellish his account.
Genealogists will value the book, in part, as a companion volume to such Augusta County
source record collections as Lyman Chalkley\'s Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish
Settlement in Virginia.
Of greater importance to genealogists, however, are the genealogical and biographical
sketches of the following pioneering Augusta County families found in the Appendix to
the volume: Baldwin, Bell, Campbell, Christian, Crawford, Fleming, Hanger, Hughes,
Johnson, Koiner, Lee, Lewis, McCue, McCulloch, McDowell, Madison, Mathews, Peyton,
Poe, Porterfield, Preston, Sheffey, Stuart, Tate, Waddell, Wayt, Wetzel, and Zane.
- Book #2 -
Waddell arranges Augusta County\'s history according to its political milestones, thus
we have chapters on the county\'s first settlement, first courts, Indian wars, Augusta
County in the Revolution, and, of course, a number of chapters
on Augusta County in the Civil War.
Genealogists will most appreciate his discussion of the migration trail out of
Augusta County and, interspersed throughout the work, genealogical and biographical
sketches of the following Augusta County families: Adams, Alexander, Anderson, Baxter,
Bell, Blackburn, Bowyer, Breckenridge, Brown, Cameron, Campbell, Christian, Craig,
Crawford, Cummings, Cunningham, Doak, Fleming, Floyd, Gamble, Graham, Hamilton,
Harrison, Hays, Jones, Lyle, McClanahan, McDowell, McKee, McLaughlin, McNutt, Madison,
Mathews, Moffett, Moore, Nelson, Poage, Preston, Smith, Stuart, Tate, Trimble,
Waddell, Warwick, and Wilson.
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