Augusta County Probate Records

The county seat is Staunton, Virginia. Augusta County was formed in 1738 from Orange County; it was named after the Princess of Wales, Augusta (of Saxe-Gotha), mother of King George III of the United Kingdom. Originally, Augusta County was a vast territory with an indefinite western boundary and this explains why the genealogist locates a vast supply of records in this early county and why research should include that the States of West Virginia and Kentucky were taken from it. Some of the earliest settlers were: Jean Bohanan (from France), John Bumgarner, William Cowden, Robert Crockett and Peter Cotner.

Augusta County Tax Records

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Augusta County Militia Records

• 1774 Augusta County Regiment

Note: Botetourt and Augusta Counties were called out (as West Virginians) to serve during the Revolutionary War. In 1775 there were about 30,000 white men, women and children residing in those two counties, both of which extended across West Vireginia from the Blue Ridge to the Ohio river, while the other units of government (in West Virginia) were Berkeley and Hampton Counties and the District of West Augusta (the latter of which was by an Act of the Virginia Assembly in 1776, divided, and the counties of Monongalia, Ohio and Yohogania (West Virginia) were formed therefrom. These counties responded freely to every call for men and for supplies. An ordinance of the Vierginia Convention of July 1775 a provision was made for raising two regiments of 400 men for the defense of the colony. Of these, 100 men each, were to be enlisted in the District of West Augusta and stationed at Pittsburg; twenty-five more, also from West Augusta, were to serve at Fort Fincastle (afterward Fort Henry) at Wheeling; and 100 men were to be raised in Botetourt County, then extending westward to the Ohio river--to serve in Fort Randolph, at the mouth of the Great Kanawhat, now Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

A second call was made by the Virginia Assembly in October of 1776, to raise battalions of Infantry on the Continental Establishment. The call for men to serve in the Continental Establishment (Revolutionary War) continued until May of 1781. The last call for troops to the Continental Army was made by the General Assembly in May of 1782.