Charles City County Records
Charles City County was named after the son of King James who later became King Charles I of England. It was one of four boroughs created by the Virginia Company in 1619. Westover Plantation was built about 1730 by William Byrd II, founder of Richmond and Petersburg, and features English boxwoods and colonial gardens; open to the public. Other plantations located in this county go along the james River, viz: Shirley Plantation, Berkeley Plantation, Westover Plantation, Sherwood Forest Plantation, and Greenway Plantation. The last will and testament of Charles Carter of Shirley Plantation is featured here, as well as the wills of Mildred Carter, Robert Carter and Anne Carter. Charles City is the county seat.
Marriages to 1699
These miscellaneous marriages were published in The Genealogy Magazine: A Journal of American and British Ancestry.
- Banks, Phebe to Daniel Kigan 8 Aug 1660
- Cunliffe, John to Jane Mountain 7 Aug 2660
- Davis, Naomi to Walter Horldsworthy 11 Oct 1660
- Horldsworthy, Walter to Naome Davis 11 Oct 1660
- Jones, Eliz. to thomas Chappell 1670
- Kigan, Daniel to Phebe Banks 8 Aug 1660
- Rawlinson, william to Jane Sparrow 16 Sept 1660
- Sparrow, Jane to William Rawlinson 16 Sept 1660
- Early Virginia Marriages
Miscellaneous
Indexes to Probate Records
Miscellaneous Wills
- Byrd, Wm LWT (1700)
- England, Francis, LWT (transcript)
- Gregory, John, Jr., LWT (transcript)
- Harrison, Ben, LWT (transcript)
- Izard, Rebecca, LWT (transcript)
- Munford, Robert, LWT (transcript)
- Rogers, John, LWT, transcript
- Stith, John, LWT (transcript)
- Tyler, John, LWT (transcript)
