There is a free website with some great county formation maps that you can
call up by year:
http://www.myvirginiagenealogy.com/va-maps.html
MWF
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Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:28 AM
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Subject: Re: Albemarle County Formation
According to "Albemarle County in Virginia", by Rev. Edgar Woods, copyright
1901, it states: "The county of Goochland was formed in 1727, a little more
than ten years after Gov. Spotswood's expedition to the Blue Ridge. The
first settlements within the present bounds of Albemarle were made while
they were still parts of that county and Hanover. They ascended the courses
of the South Anna, the James, the Rivanna and the Hardware, and were met by
others proceeding from the foot of the Blue Ridge, and planted by immigrants
who had come up the Valley, and crossed that mountain at Woods' Gap."
Frankly, I would look in Hanover, too.
Shirley Cox Schroeder
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Sharon Leonard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Since Albemarle County was formed from a portion of Western Goochland
> County about 1745, and Vogt and Kethley's "Albemarle County Marriages
> 1780-1853" begins in 1780, would marriages prior to 1780 be found in
> Goochland?
> and/or Amherst, Buckingham, Fluvanna and Nelson Counties, depending
> on where my ancestor's land would be located? What maps would be best
> to look at in
> order to determine where the land would be located? Three-Notched road
is
> mentioned in several deeds -
> Sharon
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