Books

Census

Madeline W. Crickard, copier, 1810 Giles County, Virginia Census (Beverly, WV: By the author, 1970)

Rhonda S. Roberson, 1810 census of Giles County, Virginia (Norton, Va.: By the author, 1983?)

Netti Schreiner-Yantis, 1810 Census of Giles County, Virginia (Springfield, Va: By the author, 1970)

Jeffrey C. Weaver, The 1850 federal census of Giles County, Virginia (Arlington, Va: By the author, 1989)

Mary-Paul Beaudrias Shannon, 1860 Giles County, Virginia census index (Pearisburg, Va.: By the author, 1980)

Mary-Paul Beaudrias Shannon, 1870 Giles County, Virginia census index (Pearisburg, Va.: By the author, c1982)

Family Histories

Freddy Brown, Dance Steps: Six Generation Family History of Dance Brown (born 1776 – Died 1860) From Virginia to Tennessee & Beyond. Many other families from the Virginia Counties of Bedford, Montgomery, Giles and Russell. Also south central Kentucky, north central Tennessee, as well as areas of Arkansas, Missouri and Texas. approx. 350 pages: with pictures, maps, family charts and many copies of original documents. Fully indexed 8.5 x 11 hardbound.

Jacob L. Pritchard, MD, Lineage of Philip Harless, 1716-1772, and his wife, Anna Margaretta (Preisch) Harless, 1718-1784;: An immigrant family from the Rhine Palatinate to Virginia, 1738, (San Jose, CA: Art Lettershop, 1949)

J. L. Pritchard, MD, Harless genealogy, John Philip and Anna Margaretha (Preiss) Harless;: Pioneers in western Virginia and some of their descendents, (Los Altos, CA: by the author, 1962)

Anne Hayden (Price) Yates and W. Conway Price, PhD., Increase in Prices: Some descendants of David and Agnes (Hoffman) Price of 17th Century Germany (n.p.: by the author, 1985)

History

Robert Alonzo Brock, Clarita H. Morgan, Ed., Excerpts from Hardesty’s historical and geographical encyclopedia: special Virginia edition, giving a history of the Virginias, biographical sketches of eminent Virginians (Pulaski, Va.: C. H. Morgan, 1979?)

Charles T. Burton, Botetourt County, Virginia early settlers : settlers from 1740 through 1795, in the land area encompassed by Botetourt County in 1782 : that area covered portions of the present-day Virginia counties of Montgomery, Bath, Giles, Floyd, Alleghany, Roanoke, Craig, and Monroe (Troutville, Va.: Burton, 1979?)

Robert C. Friend et al, Eaton K. Goldthwaite, Ed., Giles County, 1806-1956; a brief history (Pearisburg, Va.: Giles County Chamber of Commerce, 1956)

Research Committee, Giles County Historical Society, Giles County Virginia History Families, (Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1982)

Giles Research Group, Giles County, Virginia History – Families, Vol.II/Vol.2, (Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1994)

Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt, Description of 100,000 acres of land in Giles, Craig, Monroe and Bland counties, state of Virginia (Philadelphia, Pa.: Leisenring Steam Print House, 1871)

Rev. Ulysees S. A. Heavener, The German New River Settlement: Virginia (reprint, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1976)

Patricia Givens Johnson, Mountain Lake Resort – Book 1 – 1751-1900 (Christiansburg, Va: Walpa Publishing, 1987) ISBN 0-9614765-8-3

Patricia Givens Johnson, The New River Early Settlement (Blacksburg, Va: Walpa Publishing, 1983)

David E. Johnston, A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory (Huntington, WV: Standard Printing & Publishing, 1906) – General history, family sketches, military rosters by local CW veteran.

James Harold Martin, 1904-1973, A thousand names from the annals of Giles and Mercer Counties (Radford, Va: Commonwealth Press, 1976) or (Athens, WV: Mercer County Bicentennial Commission, c1976)

Hattie E. Miller, A story of Newport and its people (Blacksburg, Va.: Kopy Corner, c1978)

William Sanders, A New River Heritage Vols. 1-3 (Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Co., 1991) ISBN: 0-9625273-1-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 91-61807

Anne Lowry Worrell, comp., Over the Mountain Men: Their Early Court Records in Southwest Virginia (Roanoke, Va: pub. unknown, 1934)

Anne B. Crockett-Stark, I Remember When (A Celebration of Giles County, Virginia (1806-2006) (Tillamook, OR: Country Media Inc., 2006)

Terri L. Fisher, Giles County (Then and Now) (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011)

Terri L. Fisher, Pearisburg and Giles County(Images of America) (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012)

Marriages

John Vogt & T. William Kethley, Jr., Giles County Marriages, 1806-1850 (Virginia Historic Marriage Register) (Athens, Ga: Iberian Publishing Co., 1985)

Therese A Fisher, comp. and ed., Marriages in the New River Valley, Virginia: Mongtomery, Floyd, Pulaski, and Giles Counties (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991) ISBN 1-55613-437-1

Anne Lowry Worrell, A Brief History of Wills and Marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831
reprint (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1984) ISBN 0-8063-0707-2

Anne Lowry Worrell, Early Marriages, Wills, and Some Revolutionary War Records: Botetourt County, Virginia (n. p.: Clearfield, 2009)

Military History

Keith S. Bohannon, Giles Allegheny and Jackson Artillery (The Virginia regimental histories series) (Lynchburg, Va: H. E. Howard, Inc., n.d.)

Scott, J. L., 36th Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series) (Lynchburg, Va: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1987)

Tax Lists

Netti Schreiner-Yantis, Montgomery County, Virginia–circa 1790;: A comprehensive study including the 1789 tax lists, abstracts of over 800 land surveys & data concerning migration (Springfield, Va: By the author, 1972)

Charley L. Davis, Giles County, Virginia, personal property tax list, 1806 and Giles County land tax list, 1806, order book minutes and selected marriages (Oakton, Va: By the author, 1980)

Netti Schreiner-Yantis, 1815 tax list of Giles County, Virginia (Springfield, Va: By the author, 1971)

Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts, A List of Lands and Lots Returned as Delinquent… for non-payment of taxes due for the year 1820, and prior thereto, and which are redeemable on or before the 1st day of January, 1832, made out in conformity to an act of the General Assembly, passed the 1st day of April, 1831 v. 2, includes Giles County, Va. (Richmond, Va.: Auditor’s Office, 1831-1832)

Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts, A list of lands returned as delinquent, for non-payment of taxes … from 1821 to 1831 inclusive, on which the taxes, exclusive of damages, exceed $10 on each tract, and which are redeemable on or before the 1st of April, 1834: made out in conformity to the act of the General Assembly, passed on the 1st day of April, 1831, and subsequent acts (Richmond, Va.: Auditor’s Office, 1832)

Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts, A list of delinquent lands in [counties] for the year 1833: for non-payment of taxes due for the year 1833, and prior thereto, and which are redeemable on or before the 1st day of October, 1834: made out in conformity to the act of the General Assembly, passed on the 1st day of April, 1831 (Richmond, Va.: Auditor’s Office, 1834)

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