Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers. Abstracts of the Records of the Local and General Archives of Virginia. in Four Volumes. Volume III

These abstracts embody virtually every shred of evidence available in the local and general archives of Virginia pertaining to the families Abstracts of 17th- and 18th-Century Virginia Records Relating to the Families of Allen Bacon Ballard Batchelder Blouet Brassieur (Brashear) Cary Crenshaw Dabney Exum Ferris Fontaine Gray Hardy Isham Jordan Langston Lyddall Mann Mosby Palmer Pasteur Pleasants Povall Randolph Satterwhite Scott Smith Valentine Waddy Watts Winston Womack and Woodson. There are for example abstracts founded on land and probate records marriage bonds and ministers' returns order books wills deeds parish registers newspapers (e.g. the Virginia Gazette private letters and diaries and much more. Most of the records pertain to the 17th and 18th centuries. Supplementing the records themselves are genealogical tables and a bibliography of sources.