Source Information

Ancestry.com. Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Horton, Vicki Bidinger. Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001.

About Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802

Hampshire County was formed from the Virginia counties of Augusta and Frederick in 1754. Later, during the American Civil War, it became the first Virginia county wholly in the territory that is now West Virginia.

The Hampshire County Minute Book abstracts in this volume comprise some of the earliest records of the state of West Virginia. The dates of coverage of the various Minute Books are 1788-1791, 1795-1799, and 1799-1802, respectively. The contents of Mrs. Horton's abstracts range over orders to bind orphaned and poor children (sometimes mentioning complete families), grand jury lists, indictments, commissions, overseers of the roads, ordinary licenses, suits, oaths of office, militia lists, and more.